Letters, Dec. 7, 1931

No Eye on Bottle

Sirs:

In your issue of Nov. 16 there appears an article on my election to Congress, a part of which surprised and considerably distressed me. You state that "he went into the campaign as a lashing, slashing Wet. He declared that he always got all the liquor he wanted and that he intended to keep on drinking whenever he chose."

It is true that I stated repeatedly during my campaign that I thought the 18th Amendment had proved a mistake and that I was therefore in favor of its repeal and...

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