PROHIBITION IN AMERICA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20669, 15 September 1930, Page 10

PROHIBITION IN AMERICA.

ISSUE AT ELECTIONS. GROWING IN PROMINENCE. LESSON OF THE PRIMARIES. " DRYS " MAY LOSE SEATS. By Telegraph-Picas Association—Copyright. (Received September It, 5.45 p.m.) NEW YORK. Sept. 13. Tho Washington correspondent of ttie New York Times says politicians have, been 'brought to realise by events this week that tho prohibition question cannot bo disregarded as the main issue of tho Presidential campaign in 1932. It is predicted 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 an anti-prohibition candidate in 1928.

Mr. B. K. Wheeler, Democrat member of the Senate for Butte, Montana, who has been a prohibitionist for a long time, issued a statement to-day favouring State control of liquor and calling attention to tho fact that, the Governor of New York, Mr. Franklin Roosevelt, a close friend of Mr. Al. Smith, last week issued a similar statement as the probable Democrat candidate for the Presidency in 1932. Republican officials who had come to believe that the prohibition question would not figure largely at next November's regular biennial Congressional elections, now realise that as a result of last week's primaries, in which Messrs. Crampton, Hudson and Miller, well-known "dry" members of the House of Rcpiescntatlves, lost their nominations to " wets" tho prohibition issue is more prominent than ever. The general superintendent of the AntiSaloon Leaguo, Mr. F. S. Mcßride, in a statement to-day admitted his belief that the " drys" will loso 29 scats in tho Houso of Representatives in November, but claimed that there will bo remaining 300 known " drys."