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the Thursday meeting had no authority
to place the party on record on national
issues, such as prohibition, as terminal
ing the controversy on this point.
Sees End Of Dispute.
Senator Morrison Of North Carolina,
who will attend the meeting as national
committeeman from his State and who
has been warning against injecting the
prohibition question into the meeting.
said Mr.. Smiths statement "ended"
the dispute.
Smiths expression in Carolina yester-
day went perhaps longest of all In as
suaging the unease which had been
manifest chiefly among the Southerners
in Congress. To this was added
McAdoo In Los Angeles urging against
tying of the party to wet policy.
The two topped a crop of kilograms
letters, resolutions and expressions of
the consensus of this Democratic group
which piled high objections to deter
mining any sort of policy at the i'm
pending gathering.
Opponents of such action in Congress
were not overlooking any moves, how
ever, nor relaxing their vigilance, al
though number privately said they be-
lieved the rumored proposal would not
now be pressed.
The whole question got an airing In
the late hours Of last nights Senate
session as Senator Heflin of Alabama,
"Jeffersonian Democrat" delivered his
parting Grafton before ending, till next
election anyway, his congressional serv-
ice.
Offers No Apology.
Hefiin said Smiths Raleigh speech
before joint session of the State Legis-
lature was the opening Of the New York
ers fourth race for the nomination for
President. He had no apology to make,
said the ALBANIAN, for his 1928 OPPOSE
ton to Smith, and he would oppose him
again. Raskob, he added, would not be
able to commit the party to wet plat
form.
You are going to sever relations with
that fellow" he went on, "or see the
greatest upheaval in the history of the
Democratic party"
Then he became involved In a sharp
exchange with Senator Morrison over
politics In the latter's State.
MeAdoO Against VETS.
BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, March 3.--William
Gibbs McAdoo, Secretary OF the Treas
ury under President Wilson, in a tele-
gram to John j. Raskob, chairman of
the Democratic National Committee,
last night urged against commitment of
the party to a wet policy.
Every Democrat who is interested
In the success of the party should OPP
pose any attempt to commit the party
to a wet position at the forthcoming
meeting Of the Democratic National
Committee in Washington" Mr.. Nc
Adoo informed MFR. Raskob. "Only the
Democratic national conventions can
declare party policies.
1.-THE National Committee should not
usIlrp any function or authority exclu-
sively within the province Of the ma
tionRl convention. Such a course will
violate traditional practice and destroy
party harmony and party prospects.
"At the present time there are more
important issues than the prohibition
question. The economic failure Of the
Republican party, which has already
caused irreparable disaster, Is of far
greater consequence.
II hope that the National Committee
will work within its clearly defined
sphere and leave the determination of
issues to the 1882 national convention"
LOOKS TO CONVENTION.