The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-09
TO GET
PLATFORM SEAT AT
PARTY CONVENTIONS
Leaders of Republican Party
Admit Resubmission Plank
Has Good Chance
PRESIDENT REMAINS SILENT
Roosevelt Says Democrats Will
Clearly Indicate Attitude
on Amendment
(By The Associated PreSs)

Prohibition has started for the
Chicago political conventions with
main entrance tickets and a seat on
the platform.
The white house took occasion
Wednesday night to repudiate reports
that President Hoover had approved
re-submission plank for the Repub-
lican party, but other leaders of the
party have indicated such a plank Is
receiving approbative consideration
James r. Garfield. who Is writing the
platform, has declined to discuss it.
Governor Roosevelt OF New York, III
an interview. said he believed the
Democratic party, which he hopes to
lead as presidential candidate in No.
vember, will clearly indicate in its
platform way to abrogate the
eighteenth amendment. His own
views on prohibition as pronounce
in 1890. he added. have not changed
At that time he said the control OF
liquor should be returned to the
states.
Another outstanding Democrat
William Gibbs McAdoo, studied
Thursday the reaction to his sugges-
ton that national referendum. au'
thorized by congress. be conducted
next year at which all the people
could vote Yes or mo" on the ques.
ton shall the eighteenth amendment:
be repealed?"
Would Be Advisory
The referendum, under the McAdo-
suggestion, would be advisory. He be-
lieves it is the quickest possible solu-
ton of the problem.
John D. Rockefeller. Jr.s., pro-
nouncement that in his opinion pro-
hibition has failed and that both ma
jor parties should have re-submission
planks, continues to draw prominent
comment, commendatory and con-
demnatory. DR.. John Grier Hibben,
retiring president of Princeton uni
versity and formerly dry. said In his
Judgment the Rockefeller statement
both crystallizes and marshals opin-
ion on this subject"
DR.. Clarence True Wilson. long a
leader among prohibitionists as execu-
tive secretary of the Methodist Board
of Temperance. Prohibition and Pub
lie Morals. said in Chicago the state
ment of Rockefeller was unlike and
unworthy of him.
Prohibition, said DR.. Wilson,
gave us 10 years of urbroken pros
perity and it will bring it back"
Bishop James Cannon, Jr.. speaking
at Fairfield. Ia. criticized "the influ-
ences that surround Mr.. Rockefeller"
Living as he docs where literally
Satan's seat is. in the home city OF
Alfred E. Smith, of Jimmy Walker
and of the Tammany Tiger" was the
way the bishop described it.
Politicians Watch Votes
OF more concern to politicians OF
both parties than the spoken opinions
of individuals, however. were develop
ments in states where prohibition has
been an issue at the polls. OF partic-
ular pertinence was the emphasis pro-
hibition is receiving in parts OF the
south. long listed as dry.
At Baton Rouge the Louisiana legis-
lature gave final approval to refer
endum on repeal or modification o.
the eighteenth amendment. The
state senate also approved resolu-
ton for submitting repeal OF the state
enforcement law to the voters. There
was little opposition to either meas
urc
In the fourth Florida congressional
district Mark Wilcox. who bid for
nomination in Tuesdays Democratic
primary on platform advocating re-
peal, maintained 5000 vote lead ove::'
Representative Ruth Bryan Owen
Mrs. Owen, whose father. William
Jennings Bryan. was one Of democ-
racys outstanding advocates OF pro-
hibition, favored a referendum plank.
Drys Run Behind
The prohibition issue was a factor
in three other Florida congressional
districts, and in but one of these. the
third was an avowed dry in the lead
Adding his voice to those Of other
Democratic leaders on the prohibition
question. former Senator James A
Reed Of Missouri gave expression to q
proposal that beer and wine "of Inn
tied alcoholic content" be legalized b.
congress as tax raising measure.
Militant resistance to any movement
to stampede the parties into anti-pro-
hibition sentiment was evidenced by
Mrs. Margaret G.. Munns. national
treasurer'of the w. c. T. u. She said
that, If necessary, the drys would
walk from the poor house to the polls
to vote against a party or candidate
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