The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-18
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Fly LUDWELL DENNY

7 UNIVERSITY, Va, Aug, 10
~ Herbert Hoover is trying to APP
peal to both vets and drys. Prohi-
bition is pot a real campaign issue
because the division is not between
the two parties. but within them.
Economic questions and Govern
mental corruption are the issues.
This is the Democratic answer to
Hoover's acceptance speech, made by
the dry vice chairman of the DEM
ocratic National committee, Mrs.
Nellie Tayloe Ross.
Speaking at the University of Vir-
GINA Institute of Public Affairs, the
former governor Of Wyoming said
Of Hoover's "evasive" prohibition
announcement:
IF there is one word that indi-
Gates stronger allegiance to the
eighteenth amendment than Gov
ernor Smith has avowed or more
friendliness to the Volstead act, I
am unable to see it. 1t is scarcely
possible to imagine phrases more
carefully designed to appeal to both
vets and drys than contained in this
latest discussion of Mr.. Hoover's.
Neither by official statements,
the utterances of the candidates or
party records with reference to pro-
hibition, has any line of demarka-
ton been drawn between the Re-
publican and Democratic parties
creating an ISSUE"
II
HERE is Mrs. Ross argument:
4 4 The principle" of prohibition
is firmly established in the Con-
Stitution, put there by both parties,
and the only question is as to the
best method to curb the liquor traf-
tic. The Democratic platform is
dryer than the Republican. Repeal
Of the New York State enforcement
law, which Smith signed was passed
by a Republican Legislature.
1--WE have never had a prohibi-
zionist in the White House. Coo
lidge has never declared himself in
sympathy with prohibition, and
keeps as his chief enforcement Of
f1cer Secretary Mellon, who made
his fortune largely from whisky.
Though Smith thinks a better
provision could be made to enforce
temperance than the Volstead act,
he proposes to leave any change
to Congress and purely constitu-
tional methods Smith pledges him.
self to law enforcement and is OPP
posed to return of the saloon"
with which are we, as a people,
most commemorative formula laid
down in the Eighteenth Amend
ment and the Volstead act or the
purpose those provisions were in
tended to serve-that is to curb the
traffic in Intoxicating liquors?" Mrs.
Ross asked.
1.-THE person who tries to cross a
turbulent sea only to find at the
start that his boat is unable to cope
with the elements and is destined
to wreckage will scarcely scorn to
come back and try a more stable
bark" she replied. 1.-THE principle
(of prohibition) is as much estab-
lished in the Constitution as that
of the indissolubility of the Union,
the freedom of the Ethiopian, and
woman suffrage.
Neither Of the major parties
alone is responsible for it being
there. Neither party now, either
through its platform or the utter
ance of its presidential candidate,
proposes to repeal it, Both parties
and their candidates have pledged
themselves to enforce the amend
ment.
THERE is not word anywhere
l. Gin the Republican platform)
that binds any Republican, Con-
gresham, President, or any office
holder To raeiSt disturha rca If AJ,a