The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-24
NEITHER PARTY
ABLE TO DODGE
/ WET QUESTION
Fight Against Dry League
Certain If WiIIoughby
Is Renominated.
BY BEN STERN

Try as it will. neither party will
be able to dodge the prohibition
question in this years campaign.
developments of the last few weeks
indicate.
If Benjamin Willoughby, Vim
cennes, is renominated to the state
supreme court by the Republican
state convention here June 5. that
party will be up to its ears in a
fight on the Indiana Anti Saloon
League.
Willoughby has stated plainly on
several occasions that If he is noni-
mated he viii wage an active cam
paign against the league
This has called to his colors Ar
thur L. Gilliom, former attorney
general, who is an ayowed enemy
of the dry league.
Building Up Support
Gilliom's activities during the last
few weeks are parallel to those of
a campaign manager.
Throwing the force of his per-
sonal following into the balance, the
former encouragement has man
aged to build up a strong support
for the aged jurist
Many county and district chair
men are rallying to Willoughby, and
it generally is conceded he has an
excellent opportunity to obtain the
nomination.
One of his two opponents, T. Nor
ton Mcdonald, Princeton, is max
ing a vigorous campaign, while the
other, Thomas Coulter, Knox, cir
cult Judge, seems to be resting on
his oars.
Richard Werneke, Terre Haute
Democratic leader, is insistent his
party take a stand for a referendum
on both the national and state pro-
hibition laws.
He managed to get the platform
advisory committee to appoint a
subcommittee, of which Werneke is
the head, to consider such a refer
endum.
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If a plank is drawn, it then. must
be presented to the committee on
committees, headed by John S. Nc
Faddin, Rockville, which is to ap-
prove the plank and then pass it on
to the convention platform commit
tee.
So a refendum plank must run
hree gantlets and then is at the
mercy of the convention itself.
The vets are showing increasing
strength in the state.
OF the 133,902 votes cast in the
Literary Digest poll by HOLSTERS,
81 .494 were for enforcement, 80 ,949
for modification, and 1889 for re-
peal.
Two wet candidates for the Re-
publican Seventh district congress
sional nomination in the primary
polled little less than half the
votes cast and neither was an out
anding citizen nor one of the type
that would attract the better ele-
ment of the wet vote.
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teenth. will have outright wet and
dry fights.
Lake County Wet
Charles j. Murphy, BrookSton,
who obtained the Democratic con-
gresSional nomination in the Tenth
district. is a former member of the
public service commission, and cam
paigned on a platform calling for
modification of the Volstead act.
Lake county is outspokenly wet,
and Murphy may make an interest
ing race against the veteran, Will
r. Wood, Lafayette, chairman of the
house appropriations committee.
Andrew j. Hickey. La Porte. vet
eran Republican and dry, will be
opposed by Samuel Pettengill. South
Bend attorney and an outSpoken
wet.
The larger cities in that district,
which include South Bend, La Porte.
Michigan City and Elkhart, showed
a wet vote in the Digest poll.
All of which tends to show that
even if the state conventions refuse
the issue. it will be fought in sew
eral districts.