THE PROHIBITION QUESTION.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20033, 15 September 1930, Page 11

THE PROHIBITION QUESTION.

ISSUE IN U.S. ELECTIONS. RESULTS IN PRIMARIES. (UOTTKD PREHfI ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC TELEOBAPH—COPYBIOHT.) (Received September 14th, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YO&K, September 13. The Washington correspondent of "The Times" says:—Politicians were brought to realise by events this week that the Prohibition question cannot be disregarded as a main issue for the Presidential campaign of 1932, the predictions being made that the Democrats will not only have a "wet" candidate, but will make a "wet" platform declaration, which they did not do when they had a "wet" candidate in 1928. Senator Wheeler, who for a long time has been a "dry" supporter, to-day issued a statement favouring State control of the liquor question, and pointing attention to Governor Franklin Roosevelt, of New York, a close friend of Mr Al. Smith, and who last week issued a similar statement as a possible Democratic candidate for 1932. Republican officials who had come to believe that the Prohibition question would not figure largely, at the regular biennial Congressional elections this November now realise that the result of last week's primaries, in which the Representatives, Crampton, Hudson, and Miller, the well-known "drys," lost nominations to "wets,' that the "wet"-"drv" issue is more prominent than ever. Superintendent Mcßridgo, of the Anti-Saloon league, in a statement made to-day that the "drys" would loso 29 seats in the House of Representatives ,in November, but he c'aimed that there will be remaining three hundred known "drys."—"Ti e Times" Cables.