Prohibition Enforcement Secondary to
Political Patronage
Senator Norris. Exactly. Un
doubtedly in a great many
cases men are recommended by
politicians entirely for political
reasons, without the person re
commending the appointment
perhaps knowing the reason
why the man wants the job,
that he wants it in order to
make money out of violations of
the law. If you will think of it
for only a moment, you can see
that these violations, if people
were being into it, and had the
power, for financial reasons,
would make a millionaire out a
man the first 30 days.
I do not like to tell my own
experience, but it is so apt that
I am going to relate an incid
ent which came to my personal
knowledge. My colleague, Sen
ator Howell, and I, when there
was a vacancy in the prohibi
tion enforcement bureau for our
State, recommended a man for
appointment. As far as I was
concerned, I admit that my re
commendation would not have
had much weight. I would not
have been asked, and I was not
asked, to make any recommen
dation, but my colleague, Senat
or Howell, occupied a more ad
vantageous position, and I join
ed with him in making a recom
mendation. In fact, the man
we selected was suggested by
me, and agreed upon at once by
my colleague because we both
knew him to be a man who in
our State was an outstanding
prohibitionist, and always had
been. Before we had prohibi
tion, 'itd a local option law,
when municipalities, under the
the law, were allowed to grant
licenses to saloons, and when in
many cases there were objec
tions to the granting of a li
cense and the law provided for
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over the State, appeared on be
half of the prohibitionists. He
was a specialist in that line. In
addition to that, he was a law
yer of more than ordinary abil
ity, and was respected in the
profession. Everybody, whether
he agreed with him or not, look
ed up to him as an honest, able
man, a good citizen in every
respect.
It so happened that this man
was a Democrat, but his name
occurred to me, and when I sug
gested it to my colleague, he
said, “He is the best man in the
State lor the job. Everybody
will have absolute confidence in
him. He will not be a crank.
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