The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-30
Editorial Praise
 for Platform
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called some of the economic plank
 radical"

The New York Times, wet inde- pendent democratic, said: | This democratic plank, so sim. pie, and clear cut ,and direct, gives a new aspect to the whole presi- dential campaign. Great numbers of republicans have said they long for 0 straight out and honest utter ance. President Butler went SO far as to predict that If the democrats would come out openly for repeal they would attract 6,000,000 repub. lican votes. 1t would be cruel per- haps to ask Mir Butler to count them but the public will be inter- ested to see if he is willing to go along with them or to lead them. The World Telegram, indepen- dent, Hoover supporter in 1928, supporter of Alfred E. Smith in 1892, said:
 l "The democrats can sweep the country by nominating presiden- tial candidate as good as their platform. To nominate just an- other Hoover like Franklin Roose- welt would nullify that platform. It is the kind of brief and hon. est platform first proposed by Newton D. Baker and urged by AL fred E. Smith,"
 The Daily News, wet and favor ing Ritchie, said:
 "The democratic beer-and-repeal plank will help his (Roosevelt's) cause, if he is nominated, in the north and east where he has been growing weaker as the convention drew nearer. What 1t will do to him in the dry south and west is another question"
 Baltimore Sun (Wet Democratic) The prohibition plank stamps the democratic party as the party of clarity and courage on this con- troversial issue and it bespeaks q lquality of decision that ought tC stand the party in good stead moi only in connection with the prohi- bition issue but also with respect to every other issue arising during this years campaign"
 Washington CD. O. Post (Re- publican)-"The election of the next president of the United States may turn upon this question (re- peaD and no other. The democrat ic party stakes it's existence upon this plank. Unless present signs fail, the convention will now choose it's nominees principally if not solely with reference to the wet plank. The democratic party, for good or i'll, and unprecedented boldness, identifies itself with a single issue. It is Q noble experi- ment."
 Boston Post (Wet Independent Democratic) ". There is no pussyfooting in that position, no attempt to deceive the drys into thinking the party Is not thorough ly wet. It Is a refreshing contrast to the republican position" It said the platform, as a whole, offered "a definite, well-rounded program" and gave the nominee. whoever he might be, "a good start toward pub. lie favor."
 Providence (R. I.) Journal (Wet Independent)-" the first time i'm twelve years we now have a great national party pledged with
 
 soever to the straightforward pol icy of wiping the ignoble experi- ment of prohibition from the Con- stitution of the United States. com pared with the amphibian plank of the republican conven- ton this democratic plank Is ex. ceedingly refreshing and welcome
 St Louis Star and Times lInde- pendent)-The repeal plank In the democratic platform measures the amazing sweep of popular antagon- ism to the eighteenth amendment, and reflects the nationwide pro- test against the 'wet-dry' plank which MT Hoover's strategists put into the republican platform. The whole platform is a remarkably clear. concise and forceful docu- ment without precedent in political history.n