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...President got back from the printer the first proofs of his address keynoting his campaign, took them to the Rapidan camp for weekend revision. Right up to the last minute only his closest political friends knew what position, if any, he would take on the tortuous Republican Prohibition plank...
...Nothing need be added to that [the Repeal plank], except that if the present Congress takes no action, I shall urge the new Congress to carry out these provisions...
Like Secretary Mills in Boston, Secretary Hurley did not mention Prohibition and his party's Resubmission plank. These omissions were accepted as an indication that nationally the G. O. P. would soft-pedal this issue, at least until the President speaks out on it for himself...
...Prohibition was a hot question before the Ohio State Convention. After a lively floor fight during which a Repeal plank was rejected 708-to-130, the delegates endorsed the party's Chicago declaration. When David Sinton Ingalls, young nominee for Governor, declared for "repeal of all present Prohibition laws," Wets on the floor and in the galleries thundered: WE WANT BEER...
...Last week Mark Sullivan, seasoned convention commentator, reported that most Southern Democrats had a "morning after" feeling about their party's Repeal plank. Wrote he: "Their feeling about what they did about Prohibition is that of a man who finds himself wedded to a comparative stranger when all he meant was to go maying with the lady. The lady's marriage certificate is indisputable ... the equally certain fact is that not more than 500 of the [1,154] delegates meant to go that...