The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-15
Qualification In 1923

Hoover's employment in his acceptance speech Of
the word notification interest in the historic
significance OF that term.
It first sprang into being in the days of jackson
and Calhoun issue that still is with us-the
tariff South Carolina threatened to ignore the tariff
provision of that day and went far as to move to-
ward withdrawal from the Union. Jackson countered
with promise of force. The crisis finally passed with
a compromise.
Since that time the term has been used with more
or less frequency as the issue of States rights has
arisen
Now it appears again in 1928 and is applied to the
prohibition question
The dictionary defines notification as "a render
ing void and of no effect"
AS matter of fact notification is by no means
absent from our legal scheme of things today. And
strong forces are abroad with efforts to foster it. Even
the law itself is employed to bring about notification
of the Constitution.
The grandfather clauses of the South that ex
cuded from voting any Negro whose grandfather
could not read write nullied the Fifteenth Amend
ent which provides that there shall be no dscrini-
nation against the voters because OF race color or pre-
vous condition of Servtude
That finally was declared unconstitutional by the
United States Supreme Court.
Other laws accomplished the same exclusion of
Negro anu
In most Southern States, despite the Fifteenth
Amendment, the Negroes do not actually vote and,
since many of the Southern political leaders the
loudest in their demands for preservation of the
Eighteenth Amendment, there always is an embar-
RAISING pause when Northern wet raises the point
that what is fair for the goose is fair for the gander
KUao IN still other directions notification occurred
The Fourth Amendment Of the Constitution pro-
Wdes against unwarranted search and seizure. Yet
the fanatical drys in the breath with which they
cry for sustaining the Constitution applies to the
Eighteenth Amendment uphold the raiding of homes
for liquor without search warrant
The Seventh Amendment of the Constitution pro-
vides trial by jury and yet in the judicial system
itself we see courts whose duty it is to support the
Constitution, employing contempt proceedings and the
Injunction to circumvent the constitutional guaran-
tee A man sentenced to Jail for contempt gets no
jury trial And that is notification.
The First Amendment Of the Constitution guar
antees freedom of speech and of the press. Yet we
find those arrests having to do with involving
freedom of speech and of the press. A conspicuous
example is the Roger Baldwin case recently decided
in New jersey Notification was effected for many
months in the prosecution of Roger Baldwin.
In the main, the more fanatic person is, the more
he declares simon 100 per cent adherence to the
particular law he is fanatical about, the more of
nuicationst he is toward other laws that interfere
with shortcut enforcement of his own pet statute
1t therefore is high time that the term nullltcatlon
gets back into common usage and consideration.
We agree with Hoover against treatment OF the
prohibition subject in a way that would multi
fcation.
And we desire at the same time to go further and
to say that should be elected President of the
United States it will be plainly his duty to stand
against all forms of notification with the same firm
ness thai he promises against notification of the
Eighteenth Amendment.