Henderson Daily Dispatch

LIQUOR BECOMING LESS OF AN ISSUE IN THIS CAMPAIGN

Despite Wetness of Reynolds His Opponent, Jake Newell, Is Making Little Headway

ECONOMIC PROBLEMS BEING PARAMOUNTED

Agricultural And Business Relief of Greater Concern To Most Voters; Long Road to Travel to Effect Repeal. Despite Political Party Promises

Daily Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel
J. C. BASKERVILL.

Raleigh Oct. 3.-Prohibition is becoming less and less an issue in the Democratic campaign in North Carolina most of the political observers in Democratic circles here believe. A good many of these believe that it is scarcely an issue at all. They point to the tremendous following Robert R. Reynolds, the Democratic candidate for the United States Senate, is building up in every section of the State, and the fact that, though opposed to prohibition, Reynolds hardly ever refers to prohibition in his speeches.

The reason for this is not that Reynolds or the party leaders are in any way afraid to mention the prohibition issue, but because they consider economic conditions and the progress of the Democratic party to provide a more efficient type of government for the people of this State and the nation as

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being of a great deal more importance. They regard President Hoover
and the record of the Republicans as
the outstanding issues of the cam-
paign rather than prohibition, espe-
cially since to all intents and purposes
the Republican party is as definitely
committed to the repeal of prohibition
as is the Democratic party.
Another reason for the growing con-
viction that prohibition is not an is-
sue, or certainly no major issue in
the Democratic campaign in North
Carolina, is the apparent failure of
Jake Newell, the Republican candidate
for the Senate, running as a "bone
dry," to gather much of a following.
In spite of Newell's strenuous efforts
to make prohibition an issue and to
get the drys aroused, most observers
agree that these efforts so far have
been decidedly ineffectual. There are
a few, it is agreed, who will vote for
Newell because of his dryness who
otherwise would vote the Democratic
ticket. But indications are that these
are few and far between and that
Newell cannot expect to get many dry
Democratic votes.
The main reason,
however. that
most of the people seem to be disre-
garding prohibition as an issue in the
campaign in North Carolina, is the
realization on the part of most of these
including many who are in favor of
real prohibition, that there really is
no such thing as prohibition. They are
beginning to realize that the govern-
ment is spending from $24,000,000 to