The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-10-17
CHAOTIC POLITICS.
By SCOTT c. BONE.

This year campaign of 1880 already is weight ed with political which will pursue and plague both great political parties for years to come.
 Its banefu effects far-reachng, whatever the results in November. Party lines broken beyond early repair It involves Presidential politics and possibilities, and will unmake men today occupying seats of the mighty Real greatness will disappear not to reappear. And all because of irrenconcilabe differences over the noble experiment" essayed in the enactment of the Eighteenth Amendment
 Party organization endures in name only
 The Democracy following Jefferson, Jackson, Cleveland and William Jennings Bryan and surviv- ing storm and stress for mercural century, finds itself led by hitherto uncompromising conserva- tive Republican, John J. Raskob, who, espousing the cause of personal liberty resurrects the doctrine of States rights and engages in the herculean task of attempting to force it upon his newly adopted party against it's fill Heedng his leader ship, attuned to the urban sentiment of the Elm pire State Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt-recently foremost aspirant for the Presidencysounds the slogan of repeal, and at alienateS Southern States alerady estranged by Tammany Thus a once promising White House boom may go into the discard
 Equally confusing and abnormal conditions bear down heavily upon the usually stawart and immov- able C. O P Declaring that Prohibition is not an issue National Chairman Simeon D. Fess, a novice in National politics opens the campaign in Massachusetts where the Bay State Republicans, demanding law enforcement somewhat nega- lively committed to the "dry" cause, and then proceeds to New Jersey to set the ball rolling only to discover the Republicans of that often pivotal State irrevocably aligned the modification side of the vexatous controversy. While this spectacle is enacted the party in New York throws down the gauntlet to the administration by going on record unqualifiedly in favor of outright repeal Thus the party in power, figurately is lodged be- tween the devil and the deep blue sea, with no one wise enough to divine the ultimate outcome.
 Prohibition not issue?
 Actually the veriest dullard can see that it is the only issue-uppermost and paramount-and will not down. Try he may, the good old Doctor Fess cannot subordinate it or brush it aside. His gesture foolishly futile and tends only to render confusion worse confounded.
 People make issues Campaign managers do not. Prohibition is the subject of popular thought and discussion. Only hard times" real and fancied obtrudes itself upon the endless controversy.
 A burning issue today, it will be burning issue tomorrow, and next campaign and the next Until it is settled and settled right-and that eventuation is not remotely in sight-he electorate will refuse to be diverted to consideration of the tariff monetary problems or kindred things how ever important to the public veal
 The battle is on Wet" or "dry?" That is the battle cry Raskob is wiser than Fess in sensing it. But the troubles of the one no more havoc making than the woes of the other Both tend toward party disruption and, since representative government in American means government through parties, the situation obviously bodes ill to the country. May it not presage the passing of full government contro-Congress- bocss whose per ncious activities already have hampered admins trative efforts to the cost of good government? l. it not a significant, yea sinister fact, that, II this off year upheava the insurgents pf the Middle West-chefly "drys" it may be observed-appeal the more militant and dominant and il their status?
 What of the titular leader of the G. O. P.- Herbert Hoover? Is he to go down in history al "one term President" as short sighted folk o speculative trend today saying? Admittedly one of the ablest Americans entrusted witt the helm of the ship Of State, is the noble expert ment7 of Prohibition to contriye his undoing?
 It is an open secret that would-be "repeaers in the East-"nullers,' the "drys' characterize them-are organizing to nominate Dwight w. Nor row in 1892, and counting upon sweepn. victory for him in New Jersey next month to giv an irresistible momentum to the movement. It i an ill-starred undertaking New Jersey and Nev York may-probably will-ron up wet majoritie in November but the West and the South, in al probability will provide impressive antidotes at th polls and demonstrate the political unwisdom th actual foolhardiness of attempting to elect modi ficationist to the Presidency. Thus Morows in cipient White House boom is likely to share tn fate of Franklin D. Roosevelt's in consignment t the scrap heap.
 Herbert Hoover will be renominated two year hence, in spite. of present untoward conditions