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...declared for resubmission of the 18th Amendment. As a candidate for re-election Mr. Hoover had told pre-convention callers that he was ready to run on a platform declaring for resubmission of the question to the people but that he was opposed to Repeal. Senators had submitted sample planks for Resubmission but on none had Mr. Hoover placed his finger and said: "I want this and nothing else." So widespread became the talk in Washington that the President was committed to a specific proposal that the White House issued a diplomatic denial that any plank had been submitted there...
Prohibition was also an important factor in Nominee Hoover's consideration of possible Democratic candidates. His friends told him that, on a Resubmission plank, he could probably beat Franklin Delano Roosevelt running on a Repeal platform. Newton Diehl Baker or Albert Cabell Ritchie as outright Wets would possibly be harder for him to defeat. Alfred Emanuel Smith, pledged to Repeal, would be far stronger than in 1928 because of economic conditions but it was unlikely that he could win out over the Republican nominee. As the President figured it out alone in the White House, a damp...
...Ohio, which won the 1928 nomination with the slogan "Who But Hoover?" His appointment as Postmaster General the following year was altogether political with both eyes on 1932. Last week in Washington "General" Brown was in the thick of the only real controversy confronting the convention-a platform plank on Prohibition...
...standard method of altering the Constitution by Congress and the States? Should some tricky system of conventions, such as Secretary Hyde's "Missouri Compromise," be advocated? Or should a specific reform permitting State option be put forward? Out of such knotty lumber the G. O. P. plank had to be jig-sawed...
Another problem, which is probably less serious, although it has received more attention from the press, is that of the Prohibition plank. The administration is outspoken in its opposition to any form of direct repeal and in its acceptance of the "resubmission" proposal announced by Republican leaders some time ago. As equivocal as anyone could require, such a plank would be most helpful to pre-election party orators, and to all appearances there can be little question but that it will be included. But in the past week, a wave of pro-repeal sentiment has swept the country, staunchly supported...