LIQUOR IN AMERICA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20595, 20 June 1930, Page 11

LIQUOR IN AMERICA.

ANTI-PROHIBITION LEADER. MR. D. MORROW IN POLITICS. WASHINGTON, Juno 18. A new political figure rose on the national horizon when Mr. Dwight Morrow, formerly Ambassador to Mexico, won tho New Jersey Republican primary nomination for election to the Senate by an overwhelming majority which will reach more than 250,000. Mr. Morrow defeated his opponent, Mr, Franklin Fort, Republican member of the House of Representatives for New Jersey, who ran on the "dry'.' platform, by 335,000 votes to 95,000. While New Jersey is known to be "wet," Mr. Morrow's victory on a platform calling for tho repeal of tho 18th (Prohibition) Amendment of the Constitution is nevertheless conceded on every side to make him tho national leader of the movement against prohibition and the return to control of the liquor traffic by the States. His choice in tho November elections as senator is considered to be certain, and with his reputation as a financier and diplomat he becomes tho outstanding probable Republican candidate for tho Presidency should the question of replacing Mr. Hoover for a second term arise.

The resignation from the Senate in May of Mr. Walter E. Edgo to becomo Ambassador to France led to the temporary appointment of Mr. David Baird by the Governor of New Jersey. Mr. Dwight Morrow, in the limelight as Ambassador to Mexico, was suggested instead of Mr. Baird, and Mr. Baird was willing to resign. But Mr. Morrow preferred election to appointment, and declared he would run in the June primary and the November election as candidate both for the remainder of the Edge term—next November to March—and for the full sixyear term ensuing. For the long term Mr. Morrow was challenged in the Republican primary by ex-Senator Joseph F. Frelinghuysen, a former " dry," who recently declared for repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment and Government control, and by Mr. Franklin Fort, who ran as a " dry," and who bad the .support of the Anti-Saloon League. The Fort candidature niado the primary contest an out-and-out prohibition battle.