Drinking Daughters

Last May at the National Convention of the Prohibition Party at Niagara Falls, Keynoter David Leigh Colvin declared: "Formerly it was the wandering boy who made the mother's hair grow grey. Now it is the drinking daughter also." Within 48 hours Dr. Colvin had been named his Party's choice for the White House. Then with a whoop the Drys nominated as his running mate Sergeant Alvin C. York of Tennessee. When that A. E. F. hero, who had not been consulted, promptly declined, the Prohibitionists picked a Los Angeles lawyer named Claude A. Watson for the Vice-Presidency.

Dr. Colvin describes himself as a "blue-eyed Methodist." His whole life has been spent writing and lecturing on prohibition.

His wife is president of New York's W. C.T. U. Therefore he needed little preparation when he started out on his campaign on a platform opposing inflation, lotteries, Communism, crime, high taxes, war, and, above all, alcohol. Since he left his Manhattan home in June, he has traveled 25,000 miles in Pullman cars, visited 31 States, has only let five days pass without at least one speech. In some 300 addresses he has driven home his point that the Prohibition Party is the only party that "recognizes God as the source of good Government."

Month ago he reached a high point of eloquence when, in one sentence, he declared: "The most unbelievable, the most astounding, the most cataclysmic occurrence of this period will have been the championship by both major parties of a policy of government [i.e. Repeal] the consequences of which are the deterioration, the degradation, the enslavement, yes, even the death of multitudes of American citizens."

Last week, campaigning through Penn sylvania and New Jersey, Nominee Colvin was not sure to what states he might still rush in a final effort to gain votes, but he hoped to make another 100 speeches, hoped on Election Day to be on the ballot in from 26 to 32 States. In 1932 Georgia's Willie Upshaw got 81,869 votes as the Prohibition Party's nominee for President.

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