Milford chronicle., 1932-10-07
REV. .F.B. SHORT
CHOSEN BY DRYS
FOR CONGRESS
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York you would object to the return
of legalized sale of liquor"
Applause and cheers greeted the
brief speech of DR.. Short as he re-
tired from the platform.
The convention decided to nomi
nate no other candidates and left it
with the State Committee to place
other names on the ticket if found
desirable. The convention also voted
against naming Presidential cleo
tors, although it was first planned
to name the electors selected at the
Republican State Convention.
Eastburn Tells Purposes
Mr.. Eastburn, one of the leaders
in the formation of the new party,
the primary stand of which is reten-
tion of the Eighteenth Amendment,
was selected temporary chairman
by the committee which formed the
party.
I'VE propose 10 hold that which
we have gained" said Mr.. EastburD.
I'VE mean to tear down that which
is evil and to sustain that which is
right in it's stead. We look forward
and not backward We heed the call
of the present and of the future and
we build a peoples party, battling
for the rights of man, meeting con-
ditions as they are today"
The party organizers, he continu-
ed, believe that Delaware is a fair
cross-section of the United States,
as far as it illustrates the enforce
ment or non-enfOrcement of the !
Eighteenth Amendment and the
Ilair and Loose laws, co-joining
Herewith.
"Wilmington's five breweries are
effectually closed" he added. Del
aware's one hundred and siXty-tVe
saloons are sordid myths of the
past, and in their places have arisen
noble office buildings, and honest
industry. The 6runkard is found no
more on our city streets. The slum
and brothel have disappeared. Pow
erty, disease and hunger stalk no
more in the homes of the poor. A
new day has dawned, bright with
hope for the future. 1t is to highly
advance that hope that we create
this party, pledged to rededicate
government to human helpfulness,
to human progress, to build up and
not to destroy. to spread Lincoln's
grand concept of loyalty to the Con-
stitution and to the sound govern
mental system, which it has set up:
do right and take the consequent
ces.'"
Makes Call To Arms
Mr.. Eastburn urged that the
"drys" stand against the liquor
power as did Lincoln against the
slave power.
"The probability that we may fail
in the struggle, ought not to deter
us for the support of a cause which
deem to be just; and it shall not
deter me-" he continued, quoting
Lincoln. "If ever | feel the soul
within me elevate and expand to
those dimensions not wholly un-
worthy of its Almighty Architect, it
is when l contemplate the cause OF
my country, deserted by all the
world besides, and I, standing up
boldly and alone, and hurting def
ance at her victorious Oppressors.
Here without contemplating cOnse-
quences, before High Heaven and in
the face of the world, l swear eter-
nal fidelity to the just cause, as l ]
deem it, of the land of my life, my ]
liberty and my love-"
Delawareans, Mr.. Eastburn con-
tinued, are to measure the success
of dry law enforcement by what !
has been accomplished lin our
midst, by the great gains that we
have made, by the sobriety, and de-
cent-living that is now found in our {
several communities. ]
1--WE found this party to hold ]
these gains-to break down by edu- {
cation and the ballot that specious {
propaganda of the rich and of the !
criminally minded, that there can be :
such a quality as temperance in the
use of habit-forming, intoxicating {
liquors. We make no such distinc- f
ton relating to the use of narcotic +
drugs; no such distinction as to 2
gambling. We deny that a wet vote i
in 1882 is a vote to restore the vio- 7
lated principle of American govern {
ment, lis a vote for better and
more civilized way of living-is a +
vote toward financing the govern 6
ment by taxing liquor, which can 8
afford the tax we cannot affOrd'-is .
a vote for liberty" (Quoting from @
Delaware Women's Organization for +
National Prohibition Reform.) 7
Quotes Commission q
"In 1929, President Hoover ap- G
pointed a commission to make 2
thorough investigation into the en- 2
forcement of the prohibition laws n
under the Eighteenth Amendment.
This commission comprised a group p
of distinguished citizens of charac- f,
ter and independence of thought, K
of the different sec a
tions of the country. For eighteen n
months they exhaustively examined N
the facts. They unanimously report 6
ed to the President, in part, as fol- a
lowe.
"'1. The commission is opposed to I
repeal of the Eighteenth Amend r,
ment. fl
"'2. The commission is opposed a,
In the restoration in any manner of o.
The legalized saloon. al
"'3. The commission is opposed g;
10 the Federal or State governments b,
as such-going into the liquor &c
business.
"4. The commission is opposed r
o the proposal to modify the Ma s.
ionol prObibitioO Of co &c to nar- =,