Smith Was One Ot Two To Keep
His Pledge On Dry Conference
Says Manila!.
New York Time.;.
How Secretary Mellon, following
his first appointment by President
Harding to the cabinet, had a stock
of wines and otlwr liquor from his
private cellar sent to Washington,
D. c\. before he took up as secre
tary of the treasury his new duties,
which included enforcement of pro
hioition. is told in a chapter dealing
with prohibition in the campaign
manual to be issued this week by
the Democratic national committee.
The book admits that Mr. Mellon
had a legal right to possess the li
fliinr
The prohibition chapter in the
Democratic campaign book does not
go into the merit or lack of merit oi
prohibition. It is largely historical
in its treatment of what has become
one of the foremost issues in the
campaign. It contains a stannary of
all the public declarations made by
Governor Smith on the subject. It
tells the ‘'inside" story of how the
plank pledging the Democratic party
to rigid prohibition enforcement was
discussed and adopted before the
committee on resolutions at the
Houston convention.
The governor’s personal attitude
in absolute opposition to the return
of the saloon,, nis pledge to enforce
the existing prohibition law and, if
elected, to suggest to congress and
the country at large a new method
which he believes would be more
conducive to temperance, the end
sought when prohibition was placed
on the statute books, is stressed in
the prohibition cnapter. A separate
chapter is devoted to an analytical
and critical study of prohibition en
forcement under the last two Re
publican administrations at Wash
ington.
The story of the transfer by Mr.
MeUon of his personal liquor from
Pittsburgh to Washington is told in
connection with the drawing of a
contrast between the attitude of
Governor Smith and prominent Re
publicans toward prohibition and
prohibition enforcement.
MeUon Entitled To Liqnor.
“When Mr. Harding became presi
dent he made Mr. Mellon his secre
tary of the treasury, with full ex
ecutive authority in the; matter of
prohibition enforcement," the chap
ter said. “When Mr. Mellon moved
from his home in Pittsburgh to |
Washington he sent his stock of i
Wines and liquors along with his oil
paintings in a moving van. It was
pre-war stuff, some of it made in
Mr. Mellon’s own distillery, and he
—--Jiad a complete legal right to keep
and use it in nis Pittsburgh Ttome.
That moving van might well be
taken as a symbol of the Repub
lican attitude toward prohibition.
"Mr. Mellon had been put in the
cabinet with Mr. Fall, Mi*. Daugh
erty and Mr. Denby. Mr. Coolidge
kept him there to carry on with his
brand of prohibition enforcement, j
However, President Coolidge, be-■
tween his first and second takings i
of the oath to emorce all the laws,
did call the governors of all the
states to Washington for a confer
ence on liquor law enforcement. It
was a gathering productive of many
pious utterances and resolves. Be
fore leaving the White House the
governors, most cf them Republi- j
can, promised the president to call
conferences in their respective states
to urge recognition of the liquor
laws. Two of the governors kept
that promise. One of the two was
Governor Smith of New York. He
called the promised conference in
Albany in February, 1924. when he ■
said: ‘There is one thing we can- j
not disagree on, and that is that :
unless the Constitution is obeyed
and sustained, in its every letter j
it can serve no useful purpose. The ;
eighteenth amendment is a part of j
that Constitution and just as sacred :
as any other part The so-called:
Volstead act, making operative the]
eighteenth amendment, is just as I
sacred as any other law in the
country.*
“The New Yore: governor thereby
proved himself to be at complete
variance with the administration atj
Washington in the matter of sac-red
ness."
•political ur> Discussed.
“Gayeties and hypocrisies" of
Washington receive further atten
tion, under the caption on . “Politi
cal Drys and Personal Wets" in the
telling of how the Washington police ’
recently discovered a still in opera-'
tion in the capital
"It was a 1,000-gallon still, set up '
near Capitol Hill, within a pretzel's j
toss oi: where -the ‘dry’ Republican
speaker. Nichols Longsworth. pre
sides ever 'ms 'bone dry’ house, with
his tongue in his cheek." the Demo- j;
critic. b.ok sa.vs. “Alt such discov- ;
cries by the Washington police are.
accidental” j
The chapter go-- on to say that
all the evils attendant upon the li
quor traffic of old are dwarfed in ;
their evil effect by the evils that
have followed n the wake' of pror 1
hibition and “less poisonous to the '
morals and integrity of this country
than is the hypocrisy of the gentle
man in congress who are dry on roll t
call and nowhere else, or the cyn- 1
icista of that other Washington
group supposed to direct enforce
ment throughout the country oi the
laws that congress makes."
Ihe chapter arounds in statistics i
which show that arrests for drunk- !
enness hava practically doubled in
tire seven years the He publicans _
have been in choree of prohibition
Thftc are also citations from former j
Assistant Secret.try of the 1’ieas j
ury Andrews, wno was in charge of
prohibition on lor ement until tie was
succeeded by firmer Lieut. Gov
Seymour Lowman. Major Mills, who
was the Federal prohibition director
in the Metropolitan district, and
former United Pistes Attorney Em
ory R. Buchner, all of the United
States senate that Republican at
tempts to enforce prohibition had
failed.
Comment On Hoover Stand.
There is the foucwing comment on
the attitude of the Republican pre
sidential nominee toward prohibi
tion :
"The most amazing thing about
Candidate Hoover s public references
to prohibition 's his admission now
that there have been grave abuses
and that now, seven and one-half
years after those abuses began.’
under his own nose and eyes in the :
president's cabinet chamber, there
should be a study of the matter to i
find out what the abuses really are
and to end them.
“GeneraL Andrews, Major Mills
and Emory R. Buckner, all good Re
publicans, told what those abuses
were a long time ago and nothing
came of it. If Mi Hoover, as an
engineer, had shown the same delay,
the same assenting to wrong in his
professional affairs, that have char
acterized his conduct as a cabinet
minister in the n atter of prohibi
tion. he never would have been
heard of outside of West Branch,
j Iowa, and Palo Alto, Cal.
"There would be no occasion now
for the asinine taunts of luke-warm
Republicans that he spent some of
his engineering years in the service
of foreign mining corporations.
Those corporations would not have
hired him. Senator Glass is quite
right in preferring to have prohibi
tion enforced oy Alfred E. Smith,
who thinks it is an unwise experi
ment. rather than by trusting it to
Herbert Hoover, who calls it a ‘noble1
experiment."
Appeal To Young
Democratic Voters
To Editor Of The Star:
The purpose ct this communica
tion is to admonish our young
Democratic cluos, both male and
female to stand firm by our Demo
cratic ticket, although some may
find fault to some of our nominees
and so on, but you must remember
that he who expects to find per
fection in his fellowman or woman,
will ultimately find himself imper
fect. So let us lay aside all per
sonalities and fight face to the
enemy for true Democracy and
vote the whole ticket, from top to
bottom, remembering that you are
not voting on personalities but for
true Democracy.
J. Z. FALLS.
CURTIS TELLS HECKLER
HE’S ‘TOO DAMNED DUMB’
Spencer, Iowa.- Questioned by a
heckler during his address at the
Calyt county fair Senator Curti*.
the" Republican vice presidential
nominee, warmly defended his rec
ord on the McNary-Haugen bill and
and the record of the Republican
administration on farm relief and
tax reduction.
When the heckler asked Curtis
a question on taxes, the nominee re
plied: ’’I just told you about that
but you are too damned dumb to
understand it”
At this the crowd cheered Cur
tis.
GARDNER TO SPEAK AT
FOREST CITY MONDAY
Forest City.—According to an an
nouncement made here by C. O.
Ridings, chairman of the Ruther
ford county Democratic committee,
O. Max Gardner, Democratic nomi
nee for governor, vill speak in the
Cool Springs hign school auditor
ium here, Monday night.
FLORIDA CITRUS GROWERS
FACING $4,000,000 LOSS
Washington, Sept. 19—Florida
citrus growers will suffer a loss of
$4 000.000 not including damage to
groves, the department of agricul
ture said today. Preliminary re
ports received by the bureau of
agriculture economics indicate that
the storm reduced the prospective
crop by about 2,000,000 boxes, worth
about $2 per box.
Leases Quarters For
Commercial School
j. G. Wootton. now living in New
.Jersey where he is head of the
business and ci .rnmercial depart
ments of the public schools of that
city, has secured a lease on six
rooms in the Lmeberger building,
known also as the Wooltrorth
building, where he will open this
fall a business college, teaching a
number of courses. Mr. Wootton is
a brother of Mr. Paul Wootton of
Shelby and has had eighteen years
experience in teaching and conduct
ing schoois of this kind. Ills open
ing date will b" announced soon
and already a number of pupils
have signified their intention of
enrolling.
However, the evolutionary pro
cess by which monkeys made men
of themselves v> a.- considerably
slower than the reverse system.—
Arkansas Gazette.
The most effective oratory in
Chicago, it would seem, is bombas
tic Arkansas Gazette.
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