Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-06-04 | Page 3 | Women to Seek Dry Candidates and Platforms

u tV Mk u I ZA Tr T. W w. w 7 ff TO m SEEK j 1 DRY DRY-CANDIDA ns 1 AND PLATFORMS t WASHINGTON June 4 AP APA AP-A A fight by organized women for tor the tho adoption of a a. prohibition plank by byboth byboth both parties nomination of a a. dry candidate at both conventions ind t election of a dry nominee in No No- will be launched next Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day lay when the women's national committee o for tor law enforcement opens pens its two-day two meeting at Kansas City Although there is little indication I as yet of any active e organization among women who would support modification or oppose a a. prohibition enforcement plank the ry women are preparing an active campaign during during- the tho conventions cOn Some of their leaders among them Airs J Clem Clein Shaver wife wICe of the Democratic Demo Demoa cratic r luc national committee chairman chair chair- man declare openly their confidence conff- conff d dence in tho the dry group to put through the nomination of a third 0 presidential candidate in the event that both conventions choose men who in tho the opinion of ot the women are wet In their sympathies Explaining the attitude of ot the dry women's organizations Mrs Ellis A. A Yost Republican committeewoman committe commit commit- te tc woman from West est Virginia and executive secretary of the W. W C. C T. T U. U recently said that they are not not asking for an nn expression of opinion on prohibition per se since that is already in the constitution but for a ringing declaration of a a. pronounced policy of ot enforcement Modification ll Is a misnomer I t. t I he ohe said Repeal would be necessary mary sary to alter prohibition And I believe the tho women would not favor favorit it 1 if fC they realized it involves rc rc- peal It It camo came to a question of re repeal repeal re- re peal she added women would reel feel so intensely on It that it would probably be the tho one thing that break party line The executive committee of the national conference on prohibition 1 enforcement planks and dry cano can- can o of which Mrs Yost is a 4 member will hold no public meetIngs meetIngs meet meet- t Ings in either cither convention city in support of Its enforcement plank but it will ha haye e active headquarters P In bothI both I t before in the history of If lU prohibition movement ment said Mrs Yost commenting on the comI com com- I L' L membership has there i been such sucha a getting together of yr practically all the n or organized or- or groups on one national policy I 1 have been In political life me snore more than twenty years Year and I never never saw anything like it ft