Evening star., 1932-07-20
PRESIDENT TO DISCUSS
PROHIBITION PLANK IN
ACCEPTANCE ADDRESS
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would retain in Congress the right to
ban the saloon and to see that dry
States are protected against an inflow
OF liquor from wet neighborS or from
foreign countries
The amendment does not pledge the
Republicans to the repeal of the eight
eenth amendment, but 10 the submission
of revision of that amendment. That,
it is expected, is as far as Mr.. Hoover
will go in his speech of acceptance.
"Gains" to Be Preserved.
The Republican plank declares the
gains growing out of prohibition
should be preserved One of these gains
is abolition of the legaliZed saloon,
it is held; and the control-or rather
abolition Of legalized liquor. The Re-
publicans are proposing that there shall
be no return of the saloon. On the
other hand. they propose that there
shall. if the people vote it, be q return
of legalized liquor traffic but under a
measure Of control.
1t is expected that President Hoover
will stress the point that the Republican
plank offers substitute for the present
eighteenth amendment-not just fiat
d
tions and status of The liquor traffic
that existed before the eighteenth
amendment was written into the Con-
stitution and the Volstead law was
enacted by Congress.
Difference Pointed Out.
The proposal of this substitute plan
for dealing with the liquor traffic con-
stitutes difference, the Republicans
point out. between the Republican
national platform and that adopted by
the Democrats. The Democratic plat
form, they say declares for repeal and
offers no substitute. So far as the
saloon is concerned, the Democratic
platform does not propose that there
shall be a ban on the return of the
1t merely pledges the Democrats to do
to prevent the return Of the saloon. but
leaves that matter up to each State
that goes wet to determine
When Senator Glass, Democrat. of
Virginia, offered his resolution propos-
ing the reepal of the eighteenth amend
ment, which Is the unfinished business
CT the Senate when that body meets
next December, he placed in his pro-
posed amendment ban ON the saloon.
Over that proposal the Democrats them
selves have fallen out. Senator Glass
Interpretation of the Democratic prohi-
bition plank differs radically on this
point with that of some of his COL
leagues. The Glass proposal really con-
forms to the Republican plank, except
that it starts off with the definite
statement that he eighteenth amend
ment is hereby repealed
Regarded as Dry.
Generally speaking President Hoover
has been considered a supporter of the
dry cause while his Democratic op-
ponent. Gev. Roosevelt of New York,
has been dubbed the candidate of the
vets. Roosevelt, in his speech accept
ing the Democratic nomination de-
Hvered in Chicago, declared himself
for repeal Of the eighteenth amend
menr The Republican platform on
prohibition is held by G. o. P. leaders
to be constructive and the Democratic
plank. merely destructive.
1t was the faults of the liquor traffic
rather than the liquor itself. which
forced adoption of the eighteenth
amendment, in the opinion of many
Republican leaders. They Go not in
tend to throw the country open to
legallZed liquor traffic again, without
keeping hand on the situation. That
is the way they explain the Republican
prohibition plank
To Discuss Economic Situation.
The Presidents address of acceptance,
while it is expected to deal with the
prohibition question. will go in still
greater detail into the economic situa-
tion, its problems and remedies.
In the opinion of the President and
his advisers, the need Of providing work
for the people is more important than
the need of providing beer. The cam
paign will be waged over the issues
growing out Of the economic situation.
rather than over the liquor issue, If
Mr. Hoover has his way.
The record of the Hoover admins
tration must, it is said. be dealt with
by the President in his acceptance
speech. 1t is on that record that he
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