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LXXVIII, No. 1 A New York, July 7, 1923 Whole Number 1733 (Title registered in US Patent Office for use in this publication and on moving picture films) MR. HARDING'S BID FOR THE DRY VOTE PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT PLANK in the next Republican platform was made virtually certain, journalistic observers agree, when President Harding ime out flat-footedly in Denver last week for the Eighteenth mendment and the strict enforcement of the Volstead Law. na speech "as dry as the sunburned and whitened bones around desert water-hole" he rejected the idea that the Prohibition mendment would ever be repealed; exprest the belief that whatever changes [in the enforcement law] may be made will epresent the sincere purpose of ffective enforcement, rather than noderation of the general policy"; leclared that "the country and he nation will not permit the aw of the land to be made a byvord"; warned the rich who enjoy he luxury of legally stocked preProhibition cellars that their imnunity is resented by millions of Americans; told the patrons of Dootleggers that they are impairing the moral fiber of the Republic; and declared that the problem before the nation to-day is "to remove lawless drinking as a menace to the Republic itself." Simultaneously with the publication of this speech comes word that "President Harding has become a total abstainer." David Lawrence, a correspondent with the Presidential party, telegraphs as follows to the New York Evening World: Saloon League, in conference at Westerville, Ohio, embodying the official approval of the League and pledging its support to President Harding. In his Denver speech, declares United States Attorney Colonel William Hayward, the President has built a dry plank into his party's platform. "He has accepted the political challenges of the wets in his own party and the wets of the Democracy, headed by Governor Smith," remarks the Philadelphia Public Ledger (Ind.), which thinks that in so doing both his political morality and his political strategy are sound. "To W.G.H. THE NEW SHIP OF THE DESERT "Mr. Harding, it was learned to-day, feels very deeply that as Chief Executive of the Nation he should set an example of restraint, altho there is no law against drinking liquor one has legally acquired, and Mr. Harding violated no law in taking an occasional drink in the White House. "It has become known that in the last several months the President has refused gifts of liquor from personal friends, and has told them he meant to conform to the implications of the law as well as its specific obligations. Since the Harding Administration began, no liquor has ever been served at the table for official guests. There has been some gossip that personal friends would drop in at the White House or meet the President at the golf links and offer a drink from a flask, very much as might happen in the offices of Senators and Representatives; but while Mr. Harding has since early Marion days enjoyed a social drink, he has no regrets about practising self-denial, for he believes the greater good to be accomplished nationally by a strict observance of Prohibition more than makes up for the indulgence." One immediate reaction to the speech was a telegram from the Denver executives and State superintendents of the Anti Governor Al Smith's 'I wont' President Harding answers 'I will," says the Republican Los Angeles Express, which is convinced that by his uncompromising stand he "has more than doubled his political strength; has made his renomination, already certain, doubly desirable"; and has become "the captain of the great host of men and women who believe in the Constitution and who render obedience to the law." "He has placed the Republican party firmly and squarely on the solid ground of law enforcement as opposed to nullification," avers the Chicago Evening Post, which thinks that thereby "he has out-maneuvered the Democratic party, which limps between two opinionsthat of Al Smith and that of W. J. Bryan." Here is the Democratic dilemma as this Republican paper sees it: "If it follows Smith, it becomes the party of nullification. The name will stick, and no party so labeled can win. If it repudiates Smith, and follows Bryan, it becomes merely a trailer. It asks standing-room on ground which President Harding has already occupied for Republicanism." It is significant that approval of Mr. Harding's stand is the note sounded generally in the editorial columns of the Republican press, as gathered by telegraphic inquiry. The President's utterances "may well be considered the intentions of the party," declares William Allen White's Emporia Gazette, which goes on to say: "And so we may consider Prohibition and the Volstead Law good Republican doctrine. Also it is good politics. If the Democrats either deny the wisdom of Prohibition or straddle upon it, or if by nominating Al Smith or any Eastern wet Democrat they are content with silence upon the question of Prohibition, Harding's attitude will force Prohibition into the campaign next year and give the Republicans the advantage in every State west of |