Word: planks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...Prohibition Party's keynote was delivered by Clinton Norman Howard, old-time Dry lecturer of Rochester, N. Y. Excerpts : "The Republican liquor plank . . . is the most stupendous, titanic, colossal, calamitous, crimson, conscienceless, barbaric and cataclysmic fraud ever perpetrated upon the American people. . The Democratic plank is perforated with corkscrews and bungholes. ... If the Democratic party wins, the 18th Amendment is doomed and damned. ... If the Dry Democrats of the South rejected Alfred E. Smith, as they said, not on account of his religion but because he was Wet, how can they support the ticket now with both candidate...
Because Senator William Edgar Borah had publicly refused to support President Hoover on the Republican liquor plank, the Prohibition Party turned enthusiastically toward the Idaho Republican as its Presidential nominee. Miss Ethel Hubler of California formally nominated Senator Borah as "a radical Dry at all times . . . a man who is personally something of an agnostic, who does not smoke, nor drink, nor chew, nor play cards, a man whose election would sound the death-knell of the liquor traffic." Delegate Richard Cannon of California, son of Bishop James Cannon Jr., seconded the Borah nomination. The organ played "Onward, Christian Soldiers...
...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...