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...questions will be asked on the ballots. The first question is "Do you favor a definite prohibition plank in the platforms of the two major parties?" The second is "Should the plank be for: continuation, modification, repeal, or nation-wide referendum of the Eighteenth Amendment...
Professor Carver, who has been nominated for election as a delegate to the convention, is a firm supporter of Hoover, but on a dry platform. He believes that a wet plank would be disastrous to Hoover, either forcing him to refuse to run, or insuring his defeat by separating the candidate from his platform. "This would so antagonize the western states already suspicious of the supposed Republican alliance with big business", said Professor Carver", that it would be fatal to the Republican party. This same mistake was made by the Whig Party in 1852", he continued, "when it permitted...
Professor Carver is a supporter of Hoover, and is advocating a dry ticket, believing that a wet plank either would not be acceptable to Hoover, or would seriously impair his chances of reelection. The main opponents of Professor Carver in the primary are also supporters of Hoover, but on a wet ticket...
...From a meeting of Republican national committeemen in Washington to arrange convention details word was passed out that 25 of the 53 members of the platform committee were already Wet and ready to support a referendum plank, while at least 535 of the 1,154 delegates will take a more liberal stand on Prohibition...
...Meanwhile President Hoover, who will have to stand on any Prohibition plank carpentered by the Convention, continued diligently to pursue his policy of silent neutrality. Ever since he threw away his chance, offered by the report of the Wickersham Commission, to take a Wet stand, he has been increasingly regarded by the public as a Dry. His friends report that he is irritated by the liquor agitation, calls it "poppycock," insists that the question is one for Congress to deal with first...