Evening Star Newspaper, August 8, 1928, Page 5

- NONOSOKOROR IR WYWWYWW \ = THE ' EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1928, 'WOMAN LEADERS DEBATE MSSURPRIARY "GXANLEARERS DERATE o VOTENMSSUR CNESHAYBIBLEAD e it Wtk b e, INTERESTS HODVER Franklm D ROOGEVClt Present G O p \ | and Democratic Programs. ‘ Dry Ahead of Collet in Sen- Repubhcan Nommee Closely | atorial Race—Blow to Reed. From Border State. Associated Press. Scrutinizes Primary Returns‘ than the direct methods of handling the agriculture situation. The nominee was all smiles today over the success of a fishing trip which h" made yesterday to a lake 30 miles \mllh of this place. He slipped away during the morning hours and returned in midafternoon with his creel fairly well filled, havirig taken out of the | water the legal limit of a catch for | | one day, 10 pounds plus one additional | | fish. Thus Hoover discovered that he could | ha better luck, almost at his back rd, in pursuing the wily trout, than tiended his efforts during the long trip he made last week with nearly half hundred friends and new per correspondents in the moun- tains of northern California and south- ¥ | motor CITIES AUGUST Rr the Associated Press ST. LOUIS, August 8.—The apparent nominntion of Charles M. Hay, dry leader of Missouri, over James A. Col- Jet, as Democratic candidate for the United States Senate, was seen t v @s sealing the failure of Senator Reed’s retiring political fight after 18 years of service in the Senate After nearly one-half of the n ouri primary were in. was g Collet, whose can v was sponsored by Senator Reed, by 30,128 votes. Nathan Frank of St former Congressman. the lead for the Republic: nominaticn today when votes & Louis. & “wet forged into n senatorial rety m n Mi: 2756 of the 4.140 precincts gave him a plu piled of up & big v Ros C. . who waged a paign with David M. as City. Pattersor dry. of Kan- Proctor are Other Drys Defeated. The Democrat nee was Franc City. who led Stat Cawley of Car Missouri dry law v S. Caulfield. St. Louis cuii judge., was appare lican choice for govern of 20,168 votes over Lieut Bennett, a dry While the wet and dry question ran through the major races, it was a bit- te rissue in the Democratic senatorial fight in which Senator Reed, with char- acteristics outbursts of invective and sarcasm, attacked Hay because of Hay's arid view and on account of old politi- cal and personal scores feud between them began in when the Missouri Democracy v ousted Reed on grounds that antagonistic to the policies of the late President Json. Hay was a leader of Reed's opposition Continuing the fight, Hay took the mp against Reed in the 1922 pri- Returning from the Houston convention, Reed immediately lent him- self to the campaign of his friend Col- let and issued a statement attacking Hay as being antagonistic to Gov. Smith's prohibition stand. Four ad- dresses by Senator Reed followed. in which he compared Hay to Senator Tom Heflin of Alabama, saying that “Heflin and Hay are as much alike as two pieces of beef from the same car- cass, only the Hay piece comes from nearer the horns. Hay replied with a plea for Demo- eratic harmony and paid tribute to the “human note” that he said ran through | the life and career of Gov. Smith. | Collet meanwhile pressed his militant | anti-dry views and stressed the incon- | gruity between Hay's views and those ©f Gov. Smith on prohibition MISS TARBELL JOINS | CAMPAIGN FOR SMITH! By the Amouuod Pres: EASTON, Conn., August 8 —It does by a Phil A Gov not augur well for a political party to |try to bring about what he thinks is| be in complete control of government o0 long, thinks Ida M. Tarbell, author | and jecturer of New York and Easton, consequently she is looking forward in | the hope that Gov. Smith will carry | Connecticut. Miss Tarbell, who has been appoint- ed to the New York State committee. headed by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, said that she intends to lend some l | | | { By the | The relative merits of the law en-| forcement planks in and Republican platforms bated over the radio last night by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, head of Gov. Smith's advisory committee for women, and Mis. Mable Waiker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General in charge of prohibition cases, and a Hoover sup- | worter Speaking first on the “Voters' Serv- ice” program of the National League of Women Voters and the National Broadcasting Co.. Mrs. Roosevelt de- clared that the Democratic law en- forcement plank, from her viewpoint a dry. seemed “much more specific” than the Republican plank, and that Gov. Smith, while favoring modification of the Volstead act, “would be the first to agree that in changing the law he is less unless Congress agrees with Lands Hoover's Position, Willebrandt, king for the ic law Hoo- en- Mrs ver, declared forcement plank did not go so far as the Republican, that Go Smith had “scrapped” his _part pledge by his message to the Houston nd asserted Herbert Hoover te life and habits of tem- which square with the party’s ntended that the Republican plank made no mention of enforcement of the “particular laws passed to put into effect the eighteenth amendment, while the Democratic plank pledged its nominees “to an hon- est effort to enforce amendment and all other portions of | the Federal Constitution and all laws pursuant to it." Declaring the real reason why she as a dry “in practice and theory of long standing.” was “heart and soul” for Gov. Smith had nothing to do with vrohibition, but_was based on what he had done for New York State. Mrs. Roosevelt said the Democratic nominee had stated his position very clearly to | oid any misunderstanding. while | ‘Hoover had neglected to say how he | vroposed to “work out ‘constructively’ this preat social and economic experi- Roosevelt ¢ “Gov. vill propose a modification of the Vol- stead law.” she continued. “Now, I have a feeling. because the governor is| | vsually explicit, that before the end of this campaign he will tell us how he| proposes to suggest to Congress that this law shall be modified, but I am willing to wager that no matter what | the methcd proposed. there will be many protests. and whatever it is the Supreme Court has to pass on it be- fore it becomes the accepted law of the {land. Outlines Smith's Aims. “If the majority of the people in | this country really want the Volstead law modified. the governor will succeed | perhaps in getting them to agree on some degree of modification, and, this | being a democratic Government, | minority must bow to the will of the ma}orln I happen to believe, how- ever, that the great majority in this| country think we've gone a little be- ‘onfl a ‘noble experiment.’ “Now I know that the governor ‘fll nght and I want to emphasize here | that the governor feels that the saloon | must never return, but let us remem- | ber that at the present time we have | fought the evils of the saloon by meth- | lods of enforcement which have con- | ributed to the greater evils of the boot- legger and speakeasies.” Speaking of the Democratic platform nledge first, Mrs. Willebrandt asked. | the Democratic | were de- | the eighteenth | Smith says that if elected he| the | ‘)vl\r'mw inconsistent with the letter N\d spirit of the party's pledge?” ern_Oregon | “A Tecent ‘apologist for him® she Ty the Associated Pres While general plans for n:;- notifica- | added, “has by producing the minutes| gpANE INIVERSITY. © tion ceremonies here Saturday are in of the resolutions commistee at Hous. | . STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Calif.| ' pands of a committee of Stanford | 7/ | ton sought to show that the plank in August 8.—Returns from the primaries | University officials and party leaders, | tha Democratic platform did not pledga | in Missouri, one of the border and doubt- | Hoover is consulted regarding some of | |itself to prohibition. He says that was | ful States, were carefully scrutinized | the details, He has n consulted on | left_open for future action today by Herbert Hoover in an cffort |some features of the musical program “Even so, has the Democ | to determine whether they would fur- |by Prof. Ernest W. Martin, director of date not scrapped his party’s guarantee of open-mindedness on the issue, when he promises to use the power of his office and national leadership to effect a change? What, therefore, does he do to the vast body of his party who | believe in prohibition, who have worked | carly | He was that for its adoption, who are opposed to| ¢arly returns over his chief opponent He was approa T mmmu n |1t evasion or nullification?" James A. Collet of Salisbury, a wet |because the New York National Guard | . who had the indorsement of Senator | recently played it for Gov Alfred E Cites G. 0. P. Pledges. James A. Reed. It Is no secret that Re- | Smith, the Democratic canaidate. “Bat | The Assistant Attorney General em- | publican party leaders would weleome | I won't ask you to play ‘Sidewalks of phasized as an outstanding characteris- | & victory by Hay. as this would place | New Yorl the Republican nominec | tic in the Republican plank the pledg of its nominees to the “observance of the law itself.” ticket in November | day “That is A new contractual obli- | Rl e s notification. There will be a h !”mm)‘ n‘n l]l;' u.n'll‘nl A great party. ‘ Conflicting Opinion Cited. n‘(vlul‘:l\'l mI Ix"ll-:;;:lnrllv;:'n "l‘;r“;“x‘n an but. the intellectual honesty of it com-| They contend that the dry senatorial | D¢ railroad a o crounfen L mebebs 1, 't0 ot et My stk " e e S ot | Ing to handle a record crowd from that | She asked that it be borne in mind | with the views of Gov. Alfred E., Smith | €ity: There is a considerable amount | that the Republican plank “does not |on the prohibition issue. and that this | Of BUCSSINg as to the slag of the crowd drive out the honest anti-prohibitionists | would work in favor of the Republican | (h3¢ Will gather in (he, Stanford Bow of the Republic ¢ candidates all along the line. Since na- | [he university authorities Sre bro b “It does mot say.” she continued, | tional issues were not at stake in Kan- | g on the theory that the 80,050 cabacs they cannot work by every constitu- | sas, the results of the primaries there [ 1V Will be well taxed and they ha tional method to change the national | carried only passing Interest to the | Chalked off parking space around the policy, 'but the party Tefuses (o allow |G O B Chicitaine Anshow they are|Sfadium for nearly 50,000 automobiles resort’ to evasion or nullification as |confident that Hoover's running mate, | If half that number come. the stadium means of bringing that change about.” [ Senator Charles Curtis certain tc led. even to standing room The Republican party, she said, of- fered its platform “proudly, sure of the faithful performance of both its letter | and spirit: sure because of the man to whom the party has intrusted the obli- gation of its performance.” Mrs. Roosevelt spoke from WEAF in New York and Mrs. Willebrandt from WRC here. There were 21 stations in | the hook-tp. DELEGATE BACKS SMITH. 8ok its, Opporient. in. Obilvsatina; i | Expects South to Vote for Governor NEW YORK. August 8 (#).—Newt A. | Morris of Georgia, who as a delegate to the Democratic national convention | | opposed the nomination of Gov. Smith, | lled upon the voters of the South to support the Smith candidacy in a | statement issued through campaign | headquarters yesterday. | He said he believed the South would | cast its votes “in opposition and re ,pudmtlon of the Republican party, | | which, he asserted, had made a record | for corruption and graft unsurpassed | |in history. He called Secretary of the | | Treasury Mellon the power behind the throne in the Republican party and | charged that he never had conscien- tiously endeavored to enforce the Vo stead act. Investment Building 15th & K Sts. N.W. 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