Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-27
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Democratic Corruption to Be
Issue, With Both Parties
Against Dry Law.
BY the Associated Press.


ALBANY, N. Y, September 27.-
The Republican party of the State was
preparing today to make the highroads
and byroads ring with stories of Demo-
cratic corruption in its campaign tc
elect Charles H. Tuttle Governor.
That the traditionally dry party was
fighting for man opposed to prohibi-
ton and that it had pledged itself in
convention to seek repeal of the Ma
tons dry law was expected to matter
little, as the party chiefs believed
they had taken the prohibition issue
out Of the campaign by taking almost
the same stand on the question the
Democrats have taken.
Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who will
be nominated for another term by the
Democrats. has come out for repeal OF
the eighteenth amendment. The DEM
ocratic convention will open Monday at
Syracuse.
Leaders Show Calm.
Republican leaders professed not to
be worried by OBJECTIONS. Independent
drys announced soon after the Repub-
lican convention adjourned yesterday
that they would put a third ticket in
the field. Who their gubernatorial
candidate would be was not determined
A plank advocating repeal OF the
eighteenth amendment was adopted by
the Republican convention by vote OF
1888 to 25s, with the drys satisfied Ia
go on record against 1t.
Mr.. Tuttle accepted the nomination
by speech which mapped 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 of Office holders and
Democratic leaders in New York City
refusing to waive immunity when called
in investigations into corruption. and
brought the delegates to their feet with
the demand Are we to have Governor
who is bigger than Tammany Hall, or
not?"
He pledged that if elected he would
require within "a hours removal of any
public officer who refused to give an
accounting of his trust unless he were
guaranteed immunity.
Manhattan U. S. Attorney.
Mr.. futile is Federal attorney for the
district including Manhattan. He has
resigned, but is still in Office. His
nomination as Governor was due large
ly to the fact that in investigation of
financial frauds, a matter that came
within his province through use of the
mails, he uncovered evidence of pay
ments by Tammany Office holders for
their jobs. These payments are now
under investigation by an extraordinary
county grand jury at the direction OF
Gov. Roosevelt.
The prohibitionists who have been
used to supporting the Republican ticket
issued statement that "the worst ele-
ments" in the Republican party had
gained control and that it was "ridicu-
lous" to assume such forces were quail
| fed to reform the State government
| and to purify politics.
The Republican leaders were less
! interested in the dry gubernatorial
candidate than in trying to determine
the vote the third party ticket would
| draw. They went back to the 1926
campaign for comparison. That year
saw the dry Cristman ticket, named to
| punish United States Senator Jane:
| w. Wadsworth for his opposition tt
prohibition, polling 231 ,906 votes, enough
to cause Wadsworth's defeat by Robert
| F. Wagner, Democrat, by 1927 votes