The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-02
RvlLYLE e. WILSON

By LYLE c. WILSON
 Limited Press Stan Correspondent
 New York, Oct. 2.-(UP)-Big city democrats have a plan to raise the ghost of Carry Nation against Gov. Ali M. Landon in "wet" strongholds of the east.
 Mrs. Nation we1 the Kansas wom- an with a hatchet. At the turn of the century she was famous for her saloon, bottle and mirror smashing exploits. She helped make Kansas what it is today-a state in which the sale of intoxicating beverages is illegal.
 In urban centers of the northeast and in Chicago the democrats are planning to put Gov. Landon on the defensive on the liquor question. It will be . localized radio campaign. It will not be broadcast on national networks which would reach almost as many dry voters as vets. Areas tentatively selected for democratic discussion of prohibition and the comparative liquor records of Pres- ident Roosevelt and Gov. Landon are: New England and the larger cities of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Illinois.
 Mir. Roosevelt will be presented to voters in these prepond nderantly wet areas as the man who l. oke the 13- year prohibition drought. Gov. Lan- don Is to be presented as dry, more by inference than by direct state ment. The idea will be conveyed to voters that if Gov. Landon is not r-mpant prohibit;onist, he certainly was no champion of repeal, which was one of the top issues of national politics in 1882. The first year in which he was elected gover. or of Kansas.
 He ran for reelection in 1884 and proposed special session of the legislature to sponsor prohibition referendum. Stumping the state of Kansas in that campaign, Gov. Lan- don advocated retaining prohibition in Kansas but insisted that the peo- pie of the state Le permitted to vote whether it should be retained or discarded. He argued that tht people were entitled to express their judg- ment on any matter of public inter- est.
 Kansas finally voted majority of 10000 to retain state prohibition and Kansas was one of the states which did not ratify national repeal of the 18th amendment. Eastern, biz city democrats will insist that Governor aLrdon take the rap for that omission.
 In New England and New York, particularly, the prohibition issue has been selected by democratic strategists as the most feasible counter-attack on Father Charles P. Coughlin, who is leading poten- tial democratic voters away from MT. Roosevelt by the tens of thous- ands. The priests following is large in the big, notably Catholic, cities of the northeast. It is likely that the Coughlinites are mostly anti prohibitionists, although at Cleve- iand, Ohio, convention of his Ma tional Union for Social Justice the two-fisted drinking which often ac' companies political gatherings was corspicuously absent.
 Chairman James A. Farley Of the democratic nationaal committee be- lieyes the prohibition issue will pc effective in the areas named ana that 1t vii lnot damage MT. Roose- velt's chances even though it might spill over into bordering dry areas.
 we will say to them," Farley told me, "that President Roosevelt gave them repeal. We will ask: Are you going to waste 8 vote on William Lemke, the Coughlin candidate, or vote for Governor Landon who IS a dry?'"
 The democartic high command feels that MT. Roosevelt already has suffered all the defections likely to flow from his unqualified support of repeal. He not only endorsed re- peal for the nation so the issue could be dealt with by the states, but he favored legalizing liquor in his own state, New York. Further mOTee GIlC OlobI1CV OA SOASA4SAss, SA which the President of the United States is a super-mayor, is legally and enthusiastically wet with MT. Rooseyelt's unquestioned approval. The wet record was fundameptal In t.Tning the protestant clergy a-ainst the New Deal. Months ago Literary Digest poll showed 70 rer cent of the reporting protestant clergymen opposed to the president.
 The theory is that, while the liq- uor question is dead, so far as mak- ing or winning votes for MT. Roose- welt is concerned, it is alive for Gov. Landon. His speeches since 1882 have been sifted at democratic headuuarters for references to pro- hibition. There is nothing very startling in the residue although the governor has generalized, on occa- sion. on the liquor issue by asserting that he favored enforcement Of all