Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-09-05 | Page 4 | Platforms-and Liquor

PLAT PLATFORMS PLATFORMS AND AND AND LIQUOR T THERE SPHERE HERE is an old adage in politics that if a a. aI I 7 law is a bad law it should be enforced until its enforcement compels repeal The Democrats in their the convention at Ogden indor indorsed ed the Democratic national p platform which demands repeal of ot the eighteenth eighteenth eight eight- e. e nth amendment and then go on to demand strict enforcement so long as the law is on the books The Republican state platform adopted a afew afew afew few weeks ago indorses the Republican national national national na na- na- na platform favoring resubmission but Befuddles the minds of the people of the state stately by ly y specifically exempting any of the state candidates from being bound by the platform utterance i Thus do do politicians of both pal parties ties remove the tile prohibition question as an issue Senator King the keynoter at the Democratic Demo Demo- cratic state convention Saturday ridiculed the tiie inconsistency of the Republican stand on the liquor question and then sat by while his own wn party adopted two wo planks one of ot which declared for repeal and the other for strict enforcement The Demo Democrats rats may go before the people with the claim their platform is dry and wet and nd the Republicans may do the same by Claiming the theirs rs' rs is wet and dry Neither party is open and aboveboard about it because the political rulers of ot both h Have ve fought right along against prohibition li being ing made the major issue at the coming election erection in this state To the drys they are dry to the wets they are more than moist There being nothing in the two platform utterances on the liquor question to choose between tween the voters wets and drys may settle back and make their choice between the Republican Republican Re Re- publican and Democratic state tickets on the merits of their personnel 4 The Democrats actually answered the Re Republican Republican Republican Re- Re publican challenge by naming a ticket that i m must st be admitted to have a balanced strength g geographically throughout the state The candidates man for man match the offering of the Republicans for they stand b before fore the people with unblemished records pf pf DC private and public service And if in the case of prohibition prohibition- the Republican Re Re- publican candidates are not to be bound by bythe bythe the platforms platform's attitude it is not expected that hat any Democratic candidate can make votes by binding himself to a stand which l 1 quite as evasive and equivocal For the matter of that it Is not to be expected ex ex- ex- ex 13 that the candidates of either party will make any ani headway In the campaign by talking about either platform at all The least said about either party creed the b better as neither platform can be stronger than ihan Its weakest link Unk r. r The Th Democrats riding on a wave of optimism optimism may well expect to give the Republicans I cans ns a close battle with the result at this writing considerably in doubt