Show 9 1 t A Washington Washing toe Day book 1 1 By Bv RODNEY DUTCHER WASHINGTON Aug 31 31 When When the Rev F. F Scott McBride the Rev Ernest H H. Cherrington and the Rev Rev A A. A J. J Barton burst out out all all of a a. sudden sud den and almost simultaneously In In on Governor Roosevelt of New York and defenses of President Hoover it Hoover It that the means organized drys arc are plunging Into the 1932 presidential campaign One Infers with considerable assurance as that the drys drs have given up an any hope that the Democrats will nominate anyone but a wet for the pre presidency and that they are about resigned to the nomination of Mr Roosevelt Dr McBride is general superintendent superintend ent of the league Dr Barton Is chairman of the executive board of the league Dr Dri Cherrington holds various Important I tant positions in the league and other oth er dry organizations McBride and Barton have recently struck at the Roosevelt candidacy CherrIngton has rushed to the defense of President President dent Hoover In an instance where defense de was so unnecessary as to indicate indicate indi cate a concerted attempt on the part of the dr drys s 's to get moving TWO STATE STATEMENTS I Two statements just issued by Cherrington use both the words and music employed ed by the Republicans In their past efforts to fight ot off attacks attacks at tacks from the Democratic publicity bureau First says BayS Dr CherrIngton the wet press has attempted t to smear mear President Hoover by pointing to the existence of saloons and brothels on government leased property in Colon Panama The word smear has been beena a favorite with Republican spokesmen spokes men In their descriptions of what Democrats were trying to do to Hoover Hoo Hoo- ver yes Next comes Dr Cherrington with the assertion that if it this country had no prohibition it would be bo as 33 badly off toda today as Germany an nr argument which parallels the persistent r Republican lican strategy of pointing out that other countries are in worse vorse shape than the United States Thus the drys seem to outline their conception of the 1932 fight They will make all aU the noise they can for a ary dry ry Democratic candidate knowing jwell well that nomination of n n. wet is Inthe Inthe in inthe the cards and then go whooping for 1 Hoover after the conventions They would be happy f if they could expect the of Al Smith and it itIc itic 11 ic said that for tor a n time many of them did expect that but they now accept the general theory that Smith cant can't be even 1 if he wants I to be The religious and prosperity issues were the most potent in the 1928 elections elections elections elec elec- although there is some argument argument argument ment as t to which swung the most votes to Hoover Next year the Democratic Democratic Democratic Dem Dem- ticket will be faced neither b by widespread religious prejudice nor by any presumption that the Republican party can guarantee prosperity lIA HAVE VE ALIBIS READY This fact is primarily a worry for Hoover and the Republicans but it itIs itIs itis Is Just as ns sad a state of affairs for the cIS cI'S drys It almost leaves them one might suggest carrying the hod They claimed the Hoover election was a distinctly dry victory and now It ap appears appears appears ap- ap pears that they must prove their forces are strong enough to block the election of any wet presidential can can- Without suggesting that they cant can't prove it or asserting that election trends have appeared wet rather than cir dry one has to point out that the dr drys s 's may now be socked in the eye by hy the prosperity issue Just as they were greatly aided by it in their supreme desire to defeat Al Smith A lot of ot people voted for Hoover because cause we e had been having good times and now nowa a lot of them will vote against him because we have been having bad times The drys cant can't help that but they may suffer for It Just the same The election of 1932 probably will be more nearly a wet-dry wet contest than In 1928 but it will still be far from exactly that If Hoover wins the drys will promptly take credit with much more justification than they had when they took tool it in 1928 1923 and If it he loses they will say they lost because the voters were sore about the depres depres- sion If a wet or moist most Democratic candidate candi candi- dat date wins the wets will holler that they did it and If he loses they will not be caught lacking alibis for their failure to elect him |