The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-08-29
BY FREDERICK A. STORM United Press StafEs Correspondent)

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 Seagirt, N. J., Aug 29-(U. P.)- Franklin D. Roosevelt drove his presidential campaign into the wet republican east to-day with a wig orous appeal for true temperance" and states rights, attacking at the same time the prohibition policies Of the republican party and it's can- didates for president and vice pres- ident.
 He called the republican prohibit tion policies "hindsight," "evasive'' "shifty," fearful" and "timid," as contrasted to the prohibition pol icies of the democratic party and candidates. which he called plain, clear and honest"
 He continued his direct attacks on the leadership of President Hoover, his opponent for the e-high- est office the nation may give, by contrasting the craftsmanship and Foresight" of Woodrow Will son, former governor of New Jer- sey. with what he termed the "hindsight" of "our present pres ident."
 The New York governor declar- ed that President Hoover. in 7 his acceptance speech, deliberately at- tempted to misrepresent the prohi- bition policies of the democratic party as failing to protect "dry states"
 The republicans, he said, had been ''sacrifcing principles fol votes and attempting to concea that fact by the use of pussyca, words"
 Finally, Roosevelt laughed at the president and his running mate Vice President Curtis, whose be- liefs on the prohibition question in. dicated, he said, that the republi. can party was attempting to ride into office with one foot on a wei horse and one foot on dry horse as he said the party tried to wir New York state in 1880.
 The answer of the voters to that "circus stunt" he said. would be the same.
 However people may differ as tc the principle of prohibition, ma. tional or state, they all will agree that a temporizing and insincert policy is disastrous not only to the cause of prohibition but to that oi temperance as well.
 .The present leadership stands convicted of attempting to evade and confuse this issue. The honest dry will, know, honor more tht honest wet than the shifty dry; and the anti -prohibitionist prefers. know, the four-square dry to the uncertain wet. All will join in con- demning fearful and timid prac' tice of evasion"
 It was in such an atmosphere and on the spot where Alfred p Smith opened his sensational cam paign of 1928 against Herber Clarke Hoover, that the governor of New York opened his easteri speaking campaign for the offic' Smith lost.
 Roosevelt said in part:
 "Once upon time an orator wht was describing the scenery Of hh state remarked that in the north i was mountainous and, that il the south 1t was "moisterous." That classic description remindi me of the republican national tick ct this year-.'high and dry" at ont end and at the other end "increas ing moisture"
 "But before come to frrthel elucidation on that point let .m' make another thing clear. However we may diner as U method, we all agree. that temper ance is one of the cardinal virtues This question of temperance | bound .ap with crime, with insanit! and, only too often, with poverty.
 Ut is increasingly apparent tha | the tntemperates use of tntoxicant has no place in this new mechan ized civilization of ours. In our in dustry, in our recreation. on ou | highways, a drunken man is nor | than m objectionable companion no is a peril to the rest of us.
 "But the methods adopted sine the great war with the purpose Q achieving c greater temperance D' tho forcing of prohibition hay been accompanied in most parts . l the country by complete and tragi
 iThis failure has come for thi very good raason; we have 'depend cd 10 largely upon the power o tho gOvernmentni action lnBtend Q reeoeniEing that fhe authority Q ihe home. the authority Of thi aoho0i and paFfioulnFIY tho author