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...Tsar Morgan's problems are two : how to defeat or placate temperance sentiment, how to stop bootlegging. In the grass roots States Dry sentiment has not only survived Repeal but gives signs of flourishing. In the 31 States which permit local option, Drys succeeded in promoting 3,000 referenda in 1936 and winning half of them. Last week the House of Representatives of Kansas, one of the seven States in which hard liquor is entirely prohibited, passed a bone-Dry law prohibiting beer, and the Women's Christian Temperance Union has launched a drive...
Most of the voters who went to the polls on Election Day not only elected public officials, but decided many another question. There were an aggregate of 150 referenda on the ballots in 32 states. Some prime questions which voters answered...
...shock of last week's Wet revolt at the polls made itself felt in the referenda of eleven states, as follows...
...Prohibition issue was forced to a vote by Connecticut's Senator Hiram Bingham. He proposed a resolution whereby the Senate would "welcome" State referenda on repeal or modification of the Volstead Act. The Drys flayed the proposal as "passing the buck" to the States, criticized referenda in general as a "cowardly" approach to the issue. Some Wets, favoring a straight-cut test on repeal, likewise deplored the resolution's "meaninglessness...
Prohibition. Governor Roosevelt is a Wet who has declared for the repeal of the 18th Amendment. Yet, with his eye on the White House, he would like to soft-pedal Prohibition as an issue and retreat into the mists of referenda. Widespread is the belief that, lacking profound Wet convictions, he is deliberately weaseling to woo Dry Democratic support from the South at the convention and in the election. He blocked attempts last year for a Wet declaration by the Democratic National Committee. The Roosevelt-Smith split grew out of opposing viewpoints on Prohibition?one for an honestly militant stand...