New Britain herald., 1930-09-27
POLITICIANS WORRY
 ABOUT 1882 STAND
Wonder if Dry Law Question Will Become Issue

Washington. Sept 27 P>-With prohibition consistently bobbing up in politics this year, national party leaders are wondering if this issue tial campaign.
 In other words. the political lead CTS are wondering if either of the two national parties will adopt q wet plank two years hence for the first time since adoption of the eighteenth amendment, and wheth. 1T either will nominate a wet candi- date.
 President Hoover supported the eighteenth amendment in his 1928 race and Alfred E. Smith ran as wet but the democratic platform was not wet MT. Hoover declared against repeal Of the eighteenth amendment and. in effect, against modification.
 MT. Hoover's utterances are re- garded as putting the republican party in the dry column nationally, but the ranks of both the republi- cans and democrats are divided on this question. The New York state republicans have declared for re- peal as has Dwight w. Morrow, re- publican senatorial nominee in New Jersey.
 Democrats Speculate
 Meanwhile, as the republican ad- ministration waits for the report of the law enforcement commission on it's inquiry of prohibition, democrats are speculating on what effect the declarations of Governor Roosevelt of New York and James A. Reed of Missouri for prohibition repeal will have on the next democratic con- vention. Both are viewed as presi- dential possibilities.
 Chairman Tydings of the demo- cratic senatorial campaign commit tee has declared prohibition an is- sue in many of the campaigns this year and most of the democratic senatorial candidates in the north and east, are running as vets with wet blanks in a number of state platforms. Chairman Raskob of the democratic national committee is for repeal.
 But the democratic stronghold of the southland is dry and if a wet plank gets into the next democratic platform it will be over the deters mined opposition of this section of the party.
 Senator Robinson of Arkansas, who was recently renominated and who has been advanced by his state for the democratic presidential nom- nation is an avowed advocate of na- tional prohibition.
 Hoover Dry
 In view of. the recent prohibition outbreaks and the prospect of action by the law enforcement commission on this subject, political leaders have looked over President Hoover's S views on prohibition. Here is what he said when he wrote to Senator Borah, republican, Idaho. in 1928, as candidate for the republican nomination and what he repeated when he accepted that nomination:
 T do not favor the repeal of the eighteenth amendment. I stand for the efficient enforcement of the laws enacted hereunder. Whoever is chosen president has under his oath the solemn duty to pursue this course.
 Our country has deliberately un- dertaken a great social and econom- lc experiment, noble in motive and far reaching in purpose. It must be worked out constructively."
 He added, in his speech of accept ance: Modification of the enforce ment laws which would permit that which the constitution forbids, is nullitication. This the American peo- pie will not countenance.
 While the decision of the New York republicans for wet plank in the state platform this week is ex- pected to result in a movement in this direction at the next republican convention, Senator Brookhart, of Iowa. a republican dry, predicts this will get nowhere and Presi- dent Hoover will keep the party dry"