Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-06-19
Party Leader Over Radio De-
scribes G. O. P. Meeting as
"One.Man Show"
PRELIMINARY PLATFORM
WORK STARTS THIS WEEK
Richie Headquarters Will Be
Opened Today-Lot Of Sentiment
for Him in Chicago.
BY G.. GOULD LINCOLN.
Staff Correspondent OF The Star.

CHICAGO, June 18.-Thc braying Of
the donkey has succeeded the trumpet
ing Of the elephant. The Democrats
are piling to Chicago as the Republic
an stragglers of the G. o. P. conven-
ton are drifting out.
Jouett Shouse, executive chairman
of the Democratic National Committee,
sounded a keynote of the Democrats
over the radio. He took as his text
What the Republicans Have Left Un-
Done" In his opinion the Republican
National Convention just closed was q
"one-man show"-President Hoover be-
ing the man, and the LISA Republican
delegates were driven to nominate Hoo
yer and Curtis again, although a ma
jority of them would have preferred
other candidates. He suggested, too,
publican platform had been written by
President Hoover and been forced on
an unwilling convention.
The Democratic executive chairman,
winding up his address decrying the
Republican President and the Repub-
lican convention and defending the
Democrats against the assaults made on
them by the G. o. P speakers, said:
There is sound reason to conclude
that instead of being deluded by the
one-man show that had been put on in
Chicago under the name of the Repub-
lican National Convention, a vast num-
Der of the voters of America have be-
come embittered and resentful at what
they regard as stupid attempt to mis-
lead and to deceive them again"
Silent on Democratic Planks.
In his speech Mr.. Shouse did not
undertake to say what the Democrats
would do about prohibition and other
planks in their own party platform. OF
the Republican prohibition plank. he
had this to say:
II do not know that Mr.. Hoover
himself wrote the prohibition plank.
But If he did not, the authors Of that
remarkable production are to be con-
graduated for the perfect counterfeit
Of his style and method. 1t can be
read by anybody into accord with any
body's idea"
The Democratic executive chairman,
discussing the prohibition problem with
newspaper men, however, indicated
that the trend of the Democrats was
toward a plank advocating chance to
vote on whether prohibition should be
repealed and the problem turned to the
States without further Federal inter-
ference-in other words, the question
of straight-out repeal. He sought to
make a distinction between having the
Democratic party favor resubmission OF
the eighteenth amendment and having
it favor repeal. In practical politics,
however, there will be no distinction.
If the Democrats write into their plat
form a proposal for submitting a re-
peal amendment to the Constitution,
they will be labeled by the voters the
party of repeal, just as they are now
labelling the Republican party the party
of revision, as they begin more to un-
derstand what the Republican prohi-
bition plank actually means.
If the Democrats 60 the length OF
supporting submission Of repeal Of the
eighteenth amendment, the issue will
be pretty well joined between those
who wish straight repeal and those
who wish revision.
Prohibition May Be Issue.
The Republicans in their plank de-
clare prohibition is not a partisan po-
ltical issue. But unless the Democrats
adopt a prohibition plank practically
identical with that of the Republicans,
it is soon going to be an issue between
the two national parties. Furthermore,
when the Republican and Democratic
platforms of 1928 were both consid-
cred dry" prohibition became an issue
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