Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-06-13
FIGHT LAUNCHED
FOR REPEAL PLANK
Pennsylvania Will Join Re-
submission Camp, Ware
Aide Predicts.
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ried as chairman Of the delegation
Senator David A. Reed, who was to
have been q member Of the National
Convention Resolutions Committee, is
not here, and a substitute was chosen
for him on the Resolutions Committee.
New York Sets Ball Rolling.
Meanwhile, New York's delegation has
stepped right out to lead the fight for
repeal plank.
It Is a struggle now between those
Republicans who wish to declare, as did
the New Workers, for repeal of the
eighteenth amendment and those who
prefer to write into the platform q
declaration for "resubmission" Of the
eighteenth amendment
President Hoover Is believed to stand
in opposition to a repeater plank and
to be ready to accept q resubmission
plank. His aides here do not attempt
to quote the President, but they in
dictate clearly that the purpose Of the
administration in this convention is to
head off the wringing vets drive for
a repeal plank.
President Saying Nothing.
If repeater plank is brought out by
the Resolutions Committee and sub
mitted to the national convention, the
President may have something to say
publicly about the matter, 1t was in
timated. At present he is saying moth
ing. just waiting to see what kind of
a prohibition plank will be Matched
out. Administration leaders here,
however, are working like beavers to
keep the prohibition plank from going
beyond a resubmission declaration.
The New York delegation, meeting In
caucus last night, adopted a resolution
declaring for the submission to State
constitutional conventions by CONGRESS
OF a proposed amendment to the Con-
stitution to repeal the eighteenth amend
ment.
The Empire State has started the wet
ball rolling. How far it will roll no one
is willing to predict at this time. Other
State delegations are arriving, including
Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Mich
igan, which are to hold caucuses today
and all OF which may join with New
York in adopting repeater resolutions.
Butler Goes Into Action.
DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler, member
of the New York delegation and an
ardent wet, went into action as soon as
he arrived in Chicago. He told the
press that there must be no pussy
footing" on the prohibition question;
that if the G. o. P. attempts to strad-
die the issue by adopting ''resubmis-
sion" plank, which he insisted means
nothing, the G. o. P. faces overwhelm-
ing defeat at the polls next November
This is the same kind OF thing Dr.
Butler has been saying for long time
However. he has much stronger back
ing now than he has had in the past.
"Resubmission," said DR.. Butler, lis a
word that was coined In Washington
and means nothing unless it means
repeal"
James r. Garfield Of Ohio, slated to
be chairman Of the Committee on Reso-
lutions, is here and Is saying nothing
about what the platform will contain
Indeed in an interview with the press,
Mr.. Garfield gave an excellent exhibit
ton Of how to reply politely to ques-
lions without answering any Of them.
He declined to say what the President
wants in the way Of q prohibition
plank. although he admitted he had
taken the matter up with the President.
He even declined to say what he him.
self wanted the prohibition plank
to say
Mr.. Garfield said he would lay be-
Aoie Vic 11cooiuIloilS NCIlIulCCce Tie
many suggestions he has had for a
prohibition plank and he intimated he
might tell the committee in executive
session what the President thinks
should be done in this matter.
1T Is impossible for me to forestall
the action Of the Committee on Reso-
lutions," Mr. Garfield said. THE COM
mittee will speak for itself. I cannot
give you the details Of the various
planks which will be adopted"
Hearings on PIanks Planned.
In reply to questions, Mr.. Garfield
denied he had with him any prohibi-
ton planks suggested by the President
or by Senator Borah Of Idaho. The
committee. he said, would hold hear
on other proposed planks for the plat
form.
Efforts to eliminate Vice President
Curtis and to nominate another run
ming mate for President Hoover have
been intensified. While some Of the
administration leaders at first said
that, while they intended to support
Mr.. Curtis, no administration cam
paign would be made for his renonina-
ton later changed their tune and de-
clared the administration was going out
to fight hard for Mr.. Curtis renomi-
nation. They SEEMED to have gained
an impression that the Curtis op-
ponents were hitting at Mr.. Hoover
through Vice President Curtis. though
exactly how this was being done was
not made clear.
Old Guard members Of the Republic
can National Committee are offering to
lay bets that Gen. Charles G. Dawes,
former Vice President and holder Of
many other public ofnces, would accept