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In politics, nothing is but talking makes it so. Tirades like Mrs. Shaver's, brewings within the Prohibition Party, stirrings of ministerial bosoms, are relatively unimportant—except as they stimulate discussion elsewhere. But that was not the effect of last week's beat-Smith Dry talk. It did not bring forth much comment from more significant quarters. All that it elicited from Dr. Hubert Work, new National Chairman of the G. O. P., who had already announced in no uncertain terms that the Tariff was to be the Issue of the campaign (see p. 8), was the following: "Prohibition is a local question. . . . This country will vote dry for economic reasons if for no other. . . .
"The promptings of conscience," he said, in a sentence of which more will be heard before November, "and personal liberty within the law, are not proper subjects for political debate. . . . Our people should vote to protect the American payroll, vastly larger than that of all the rest of the world."
He also said: "Should the Democrats inject the issue of Prohibition ... we will meet it promptly and vigorously."
*Jed Cobb Adams, National Democratic Committeeman for Texas.