The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-24
HOOvER'S STAND
RENDS ASUNDER
RANKS OF DRYS.
Only Thing ProhibitioniStS
Are Agreed On Is Down
With Roosevelt
BY RAY TUCKER
Times Stan Writer


organized drys today are split every
"whichway" on the question Of sup
porting President Hoover in his per-
sonal stand for state control of pro-
hibition under federal supervision.
With most of the professional
prohobitionists now on record, the
alignment is as follows:
For Hooyer-Allied forces of pro-
hibition headed by DR.. Daniel A.
Polling Of New York.
Against Hoover-The National
Anti-Saloon League, the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, the
Board Of Temperance, Prohibition
and Public Morals of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church, Bishop James
j. Cannon Jr. and his southern
groups
Will Oppose Roosevelt
The only presidential point on
which all agree is that they oppose
Governor Franklin d. Roosevelt of
New York and the straight-out re-
peal plank adopted by the Demo
Gratis at Chicago.
In general, their objective will be
to elect members Of congress, who
will block repeal or revision Of the
eighteenth amendment.
The acute embarrassment of the
drys was reflected in two state
ments given out by prominent lead
ers of the movement which brought
about the eighteenth amendment
and The Volstead act
While the Methodist board de-
nounced Hooyer's acceptance ad-
dress as bitterly disappointing to
supporters of the law" and in
Keeping with the cries of hoodlums
at the Chicago convention" DR..
Polling announced that his execu-
tive committee had voted by 1872 to
- TO support the President with
out prejudice to the eighteenth
amendment
Predictions that HOover's atti-
tude would keep the prohibition is
sue in politics apparently were
borne out by DR. Poling's explana-
ton Of his groups position.
AS the strategy of this cam
paign," he said, I'VE have decided
to support Hoover with recognition
of a wide difference of opinion as
to the program to be followed in
the next congress"
On Common Ground
DR.. Poling's announcement fol-
lowed receipt of a letter from Hoo
yer in which the latter said I'VE
are on common ground in a desire
to rid this civilization of the evils
of the liquor traffic"
Though his organization will
make an extensive campaign, he
said it would not carry politics or
prohibition into the churches.
Deets Picket, executive secretary
of the Methodist board, was as We
hement in his denunciation of the
Hoover plan, as DR.. Polling was in
describing the Presidents accept
ance address as "clear-cut, cou-
rageous and statesmanlike."
The prohibitionists," said Picket,
'will not acquiesce in the PROPOSE
ton that the prohibition law be
repealed or modified so as to de-
stroy it's intent. They do not re-
gard as constructive any proposal
to impose upon the country a sys-
TEN Of selective secession from the
federal Constitution.
They believe that the drink
problem is essentially national; that
protection of dry states against the
aggressions of a nationally organ
lied trade is utterly impossible so
long as that trade can operate from
protected bases"
Praising the dry position of Vice
President Curtis, Picket referred to
Hoover's stand as disappointing 5"