Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-16
morrow OPENS
CAMPAIGN ASKING
DRY LAW REPEAL
Ambassador, Seeking Seat in
Senate, Describes Condi-
tons as DerlorabIe.
Resentment Is BLAMED
TO UNREASONABLE RULE
Candidate, in Newark Speech,
Voices Opposition to Return
of Saloons.

NEWARK, N. j., May 10 d.
Representative Franklin w. Fort an
nounced today he would enter the
race for the Republican nomina-
ton for United States Senator from
New Jersey against Ambassador
Dwight w. Morrow and former Sen
ator Joseph s. Frelinghuysen on q
platform of support Of the eighteenth
amendment.
By the Associated Press.
NEWARK, N. j., May 16.-Dwight w.
Morrow, Ambassador to Mexico, who Is
seeking the Republican nomination for
the United States Senate, favors repeal
Of the eighteenth amendment and re-
turn to State control Of liquor trafnc.
In q speech last night in Krueger's
Auditorium, he described conditions
after 10 years of Federal prohibition as
deplorable. ....
"It Is not fair to assume" he said,
that all resentment against national
prohibition is due to desire for I'M
limited license to be incorporate. There
is no community in the United States
that desires that. The resentment Is
due to the feeling that an unreasonable
control is being imposed.
States or subdivisions of States whose
sympathy is not with the law feel
themselves relieved of responsibility for
enforcement. They leave to an over
burdened Federal Government, with q
wholly inadequate police force, the task
of carrying out a great social reform,
which before 1870 all the communities
Of the land, in one way or another. were
wrestling with.
Brings No Panacea.
81 bring you no panacea for this de-
plorable condition. ! know of no magi-
cal solution. I cannot. however, stand
before my friends and neighbors and
ask for their suffrage without having
them know my attitude toward this
problem.
FIRST I believe that the way out of
the present dificulty Is to recognize
clearly the fundamental difference be-
tween the nature Of the Federal Gov
C4lAAICAb oAAu tk&S kStdtE &OtCENA1CI1t. Il
believe this involves q repeal of the
eighteenth amendment and the SUBJ
stitution therefor Of an amendment
which will restore to the States the
power to determine their policy toward
the liquor traffic, and vest In the Fed
eral Government power to give all pos
sible protection and assistance to those
States that desire complete prohibition
against invasion from the States that
do not.
eff should be elected to the United
States Senate I should be prepared to
vote for resolution submitting to the
several States an amendment to the
Constitution in any form that would
accomplish the foregoing purpose.
$50 long as the eighteenth amend
ment and the statutes hereunder are
the law of the land, favor generous
appropriations for their enforcement"
Mr.. Morrow said he favored the use
Of Federal appropriations to keep liquor
from entering the country and from
passing into interstate commerce.
Rum Control Difficult Problem.
The text of Mr.. Morrow's speech fol-
lows:
IT come before the Republican voters
OF New Jersey as q candidate for the
Republican nomination for the ONCE Of
United States Senator. Upon the resig-
nation of Senator Edge I was rendered
the appointment to the United States
Senate by the governor of the State
The work in Mexico and the protracted
session Of the Naval Arms Conference
in London made 1t impossible for me to
accep: the position by appointment. I
had, however, signifled my willingness
to stand before the voters Therefore
am here tonight.
"A man who accepts a party nomi-
nation accepts the general obligations Of
the party. This does not mean that he
shall follow partly blindly, but 1t does
mean that he shall try to cooperate
with his party colleagues and that he
should depart from his party only where
his conscience compels him to believe
that his party is wrong.
Il hope to have the opportunity dur
ing the next few weeks to discuss with
the voters of New Jersey some Of the
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