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After a two-hour debate the convention rejected the Repeal plank by a vote of 681 to 472. Then it adopted the majority report, thus nailing down in the G. 0. Platform for the first time a declaration for a Change. On the roll call seven States voted solidly for Repeal; ten more showed a majority against the Administration plank. The populous Republican states of New York. Pennsylvania, Illinois. New Jersey, Connecticut, Michigan and Indiana all threw their weight against the White House. The fact that President Hoover was able to carry his plank...
...What the plank meant constitutionally was obvious. A Republican Congress was to propose to the States another amendment, not specifically repealing the 18th Amendment but superseding it exactly as the 17th Amendment for the direct election of Senators superseded the constitutional provision for their selection by State Legislatures; exactly as the 16th Amendment for an income tax superseded the constitutional limitation of direct taxes based on population. The new amendment would have to provide that States that wanted to be Wet might be Wet, regardless of the 18th Amendment, but would prohibit them from legalizing the saloon. Therefore...
Never has a Constitutional amendment been ratified by State conventions as now proposed. Purpose of the proposal is that voters may elect delegates to a State convention not as Democrats or Republicans but as Wets or Drys, unencumbered by other political issues. "Truly representative" was put into the plank to effect a fairer balance between city and country voters...
Politically and practically the G. O. P. plank meant less than it said because all Republican candidates, as individuals, were specifically freed from its provisions. This was the weasel paragraph. President Hoover, as nominee for reelection, might, if he chose, disavow, his party's pledge on the ground that "his honest convictions" were against any change. Likewise G. O. P. nominees for Congress are not bound to vote for the new amendment. Thus the voters might return a Republican majority to the House only to discover that most of them had Dry "convictions," were able to block resubmission...
...youngest salesman. He was sales manager and a director of the company when he left to go with Commander-Larabee. He is credited with having sold more flour than any man in the U. S. A stanch Democrat, he recently offered to wager $1,000 he could name every plank to be adopted at the convention...