Evening star., 1932-08-13
'DRY FORCES SPLIT
. ON HOOVER SPEECH
Vote on Taking Up Repeal Is
Order of Business When
Senate ReconVenes.

While the more ardent drys were de-
nouncing President Hoover for his
liquor stand in his acceptance speech
and drawing lines for a third party
and bitter fight for dry representa-
ton in Congress, more temperate drys
OF the Republican party today were
lauding the Presidents stand as the
solution Of the vexing problem of pro-
hibition.
Meanwhile, spurred by the Presi-
dents call for prohibition reform. lead
erS of the Senate Republican majority
intend to go to work on the eighteenth
amendment at the December session.
Senator McNary of Oregon, the as
sistant Republican leader, says the or
der Of business when the Senate recon-
venes is a vote on taking up prohibi-
ton repeal.
Glass Motion Pending.
The pending motion and proposal is
one advanced by Senator Glass, Demo-
crat, of Virginia.
Senator Glass and Senator Henry
Ashurst. Democrat, Of Arizona, yester-
day, pointed to the Hoover proposal as
identical with Senator Glass proposal
to the Senate in the closing days of
Congress, which the Senate voted to
take up. Senator Glass denied having
written any portion of the Presidents
speech. but added:
Had President Hoover spoken
sooner the likelihood is that Congress
would have adopted my resolution and
would now be on the way to a solution
OF this perplexing problem"
Distinct dissatisfaction with the
Presidents stand was expressed by DR..
Clarence True Wilson, secretary Of the
Board OF Temperance, Prohibition and
Public Morals of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church, who is on the Pacific Coast,
and by Mrs. Ella A. Boole, president Of
the Women's Christian Temperance
Union.
DR.. Wilson said the Presidents ex-
preston will not get the votes Of the
vets away from the Democrats and will
not satisfy "the moral conditions of the
drys who elected him four years ago"
Representative william E. Hull of
Illinois declared that as one of the
anti-prohibition leaders of the party,
he indorsed the Presidents statement.
1T will prevent the saloon from re-
turning, destroy the bootlegger, and
bring the return of temperance and
sobriety," said Representative Hull.
Canon Chase Asks New Party.
Canon William Sheafe Chase, super
intendent of the International Reform
Federation, earlier had denounced Mr..
Hoovers "deSertion Of the dry cause"
"It calls" he said, "for a startling ard
dramatic protest Of conscience on the
part of patriots which can best be ex-
pressed by the organization of a new
party. for both parties have failed In
this depression to economic and moral
needs Of the people"
Representative James NJ Beck Of
Pennsylvania, the leader of the wet
Republican bloc in the House, found
that Mr.. Hoover's speech satisfies my
conscience as wet to vote for him."
after visit to the White House.
DR.. Daniel A. Polling, leader Of the
Allied DryS, was to have made a state
ment on the Presidents speech at the
Willard Hotel yesterday afternoon, but
did not appear as newspaper men
gathered, and there was only a brief
memorandum there from him. It said:
THE Executive Committee of the
Allied Forces for Prohibition, in session
in New York today, August II, voted
authorizing the chairman, Daniel A.
Polling, to release a statement to the
press following poll of the National
Executive Committee of the Allied
Forces" No prediction was made as
to when the poll would be completed
From Oliver w. Stewart and other
officers of the Flying Squadron, q dry
organization which had previously in
dorsed him, Mr.. Hoover received tele-
gram saying the speech 'reaffirmed and
intensified their faith" in him.
ssNOf uyit n hcf y, diy,ey rov,xr{a%{ov,
no proposed alternative to the eight
zenith amendment can prevent the re-
turn of the former evils of the liquor
traffic and destroy those from which
we now suffer" the message said, your
manifest sincerity and high purpose
enable us to trust the cause of pro-
hibirion in your hands"
Ira L. Reeves, Western director Of
the crusaders, an anti-prohibition Or
ganization, expressed surprise that the
President spoke as frankly as he did,"
and added: He certainly is not so
ambiguous as the platform Is"
D. Leigh Colvin, national chairman
OF the Prohibition party, called the
Presidents proposal amazing" and
asserted opponents of liquor could not
support him for reelection.
Representative Rayburn Of Texas,
who conducted the pre-convention
campaign of Speaker Garner, termed
the Hoover address "a $3.50 speech,
SO per cent wet and so per cent dry"
The President, he said, gave both the
wet and dry partisans In the audience
an opportunity to applaud vociferously."
Senator Dill, Democrat, Of Washing
ton disagreed, saying the words were
as "muddled as the Republican plank"
Oil production In Trinidad Is contin-
uing at high level.