The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-26
SHIFT TO WET
SIDE GAINING IN
RANKS OF DRYS
Move for ResubmiSSion Is
Gathering Arid Die Hards
Into Fold.
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press stan Correspondent

WASHINGTON, April 26.-The
swing toward resubmission Of the
prohibition issue is penetrating
deeply into dry ranks.
1t no longer. is a wet" move
ment.
Evidence il appearing daily Of
radical changes Of views among
some of the prominent drys. Some
of the more cautious of them are
hitching to various resubmission
proposals with provsos intended to
save them with their dry friends.
There Is no doubt among all care
ful observers in Washington that
the procession across the bridge to
the resubmission side now is in the
rush stage
In Pennsylvania today, Senator
James J. Davis (Rep), who two
years ago stood with President
Hoover" on prohibition, is running
for denomination as a wet indorsed'
by the Association Against the
Prohibition Amendment and other
anti prohibition organizations.
Overshadows Issues
The shift in the lineup now is
about to overshadow most other as
poets Of the presidential preconven-
ton fight. Within the Hoover adj
ministration every member of the
cabinet is ready to support resub-
mission. as reported by the United
Press last week. Two of the driest
members have slightly varying plans
for bringing about test Of senti-
ment. President Hoover's position
still is unknown. He prefers to "let
thu convention decide"
Missouri offers, striking example
of what is going on. The Repub-
lican party hitherto has been dry
in Missouri, except in st. Louis.
Agriculture Secretary Hyde recently
accepted the resubmission idea and
will fight for it at the Chicago con-
vention. Governor Henry S. Caul-
field, for some years identified with
the rural dry Republican organiza-
ton, has declared for resubmission.
Hay Swings Over
Now the most conspicuous dry
Missouri Democrat, Charles M. Hay,
candidate for the senatorial nomi-
nation, long associated with the
Anti-Saloon League as director and
attorney, and still believer in the
eighteenth amendment, has declared
for resubmission.
1.-THE eighteenth amendment was
christened in the corruption of the
Harding administration, lulled to
sleep under Coolidge and investi-
gated under Hoover, so we don't
know what we could do with it If
it was given a chance" Hay said
to a group of friends here. But
since there has come to be some
doubt among many people as to
whether majority of the country
wants to retain it, am Tor taking
the question to the voters
A few months ago the extreme
drys doggedly were declaring pro-
hibition was IN the Constitution to
stay.
Includes Notables
Now the list of those agreeable
to a test in one form or another
include F. Scott Mcbride, general |
superintendent of the Anti-Saloon
League, Bishop James Cannon, and |
former Governor Harry F. Byrd of |
Virginia. Senators and congress
men are going on record almost |
daily for some form of resubmis-
sion.
A significant thing about this
movement is that it is not built |
around any individual personalities
or organizations. There is no anti |
prohibition figure who is directing
activity in any way comparable to
that of E. c. Dinwiddie and the late
Wayne B. Wheeler in bringing about
federal prohibition.