Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-06-15 | Page 3 | Bourbons Work on Repeal Plan

BOURBONS WORK ON REPEAL PLAN WASHINGTON June 15 TV JP- Mindful of Republican prohibition worries in Chicago a group of Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic leaders here is sha shaping in a repeal repeal re re- peal plank they confidentially hope will win unqualified approval in the Windy City two weeks hence It still is rough hewn But in keepin keeping keep keep- ing in with the desire to keep the entire 1932 platform under 1000 words this plank uses just a few more than 50 to dispose of the liquor issue It declares for immediate submission submission submission sub sub- mission to state tate conventions of a repeal repeal repeal re re- re- re peal amendment This amendment would bo be so drafted as to assure state control of f the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors This principle repeal principle repeal of the eighteenth eight eIght- amendment by an amendment restoring state control control is is the heart of or orthe the plank About it Jt are arc hung declara declara- declarations declarations for tor the promotion of temperance and the suppression of or liquor traffic In states choosing to remain dry The saloon is frowned upon in this this' sentence one paragraph one-paragraph plank But it leaves loaves no doubt that return or banishment of the saloon will be up to the states No direct mention is made o of beer or modification of the act Tacitly this problem is left to the congress con conS dress gress ress that will handle the job of drafting drafting draft draft- In ing the repeal amendment The planks plank's chief virtue its authors claim is the kindly reception it has been accorded by some party members members mem memo bers of both wet and dry leanings Those who have viewed i it t with approval approval ap sip- include a number of senators who have been active for the thc dry cause In the past and are arc slated for important places at the Chicago meet meet- ing