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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...done anything, or was likely to do anything, to bring disgrace upon himself or the historic Prohibition Party. But some members of the party, believing that Nominee Varney could not possibly be elected, were for surrendering the party as an independent political unit and handing over its entire vote to Hooverism, the Dry defender against the dread and dripping Brown Derby...
Eventually the committee voted and Nominee Varney's suspense was over. By four votes to three, the committee voted that the Prohibition Party would continue. Its Nominee was still its Nominee and for him all good Prohibitionists would work, hope, vote. One of Nominee Varney's managers quickly announced: "The position of the majority was that this election is not a bona fide contest over the prohibition question, but a fake contest between the modification program of Governor Smith, on one side, and continued nullification by the Republican Party, on the other side...
...into the G. O. P. by declaring specifically that one-half of one percent is, in his opinion, as strongly alcoholic as any U. S. beverage should ever be. But he made no such declaration, perhaps because he knew that about one-third of the Prohibition Party's vote is in California and likely to be Hooverish anyway; perhaps because he knew that the total Prohibition vote in 1924 was less than one-fifth of one percent of the total vote of the country...
...time when citizens who want to vote, especially citizens who have never voted before, begin to wonder when and where they must register in order to vote in the Presidential election in November. Following is a list, State by State, date by date, showing where registration closes comparatively early. (In States not listed, voters may register up to the week before Election Day, or be sworn in at the polls on Nov. 6, or qualify by producing tax receipts...
Connecticut. Registration is permanent so long as the voter does not fail to vote. The registrars will meet Oct. 9 to hear applications and accept new names...