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THE CLINTON 0 CHRONICLE, CLINTON, 8. C.
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 17, 1927
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SENATOR BORAH
ASKS SHOWDOWN
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Wants Republicans To Stand Rigidly
* BehindxEighteenth Amendment
and Law Enforcement.
New York, Noy. 12.—Senator Bo
rah of' Idaho, called tonight for a
showdown in the next presidential
campaign on the prohibition question
and law enforcement.
Explaining that h^, would not as-1
sume to advisq the Democrats, he aim- 1
ed his demand chiefly at the Republi
cans, who, tye asserted, should take a
stand for 3-igTr^Iforcement of the
eighteenth amendment.
“It is my contention,” the Idaho Re
publican declared before the New Yprk
Women’s Law Enforcement committee,
“that the supreme political problem in
• ^ the Unnited States today is obedience
* to law'—the integrity of the constitu- j
tional government.
“I contend that the highest duty
resting upon a political "party at this*
time is to recognize that fact, meet it
openly and fight it through to the
end. In the clear sunlight of this is
sue, mere political-expediency is both
discreditable and futile.
“We know from the decisions of
the supreme court that we are passing
through^ peroid in which corruption
has reached to the very doors of the
White House, dominated cabinets and
robbed the people of their inheritance.
“We know that our daily press day
by day records a series of crimes, both
in number and in horror which have
no precedent or parallel. . I
“We-know, if weWt stop to reflect,
that this' spirit of lawlessness has
come to be the most stupendous prob-
' lem of our national life.
“We know, too, that this spirit of
lawlessness has now taken the form
of an utter disregard and defiance of
our charter of government itself.”
Contending that there are only two
courses open, enforcement* or repeal,
the Senator added.
“The only safe course—and certain
ly it is the only honorable course—
is to meet the issue and throw’ the
tremendous power of the party behind
the law and the constitution.”
Enforcement of the law, Mr. Borah
asserted, requires the election of a
president and official* who believe in
the prohibition law and “who will be
as vigilant and active to enforce it as
its opponents are to violate it.’*
Not only is the constitution defied,
the senator said, “but its enforcement
and ’ maintenance in many respects
has become a mere formality. And yet
we are told that this is not a matter
with which political parties may deal
or about which they should be concern-
ed.” ..
In this stronghold of the wets and
home of Governor Smith, Senator Bo
rah, himself mentioned as a possible
presidential candidate, insisted that
the people generally are interested to
day in w'hat is the position of a pres
idential candidate on the eighteenth
amendment.
Modification of the Volstead act is
not involved in the prohibition ques
tion he argued, contending that repeal
or enforcement of the eighteenth
amendment is the heart and life of the
wet and dry issue.
Referenda on the prohibition ques
tion was characterized by Senator Bo
rah as insincere and ineffective. Mod
ification of the Volstead act, he de
clared, “cannot give that which the
constitution prohibits, to witr'intox-
icating liquor.” >
Rallying the women to the issue, the
Idahoan insisted they alone “can bring
the political parties to the support of 1
this constitutional amendment.”
“Organize!” he shouted. “Demon
strate your power, sit on the floo, of
the convention and not in the galler
ies, sit as delegates and not in the gal
leries as ornaments. Write platforms
and not essays.
“There is only one way by which
the law can be enforced,” he declared,
referring to the prohibition act, “only
one way by which the constitution can
anl . be maintained, and that is by placing
the control of the machinery of gov-1
ernment, the instrumentalities of en
forcement in the haqas of those who
w’ill be as vigilant and active to en
force it as its opponents are to violate
it.
“This is a presidential election. The
chief duty of the president is to see
that the constitution and the laws
made .in pursuance thereof are enforc- I
ed. Upon the chief executive rests ;
that stupendous task. .
“The people have seen fit to adopt j
this amendment. It is now a part of'
the law of the land. The congress has
signed to carry into effect the consti-
legislated. Laws have been passed de
lation. The courts have been called
upon to pass upon the constitution
amendment and to construe the stat
utes as passed in pursuance of that
amendment.
“The constitution is _ there. The
statutes ai*e there. The only thing left
is to enforce the law and to maintain
the constitution so long as they re
main unrevoked or unrepealed! Under
these circumstances the people'must
necessarily be interested in the views
of their cohditions for .the president.”
Predicting that everybody except
the deaf and dumb and the candidates
will be discussing the wet and dry is- j
sue inf the coming campaign, Senator
Borah declared that “ ,a political par
ty which is unwilling to declare its
purpose to enforce the eighteenth
amendment will not enforce the eigh
teenth amendment.
“There is no reason in the world,”
he added, “why, if a party intends to
enforce the eighteenth amendment,
it should not say so.” '
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