Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-09-05 | Page 2 | G. O. P. Blocks Vare Move to Supplant Curtis as Speaker

j t. t G. G O. O P. P Blocks Vare Yare Yarek k Move to Supplant Curtis Speaker p F as 01 Objection to Dry Dryas as Keynoter er in Pennsylvania Is Isi I i Ignored By fly PAUL COMLY FRENCH United Press Pres Staff Corr Correspondent PHILADELPHIA Sept Plans 5 I of the Vare Republican organization to replace Vice President Curtis as speaker of the opening meeting of the campaign In Pennsylvania have havo been stopped by national leaders of oi the party the United Press learned today In presidential years Pennsyl Pennsylvania's l varria's vania's campaign traditionally ends at a picnic in a few hours after the state Republican committee commitS commit tee indorses the national platform at ata ata ata a meeting in Allentown The state committee will meet Sep September 17 and the national Republican can speakers' speakers bureau had arranged to have Vice President Curtis sound the keynote for Pennsylvania DE DRY SEEN HANDICAP Shortly after the assignment was I made Curtis expressed his dry views in his acceptance speech in Kansas Thereupon William S. S Vare end and several several sev sev- eral upstate leaders leaders' decided a dry speaker would be a handicap t to the party in the wet counties of ot eastern castern Pennsylvania I decided Saturday to ask the speakers speakers' bureau to send Secretary of the thc Treasury Ogden Mills or Senator Sen ator atm Bingham in place of the vice president but out John Q Tilson in th charge of the Republican campaign speakers for the eastern states has informed the thc Vare leaders that it w will be impossible to make a change Organization Republicans Republican hold that heckling might make the meeting meeting meet meet- ing lag unpleasant for for- Curtis i if he attempted attempted at tempted to express his dry views