Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-06-30
.DRYS CALL RALLY
OF SMITHS FOES
Bishop Cannon Joins in An
nounCing AsheviIIe Ses-
sion July II.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HOUSTON, June 30.w-A call to dry
Southern Democrats to gather at Ashe-
vile, N. c., July ii to organize at once
for the election of dry Democratic con-
gressional and State nominees for pub
lie Offices and for the defeat of the wet
Tammany candidate for President, Gov
Smith," was issued yesterday on the
personal responsibility of two dry lead
ers Arthur j. Barton, Atlanta, Ga.
chairman of the board of temperance
OF the Baptist Convention and Bishop
James Cannon, jr, Richmond. Va, OF
the Methodist Episcopal Church South
Making clear that they were acting
upon their own initiative, the two said
that in their opinion the "only hope OF
preserving the ideals and the unity OF
Southern Democracy lay in such &C
ton, and for that reason they had
called the meeting between July IL and
Is to consider the question.
Plank Is Endorsed.
I'VE are greatly gratif1ed that the
Democratic convention at Houston has
pledged itself in specific terms to en-
forcement of the eighteenth amend
ment and all of the laws enacted pur-
suant thereto, which of necessity In
cludes the Volstead law" they said in
a statement.
Not long after the convention had
adjourned. dry organization leaders is
sued a number of statements almost
uniformly indorsing the Democratic
prohibition plank and criticizing the
selection Of Gov. Smith as the party
nominee.
Edwin c. Dinwiddie, associate chair
man and executive secretary of the Ma
tional Conference on Prohibition En-
forcement Planks and Dry Candidates,
said the Democrats had done the
morally right thing and politically
wise thing on the liquor question, but
upon the eve of adjournment Gov.
Smith did his best to queer the situa-
ton"
Col. RAYMOND Robins, field repre-
sentative of the Citizens Committee OF
One Thousand, declared results of both
the Republican and Democratic conven-
tons constituted al epoch in the history
OF the war for sober America" but
the union of all dry forces was needed as
we'll as the union of "all who believe in
the integrity of the Constitution of the
United States to defeat Alfred E. Smith
at the polls in November"
Plan to Fight Smith.
Oliver w. Stewart and Miss Norma
G. Brown. president and vice president,
respectively, OF the Flying Squadron
Foundation, indianapolis. Ind, in a
Joint statement said the action OF the
Democratic convention was unsatis-
factory because the prohibition plank
left the door open for such action as
a Democratic President might care to
take or recommend"
The Flying Squadron Foundation
and its paper, the National Inquirer,
will urge the support of Hoover and
Curtis in every State of the Union, -
the statement added.
Another statement from F. Scott Nc
Bride. general superintendent OF the
Anti-Saloon League, contended that
Gov. Smiths telegram to the Houston
convention constituted challenge to
constitutional government
The Anti-Saloon League. which de-
t"~mines its support only after the can
didates of the parties are named" he
said. will be greatly disappointed in
the action of the Houston convention,
which has nominated as its standard
bearer a man with a known record
throughout his entire public career
against measures for prohibition en-
forcement and who now favors the
modification of the prohibition law.
Because of this fact the dry forces will
meet the challenge he presents In his
telegram to the convention Immediately
following his nomination :"