Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-12
Convention Offered Platform
Urging Enforcement
of all Laws.
REFERENDUM PROPOSAL
IS VOTED DOWN, 10 TO 8
Hoover Administration Is Com
mended for Farm Relief, Tariff
and Tax Reduction.
Ry the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio, September Ia
The Ohio State Republican platform
placed before the party's convention
for adoption today carried no specific
mention of prohibition, though calling
for enforcement of all laws.
Efforts of prohibition opponents to
obtain from the Resolutions Committee
a announcement for repeal or refer
endum on prohibition met with disas-
trous failure. Only three votes all cast
by Cleveland members of the commit
tee, were all the proposal could muster
Twenty-one of the twenty-five members
of the committee participated in franz
ing the document.
National Plank Followed.
The plank dealing with prohibition
follows closely the plank of the Kansas
City national platform and the one
adopted by the State convention two
years ago. 1t follows:
I'VE heartily indorse the declaration
relative to law observance and law en-
forcement contained in the Republican
national platform. We believe in the
sincere observance and conscientious
enforcement of the provisions of our
State and FederAl Constitutions and of
all the laws pursuant thereto"
Proposed planks calling for repeal of
prohibition and referendums on both
the Volstead and State enforcement acts
were summarily voted down. Advocates
considered an attempt to carry the fight
to the convention floor today.
Repeal Proposal Loses, Is to 3.
The first defeat came with presenta-
ton by State Senator Joseph N. Acker-
man of Cleveland of planks calling for
repeal and for referendum on the
eighteenth amendment These were
presented to the entire committee and
resulted in defeat by a vote Of ID TO 3.
Later, congressional candidates VIII
bur M. White of Toledo and George H.
Bender of Cleveland presented proposals
TO a subcommittee, which refused TO
recommend them to the whole COM
White presented a plank calling for
repeal of the eighteenth amendment
and substitution of the principle OF
Government control OF liquors. He then
Joined with Bender In proposing a
plank calling for referendums on the
Volstead act and the Crabbe act, the
State enforcement law.
White and Bender sought to present
their proposals to the entire committee,
but It ruled that only convention dele
gates would be permitted to appear and
they being congressional candidates
were not accredited delegates. Threats
by them to precipitate a night on the
convention floor resulted In permission
to present their planks to the subcom-
Inittee.
Both White and Bender later stated
they would not attempt to present their
proposal to the convention. Alderman,
however, declared that he would force
his fight to the floor.
Declares Dry Law Not Issue.
State Chairman Edward d. Schorr Of
Cincinnati, in voting against the Acker-
man proposals, said that while he might
have similar personal views on the
liquor problem, he considered that pro-
hibition is not an issue and therefore
has no place in the platform.
The platform carried strong in
dorsement OF the Hoover administra-
ton, reciting its enactment of farm
relief legislation, the protective tariff,
reduction of taxes, the foreign policy
and other activities.