The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-03
c. 0. P.LEADER
SOUNDS PLEA
FOR REPEAL
Henry Marshall, Lafayette
Publisher, LaSheS Can
non and Crawford.
SLABS AT DRY TACTICS
Walter Myers Hits Law as
Stumbling Block in Path
of Recovery.

Drive for prohibition repeal took
on more bipartisan tinge Friday
night, when Henry Marshall, Lafay-
cite publisher and power in Republic
an politics, pleaded for abolition of
the eighteenth amendment. He
spoke at a meeting in Lafayette,
sponsored by the United Repeal
Council Of Indiana.
Several hundred persons from
Tippecanoe and surrounding coun-
ties heard Marshall predict that In
diana would be the tenth state to
add her illustrious name to the
roster of repeal states June at the
special election Mayor John B.
Hudson, county chairman of the
repeal council, presided.
In an address asserting that re-
peal is linked indissolubly with eco
nomic recovery, Marshall loosed
several blasts of sarcasm at the type
of orators the dry organizations is
using in it's campaign.
Crawford Is Scored
Two of the most interchangeable of
these speakers have been Earl
Crawford, Speaker of the Demo-
cratic house Of representatives, and
Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the
Methodist Episcopal church, south.
Brother Crawford is very un-
happy in this campaign, and for
several reasons" Marshall asserted.
las Speaker OF the house, his name
is written on the Wright bone dry
law repeal So as Brother Craw-
ford goes about aSsailing repeal,
he is very unhappy, for he went
into Office on a party platform call
ing for submission, and on ma
tional platform calling for prohibi-
ton repeal
He went into Office pledged to
do what his party platform prom
ised would be done. He received
the votes of a majority and a posi-
tive mandate from that majority to
support repeal Hence. the gentle
mans arguments Go not carry
much force.
Takes Slap at Cannon
Blessed are the consistent.
Blessed are the sincere. Getting
votes as a repeal candidate and
keeping those of persons who favor
keeping the eighteenth amendment
must be quite an achievement"
Turning to Bishop Cannon, Mar
shall dismissed him with:
1T A to be regretted that our
friendS who advocate retention of
the eighteenth amendment could
not bring in from outside the state
a speaker more worthy of public
respect and better entitled to a
hearing, than the sadly discredited
Cannon of Virginia. His record is
known to ALL
StreSSing effect of repeal on JOB
making. crop consumption, tax re-
lief and respect for law, Marshall
asserted we have learned our les
SON
Myers Urges Repeal
Repeal revenue, regulation. re-
coverv-theSe are the four RS III
the school of experience. We are
ready to act intelligently Tuesday,
he added.
At Vincennes, Walter Myers,
speaker of the 1881 house of repre-
sentatives and former candidate for
United States senator, told a large
mass meeting that the promises
made in behalf of prohibition have
not been fulfilled and that nothing
can spur more the return of re-
covery than repeal of the eighteenth
amendment.
prohibition must be repealed in
the interest of decent politics, in
the interest Of good morals, in the
interest of keeping the church and
state separate, in the interests of
the rising generation, and, most of
all. in the interests of American in
stitutions and government Myers
asserted.