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3 % NGTOXN ;D _C, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1928 THE EVENING STAR. WASHI GOV, SMITH SCORES n u Calls White’s Charges "Vile.; Cowardly, Slanderous and Untrue.” from First Page.) attempt to withdraw Smith says, d his vote ch sought to regulate s in hotels. Points to Vote. nably Gov unconstitu- he governor Assembly wa 1 the bill Wwas over- tutional were con- hree 0. 7. COMMITTEE v . TEX By the Associated Press ALBANY, N Y. August 21.-Follow- { Ing 18 the text of Gov Alfred E. Smith's reply to the charges filed against his legisiative tecord by William Allen White, Kansas editor For some reason best known to him- slf, Mr. William Allen White of Kan- as i an interview made slanderous | statements about me and my legislative record. After those statements had re- | ceived Nation-wide publicity. and_on {July 31, Mr. White said: “* * ¢ The | governor tn casting those votes against | thase reform bills might honestly have | felt that the bills were unconstitutional were not cnforceable. or infringed upon personal liberty, or enceuraged police blackmail “But ¢ . Smith certainly is entitled stment. I always have tried r. 1 have never consciously ioned any man’s motives and so his morning before the morning papers h~-2 come And before I know what. if 1y, reply Gov. Smith has made to my atement of yesterday, I desire to with- w the charges formally, insofar as | they affect his votes on gambling and prostitution, but not his position as to the saloon. “So the ten or a dozen votes on gambling and prostitution come out of the record. I hope now American news- pape, and ticularly nawspaners, wi to this statement that they gave statoment yesterday.” Hits G. 0. P. Committee. beginning of this statement d the reason for the attack was own only to Mr. White. Howeve ppearance of the Republican na- in the controversy in- was & political attack v inspired by that committee. ~ the Republican national com- this week issued an official re- to the newspapers in which Mr to my mittee 1White retracts his retraction fof | en, Demo Re favor of e morning tor could be sold, and the third class and n 5,000 population h cities of the urs of sale. Gov. Smith a provisions were earnestly ge villages an Long old law the closing : 11 o'clock. It was s existence ion among local lNages. I re-| one_hour in nded for accom- In my own | newspapers | contained | v other country. e bill I was cer- | C tituemts.” | Declared Unfair. | by Mr. White that | saloons with- h or school is de- or to be unfair. which Gov. Smith ch he was criticized | e governor says, were | ghien out an apparent iguage of the excise | nguege of the law, he says, wpossibie for a hotel to renew | if a church or school came 00 feet of the hotel years after been built. Another bill, | pe! d a private school, not | hool, to consent that a liquor te might be issued for prem- 200 feet of it. zer of the Assembly “hat he governor, “and di¢ not e other on that $il.” with reference to the th betting at the wace | that he was in symj#&thy Hughes and voted with him race tracks at the regular the Legisiature. But Gov. hes called a special session of the in which Gov. Smith voted her way because he' joined with | tia] umber of the members | islatiire Who used their vote | 2 against the action of Gov Hugnes in calling the Legislature back extraordinary session, to deal with ter which had been thrashed out ed of at the regular session. ROBINSON HOLDS SMITH VINDICATED Running Mate's Reply to White Emphasizes Need for ays a public = Eugl | Legisiature | sted Press : YORK, August 21—Senator | on of Arkansas, Democratic vice | nominee, declared in a today that Gov. Smith's re- liam Allen White constituted d complete vindication” | | NEW were recklessly foundation. the SMITH IS SILENT Here we have an unmistakable evi- dence of the Republican national com- mittee openly associating itself this personal attack. Lacking the courage to stand by its own complicity in the attack. the Republican director {of publicity the next day stated that he withdraws his issuance of Mr | White's withdrawal of his withdrawal I am glad to have this matter taken | out of the whispering stage and put into {the open. once and for all. T shall meet it now. I regard it as purely | political and when the campaign begins I do not propose to have the issues of hat campaign befogged by controvers; {over irrelevant things, such as the dis- cussion of my votes &s a legislator some 20 or more vears ago. My record as an opponent of immor- ality is fixed and secure publicly and by many letters in my possession. late Rev. Canon John P. Peters, when chairman of the Committee of Four- teen, the leading anti-vice society of New York, repeatedly thanked me for my co-operation with that orgamzation Is Called Cowardly. No one in all of the 25 years of my public life has ever dared to make the vile suggestions which emanated from Mr. White, with the approval of Henry J. Allen, publicity director of the Re- publican national committee. What a cowardly course the Republican na- tional committee pursued! It issued a slanderous statement through its official publicity bureau and then after its general publication in the press attempted to evade responsibility by the childish claim that it had been given out by accident. That is not fair play. I am confident in the belief that the people of the State of New York ap- proved of my legisiative record; other- wise, they would not have thereafter elected me to the highest office within their gift—the governorship of New York—for four terms. I cannot, however, let go unchal- {lenged the political attempt to tear down my character and reputation by seeking to align me on the side of pposition to the regulation of the liquor prostitution. Quotes From Report. My critics seem to take the position | that every amendment to the former | New York exeise law, which apparently made it stricter was a good bill. If they had studied the question, they would have come to the same conclusion which the Committee of Fourteen expressed Republican | give the same consid- | with | The | | | | —Bachrach Photo. (Left) (Right) WT i its for 1914, which Very frequently the most obvious correction is found to conflict with the purposes of those interested in the law in_another wa Each bill mentioned by my critics ha been listed separately. without allow- ance for the duplication of a large num- ber of bills dealing with the same sub- | ject matter in accordance with the well | known legislative practice. In this way a deliberate attempt is being made to |show that my votes dealt with a far | greater number of so-called liquor bills than in fact they did For convenie 1 have divided_the bills under discussion into groups. Ref- erence is made t many bills de- signed to change the law with the re- | spect to the establishment of premises | |licensed to sell liquor within 200 feet | {of a church or a school. To the casual reader, it would appear that this was a { concerted provision of our excise law The fact is that all of these bills were deslgned to accomplish just two pur- | poses. The first was to permit the Hotel | Go¥§RYn at- Fifty-fifth street and Fifth averue @8 secure a liquor license; the | second, a legislative enactment recom- mended by the Court of Appeals to straighten out an apparent mistake in | the language of the excise law Applied to One Hotel. As an example of the unfairness of | Mr. White's attack, he stated that | voted to allow saloons within 200 feet |of a church or school any place on | Manhattan Island south of Fifty-ninth street. One of the bills mentioned was so drawn, but if Mr. White was disposed to be fair to me, he would read the bill | in its entirety and find that by its word- annual report | ing. it applied only to the Hotel Gotham. | This hotel was within 200 feet of a church. Acting under a decision of the courts, the hotel served liquor to its guests by the device of renting a house outside ¢ hotel employe purchase the liquor in this house and then carry it through the streets for service to the guests in the hotel itself. Fair-minded men were confronted 1 ] the 200-foot limit, having a | Associated Press Photo. GOV. ALFRED E. SMITH. 1AM ALLEN WHITE of it years after the hotel had been built. The question was litigatad as to the wording and intent of the statute all the way to the Court of Appeals. In its decision, that court said That the operation of the statute in es like the one now before us is manifestly harsh and would doubtless be a cogent argument to support the proposition that the Legislature could not have intended such effect. and might be conclusive were the language of the stafute at all ambiguous; but in view of the clear phrascology of the law, the courts must remit those aggrieved ther- by to relief by legislative action.’ That relief suggested by our highest court T voted to give. The bills wel opposed by only a handful of assem- blymen. On the 1908 measure, only men out of the 150 voted In the nega | tive. Another group of bills re subject of liquor tax certificates. Bill introductory No. 1518 of 1910 sought to give to the holder of a Itquor tax certificate the same benefit that the | Court of Appeals gave to violators of other.laws when that court in an opin- | ton sald that suspension of sentence suspended all operation of the law against the convicted person. 1 voted against this bill because I was harsh, unjust and unreasonable. 44 Voted Against It Bill 1062 of 1911 was an unimportant | one, reducing the time from two years |to ‘one year when an application to | renew a certificate might be made by |one who had been previously deprived | of it through the misconduct of a serv- ant or agent, and not of the owner him- self. The fairness of this bill is best attested by the fact that only 44 men out of* 150 in the Assembly voted against it Bill 1247 of 1911 was det a defect in the law with pect to the transfer of certificates. It was sup- ported by the Republican leader of the Assembly and only 11 men out of 150 voted against it Even more striking is the criticism »{ me for voting for Assembly bill 1119 ted to the convention is inadmissible and the | thought it | igned to cure | T OF GOV. SMITH'S REPLY TO WHITELEADERS DISA 1049 of 1911, was a bill whith added one hour in the morning to the time when liquor could be sold, and provided | that the hours of sale in cities of the third class and villages of over 5,000 | inhabitants should_be the same as in first-class cities, ‘The latter provisions were earnestly sought by the large vil- lages on Long Island. Under the old law, the closing hour for them was 11 o'clock. Tt was not being ob¢erved and its existence was a source of corruption among local police offiefals in those vil- lages. 1 remember the addition of an hour in the morning was intended for the accommodation of night workers, In my owh district all the newspapets were printed contained more night workers than any other region of similar size in the eoun- try. and in voting for the bill T was | eertainly representing my constituents, Tt is worthy of note that on this bill the division was between the eity and the country representatives, but the representatives of the villages involved | voted in the affirmative, and with a balance of power passed the bill. The foregoing record indicates that not only cities of the first, second and third class, but also the larger villages, favored the | passage of this bill Ashamed of Charges. Mr. William Allen White sailed for Europe with a happy and contented | mind, I hope, and I would not_disturb it by attempting to describe to him the heavy weight that he laid upon my fam- ily when he accused me of being a | triend of prostitution. Apparently. he | was ashamed of it himself, as i | evidenced by his attempt to withdraw 1t 1t was all predicated on my vote against Assembly bill 2627 of 1910. Amone | other things this bill sought to regulate | the renting of rooms in hotels, Like a grext many other measures intended to bring about some highly desirable pur- pose, it was unquestionably unconstitu- tional and umworkable In 1910 the Assembly was | Republican. When the bill first came be | fore that body. it was overwhelming- |1y defeated. and in all of my legisia- | tive experience I never heard from law- vers in the Assembly a more convineing argument against the constitutionality of a pending enaetment than that made against this particular bill. Three weeks later, after considerable pressure from certain sectlons of the State and ad- mittedly for political purposes, the vote was reconsidered and the bill was j ed. It was freely admitted that it creat- ed no new provision of law and added nothing that was not already in the penal code. I was right in my first vote | | Assembly. both Democrats and Republi- cans, voted with me. I stood by my position as no argument was made to change my mind. The political expedi- | ency of the Republican party, appealing to certain sections of the State, was not sufficient for me to compromise with a principle. On this bill and this single bill alone William Allen White would have my wife, my children and my friends believe that in my long pub- lic career I was a friend of public prostitution Switches His Stand. Mr. White also made reference to bills dealing with betting. All of these bills had to do with the race tracks. I was in sympathy with Gov. Hughes at the regular session of the Legislature and voted with him against the race tracks In the extraordinary session voted the other way, not that my vote | | morning | 1t probably | strongly | when an overwhelming majority of the | 1l s0 hacked to pleces the official pro- | posal that it could not be recognized by ! its own parent. Then the Senate con- | temptuously threw the whole thing upon the legislative garbage-heap. where it now lies, unwept, unhonored and unsung. ‘That. amazing proposal was made in | the interest of national securit \mmnma thereby swagger, and it rested | upon precisely the principle which Mr. | | Hoover now enunciates and accepts. A | wi host of Republicans dissent ab: 0- | lutely on this point and will make that | dissent manifest by every means in | their power. When the American people | vledge renunciation of r an | | what they take i i’vw' our feliow 1 mean | say. We shall not support hich would at once enter upon and enlarged plan of naval ¢ under the g against some taken a formal y The eontrad t all would be ¢ 1speakably GREE ON BUTLER STAND Moses Sees No Bolt in Wet Position—Rohinson Ex- pects “Important Effect.” Nich- of the ne nstruction e of defending ourselve r which ha NEW YORK, Aug olas Murray Butler's stand of Herbert Hoover on prohibi- tion and naval defenfe has brought conflicting views from Republicans and Democrats on the effect. it might have on Mr. Hoover's campaign Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the | Treasury, as he passed through the | city en” route to Washington from | vacation abroad, said. “I do not think | Dr. Butler’s statement will havg any | effect on the campaign.” Sees No Bolt. 21— Dr | rejection tion and Repeal of Dry The second dissent ha the question of prohibition. It is quite obvious that Mr. Hoover has no con- | | ception of the real problem by which | the country is taced and which has been under ger debate from some Senator George H. Moses of New | five years. That problem has to do not | Hampshire, vice chairman of the Re- | With liquor, not with social experime | publican national committee, said: “I |200d. bad or indifferent. but with the | expect Dr. Butler to vote for Hoover. | Structure and functions of the Govern- I, for one, do not interpret Dr. Butler's ; Ment of the United States. No one can statement as a bolt from the Republican | be in favor of the principles upon which party or from the ticket in this cam- | Our Government rests or of the Consti- paign.” tution itself as it existed before 19 Senator Joseph T. Robinson, Demo- |And at the same time in favor of the cratic candidate for the vice presidency, | ighteenth amendment. because _the however, saw Dr. Butler's statement as | t%0 are absolutely contradictory. That calculated to have an important effect | mendment is an alien and unnatural- | in_many parts of the country.” | ized invader of the Constitution and Senator Millard! E. Tydings, head of | must be deported by the people if the the Democratic senatorial committes | CONstitution itself is to be preserved and speakers bureau of the national | And protected | committee, also believed that the state- | Mr. Hoover | ment would have a great effect on|O0f the eighteenth amendment, and at| the campaign | that pe his troubles begin. Accepting | Refuses More Talk. }the formula of that paid band of agita . | tors, lobbyists and persecutors which | It s indicative of the thought of | callé itsclf the Anti-Saloon Leag any number of people who are ordi- | speaks of nullification as if that were narily Republicans, but will vote for | unheard-of and horrid thing. As a mat- | Smith at this election,” he satd ter of fact the word “nullification” | | Dr. Butler himself declared that the | should nat be nsed to describe what | Ianguage of his Jetter “ought ta maké | in Mr. Hoover's mind. for in American it perfectly plain that the position taken | political history it has a very precise | by me has been taken as a Republican | and definite meaning as applied to the | |and a member of the party organiza- | doctrine of Calhoun, which | {tion” He declined to amplify his posi- Andrew | i Jackson smashed with his heavy hand | tion further. BUTLER A reference to G opposed to the repeal | | The process and action which it is now | | fashionable to call nullification are the ccepted and usual ways by which any | | free people, and particularly the Ameri- can people, have gotten rid of laws that they did not like or that were offensive | to their sense of justice and right. If it had not been for this treatment of the | fugitive slave law, the Republican party might never have been born. Statue | books. national and State. are filled with enactments which legislators are too indifferent or too lazy to repeal, but to which no one longer pays the slight- ASSAILS HOOVER. Text of Educator's Letter Attacking | Republican Nominee. | Following is Dr. Nicholas Murray | Butler’s letter to the New York Times concerning Herbert Hoover's stand on | some major issues of the presidential | campaign. This letter has stirred wide | comment_ throughout the country and | As a Republican by convietion from | the older States it would be quite im- youth, undnm one who has given nndkg‘}’“"“f‘ b h”““‘ the whking “;‘“" of is giving to the Republican party ”‘”'ia:‘"fm' without violating a half dozen best service of which he is capable, I wish to dissociate myself quickly, pub- licly and_completely from positions on two of the three most important ques- | tions now before the American people that were taken by Mr. Hoover in his | speech of acceptance. 1In full agree- ment with me, there are, I am confi- dent, literally milllons of earnest Re-| publicans throughout the country. both men and women, who are entirely un- Hits at Lawlessness. Any one who Is opposed to the re- peal of the eighteenth amendment and who is also opposed to that process of statutory obsolescence that is now called nullification must then be in favor of their only alternative, which is the con- | tinuance of the present reign of lawless- ness, debauchery and Government-made of 1911, which was a technical amend- ment to the excise law with relation to the surrender and cancellation of the tax certificates. It was a departmental with a decision as bebween a license for | the sale within the premises of the hotel | and the spectacle of bell boys walking | through the street with cocktail shak- | made any difference, but I joined \\llhi a substantial number of members of | the Assembly who used their vote as protest against what they believed to | be the unjustified action of the governor | selfish The first has reference to Mr. Hoo- ver's acceptance of the time-worn but | wholly false argument that what he | describes. as “adequate preparedness for i crime. Every bootlegger in the land will | support this_ position, both with eage oss and with a share of his very factory profits. The parrotlike cry for law enforce- satis- | traffic and in favor of gambling and | ers and wine baskets in their hands. I chose to end the hypoerisy of such 4 procedure and in view of the high character of the hotel, I was entirely satisfied that if liquor was to be con- sumed within the hotel, it might just as_well be sold in it ‘The Gotham Hotel bills received the support of the leading members of the by a Republican Legislature Commens fghgipd Unfair. Even more strikingly unfair is the comment on bill number 517 of 1011, which Is the other bill in this group. The language of the law which existed before this time made it impossible for a hotel to renew its liquor license if a solool or church came within 200 feet | | ON INAUGURATION “Won’t Be Finicky,” He Com- ments When Asked About D. C. Festivities. By a suft Correspondent of The Star. ALBANY, N. Y, August 21.—"I won't be finicky,” was the comment of Gov published review by | Smith, Democratic nominee for Presi- dent, when he was asked today if he would agree to an “old-time” celebra- tion in Washington on Inauguration day yosted With Woman Cousin in 3 When Third rness and justice in at political campaign hite has enjoyed 2 reputation e e dealings with his fellow | if De is elected. regrettable that he should have permit- | Lincoln’s birthday for consideration,” ted himself to be used in the circulation | (.14 yhe governor. He did not indicate cerning a fellow citizen by an un- | One Way or the other what his feeliogs Republican campaign or- | were in regard to an inaugura’ warade, methods which the in-| | features of a presidential inauguration GAME WARDEN 'N NET | Commenting on a published report. of | & probable itinerary for himself during Oregon and California and into many | other States, Gov. Bmith said, that so far no Aarrangements He added that in conversations about his campalgn plans there been | Fhat he would go into Oregon. He did | not close the door, however, on a trip Btate 1 the Midwest and the West The governor is teking an afternoon big day tomorrow, when he ’(It- | Vivers his speech of acceptan: To- ady | gver 1o seeing party leaders who are GUOT. | pypected here. When he appears on uan, 5318 | Copito] 1o deliver his address the gov- escaped | ornor will wear a double-breasted gray . 80 far, few notables vupflrudhud) :.). Bun-| ¢ ! g ve reache > 51"54%5 hetng im. | tend the notification ha ofn 10 EACh | night and tomorrow, many coming in epecial trains loud facts emphasizes the | in progress ) this incident dest Tt 35| "I guess that ought to come up about of inaccurate and untruthful statements | on unwiiling to assume responsi- | 0y gura) batl, ete., which were regular | until the second Wilson inauguration OF LIQUOR RAIDERS‘VN campaign, taking the governor % for a speaking tour had been made had no suggestion o the Pacific Coast and nto many today to play goll in 2an | porrow much of his time will be give WET€ | the platform in front of the State Rz business suit, not formal dress. here B bany. They are expected to arrive to- ted were | The governor tried out the hee mi Bunc IULY AUTO OUTPUT GAINS. U for | “1zed speakers and the radio this morning eom- | 0 the | Clets go out and take & look at the acoustics,” he said, as he left his office o go out into the open, where he Is to address & crowd estimated at more than 100,600 ‘The big spaces in front of the Capito! are capable of accommodat- ing a crowd of 144,000, it is estimated The governor tested the speaking de- | vices with a brief impromptu speech. in which he said the newspapers com | mented on “Al Smith luek” and he hoped the luck would hold and fair weather would be Albany's lot tomor- row night r Decline Absent ce tes Department € ated Pree tomobile product tates amounted to 390 445 ve ainst 268485 in the same year and 396,967 in June of the present year. ‘The ususl Summer | deciine car manuf the Com- merce Department said , has fatled 1 register mueh effect Uhis season and the fo 0 maintain on in the Police Dismissal 0. K. | The District Commissioners today tories continue 8 {eonfirmed the fAindings of the &n“« high output | trial board in the case of Pyt D. we seven months of 1':;):;!4 v‘r}'“!:dxmddm o: thfi L!ur'mg‘n‘ nch;ufl v’/gn } machines made in n) was ty . deger- &r-. was 2,592,592 In the u&r»ltlnn ':’.?‘2 ot?md removi om the ‘ Tod last year tie twtal was 2,33T999. force. 7 preparation | 'TAKOMA TO HAVE MANY STREET LIGHTS Council Approves Report of Survey Favoring Installation of Ad- ditional Facilities, Decision to install a large number of | additional street lights throughout Ta- koma Park, Md., was the principal busi- ness transacted by the mayor and town council at the regularly monthly meet- ing in the basement of the Presbyterian Church last night The installation of additional street lighting facilities was approved by the council In adopting a report submitted by Councilman Irvine H. Ware, chair- man of the committee on police, fire and lights, who made a survey during | the past month of all for street lights from citizens of the town The mavor and council also heard arguments from property owners for and against the construction of a side- | walk on the north side of Westmoreland avenue, between Elm avenue and Sec- ond street. A petition was also pre- sented requesting a sidewalk on Spruce avenue. Action was deferred on both proejets. It was reported by the health committee that the last three houses on Ethan Allen avenue had made sewer connections ‘and that it would be only a short time before every house would be | connected with a sewer The council decided to take steps to | repair Tulip avenue, where it had been | damaged by heavy trucks during the | paving and improving of Carroll avenue | and an effort will be made to have the contractor stand the expense for this work It was announced at the meeting that | the loading platform at the North Ta- | | koma siding was being demolished by | the B. & O. Rallroad. Hearing on the siding would be held in the Circuit Court at Rockville August 20, the B. & 0. Ralflroad seeking to prevenl the town from closing the siding Ten Frozen to Death. TREBIZOND, Turkey, August 21 (/) Ten persons’ were frozen to death when & phenomenal cold w a heavy snow to this Black Sea por { yesterday Hundreds of cattle were re- requests | LORIDA-CUBA Low fare 16.day round trip, liberal stop-over tickets sold Saturdays, August 25 and Sep- tember 15, via ATLANTIC COAST LINE Kares from Washington other points proportional), $29.00 39.00 36.50 36.50 Havana, Cuba, 86375 (latter point return limit 23 days). | (to | Jacksonville Miami Tampa 5t. Petershurg Call on, call up, or write F. E. Masi, . P. A, 1418 H 8t N.W., Telophone My 7815 | Assembly of both political parties from | the cities, and one of them was passed | | premises within 200 feet of it ve brought | | ported killed in_the outlying sections_ | measure requested by the commissioner of excise. Not a single member of the Assembly voted against it. I am criticized for voting against a Jarge number of local option bills: Introductory No. 625 of 1904, Introductory No. 141 of 1905. Introductory No. 466 of 1906 in two different forms. Introductory No Introductory No. Introductory No. Introductory No In the same cla of 1911, 134 of 1910, 1329 of 1911, 347 of 1911, 617 of 1911 s are bills Nos. 722 of 1907 and 25 of 1906. wed as Duplicates. Most of these bills are duplicates of one another. this State at that time on the subject can best be seen by looking at the vote on bill number 134 of 1910. In that vear the Assembly was strongly Repub- ifcan and yet only 52 men out of 150 voted for this bill; 84 men, Democrats and Republicans alike, voted against it. There was a strong sentiment at that time against the extension of local pro- hibition by the local option method be- cause of the inability of officials to en- force the law in the dry sections, the substitution of so-called clubs for places licensed by the State, and the loss by the State of the license fees and tax which came 1o it where sale was made in the normal legal way. Practically every As- semblyman ‘from the citles voted as I did on these measures, and in thus casting their votes they were undoubt edly representing the will of thelr con- stituents, Assembly bill, introductory number 616 of 1913, permitted a private school not a public school, to consent that a liquor tax certificiate might issue for 1 was speaker of the Assembly that year and did not vote one way or the other on that bill | | 1128 Voted for BilL Assembly bill, introductory 436 of 1915, sought to prohibit the salc | of llquor in'a city adjacent to a college or university supported wholly or partlv by the State. There were grave consti- tutional objections raised to the bill and drastic criticisms of the technical fea- tures of its provisions, In an over- whelmingly Republican Assembly, only 47 out of 150 members voted for it. Similarly, Assambly bill, introductory number 81 of 1915, was attacked on constitutional grounds. The speaker of the Assembly that year was a well known prohibitionist.” Even he opposed the bill. In voting against the bill, I was in the company of the Republican speaker, the Republican chairman of the committee on rules and the Republi- can floor leader, Assembly bill, _introductory number Tolmanized Collars Wilt Slowly WASHINGTON'S CARTER’S CLOTHES SHOP To Be Opened Early in September at 1341 F 5t. N.W. Featuring Men’s and Young Men’s Clothes All at $§22.50 Made in our own factory, sold direct to consumer through our own chain of retail stores. Require Salesmen, Head Tailor, Bushelmen and Ca (Female) Apply in writing with full par- ticulars and reference to N. Y. C. headquarters, CARTER CLO. CORP. 915 Broadway, N. Y. C. Employment Mgr The popular opinion of | number | in calling the Legislature back into ex- traordinary session after the matter had been fully thrashed out and dis- posed of at the rhgular session. The other bill referred to by | | | Mr. at the race tracks. How impossible such a statute was of administration 1 weed not say. It required but a small amount of common sense and judg- ment on the part on any intelligent person to know that that was nothing more or less than lumbering up the State's statute books with a gesture at_never could have any real force or effect 1 have given to this matter a great deal of my time and I have answered. subject by subject and bill by bill. In my speech of acceptance I will define in no uncertain language my attitude to the public saloon, and I lay before the people of this country for a close study the record of my 25 years in elective public office. 1 denounce as unfafr, unmanly and un-American this slanderous aftack upon me and my record. I have the satisfaction, how- ever, of knowing that it is not con- curred in by the people of my own State, who have year after year ex- pressed their confidence in me, not- withstanding that a large part of this matter hereli referred to was laid be fore them in the past by agents of my political enemics. I am sure that am right when 1 say it is not concurred in by the fair-minded intelligent, think- ing people of the country. 1 have been called by my party to the leadership in a great campaign. I am hoping to be put in a position to do for the people of this country what T have accomplished for the betterment of the government of my own State. and from now on I shall refuse to be drawn into any furfher discussion of | these matters | | White sought to prevent oral betting 1 ment mea somewhat less than noth- ing, and, the Irishman said, not much of that. The facts being what defense” is a factor co-operating in the maintenance of peace. The con- tfary is now the well demonstrated fact. amendment is to declare for lawless- ness and for a continuous and organ- ized assault, under official protection, upon the foundations of our Govern- ment It means what Mr. Justice Holmes, speaking from the bench of the United States Supreme Court, has properly called “dirty business What 1 wish fo make entirely plain is that no candidate of my party for the presidency can commit me or countless others like me to any such doctrines or to any such policies. It would indeed be a sorry day for the Republican party if it were to turn its back upon all its principles, its adition: deals in order to put mbolic of the Anti- n a place of honor and among its counselors. Should come. and should the door of closed to those hests of Re- nd and heart are hip in re- Federal form an end to menace of Washin of temper- ivil liberties Republican party own and served i honored it, would have come to a tismal and discreditable end. In the face of a state of things like this, it seems a far cry to the day of ck Henry and James Otis and ithority hope be { the people the | Samuel Adams and Thomas Jefferson, but some of us at least have not for- gotten them. Of what I have written I say in the words which Patrick Henry made famous: “If that be treason, make the most of it!" REPORT IN SMITH DEATH INQUIRY IS DELAYED Police Court Duties Hamper Shea Writing Results of Shoot- ing Probe. His duties at Police Court have un- expectedly delayed Assistant United ates Aftorney Walter M. Shea in the preparation of his report of his investi- a the shooting of Lewis S by Policeman Ernest C. the twelfth precinct Shea declared that because of his Police Court work he was entirely pre- vented from working on the report yes- terday, but expressed the belief that it would not take long to finish the report once he gets- started on it. About 25 persons were interviewed by Shea in his investigation. No other are to be seen and all the “field work' of the probe is complete, Shea has an- nounced. e ‘REFLECTING POOL CLOSED Growth of Fern-Like Seaweed to Be Eradicated. The Lincoln Memorial Podl in West | Potomac Park was closed yesterday until August 31 through an order is- sued by the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks, to permit workmen | to combat a little fernlike seaweed. | known as alga, which is rapidly spread- | ing over the sides and bottom of the pool. The alga, which makes its appear- ance in the pool each year, is reported to be particularly heavy this year and a sudden period of hot weather would result in rapid decay, causing an un- | pleasant odor. Republicans to Meet. | Special Dispatch to The Star | BALLSTON. Va. August 21.—Repub- lican mass meeting will be held in_this precnct Wednesday night in the Rog- ers’ Building for the purpose of elect- they, are, to declare for law enfarcé- The sober dnd solemn words of V ment in respect to the eighteen count Grey of Fallodon on this point. based on most unusual observation and experience, ought to carry conviction | | ing delegates to the county Republican mvention o be held Satusglay evening. 0 open .and honest mind. Mr. Hoovef” ismisses with a few perfunc- | tory w the*truly remarkable treaty | | just now 4o be signed by ourselves and | all the greht powers of the earth pledg- | ing renunlation of war as an instru- | ment of national pelicy, and chooses this moment to repeat that “we must | and shall maintain our naval defense * ¢ % in the strength and eficiency which will yleld to us at all times the | primary agsurance of liberty: that of national safety. Suggests Word “Feared.” Listen to this sentence: “We must not only be just: we must be respected.” Is it not plain that the thought behind the word,’ “reSpected” would be more accurately’ expressed by the word “feared”?, What sort of mind and nature is § which can at this stage of the world's history deliberately find a basis for respect in force rather than a justice? Is not the just man, the Just nation, respected? Are not Holland and Belgium, Switzerland and Den- { mark respected? Surely the repetition of this ancient and discarded doctrine will not be accepted by the masses of | the Republican party or by the people | It is but a few months since the Secretary of the Navy presented pro- | posals for a program of naval constru tion which affronted the intelligence and the moral sense not only of the American_people but of the entire world. Fortunately. public opinion rose promptly in its might and slew the monster before it had done much demage. 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