The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-16
Senator Bingham Is
 Beaten By The Drys
long battle by the opponents of the eighteenth amendment.
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long battle by the opponents of the eighteenth amendment.
 An all night session repletc with stormy, tumultuous scenes during the wet-dry debate preceded that vote. And the session was preceded by a 24-hour platform committee fight in which the com uronnise platform won, IT to l5. A four wear battle waged by repeal CTS" within the ranks of the party preceded the long. bitter connict on the battlefield here.
 The platform committee pro- posed a constitutional amendment finder which wet states could IeeaIize the liquor traffic without permitting the return or saloons Taxpayers in wet states would con tribute, then, to enforcement ol the dry law by federal authorities in dry states.
 Senator Hiram Bingham of Con necticut offered minority report calling for out and out repeai oi the eighteenth amendment. me yoto which in reality measured tne temper of the delegates on prom. bition came on the minority report 1t was 681 to 472.
 The platform then was adopted "by exclamation"
 Boos, jeers and cheers ecnoed in the vast stadium during the de- bate preceding the vote. Casn GUS toYrors in the galleries did not hke the argument of James K. Garneia chairman of the platform commit tee, that young people did not to- day know the horrible saloon coh' ditions of pre-prohibition dayS'
 "Hoot. hoot, hoot," hooted th' gallery. ,, chOrur of dissent.
 Garfield tried again.
 "Yah. yah. yah." drowned ms words.
 A determined man and unafraid fCarfieId again returned to the frsl word of the offending sentence and the gallery gods again would have none of 1t. There was racke' from the delegates. too, and foi some moments the disorder anc uproarious disregard for the serious business of making nationa party platform seemed to approacf in fury some of the demonstration of past political gatherings.
 Continued interruption of Gar field sent Chairman Fess of the na tional committee into a huddl' with convention officials. AgaiI / and again Permanent Convention Chairman Shell, red-faced an' angry. banged for order. With hung starter. The frayed ends o that homely implement atteste! the starting of many a bung witl a flow of a beverage perhaps non alcoholic. The regular gavei wa lost.
 You are guests of this conven tion," beloved Shell to the rebel lious galleries.
 Were the voters and we pal to get in," was the cheery response
 Garfield finally rather shame' the hecklers with brief sarcasti appreciation of the galleries cour tesy and fairness. Except for on or two speakers evidently consid cred by delegates and gallery au ditors alike to be below par ora tors. there were no further contin ued hostile interruptions.
 Speakers came in bewilderin rapidity with Shell apportionin the limited time finally in parcel as scant as a minute each.
 'I come from Nevada wher men are men ana the women ar glad of It." shouted Governor Ere BalZar.
 "Whoooooe-e-e-o," came tn glad response of auditors who ik that line.
 "Kansas is not the mother o prohibition but the wet nurse c prohibition" said Delegate Challii Kansas, and the only wet from hi state.
 "Give us square, fair chanc to vote whether we want repeal, pleaded tall, handsome. silvery haired Senator Bingham. republi can, Connecticut. who was genert in chief of the repeal forces.
 Bingham got a big hand. Flood lights swept the great interior. III nois leaped into action. Indian was in with signs We Want Re peal" Around the standards ( oregon and Washington there wer hand-t -to-hand squabbles for posses !. sion. Michigan, New Jersey, Ne York, Pennsylvania. Massachusett Connecticut, wisconsin and Main paraded, too.
 one BQudu OI DdI ndt SNEhl and a beverage. They said 1t wa real beer. Another group carrie a shanty-town rod strung with dozen growlers (tin buckets use to transport beer from the sid door of Marty's place to Finnegan kitchen).
 That continued only five minute and when 1t is. remembered thn in the 1924 Madison Square Gai ! den demonstration for Smith tn 7 fire department didn't even get a the concealed roof sirens starte in the first five minutes 1t must D conceded that the 1928 stadiur demonstration for repeal was nc so much.
 Stars of the pro and anti-repes armies appeared in quick succe' sion. Dr Nicholas Murray Butlel president of Columbia universitl J. N. (DingJ Darling. delegate an : s.cartoonist from Iowa, former Gov ernor Fred Green of Michigan Secretary of Treasury Mills, Jame Francis Burke, of the nAtions z committee. and others. man % Gavin McNab. who nominate presidftit Hoover in 1928. men tioned that fact In his assault o the repeal proposal. ;,
 A voice from the gallery pooh