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Chairman Simeon Davison Fess of the Republican National Committee, onetime professor of American History, last week announced: "President Hoover in two years has had more bad breaks than any other man in the history of the United States, and there is no man who wants to do more for his country than our President...
Zeus may well have been thinking of something else when Pallas Athene, mature and fully armed, was born from his ponderous brow. Certainly when Chairman Simeon Davison Fess of the Republican National Committee thought and said: "The party will remain Dry or it will be split" (TIME, Nov. 17) he was not contemplating the creation of a mature, warlike body of Wet Republicans which almost simultaneously appeared. Perhaps instead Mr. Fess was thinking in terms of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals statement fortnight ago: "Any catering to the Wets, any toleration of a suggestion of modification, would...
Onetime Senator James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. of New York was the plume in the Wet Athene's helmet last week. He cried: "Senator Fess . . . cannot see what is going on in this country. Tears dim his sight. . . . Does the Senator think we can carry Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Illinois and a half-dozen other States whose people spoke last week on this question . . . [and] hope to cajole repeal-Republicans, millions of good men & women, into an attitude of complacency concerning the thing they regard as vital...
President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, for years the man who has written Wet planks for the Republican platform and for years seen them thrown out, declared: "Senator Fess . . . adds that 'if the Republican party stands for repeal, it might as well say good-day.' . . . My reply is that if the Republican party does not stand for repeal it might as well say goodnight. . . . The elections of November 1930 are the handwriting on the wall...
...Throughout the campaign National G. O. P. Chairman Fess kept repeating: "Prohibition is no issue between the parties." After he had studied the election returns, he proclaimed: "Prohibition will be a major issue in 1932. I look for the Democrats to seize the opportunity to go Wet.* . . . The South is Democratic first and Dry second. . . . The Republicans won't surrender or straddle. The party will remain Dry or it will be split." Dry little Senator Fess has long shuddered in private at the very real prospect of that "split...