Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-06-15
LIQUOR ISSUE Up
. At NIGHT SESSION
Administration Compromise
Plank Approved by Sub
committee.
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I1SlbSAt 31OoNOl, tAAS SAISAlCCA ACoA-
dent OF the United States, is solving
and will solve stupendous and vexa-
tious problems, as did our first engineer
President for the benefit Of all man
kind"
Some Of the unkind things Mr. Smell
said about the Democrats were:
The Democrats have minority
complex, which they cannot change.
AS a fault-finding. cavilling minority
opposition, they are 100 per cent per-
feet. AS a driving, constructive ma
jority they are 100 per cent failure.
The Democratic party is mob Of
feuds and of factions unable to bring
order out Of the chaos in its own ranks.
How can it be expected to maintain
order in governments"
Galleries Well Filled.
Enthusiasm began to increase at to-
days session. In contrast to the quiet
manner In which the convention went
through the preliminary steps Of organ
ization yesterday, the delegates began to
give vent to cheers and shouts as Per-
manent Chairman Smell flayed the
Democrats.
SHELLS darts at the political enemy
were punctuated by Interruptions In
which State banners began to wave and
the bands began to play
The three galleries, extending nearly
to the roof and encircling the stadium,
were well filled today.
1t was 1850 when Chairman Dick
inson raped for order to start the
proceedings.
Following the opening prayer Chair
man Jeffries of the Credentials Com
mittee reported the action of that group
last night on several contests, including
the recommendation that the Ham,
bright group of delegates be seated
from South Carolina. in place of the
delegation headed by Joseph w. Toll
bert. The convention promptly ratl-
fed the report of the committee.
The convention then quickly adopted
the report of the Committee on Per-
manent Organization, including the Sc
lection of Mr.. Smell as permanent
chairman.
Hamstringing Threatened.
Wet and dry forces unlimbered their
guns and began firing frantically when
they appeared last night before the
Resolutions Committee to argue the
pros and cons of prohibition plank.
Into the Florentine room Of the Con-
gress Hotel crowded the adherents OF
wet and dry until every available
inch was occupied For an hour,
with the time equally divided. the two
sides were heard by the National Com
mittee. An orderly, we'll conducted
hearing, with good speakers on both
sides.
None of those who appeared on
either side represented less than a mil
lion or two voters. and some of them
claimed to represent a dozen millions.
,1y do 70 hov
string the Republican party if it went
wet or if it went dry. The members of
the Resolutions Committee squirmed in
their seats as these determined men
and women announced the intention of
their followers to run out on the G. o.
p. next November If the party failed to
accede to their wishes.
big Shots" on Hand.
All the big shots in both wet and dry
camps were on hand. For the vets
Pierre S. du Pont was a leader and
introduced the speakers Dr. Nicholas
Murray Butler of Columbia University
was the first of the vets to get into
action. and he said a plenty. He is as
ardently wet as that other PROFESSIONAL
gentleman, Senator Hiram Bingham of
Connecticut, who is to lead the wet
forces in the convention itself Former
Senator James w. Wadsworth of New
York, Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, head of
the woman's organization for prohibi-
ton reform; Mrs Courtlandt Nichol OF
the same organization, Capt. Clark of
the Crusaders, Ralph M. Shaw of the
Lawyers Committee, Inc; Frank A.
Boland. representing the American
ley of the Young Mems Republican
Club of New York City were other wet
speakers.
DR.. Ernest H. Cherrington, chairman
OF the national board of strategy, repre-
senting the dry groups, marshaled the
dry speakers-a telling array in more
ways than one. He presented Mrs.
ella Boole, president of the w. C.
r u; DR.. F. Scott Mcbride, general
superintendent of the Anti-SalOon
League; Raymond Robbins. veteran
progressive leader; Mrs. Henry w. Pea
body of Massachusetts,, Mrs. Rushmore
Patterson of New York and Washington,
and Dr. Daniel A. Polling.
DR.. Butler called the committees
attention to the resolution he presented
in the convention yesterday for repeal
of the eighteenth amendment, that
resolution to which John D. Rockefeller,
jr., gave his approval recently and
thereby rocked the dry cause to its very
foundations. He urged its incorporation
into the platform. Go on record, he
said, now for repeal. The Democrats
will do so at their national convention
in a couple of weeks. If the Repub-
licans would lead off, then the liquor
question would be taken out of politics.
Mr.. Dupont. speaking for the group
Of wet organizations which made him
head Of their board Of strategy in the
1oe fovr ioUS r,raco1tad the nlank
drafted by those organizations also
strong for repeal of the eighteenth
amendment. He put on former Sena-
tor Wadsworth, who gave up his politi-
cal life in 1926 for the prohibition
cause, when the drys knitted him be-
cause he had dared to come out for
repeal
II want you to know" said Wads-
worth, that come here as Republic
an deeply concerned In the decision
which you shall make upon the most
vital political issue of the hour. If the
party is to endure and serve, it must
enjoy self-respect. without 1t life is
torture, service impossible
Party's Hour "Struck."
wadsworth declared that prohibition
has been an utter failure. He said that
the hour had struck" for the Repub-
lican party.
This is a political ISSUE" he said,
"of the most fundamental character,
and can only be settled by political
action"
1t is impossible he continued, to fool
anybody with talk Of modifying or re-
vlsing the eighteenth amendment.
Beware lest an obvious lodging Of
this question will pin the label Pro-
hibition party on what is still the Re-
publican party"
I'VE must repeal the eighteenth
amendment" he closed on a note that
was reminiscent of dry crrsading Say
1t. 1t Is the truth, and the truth will
set you free"
Mrs. Sabin. garped most becom-
1ngly in light green, he'd her brief
say. She admitted that she represented
an organization which had signed up a
total of 00q 252 women for repeal of