Evening Star Newspaper, July 31, 1928, Page 5

TEXAS POLIICANS | ~ lREAlIGNING FORCES |Defeated Candidates Offer Support to Others in Run- Off Primary. he Associated Press { Realignment 1 forces beagan in Texas today. compiete tabulation of votes Tex., July 31 ff primary August 25 | {ed States Senator and leuten- Moody was renominated by ceeding 120.000 votes over two of whom had the national B. Mayfield, seeking re- and Congressman Tom Con- se second. wil jer off. while ‘Lieut ce State Sena- he lieutenant mas B. Blanton. a who polled up- announced he | to Connally o ran a_poor mbent. Other D. Parnell ce in the lieuter a statement renomina- disapproved of the national ared he would not the 253 counties. as gathered by reau gave Mayfield. 17 Alvin Owsl Mrs. Minnie and Me- (‘vm ernor—Moody .862: Louls aw, 210.367. Willlam Hawki and Mrs. Edith Williams. 15.6: governor—Miller, 259.089; Parnell, 64.073; Darwin, THOMPSON T DECLARE * POSITION IN CAMPAIGN Chicago Mayor to Gn'e Views on Support of Republican Ticket, State and National. HOOVER INDORSED. Prnbytnrlau Young People 0. K. Candidate, CONNEAUT LAKE PARK, P: July 31 (#.—A resolution indorsing bert Hoover for the presidency was adopted n the national convention of the | young people of the United Presby- terian Church in annual session here yesterday The convention has registered more | than 3,000 delegates from all parts of the United States. with reports of the 50 Presbyteries of this church. WHITE WITHDRAWS SOME OF CHARGES AGAINST GOV. SMITH (Continued from First Page.) saloon licenses to 1 for every 750 pop- ulation and regulated the operation of hotels, Mr. White says the Assembly records show that Gov. Smith opposed the measure on its first vote; voted for a limiting amendment, voted against reconsideration and voted against it | the second time. Smith as speaker favored Tammany, { White said ‘It is inconceivable,” he goes on that he has not changed his mind since he left the Assembly. But the record is the record, built in the days | of his youth. It is no new thing in this State. His voles on these meas- ures have been printed time and again in various New York elections and out- side of the city of New York. gener- {ally. New York State people have voted overwhelmingly against Gov. Smith and that record. Has Lost on Record. “He has lost on that record outside of the metropolitan area time and again. No one believes—Ieast of all do 1 believe—that Gov. Smith today is the kind of man that made that As- sembly record. But Tammany would remake that record and make Smith remake it if they could. “Gov. Smith has done many splendid things since then. He has grown in power and grace. But the record stands. His answer to it should not be an alibi, and. lacking repudiation the record stands as a foreshadowing portent of what may be expected from Gov Smith in the White House. A word from him, now that he has the | nomination of a major party, would seem to be necessary at the outset in this campaign.” SMITH DECLINES COMMENT. Governor, on Vacation, Reads of With- drawal of Charges. HAMPTON BAYS, N. Y. July 31 P).—Gov. Alfred E. Smith refused to | make any comment today when in- | formed at breakfast that William Allen | White, Kansas editor, had withdrawn | part of his charges against Smith's as- By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 31.—Mayor Thomp- #on, whose Republican faction opposed | wirtually all the successful Republican mominees in the April primaries, will make known his views on support of the Republican ticket, National, State and county, in 8 letter to b read at a meeting of the county central commit- tee Thursday, Bernard Snow, \1(’!‘ chairman of the committee, announced | Mr. Snow, a close political ad- the mayor, indicated that Mayor Thompson expected to advise support of the entire Republican slate from Herbert Hoover for President down to the smallest county offic “We are for the entire Republican | Sicket from Hoover down to Munll:lpnl Court judges,” Snow said. *“We mi our preliminary choice, but now we lre with the winners ‘Thompson {i m'rd drafting President | Coolidge for renomination and opposed Touis L Emerson for governor. Otis Glenn for Semator. Judge John A.| £wanson for State’s dttorney, and many | more who were nominated when the Bmall-Thompson-Crowe faction went down to defeat. | sembly record The governor was reading the morn- ing papers in the public dining rocm of Canoe Place Inn at this resort when | reporters found him. He is to meet reporters at 1 p.m. at the regular daily press_conference. Only once since he has been here for a tioned politics, and that was a “No” in reply to a question whether he was worried about the South. When White first made his charges against the governor, Smith, then at Albanv, answered him with consider- able heat. charging that Rev. O. H. Miller had misled the Kensas editor. He cailed the minl('fl' a “faker.” ELEGTION PLOT FEARED BY DEMOCRATIC LEADER Tennessee Candidate Asks ney Genera] to Prevent Voting of Colored People at Primary. | By the Associated Press TWO MEN QUIT RACE TO SUCCEED FERRIS Michizan anlry B o eway With Vandenburg and Bailey as Rivals for Seat. KNOXVILLE. Tenn.. July 31.—Judge ohn R.. Neal of Knoxville, candidate for the Democratic nomination for | United States Senator from Tennessee. vesterday called on Attorney General John G. Sargent to use the agencies of | the Federal Government to prevent con- | | spiracy in Shelby County Thursday, the date of the primary. In a telegram to the United sulu | Attorney General he asserts that the July 31.—United s Semator Arthur H. Vandenburg, | slican, and Mayor John W. Bailey of Bar'l» Creek, Democrat, will oppose each other in the November election as candidates to succeed the late Senator | mflfidcr N. Perris. Vandenburg and Balley were | left_ without opposition in the Septem- | ber primary when Circuit Judge Prank | Murphy of Detroft withdrew vesterday | @5 a Democratic candidate for the sena- | torial nomination | Previously State Representative Mil- | ton R. Palmer had withdrawn as a eandidate against Senator Vandernburg. | Both Paimer and Murphy steted they | had been qualified as candidates with- \ out_their knowledge | L Central Armature Works, Inc. 625 I Street NW Washington, D, C BURRISHINE POLISHES ALL district attorney for the western district of Tennessee has failed or refused to zake cognizance of the alleged conspiracy which involves the voting of thousands of negroes, by the Republican organiza- tion of Shelby County in the Demo- | cnut primary. FAMOUS cation has the governor men- | Attor- | THE EVENING RS Y G, == T SUPRORT ST |Georgia’s Senior Senator Says Governor Will Not Endanger Prohibition. By the Assoclated Press. ATLANTA, Ga., July 31.—William J Harris, Georgia's senior United States ! | Senator and dry leader, in a formal| % | statement last night pledged himself to | support the presidential candidacy of | Gov. Alfred E. Smith and called upon | the Georgia democracy to stand solidly | back of the natfonal ticket Senator Harris, who actively opposed the nomination of Smith both before | the national convention at Housion and on the ground there as chairman of the | Georgia delegation, said that the prohi- bition plank drafted by the party was stronger than that adopted by the Re- | publicans and that the elimination of | the prohibition issue left no other mat- ter of such impertance as to bring about a division in the Democratic party Sees No Danger to Prohibition. M. ELMORE TURNER, Of Richmond, Va.. who has been as-| signed to this city by the governtng body of the Christian Church as pastor | | of the Takoma Park church of that denomination, will begin his work as pastor there tomorrow. Mr. Turner was graduated from the | Lynchburg Christian College in June | | with the degree of B. A. He has been | Declaring that he did not believe that | preaching regularly since that time in a Christian church near Lynchburg, prohibition would be endangered by the D o 10 Smith. the Senator said he| where he also served at intervals during | his attendance at college. “would not vote for him if I thought that by his election Gov. Smith could e e DT s pratse o FORMER UTAH GOVERNOR KILLS SELF IN GARAGE Smith as a man and as a public offi- cial Southern people could and would di- vide if the prohibition laws were en- dangered,” he said, “but certainly on all other great questions which the Demo- cratic party stands for there can be lit- tle difference of opinion—there should | be none in any section of our country when honesty in government and white | g, supremacy are at stake. C. Cutler, Bank President, Had Been in Poor Health for Months, John the Assnciated Press. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah.sJuly 31 John C. Cutler, president of the Desert National Bank here and Governor of | Utah from 19 to 1009, died yesterday shortly after he was found in the garage | at his home with a bullet wound in the head. After an investigation police said Cites Record as Man. | “On all these measures Gov. Smith's record as A man and as A gOVArnor—as well as all the other positions he has so ably filled—should convince any one that he would make a President factory to the people of the South. The Senator reminded Democrats | it was a case of suicide Ithat he had said at the State conven-| Mr. Cutler had been fll for several | tion last Spring that he would support months and was believed by his busi- | the party’s nominee “no matter which ness associates to have been worried | candidate was named.” over private financlal affairs. Last week h« was missing for 24 hours. 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