New Britain herald., 1930-09-27
FUTILE PLEDGES
 VIGOROUS CHANGES
New York C. 0. P. Nominee to
 Campaign as Wet

Albany, N. Y, Sept. 27 R-Thc republican party of the state was preparing today to make the high roads and byroads ring with stor- ies of democratic corruption in it's campaign to elect Charles H. TuttIe governor.
 That the additionally dry party was fighting for man opposed to prohibition and that it had pledged itself in convention to seek repeal of the nations dry law was expect ed to matter little, as the party chiefs believed they had taken the prohibition issue out of the cam- paign by taking almost the same stand on the question the democrats have taken.
 Roosevelt Urges Repeal
 Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, who will be nominated for another term by the democrats, has come out for repeal of the eighteenth amendment.
 The democratic convention will open Monday at Syracuse
 Republican leaders professed not to be worried by defections. Inde- pendent drys announced soon after the republican convention. adjourn ed yesterday that they would put third ticket in the field Who their gubernatorial candidate would be was not determined.
 A plank advocating repeal of the eighteenth amendment was adopte1 by the republican convention by q vote of 733 to 25S, with the drvs satisfied to go on record against it.
 Accepts Nomination
 MT Futile accepted the nomina- tion by a speech which maped the plan of campaign. He spoke of the money changers in the temple of justice in the city of New York" gave considerable time to discussion ol office holders and democratic leaders in New York city refusing to waive immunity when called tn Investigations into corruption. and brought the delegates to their feet with the demand Are we to have governor that is bigger than Tarl- many Hall. or not?"
 He pledged that if elected he would require within. A hours re- moval of any public officer who re- fused to give an accounting of his trust unless he were guaranteed im- munity.
 MT. Futile is federal attorney for the district including Manhattan. He has resigned. but is still in office. His nomination as governor was due largely to the fact that in investi- gation of financial frauds. a matter that came within his province through use of the mails, he uncov- cred evidence of payments by Tam many office holders for their jobs. These payments are now under in yestigation by an extraordinary county grand jury at the ,ditecticn of Governor Roosevelt.
 Worst Elements Blamed
 The prohibitionists, who have been used to supporting the repub- lican ticket issued a statement that the worst clements in the repub-
  lican party had gained control and that it was ridiculous" to assume such forces were qualified to reform the state government and to purify politics.
 The republican leaders were less interested in the dry gubernatorial candidate than in trying to deter mine the vote the third party ticket would draw. They went back to the 1926 campaign for a comparison. That year saw the dry Cristman ticket, named to punish United States Senator James w. Wadsworth for his opposition to prohibition, polling 231.906 votes, enough to cause Wadsworth's defeat by Robert F. Wagner, democrat, by 1t6,21S votes.