LIQUOR QUESTION

Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1930, Page 7

LIQUOR QUESTION

IN UNITED STATES

[United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]

NEW YORK, September 12. “The Times’s’’ Washington correspondent says: The politicians have been brought to realise by the events of this week that the Prohibition Question cannot be disregarded as the main issue in the Presidential campaign of 1932. Predictions are being made that the Democrats not only have a Wet candidate, but that they will make a Wet platform, declaration, which they did not do when they had a Wet candidate in 1928 Senator Wheeler, who has been for long a Dry, to-day has issued a statement favouring the State control of the liquor question, and pointed attention to the fact that GovernorFranklin Roosevelt, of New York, is a close friend of ex-Governor Smith, and who last week issued a similar statement as the possible Democratic candidate for 1932.

The Republican Party officials, who had come to believe that the Prohibition question would not figure largely at this November’s regular biennial Congressional elections, now realise that as the result of last week’s primaries—in which three Republican members of the House of Representatives, Messrs Crompton, Hudson, and Miller, all well-known Dries, lost their nominations to Wets—that the Wet-Dry issue is now more prominent than ever. Superintendent Mcßride, of the Anti-Saloon League, in a statement today, admitted that the Drys will lose 29 seats in the United States House of Representatives in November, but he claimed that there will he remaining three hundred known days.