REPUBLICANS AND PROHIBITION
FOR STRICT ENFORCEMENT
•United-Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, This Day. In connection with the recent presidential nominations in the Republican Party, the New Zealand Alliance is in receipt of. a cable from “Pussyfoot Johnson, 'reading as follows: “Movement led by President Butler, Columbia University, for a ‘wet’ plank in National Republican platform collapsed entirely. Convention ignored proposal, declaring unanimously for a strict enforcement. Coolidge and Dawes both bone dry.” A previous cable had stated it was expected that President Butler would stage “a sharp though ineffective fight to secure modifications of the Volstead Law.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 18 June 1924, Page 5
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