The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-06
DRY PARTY IS
IN DEADLOCK
ON CANDIDATE
Prohibition Leaders Are in
Doubt Whether to Wait
or to Nominate.
HOPE BORAH WILL RUN
Moody'S Boom PunCtured;
Speaker Demands Dole
and Bonus.
BY BEN STERN
BY BEN STERN

CllNA GOilG0H
BY BEN STERN
Torn bv indecision as to whether
to nominate presidential and vice
presidential candidates today or
wait few months, during which
pressure would be put on Senator
William f. Borah to accept first
place on the ticket, the Prohibition
party national convention today was
getting nowhere fast.
At least 295 of the 300 delegates,
newspaper men, photographers, and
guests in Cadle tabernacle at todays
session cheered when D. Leigh Col
vim. national chairman, said the
ideal ticket with which to sweep the
nation this year would be "Borah
for president, and Ex-Governor Dan
Moody of Texas for president"
I'VE are faced with a peculiar Sit
uation The problem is whether to
90 ahead with our nominations to-
day or wait a few months until
those men can accept" he said.
The chorus of "amens" was halted
by cry of "Mr. Moderator" from
Captain Frank NJ Wells of Wash
ington, D. c., who evidently is for
Borah, but against Moody.
MoOdy's Vote Challenged
Moody is not a prohibitionist,"
charged the ex-Army chaplain. i
want to know whether Moody voted
for AL Smith in 1923 or for Herbert
Hoover"
The chair couldn't answer Cap
tain Wells did.
Moody voted for Smith, he
shouted. Instead of Amens, there
were Kisses.
AS the platform committee was
not ready to report this morning,
there were many exhortations,
during which G.. D. Harger of Pitts
burgh, national committeeman from
Pennsylvania, urged immediate pay
ment of the soldiers bonus and a
dole system.
"Thirty-six yachts are coaled and
steaming in New York harbor waltz
ing to take thirty-six millionaires
to Europe when the revolution be-
gins" Harger charged, in describing
deplorable conditions in this
country.
Wants Bonus and Dole
He then asked those favoring i'm
mediate payment of the bonus and
q dole system to rise.
While the delegates we're rising
slowly, Herman P. Faris, of Clinton,
Mo-. 1924 presidential nominee,
shouted that Harger was out of or
der and that I'VE should begin on
nominations"
The delegates voted to table Faris'
motion. Harger continued his speech.
Colvin said, in explaining the per-
picking problem of nominations be-
fore the convention, that if all the
temperance and prohibition organ
izations of the country would COM
bine their strength it would be pos
sible to get Borah to become their
candidate for President.
THE senator told me Sunday that
he wanted to go before the Repub-
lican convention and fight for a
plank calling for retention of pro-
hibition. On two occasions he con-
ferred with President Hoover about
this, but did not receive encour-
agement," Colvin related
Howard May Get Call
The national chairman also said
Borah had asserted the cabinet
was against prohibition and that
Postmaster Walter Brown, who rep
resented Hoover at the G. o. P. con-
vention, is a member of firm of
attorneys which is counsel for brew
ing interests.
1t appeared that the convention
would nominate tonight and because
of the uncertainty regarding the
Idaho senator, DR.. Clinton N. How
ard of Rochester, n. Y, the key
noter and temporary chairman of
the convention, may get the call.
Il am an advocate and not a
candidate" asserted Howard, the
dininutive spellbinder, whose vitri-
olic keynote and call to arms Tues
day appears to have had the same
effect on the delegates to the Pro-
hibition party convention that Bry-
ans "croSS of gold" speech eXerted
on the Democrats in 1896.
In fact, DR.. Howard bears a dis
tinct facial resemblance to the great
"Commoner.
Upshaw Is Enthused
If nominated, his running mate
for the vice presidency may be Will
liam D. UpShaw of Georgia, former
Democratic member of congress.
The Georgian was so carried away
by Towards oratory Tuesday that,
despite his crutcheS, he leaped on
the press table and shouted that
the keynote was the greatest utter
ance on governmental affairs since
Hannibal stood upon the Alps"
He asked that copies be sent Pres
ident Hoover and Franklin D.
Roosevelt, for them to ponder in
the quiet of their homes"
work on the platform was pro-
crossing rapidly this morning and
it was hoped to have it ready for
presentation at the afternoon ses-
sion.
1t will, of course, reaffirm pro-
found and implicit faith in ma
tional prohibition and the eight
zenith amendment and call for strict
er enforcement of the law. Will
d. Martin Of Hasbrouck Heights. N
j., is chairman of the platform
committee.
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