The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-20


appropriations.
! They declared the need for q
strong Probition party with an out
and-out Prohibition President as the
only successful means of accom-
plishing real prohibition in the
United States,
Prohibition philosophy is just as
badly needed today as fifty years
ago." said Lough. Lots of folks who
stood with the dryS, now say they
are in doubt.
Secondhand Thinkers
ITS the secondhand thinker with
half-baked thoughts that feels that
way. Liquor propaganda is food
ing the country and must be fought"
Lough said he and John w. Hud-
dleSton, who, he said, had been an
under-cover operative, city police
man and detective, went into south
ern Indiana and at a Saving OF
hundreds of dollars to the Govern
ment" stacked up liquor evidence
against alleged violators in Evans
vile, Washington, Bonneville and
other cities.
I'VE turned the whole lot-evi-
dence substantiated by responsible
citizenS-to Winkler up here"
Lough shouted, "and later learned
it was all dumped into a waste
basket at Evansville. 1t hurt bitter
ly to play detective and then be
laughed at at headquarters
Need Strong President
Lough said the Thirteenth amend
ment outlawing slavery succeeded,
because the people voted President
into office who would uphold it.
But when the Eighteenth amend
ment was enacted" he said, "the
people elected Harding,-a man as
wet as Al Smith, and he in turn
appointed on his cabinet Andy
Mellon. big diStiller!"
A bid for merger of the pro-
hibition party with the Anti
Saloon League and all anti-liquor
groups was sounded by DR.. Homer
J. Hall of Franklin, eight years
State field secretary for the No
Tobacco League.
IF such dry federation isn't
formed" he said, "the United States
and Indiana will go down and down
like Greece, Rome and Babylon"
Halls slapS at the cigaret brought
from j. E. Thompson of Mooreville,
the question: What can we do
about the cigaret when a man like
Jim Watson gives the picture and
name to an indorsemert?"
Jim Like All Politicians
Lough replied that investigation
had brought from Watson the state
ment the advertisement referred to
was without his knowledge or con-
sent.
But so far as that goes" Lough
added 1--WE no more faith in Jim
Watson's dryness than in AL
Smiths. He's just like all poll
ticians. They talk dry to please the
drys, but they act wet to please the
wets-and it's actions that count.
What we need" he declared We
hemently, "is President who would
call out troops from Ft. Benjamin
Harrison to enforce the liquor law
in Indianapolis"
Stafford E. Homan, Marion Coun-
ty prohibition chairman, urged
adoption of a plank restricting i'm
migration, because" he said, "im-
migrants increase unemployment,
unemployment makes it hard to en-
force the liquor laws, and the hard
er it is to enforce liquor laws, the
worse the situation gets"
Two Attend Convention
w. T. Lynn of Indianapolis acted
as chairman of the convention meet
ing at the Volunteers of America
Hall, 800 N. Illinois ST., in the alb
! sence of Chairman B. L. Allen. d
Leigh Colvin, chairman of the pro-
hibition national committee, spoke
briefly this morning and will be the
principal speaker tonight.
Sixteen men and four women
were present this morning, but
speakers insisted cit was the prin-
ciple and not the number that
counted
The Rev. William H. Harris of
Indianapolis, was expected to be the
party's nominee for United States
Senator, and DR.. Albert Stanley, a
dentist, also Of this city, the nonli-
nee for Governor.
Homan, H. S. Bonsib Of Indian
apolis, and S. A. Keiger of Kokomo,
comprise the nominating committee.