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...York State the last election showed apparently that a wet platform carries the. support of a large vote. For a month there was before Governor Smith of New York a bill to repeal the state's prohibition enforcement law. He had the simple choice of offending either the Wets or the Drys, and he chose to offend the Drys. He signed the bill repealing New York's enforcement...
...That the repeal of the state prohibition law will do away with the present system of double jeopardy whereby a man can be punished twice for one offence...
...enforcement, increased and strengthened, will continue in New York State and the status quo will be little deranged. Certainly Governor Smith is a close enough student of Constitutional law not to endorse an act which would have a flavor of secession, as some zealous prohibitionists have claimed of this repeal. In fact the bold note which be struck in his special message is evidence that legal considerations, once cleared up, had no further influence upon his decision. What did influence his decision in the light of the decision, becomes almost a metaphysical problem...
...stop and wonder if a politician as astute as Governor Smith could have so conspired to slaughter his own chances. Can it be that he has divined a change in the attitude of the general public toward the rigidity of the Volstead Act? Mr. Gompers, pleading the case of repeal before him, claimed to represent a more or less mythical four million voters, and it is becoming more and more apparent that in the East, especially in the cities among the laboring classes and the upper classes, there is a strong current running toward a less strict interpretation...
...YORK: Police Commissioner Enright of New York City announced that the police would continue to enforce the Constitution in New York, despite repeal of the state prohibition enforcement law. Anti-Saloon League Superintendent Anderson declared that if Smith were to veto the repeal, such a " shrewd stroke would make the Governor a national figure," and that otherwise New York " might temporarily drop to the level of Maryland and Massachusetts." Governor Smith, who was elected on a "moist" platform, announced that a hearing on the subject of repeal will be held...