Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-29
ROOSEVELT DUE
FOR denomination
New York Democrats Only
Convention Problem Is Choice
for Attorney General.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SYRACUSE, N. Y, September 29.-
The Democratic State convention to-
morrow will nominate Gov. Franklin D.
Roosevelt for Governor. Senator Wag-
ner, as temporary chairman, spoke at
noon today and John w. Davis, perma-
nent chairman, speaks tonight. The
only place in doubt on the State ticket
was attorney general
The New York City investigation of
alleged judicial scandals had double
reflection here, in one instance with
arrival of Gov. Roosevelt after he had
written to Mayor James j, Walker of
New York, suggesting that all city EN-
ployes appear voluntarily before the
special grand jury, waive immunity and
testify freely, and the other in the re-
port that plank had been prepared for
incorporation in the platform calling for
enactment Of law to prevent the plead
ing of immunity by all public officials.
Refers to Inquiry,
In his address, Senator Wagner de-
clared that whoever attains judicial or
other public Office by dishonest means
should be driven therefrom, as also from
the ranks of our party"
This declaration was an indirect ref
erence to the grand jury investigation
Of alleged judicial scandals in New York
City.
"The Democratic party" Senator
Wagner said, has always stood for the
highest probity in public Office. Wher-
ever and whenever one has been found
wanting in honor OF derelict in duty it
gave its best effort and bent every en-
ergy to rid the Office of its incumbent.
Equally insistent has it ever been in its
demand that public Office must be at
tanned only by honorable means.
II know that l speak for the heart
and the conscience of the great rank
and file of the Democratic party in our
State when I say that he who attainS
judicial or other public Office by dis
honest means should be driven there
from and also from the ranks of our
party"
Assails Administration.
Discussing national affairs, Senator
Wagner said that the last Is months
in Washington had witnessed 1.-The COL
lapse of the Presidents panacea for
farm relief. the collapse of the hope for
tax reductions, the collapse of our for
eign trade and collapse of domestic in
duStry and the tremendous increase in
unemployment, the collapse of the al
legged economy program, and the col
lapse of the administrators scientific
pretenSions."
Prohibition, the major source OF con-
troversy at the Republican convention,
was discussed at length by Senator
Wagner.
Eat a convention of the Democratic
party of the State of New York." he
said, 1T is unnecessary to repeat the
bill of complaint that we have annually
recited against the prohibition amend
ment. We know that it is bad in
principle and worse in practice. Since
we last assembled, not one of the
abuses of prohibition has abated. All
have increased in volume and intensity.
Public patience is being rapidly ex-
hausted. Popular demand is becoming
insistent and persistent that relief from
the present mockery of the Constitution
from hypocrisy and from law-bred
crime corruption shall come, not in the
next generation, but now, so that we
ourselves may once again enjoy the
blessings of civilized Government.
Hits Wickersham Plan.
"Our party is united on this PROPOSE
ton that every State recover the right
to solve the problem of temperance in
its own way. That involves repeal with
OuI EGSEINS Vi bAlE CAbAAbCCAAeAA
ment. But that is not all The strug-
gle against prohibition must meanwhile
be fought on many fronts, 1t involves
action against the Volstead act. 1t i'm
plies resistance against the jurylesS
trials proposed by the Wickersham COM
mission. 1t calls for an alert and con-
slant guard against similar proposals,
destructive of our Government and our
liberties. 1t demands leadership in con-
1v~fa ~
successfully.
1T requires all this because two i'm
portant principles of government are
at stake. Prohibition represents a
serious encroachment by the Federal
Government into the domain of the
States, and it constitutes a dangerous
penetration of law into the sphere of
private conduct. 1t is a glaring example
of intemperance in government itself
Senator Wagner paid glowing tribute
to Gov Roosevelt's administration of
State affairs.