Evening star., 1932-06-10
c. 0.P. COMMITTEE
HEARING DISPUTES
Six Southern State DeIega.
tions in Contests for Recog-
milton in Convention.
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this question. who have the interests
of the G. O. P. at heart. behind "rea-
sonable" resubmisSion plank and put 1t
through the Resolutions Committee and
also through the convention itself.
Hoover Hands OF.
President Hoover was represented to-
day by Postmaster General waiter
Brown, a leader of the Republicans op-
posing the present prohibition laws, as
keeping his hands off. 1t was insisted
BY men who should know that Mr.
Hoover is leaving the matter OF writing
the prohibition plank to the national
convention. Whether he will take issue
with the prohibition plank after 1t has
been written into the platform ana
after he has been nominated remains
to be seen.
Al Smith repudiated personally the
Democratic prohibition plank in the
national platform of 1928 and came out
for repeal Of the eighteenth amend
ment. If the G. o. P. convention now
writes repeal plank in the platform,
there is nothing to prevent PRESIDENT
Hoover from taking issue. personally,
with the plank and declaring his OPP
position to repeal of the eighteenth
amendment. If he so desires.
Republican leaders here are trying
to wipe out the impression that James
r. Garfield. who is to head the Reso-
lutions Committee Of the convention,
went to Washington to write prohlol-
ton plank in conjunction with group
of Republican Senators and the Presl-
dent, not to mention some of the House
leaders They are saying that 1t was
the proper course to have some one
consult with these Republican leaders
in the Senate and House, since they
would in all probability be unable 10
come to Chicago for the convention pc
cause OF their congressional duties.
But the effort is being made to make
it appear that the actual draltlng OF
the prohibition amendment will be done
by the Resolutions Committee and the
convention.
or more, proposals for the prohibition
plank will be presented to the COM
mittee on Resolutions to null over
when it meets.
Murray Has Proposal.
DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler. dele
gate from New York, has already pre-
pared a plank to put the G. q. r on
record as favoring repeal OF the elghl,
eenth amendment. 1t had the approval
of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to the con-
sternation of many of the drys. That
will 60 to the Resolutions Committee
Former Senator Joseph l.. France OF
MARYLAND. who has campalgned IN nine
or ten States for the presidential noml-
nation against President Hoover, came
forward today with plank Tor out
right repeal OF the eighteenth amend
ment, which he will put up to the Reso-
lutions Committee. 1t starts on WIN
an assertion that Federal prohibition
bred crime and disregard of all laws
and winds up with demand fcr aoso-
lutte repeal and return to the states
of all control of the liquor trafhc, ana
pending that action. repeal OF the VOL
stead act. SO that light wines and peer
may be had.
Mr.. France takes a pot shot at the
"resubmission" idea which has become
so popular with many OF the Hepuollc-
an leaders. He says
"Resubmission is coWardly, eVaslVe
and merely begs the question. The
little trial balloon sent up by the Hoover
BOYS in Washington few days ago was
punctured like a flash by the tightening
by public indignation. Merely to pro-
pose resubmission is to run away from
the issue"
France Still Claiming.
Mr.. France is claiming the delegates |
from nine States in which he entered |
the presidential preferential primaries |
and President Hoover did not In !
Oregon only does it appear he will have
the votes for there the delegates were
instructed for him by the primary |
vote. In other, States the primary IS
only advisory and not binding. In |
Maryland Frances home State, the |
President did enter the primary and /
won all the delegates. Nevertheless
MI France continues to issue state
ments insisting that Mr.. Hoover Will
not be renominated.
The wet Republicans gathered great |
satisfaction from the action OF the Re
publican State convention in that |
hitherto arid State Of Indiana. The !
State conventions adoption OF resolu-
ton proposing resubmission OF the |
eighteenth amendment and the repeal |
OF the bone-dry State enforcement act /,
certainly had a resounding echo in |
Chicago Indiana now joins Republic |
an hands with Missouri and Minnesota
Republicans States of the Middle West
which have hitherto been dry as well
as Republican in favor OF doing some
thing about prohibition.
The threats of the drys to form a
third party if the G. o. P. goes wet in
the national convention continues to
strike terror into the souls Of the prac-
tical politicians among the Republicans.
F. Scott Mcbride, general superin-
tendent of the AntiSaloon League,
Bishop James Car ON. jrr.; Edwin G.
Dinwiddie. chairman of the drys'
national board of strategy, are all here
ready for meetings at which they Will
predict dire things for the parties
which put up wet candidates and write
wet platforms.
Women in Evidence.
The women members of the Repub-
lican National Committee and women
delegates to the national convention are
much In evidence. There may be more
women delegates at this convention
than ever attended Republican con-
vention before. for there are 81 women
delegates and 291 alternates, with
Indiana and Idaho still to be counted.
The women seem to be more inter-
ested in President Hoover than in the
prohibition question. They insist that
he will be reelected and that the
women will elect him. Mrs Mabel
Walker Willebrandt, a delegate from
California, said she was here to cast
her vote for President Hoover, but de-
clined to be drawn into discussion OF
prohibition or what should be done
about it. She insisted she had gone
back into private life and she was net
going to be quoted about the wet and
dry issue. She would campaign for
Hoover, she indicated.
Mrs Virginia White Speel, Republican
national committeewoman from the
District of Columbia, took the position
that "resubmission is the only way out
of the prohibition controversy" but
added that she favored reSubmiSsion be-
cause she knew the people would make
who believe that heaven reigned only
before the enactment Of the eighteenth
amendment"