Evening star., 1932-08-15

Vets are satisfied with the results oi
recent primaries in Missouri, while drys
take equal encouragement from the vote
in Kansas Some comment denies any
significance, so far as prohibition Is
concerned, in the selection OF candl-
dates in the two States, holding that
other issues might have been the de-
termining factors.
kansas shows them" according to
the Newark Evening News, that there
is still some scrap left in America
mascot, the camel, even II, next door In
Missouri, Champ Clark's son has sailed
to the Democratic nomination Tor the
United States Senate on wet plank.
Viewing the situation as national 1ac-
tor, the Evening News exclaims: De
serted by Texas. by Florida. by-woe.
woe!-North Carolina, prohibition has
been in a bad way. But who Is this
who comes riding, buckety, buckety
over the arid plain? Kansas! Kansas
to the rescue! Kansas will not let pro-
hibition perish. unchampioned and un-
praised For the first time in many
years vets in Kansas dared to raise
the issue and they were all beaten by
drys."
"The results in Kansas" as viewed by
the Boston Transcript. are not over
significant in themselves, for Kansas Is
a traditionally dry State. But taken IN
connection with prospects in practically
all the Southern States and in lew
of the Northern. they indicate the ex-
treme dificulty any attempt to repeal
| the eighteenth amendment outright Will
meet AS a practical political question,
, the vets must face the facts that they
| too, must make some concessions If they
are to end the long reign OF lawlessness
/ and disorder" The Transcript is con-
vinced that should Congress submit an
amendment providing for direct repeal
at least Is States. according to the
best estimates, would block its ratifica-
ton" The Oklahoma City Oklahoman
concludes that the Sunfiower electors
seem to have received mighty little i'm
preston from the wet declaration oi
| one Chicago convention and the wet
dry, take-your choice declaration OF tht
| other Chicago convention. They re-
main welded to their bone-dry idols"
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The San Francisco Chronicle main.
tains that the expected happened" ant
remarks: Nobody was excited to learI
that, so far as it could be tested by thu
nomination of candidates, Missouri wen
wet and Kansas dry. That merel,
meant that both States were as usual.
The Chronicle adds that this choice
of candidates seems to show Kansas
quite as dry as 1t had been before the
present wet stampede" The New Yorl
Sun, observing that I'm Kansas the lus
ter of the eighteenth amendment re
manned undimmed,' suspects that "th'
shadow of the Missouri vote, falling
across the State line, must cause shud
der among the good people of Kansas
The Providence Journal adds the com
ment that the drys are entitled to wha
satisfaction they can get from thei
victory in Kansas" for the vets caus,
goes marching on everywhere else
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The one demonstration OF the elec
ton" say the Louisville Courier-Jour
nal. 'is that Missouri is among tn
wettest of vets" The Milwaukee Sen
tinel finds in primary results indication
that support of the Democratic plat
form is not going to be questionable
even In States that up to the last yea
or so were considered prohibition strong
holds" Reviewing the situation, tn
Sentinel states: Down in North Caro-
lima an uncompromising wet was chosel
to succeed the dry Senator Morrison b.
q record majority Of 100000 votes. Il