Show Wet Issue Must Be Considered Says Say Smoot Modification of the national prohibition prohibition prohibition pro pro- law must be bo given serious consideration by bom bout the leading political parties In framing their platforms in 1924 Senator Smoot one of the Republican leaders in the senate declared upon his return to Washington Although ho he has always been a strong trong dry Senator Smoot de declared dared that election results clearl clearly showed that the tho prohibition Issue cannot annot be bo evaded and that It will be bea a controlling factor In sloe elec Lions ions There Thero is no question about a radical wave having swept the middle middle mid mid- dle die west said Senator Smoot It II i may be bo called progressivism or bj any other name It was responsible Cor or the election of senatorial candidates candidates candi dates In Nebraska North Dakota and Minnesota There was an uprising of farmers farm ers era because of Intolerable conditions Their Thel crops crops are rotting even even in Utah and transportation to market could not be provided They were ready to strike at anybody and did didio I io fO at the party In power While a radical wave swept the I middle west the samo same result was accompanied by a wet wave in the east This as evidenced by the tho deleat de- de leat eat of Republican candidates In New York and New Jersey In the next congress both parties must consider two groups These will be the farm bloc and the wet bloc Together they certainly will willbe willbe be dominating elements If they amalgamate or cooperate they can put over anything In the shape of legislation tion In view of the situation that will prevail when the sixty-eighth sixty congress congress congress con con- gress comes Into existence Senator Smoot predicted that full cognizance must be bo taken of the wet Issue as raised during the recent campaign He Insisted that the national conventions conventions conventions conven conven- In formulating their platforms platforms' n u 1924 must take tako Into consideration modification of the e existing prohibition prohibition tion statutes Senator Smoot would venture no predictions as to how far the farm bloc aloe and land the wet bloc c will go in the I direction of pooling their Interests He merely pointed out the possibilities ties that lie He In such a coalition |