Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21
BY WILLIAM HARD.


The Democratic party in its national
convention In 1882 will adopt a cam
paign platform plank tinged or satu-
rated with wetness: and the Anti-Sa-
loon League is already, In effect, out for
Herbert Hoover for 1882 denomination
and reelection. These are the deduc-
tons thought here to be irreSistibly APP
parent in events coming TO their cli-
max at this week end
In the following States the Demo-
cratic local State organizations are de-
clared here by authoritative Democratic
observers to have committed themselves,
either by local platform adoption or
by effective internal understanding to
the repeal Of the eighteenth amend
ment: AZ ~ .
In New England-New Hampshire,
Vermont, Massachusetts,, Rhode Island,
Connecticut
In the Middle Atlantic region-New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
In the border region--Delaware,
Maryland.
In the Central Lake region-Michi-
gan, Illinois, Wisconsin.
In the prairie region-Iowa, Mime
sofa, North Dakota.
In the mountain region-Montana,
On the Pacific slope-washington.
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IN some Of these instances the local
platform plank has not yet been
adopted but is inevitably imminent. In
some instances the call has been, or
will be. rather for the submission to the
States OF an amendment revising the
eighteenth amendment than for out
right repeal Of the amendment, but the
sentiments thus revealed are calculated
here 70 be in reality identical. In an
instance or two the revelation OF opin-
ion has not been explicit but that the
opinion Is, In fact, wet Is undoubted.
All the States mentioned are expected.
in the next Democratic National Con-
vention to have delegates emphatically
inclined toward the amenoment repeal
idea. -.
Their delegates will number 494.
The total number Of delegates in the
convention will be 100. A majority
will be ISL. To get wet plank, the
4o4 delegates from the States mentioned.
will need to add only 81 delegates TO
their ranks in order to have a major
ity and victory.
Thirty-eight of these 81 they can
probably pick up from the Territories,
which comprise the Dlstrlct OF CoIu UNI
bia the Virgin Islands, Porto Rico, the
Canal Zone, Alaska, Hawaii and the
philippines. These Territories" in both
marty conventions are much influenced
by the party national organization, and
the Democratic party national organl-
zation Is wet. The States mentioned,
plus the Territories" would bring the
total wet vote in the next Democratic
National Convention to 532. Tnere
would remain then only 10 to get In
order to arrive at a majority.
Local Democratic wet spots IN doml-
nantlyf dry States, such as Indiana, IN
which this year several Democratic can
didates for Congress are running wet,
might together furnish the 10. There
will probably also be some wet delegates
in the convention out OF even the SOHO
South from the States Of Louisiana and
FLORIDA. Moreover, the whole 10 might
no derived from the one State of Ohio,
which will have 48 delegates and which
will undoubtedly in the next Democratic
convention be strongly promoting
candidacy for the presidential nomina-
tion by Robert j. Buckley, wet, If he
succeeds, this November, in beating Ros-
coe G. McCulloch, Republican dry, for
election from Ohio to the United States
Senate.
Democrats all over the country are
bending strong hopes and efforts toward
Mr. huxley. He has already captivated
the party Imagination. He is, in way,
the Democratic Dwight w. Morrow. He
is a man Of highly superior personal
and professional reputation whose wet
ness is another rainbow Of respecta-
blity on the shoulder of the wet cause.
He further, as a Westerner, Is remote
from the New York odor and the Tam
many odor, which causes so many
Southern Democrats and so many
Western potential Democratic adherents
to allege a moral disgust and recon-.
He has thus a certain possible political
advantage over Gov. Franklin ID. Roose-
welt OF New York, who otherwise Is by
far at this time the outstanding Demo-
cratic presidential nomination PROB
ability.
II
The votes of the delegates from Ohio
and also from other States in the next
Democratic National Convention will be
| Influenced additionally by the contem-
| plation of the fact that notable Demo-
cratic presidential timber satisfactory
to the expert measurers and graders of
the prohibition organization Is scarce.
MIR. Owen d. Young Of New York, Who
! hovers In the background Of Gov.
Roosevelt as the Democratic partys
greatest imaginative mind, supported Mr..
Alfred Emanuel Smith IN 1923 for rea-