The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-05-12
OHIO SKATERS
DRY LEAGUES
POLITICAL GRIP
Rout in Primary Complete;
Anti-SaIoon Offices in
Mourning.
VETS ARE JUBILANT
Outcome Is Blow to FeSS;
Effect on HooVer'S
Stand Is Great.
By Scripps-Hoioard Nelcspaper Auionce

By Scripps-Hopard Newspaper Allionce
WASHINGTON, May l2.-Over-
whelming defeat of Anti-Saloon
League candidates in the Ohio
primaries has accomplished these
definite results:
/. President Hoover has become
.reconciled to the revolt against the
prohibition laws.
2. Adoption OF a reSubmissiOn
plank by the Republican national
convention at Chicago next month
is almost inevitable.
3. The Ant-Saloon Leagues po-
litical reign OF terror is az an end.
and henoeforth Presidents. con-
gressmen and political parties no
longer will Jump through its hoop.
ti-prohibtioniSt we're tubilant,
bone-drys were stunned: middle-of-
the-roaders we're impressed.
Symptomatic, Says Moses
The Ohio balloting is sympto-
matte" said Senator George H.
Moses (Rep., N. H.. Others in
dicated they feel that the prohi-
bition pendulum has swung back so
definitely that voters will not
tolerate further pusSyfooting.
The Ohio verdict came within
two weeks after Governor Pinchot
and the Anti-Saloon League were
defeated in Pennsylvania on pro-
hibition in the senatorial primary.
Postmaster General Walter Brown,
himself an Ohioan, was overioyed
at the wet victory. Brown was the
first cabinet officer to urge Pres
ident Hoover to modify his attitude.
The Buckeye vote sustained his
contention. Because Ohio has been
associated so closely with his po-
litical fortunes and because it is re-
garded as a pivotal state, Hoover
looks upon the outcome as signifi-
cant.
Bad Outlook for FeSs.
Senator Simeon D. Tess, chair
man of the Republican national
committee and one of the most de-
voted drys in the senate, was aston
ished. Fess long has contended that
the Ohio Republican party was dry.
Some believe that the outcome
definitely forecasts Senator Fess
defeat two years hence, unless he
chances his attitude.
Senator Robert J. Buckley. wet
Democrat. elected two years ago
with a majority of $4,000 over his
dry Republican opponent, regards
the result as "vindication." He
was renominated without opposi-
ton.
Because the Anti-Saloon League.
which was born in Ohio and spread
its influence from that state to
Washington and the remainder Of
the nation, definitely had urged the
defeat Of the victorious statewide
candidates, the result was hailed
widely as the beginning of the end
Of that organization as a political
power.
we have driven the nails into
the Anti-Saloon Leagues coffin"
one prominent Ohio politician OBJ
served. mo longer will it tell US
who to nominate and what to do"
Mourning in Dry Ranks
Ohio Republicans heretofore we're
regarded as the tail of the Anti
Saloon League kite.
A mournful attitude permeated
Anti-Saloon League headquarters
here, where no comment was forth
coming. But at the offices Of the
Association Against the Prohibition
Amendment the JOY was uncon-
fined.
Henry H. Curran, president, said,
"Ohio now is as wet as Lake Erie.
If Republicans pussyfoot in their
platform in June, Ohio will go Dem
ocratic in November, from president
down TO dog-catcher."
An immediate effect Of the Ohio
balloting will be to strengthen Penn
sylvania Republicans, meeting in
state convention in Philadelphia on
Saturday. to urge a straight-out
repeal platform.
Keystone administration politi-
clans preferred TO soft-pedal by
adopting referendum recommen-
dalton.