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...simply gibbering with excitement," cried Mrs. Charles Hamilton Sabin, chairman of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform, when she read this platform plank, adopted (934-to-213) by the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last week. It had been framed by a minority of the Resolutions subcommittee, later changed into a majority report of the whole committee which turned its back on a proposal only slightly less...
Comparison. The Republican Prohibition plank adopted three weeks ago caused no one, Wet or Dry, to gibber with excitement. Its 526 words contained a cautious compromise and a large loophole. Like the Democratic plank it shunned the saloon. Like the Democratic plank it provided Federal protection for Dry States and proposed resubmission of the liquor issue by Congress to State conventions "truly representative...
Unlike the Democratic plank it specifically released party members as individuals from supporting Repeal or even Resubmission. Unlike the Democratic plank it did not call for immediate legalization of beer. Unlike the Democratic plank it proposed, rather than simple Repeal of the 18th Amendment, substitution of a new amendment redefining liquor's status in the nation. The tortuous Republican language was: "A proposed amendment the provision of which, while retaining in the Federal Government power to preserve the gains already made in dealing with the evils inherent in the liquor traffic, shall allow States to deal with the problem...
...Reynolds campaign was greatly helped when on the eve of the North Carolina run-off the Democratic party in Chicago adopted a Repeal plank. Mr. Reynolds stood squarely on that plank. Senator Morrison stepped off, fell to political death into the arms of the Anti-Saloon League...
...Bald Naked." Senator Barkley, a Dry speaking for a Wet candidate, recommended the submission of a resolution repealing the 18th Amendment. Like Senator Borah, he denounced the theory that constitutional Prohibition could be kept in some States and not in others. The Republican plank on this question he called "a promiscuous agglomeration of scrap-lumber," adding...