Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-23
WET DEMOCRATIC
NOMINEE APPEARS
PROBABLE FOR 1882
Southern Drys Insist South to
Be Solid Again Despite
Rum Issue.
REPUBLICAN ATTITUDE
MORE CONTROVERSIAL
Temperance Forces Threaten Third
Party Candidate if Republicans
Falter on Stand.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Despite promised drives of dry or
tial candidate In 1882 favoring repeal
or modification of national prohibition
seems to be the lot Of the Democrats two
years hence.
Furthermore, the Democrats are like
" to write into their party platform q
plank calling for modification, If not
actual repeal Of the eighteenth amend
ment.
Canvas Of opinion among some OF the
dryest of the dry members Of Senate
ana House from the South brings ad-
mission that such is the situation with
in the Democratic party.
What the Republicans win do IN 1882
Is more controversial, although Chair
man Fess Of the G. o. p. National Com
Ynittee has predicted that the party will
be found supporting the eighteenth
amendment two years hence. Other
Republican politicians, after what hap
pened in the recent elections in Massa-
chusetts, Illinois and Ohio, are inclined
to feel that If the party raises the dry
standard it will lose States 1t needs for
victory. And still others see stark de-
feat ahead If the Republicans come out
for any kind Of modification.
Prosperity May Save g. o. p.
One thing may save the Republicans
and ease the lot Of the drys--a return
Of prosperity in the next two years.
The Wickersham Law Enforcement
Commission gets down to work again
tomorrow afSeF G To-day recess on Its
report on national prohibition. The re-
port cannot, in all probability, be In the
hands of the President in time .or the
inclusion of the commissions recon-
mendations in his annual message 70
CONGRESS. The President was hard at
work on his message yester Jay AND
hopes to have 1t completed by the MO-
die of this week.
REORGANIZATION plans for the dry
forces are under way, with the Anti
saloon League proposing a~t3.000, 600 70
$4,000 900 budget and declaring. through
r. Scott Mcbride. general supsrinteno.
ent, that dry candidates must pc put
into once from the President on down.
Mcbride said he expected the aid o.
$4,000 business men would be eulisteo
in a cana,aign of education. He de-
clared that reports Of weakening OF the
Anti-Saloon Leagues organization were
''bunk.''
DR. Clarence True wilson. general
secretary of the Methodist Board Of
Temperance, insisted that the candi-
dates for President In 1882 must be dry
whether Republican or Democrat, 70
obtain the support Of his organisation
This Is O rather clear Implication that
II the Republicans falter IN their role
OF dry supporters. the dry organizations
win seek to put q third-party candidate
IN the field Such . can1idate could
scarcely fail to elect the Democratic
nominee for President
Southern Democrats IN Congress,
speaking privately for the most part,
insist that the solid South will cleave
to the Democratic nominee for Presi-
dent In 1892 whether he be wet or dry,
provided the religious issue Is not again
interjected Many Of the Southern
Democrats already are looking forward
20 the nomination Of Gov. Franklin D.
Roosevelt OF New York at the next
Democratic National Convention. II 1t
Is not to be Roosevelt, then 1t Is likely
TO be Gov. Richie of Maryland or Owen
D. Young Of New York, or Q wet
Buckley Of Ohio.
Democrats Lack Bryan.
These Southern Democrats, who still
insist that the South Is favorable to
national prohibition, point out that they
have no longer q william Jennings
Bryan TO lead the fight which viii be
waged against q wet Democratic NOM
inee for the presidency or against q
moist, If not . wet plank, in the ma
tionai platform. They have no Wood
row wilson to turn to, as they did in
Baltimore, when Bryan threw his In
1iuence against Champ Clark because
the Tammany Democrats Of New York
were favoring Clark. They do have
Senator Joe" Robinson, the leader of
the Democrats in the Senate, who made
his campaign for reelection On a bone
dry dry platform last Summer. But
Southern Democrats still regard the
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