The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-11
DEGREE OF WETNESS
APPEARS TO Be MAIN
BONE OF CONTENTION
Questions of Who Will be Chair.
man. and Who to Replace
Curtis 0verShadoWed
VETS, DRYs DEMONSTRATE
Heads Of Opposing Forces on
18th Amendment Problem
Continue Hot Repartee

Chicago, June ll.-tP)-The dust of
the prohibition rumpus continued to
settle upon the convention city Sat-
urday, obscuring virtually all else.
The questions of who will be the
next chairman of the national COM
nlittee and whether there will be any
definite move to replace Vice Presi-
dent Curtis as running mate for
President Hoover were relegated to
the sidelines.
In the minds of arriving delega-
tons who discussed the prohibition
plank the Republicans will adopt
next week, the primary interest
seemed to be the degree Of wetness.
The organized vets and drys car
ried their dispute from the state
ment stage into series of demon
STATIONS, with the former laying
plans for a two-day demonstration to
begin Sunday and the latter begin
ming a series of meetings, described
by F.. Scott Mcbride, general SUPER
intendent Of the Anti-Saloon League,
as "a call to arms
The wet demonstration was ar.
ranged under auspices of the Cru
saders and the Republican Citizens
Committee Against Prohibition. Al
ready Henry H. Curran, president OF
the Association Against the Prohibi-
ton Amendment had issued a state
ment demanding a repeal plank.
Termed Colossal Blunder'
The dry rally was opened under the
auspices of the Anti-Saloon League
end the Illinois conference of asso-
Citations supporting the 18th amend
ment. Mcbride in the keynote speech
before the meeting said a repeal
plank in the Republican platform
would be colossal blunder.''
Curran pointed to the recent cleo
tions in Florida. Indiana and North
Carolina "as concrete proof of what
is going on in the popular mind"
A statement came Saturday from
Mrs. Ida B. Wise, vice president of
the National Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, saying the drive
to repeal or modify the 18th amend
ment is the pathway to putrid po-
litics."
Curran said "there is an open re-
volt against prohibition throughout
the country and it is the most amaz-
ing study in national psychology seen
in years. The tide Is running our
way"
In an interview before he addressed
the dry meeting. Mcbride said John
D. Rockefeller, Jr., parted company
with the league in 1925 when he took
issue with prohibition by legislation. "
He added that If repeal program
sis ever adopted, Rockefeller will find
a saloon alongside most of his filling
stations in many states and gasoline
and liquor don't mix"
Leaders Tight-Lipped
While incoming delegates were free
to speculate over the platform pos
sibilities, party leaders were tight
Tipped. What platform proposals
James Garfield of Ohio, the chair
man designate of the resolutions
committee. may be bringing to Chi.
cago from Washington remain to be
disclosed but few believe the con.
census will be for less than a move
for an advisory referendum.
The decision of the Republican ma.
tional committee to seat the delega-
tons from South Carolina headed by
Joseph w. Tolbert, from Georgia led
by James w. Arnold, from Louisiana
sponsored by Ernest Lee Jahncke
and from Mississippi headed by Perry
Howard, negro, cleared away the last
major detail remaining before the
committee.
It left room for a revival of spec.
ulation over the identity of the per.
son who will succeed Senator Fess Of
Ohio as chairman of the committee
but there was a definite lack of con.
centration upon any one name.
The desire of party leaders is tt
select man whose name and per.
sonality will grip the nation. ant
Charles q. Dawes, recently resigned
rs head of the reconstruction cor
poration to return to his business in
terests. Is definitely understood K
have turned the post down.
Talk has been passed about thu
flag -draped lobby OF the Congress
hotel, too. about the possibility of {
man to replace Curtis.