PROHIBITION AND THE RIVAL PARTIES

Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1928, Page 4

PROHIBITION AND THE RIVAL PARTIES

(New York Evening News). If Herbert, Hoover in his acceptance speech, takes a definite and strong stand for enforcement of tho Volstead Act, then, ibut not until then, will William P. Varney, National Prohibition party candidate for the presidency withdraw in Hoover’s favour.

$0 B. P. E. Pugh, National committeeman, told Varney at the South Side High School auditorium in Rockville Canter when lie notified him of his candidacy. Varney is a Rockville Center man. Tho auditorium was packed. The notification ceremonies were preceded by a dinner at the Kettliam Lodge and a parade of the high school.

Varney said that if A 1 Smith is elected and appoints John J. Raslcob Secretary of the Treasury, or if J-ler-hert Hoover is elected and reappointsAndrew Mellon tho prohibition Party will be justified in continuing to exist. The National Prohibition party Varney said, stands for enforcement of the Volstead Act, judicial reform, tbe child labor amendment and farm relief.

"The law is only one per cent,” he said. 'Enforcement of it is ninety-nine per cent. Tho present Administration isn’t making any real attempts to enforce the Volstead Act.”

Other speakers were Mayor Charles E. Richmond and George S. Vandewatcr, chairman of tbe meeting Rev. William E. Varney, Sr., tbe candidate’s father, Methodist minister of Merrick, L. 1., gave the opening pray-

Miller Warner, a fireman, was severely burnod in tho back of tlie neck wlicn a. newspaper photographer set off a flashlight too close to him. The ceremonies were broadcasted c-ver WGBB of 'Freeport. FOES’ ATTACKED. Varney asserted that prosperity coin-,-idant with several years of prohibition, has been due in part tc- the diverson of '‘billions of dollars wasted in alcoholic drink.” Ho said that prohibition" at first had been enforced because it bad been believed that "tTnclo jSam meant business.” "How did the wet, Republican party stm-t out to uphold and enforce tlio. Eighteenth Amendment First, by appointing an ox-distillor at the head cf the enforcement department—on a par with appointing one of the leading criminals of the city as head of the Police Department! Then tbe whole enforcement army, all down the line, was honeycombed with wets—ex-bar-tenders, ex-saloon-keepers and ’bcozo bolsters,’ who were not even ‘ex.’ These rum pirates aboard and in control of the prohibition shin haveall but scattered it. "T’-e Democrats,” convinced Varney have nominated a candidate who has taken the oath of office many times to uphold the Constitution of these United States, and. as Governor of tiie Empire State I fail to see flint lie has done much, if anything, to nohold tho Eighteenth Amendment, which is part of the Constitution his oath requires him to support.