Show BUTLER ATTA M istead HILL BILL university HEAD DECLARES UNLESS republicans FIGHT ACT IT WILL LOOSE made speech ten ren days ago As duty of private citizen and not as party leader he maintains new york dr nicholos murray butler president of columbia university and a delegate to the republican national convention in cleveland next month has come out squarely for the insertion of an plank in the 1921 1924 G 0 P platform his declaration that his party must take that step as the only way to get back to sound constitutional government ern ment is the latest phase of the nationwide controversy he stirred up ten days ago when in a speech before the new york members of the missouri boci society ety he launched a vigorous attack on the act the eighteenth amendment and liquor law enforcement generally the columbia president in a state ment thursday added that the republican party stood in danger of losing eleven states in the coming presidential election if it did not take a decisive stand against the existing prohibition situation s should the G 0 P fail to take a platform stand against existing prohibition hibi tion conditions coniti ons dr butler said it was threatened with the loss of wisconsin illinois llin ois missouri delaware new jersey pennsylvania new york rhode island now new hampshire connecticut and massachusetts the only way to get back to sound constitutional government is to root out the chief causes of the existing lawlessness dr butler said this can be accomplished only by a declaration on prohibition in the national platform |