Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-08
VOTING TO SETTLE
DRY-WET DISPUTES
Primaries in Maine, New Jer-
Sey and Other States
Involve Issue.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Prohibition is up for O decisive
voters decision in the June State pri-
mary elections.
In Maine, the Bell Wether State and
one of the FIRST to adopt prohibition,
and in New Jersey it is an issue that
has been badly placed before the cleo
torate as q choosing point between
candidates. In Minnesota the question
of a referendum has been preached.
1T is the first time" Franklin W.
Fort Of New Jersey has said, that the
question of whether the eighteenth
amendment to the Constitution shall
be retained or repealed has been the
clear-cut and unmistakable issue In any
State IN the United States"
Fort is a dry candidate for the Re.
publican nomination for Senator from
New Jersey against three men who have
expressed varying degrees of opposition
TO prohibition. They are Dwight Whit
ney Morrow, Joseph S. Freltnghuysen
and John A. Kelly.
New Jersey Wet State.
New Jersey always has been q wet
State. But as it comes In now in the
van of elections in these times when
discussion Of prohibition has reached q
new high mark of intensity the prob
able result takes on much Importance
in gauging sentiment on the eighteenth
amendment.
Morrow, an Amherst classmate Of
Calvin Coolidge and Ambassador to
Mexico, Is standing unequivocably for
repeal Of the eighteenth amendment.
He wants restored to the States the in
dividual right to determine their atti-
tude on the liquor question.
Er0l1nphuVReN n former EnOafnr has
platform advocating governmental
liquor control. A regular Republican
opposed to prohibition" Is the way Kelly
has designed himself.
Fort, a member of the House, for
merly was secretary Of the Republican
national committee. He directed the
pre-convention campaign Of Mr.. Hoo
yer for the presidency.
His State will go to the polls on June
II, the day after Maine and Minnesota
have voted. The three States will round
out the June primary list.
Prohibition as an issue has been
raised in Maine in the Republican con-
test for the nomination for United
States Senator to succeed Arthur r.
Gould, who is retiring.
Dugald B. Dewar, Portland securities
dealer, the wet candidate, has pledged
himself to work for repeal or modi-
uCaGlon OF the pronlD1Clon law, ana has
advanced no other point for discussion.
Opposed by Two Drys.
Opposed to him are two drys, wal
lace H. White, jr, who has represented
the second congressional district for
ID years, and former Gov. Ralph o.
Brewster
The Christian Civil League, Names
anti-Saloon organization, has voted to
extend aid jointly to White and Brew
ster to take every possible step to pre-
vent the nomination of Dewar.
Senator Thomas D. Schall and Gov.
Theodore ChristianSon Of Minnesota
are engaged in q lively fight for the
Republican nomination for the Senate
in Minnesota. Senator Schall is the
only blind man in the Senate.
A possible fusion Of Farmer-LAbor-
ties and Democrats has added interest
to the primary campaign. Efforts have
been made for an exchange Of support
for Floyd B. Olson, Farmer-Labor
nominee for governor, and Einar
Hoi0ale, Minneapolis attorney, Demo-
cratic candidate for the Senate.
Schan and Christianson have fought
their feud out along general lines
Hoidale, who stands unopposed within
his party, is standing for q referendum
on the eighteenth amendment.