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9. 1998 _PART T. B THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON. D. €. SEPTEMBER Liquor Issue Overshadows PARTIES MAP OUT MARYLAND DRIVE Democrats Progress Further With Program for Oratory. BALTIMORE. September 1 (Special) ~—Until the holiday period. which is tendant on Labor day, is over, Mary- land political activity will remain dor- mant. However, during the past weel plans for the Democratic and Repub- lican campaigns were tentatively made. Both parties still have sore spots from recent discor Every effort is being made to heal these disturbances and energy expended in that direction has caused actual toward the campaigns to be slowed up Although the Democratic diffi appear to be the greater. disco had the at- work more publican ranks has sweeping effect While Democratiic leaders have mapped out their cam- Imost in entirety. the Repub- Iy to these discords. g back and have made little progress Carville D. Benson, chairman of the Democratic advisory committee for Maryland, has decided that the cam- paign should be opened in four parts of the State. Therefore from Septem- ber 11 to about September 25 the party will be firing “big guns” in launching ts offensive. Dinner is Planned. The first “formal” opening_will be at Hagerstown September 11. This will take the form of a formal dinner of sbout 500 persons, including all Demo- cratic leaders of the State Gov. Albert C. Ritchie. Senators W Jiam Cabell Bruce and David J. Lewis. the latter candidate for Congress from this district, will do the talking on that occasion. The next day Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross former Governor of Wyoming, will open the campaign on the Eastern Shore. She will speak at Centerville, Summer home of John J. Raskob, Democratic | campaign manager, and September 13 | ot Salisbury. She is scheduled to make addresses in several other towns. Pranklin D. Roosevelt, former As- sistant Secretary of the Navy and con- fidant of Gov. Smith. will be the prin- cipal figure at the launching of the campaign in Baltimore. This will be | September 18. Efforts will be made to obtain a theater or one of the larger halls for this meeting. Within th> next few days. Senator Caraway of Arkansas, confidant of Benator Joseph T. Robinson, will open | the couthern Maryland cnmrmgn el | Leonardtown. He also will speak | several day: later on the Eastern Shore | | Out for Non-Voters. One of the reasons for this accum lation of talent within the State duri ber is to arouse non-voters Lo Gov. Smith’s qualities in order that, they will register. The first registra- tion day is September 25. | The will open their cam- | paign 15, and word has been | received that Senator Curtis, Republ can vice presidential nominee, wili| speak Maryland. in It s | not known whether Herbert Hoover | will be zble to include Maryland in bis 3 Gov. Smith definitely will | eome to Baltimore for a speec! h. senatorial and con- | senatorial candidate. will tember 15. He is expected to offer stiff | opposition to Senator Bruce, Demo- | eratic titor. ¥ The -Lewis fight in the sixtih | district still holds the limelight as tue | most spirited combat in the State. Re- ports from western Maryland are to *he effect thet Mr. Lewis is making soms progress his opponent, Repre- | sentative Zihlman, has won the indorse- | ment of both the Anti-saloon Leaguc | and the Maryland State and District of | Columbia Pederation of Labor. | The latter organization also indorsed | Mr. Goldsborough in his senatorial | irations. i FRANKLYN WALTMAN, Jr. i i NEBRASKA FIGHT FOR FARMER VOTE BEGUN BY BOTH PARTIES Democrats Perfect Smith Club—Leaders Talk | With Haines. ‘ Special Dispateh to The OMAHA. Ncbr. September 1. The | fight in Nebraska for the farmer vote has begun. Gov. MeMulien announced this week that he would support Hoover. Senator Howell has begun a speaking campaign in the purely agricultural section. Republican lead- | ers arc_shaping plans for intensive work. Democrats have perfected A State-wide Smith Club, organization | heads of which conferred this week | with Senator Haines. regional manager | at_St. Louis. Under this plan, the national com- mittee will be in touch with each branch of campaign ectivity in both en's and women's departments, and o with the State committee. Repub- licans will conduet the campaign as usual. directly through the State com- mittee After long delay. nounced he saw more benefit for agri- culture from Hoover than from Smith | 3¢ Prosident. He took this stapd after an interview with Senator Howell, who, | like Brookhart of Iowa, is strongly sup- | porting Hoover. Howell advanced the argument that Smith reflects the in- | dustrial East and that agriculture never can expect aid !om industry The governor's st€_nent. was brief for Republicani It merely fiected his tong adher#nce to his part: a condition the G. O. P. hopes will keep cnough farmer votes in the ranks to | bring victory in November. | Nothing has taken place yet to in- dicate a trend of sentiment among the | farmers. George N. Peek, who worked hand in hand with Gov. McMullen at Gov. McMullen an- | no | TEXAS DEMOCRATS FACE SEVERE TASK Loyalists Must Fight to Whip | Bolters Into Line for | National Ticket. | Special Dispatch to The Star. AUSTIN, Tex. September 1.—With several unrelated Statewide straw bal- lots tn Texas indicating that Hoover is running neck and neck with Gov. Al- fred E. Smith, the Democratic nominee, and the defeat of United States Senator Earle B. Mayfield ‘for renomination | credited to a revolt against Smith by | Democrats who stayed out of the pri-| maries, Democratic loyalist leaders have | found they this vear face the severest | test in the history of the State of hold- ing Texas in the ranks of the solid Dem- ocratic South. A campaign to whip bolting Demo- | crats into line will open Labor day. | with the first of two addresses in Texas | by Joseph T. Robinson. vice presiden- | tial nominee. Robfmmon, will speak in Dallas and Cisco, and a Sfatewide or- ganization of supporters of Smith will | actively take up the fight while Robin- | son is in the State and carry it for- | ward until the general election. i Republican leaders now are claim- | ing they will poll more than the 300.- | 000 votes polled four years ago for Dr. | George C. Butte, Republican nominee | for Governor against Mrs. Miriam A. | Ferguson, and which represented over 250,000 Democratic bolters. The anti- Smith Statewide bolting Democrat or- ganization already. has numerous Speakers in the field. advocating the | support of Hoover electors in Novem- | | place for this reason. ot lguor by prescription. | Special Dispatch to The Star. | powerful in Oregon six years ago but is ber. The second primary vote last week | registered less than 500,000 of the 900.- | 000 Texas votes, and Senator Mayfield | DEFECTIONS FAIL IN SOUTH CAROLIN Voters Flinch at Showing Active Opposition to Smith and Robinson. Bpecia! Dispeich 1o The Star COLUMBIA, 5. C.. September 1. — When it came to a showdown in the Democratic primaries throughout South Carolina, defections from the party threatened. Incidents there were but no movement. Many South Carolina Democrats, forced 1o 2 decision, flinched at the cost of giving their opposition to Smith pracitcal effect, and took with such grace as they could the primary path | to “support” in the general election “the | nominees of the party, State and Na- tional.” They could, of course, have re- frained from perticipating in the - mary and thereby have kept themselves fres o vote as thev liked in November But the Democratic primary being in ectuality the election here. in local county and State matters, they would thus forego any share in determining | jsgues that had for them immediate eoncern, And 2t most, besides. their voting egainst Smith electors in No- renresented stuff unfit for human con- | vember could be no more than a gesture for they recognized tha! they were only & minority group and the electoral vote nf the State would in any event be cast for the Democratic ticket No large number of persons kept away from the polls because of unwillingness tn» support the national nominees, for the vote was nowhere abnormally light Ku Klux participation s apparent enly in Dorchester County. There s “reform” organization, the “D. R. L disclosed after the election 1o be the “Dorchester Riddance League” sun- ported by the Klan and with State offi- efals of the Klan at work on the ground dislodged the Limehouse-Gross facting which has had control of county politics ' for a dozen_year PITZHUGH McMASTER NAMED CAMPAIGN CHIEF. Dakata b 4 Hoove, Of business has turned a dull congres- C. 8 MeDonsl Lead Hoover i, o) election into an interesting af- Drive in South Dakots fajr in Michigan. McLeod i& & Re- publican. Boscial Digatch 10 The Btas The Democratic candidates, who sel- | BIOUX FALLS Dak., September dom have an opportunity in Michigan, | 1 —Doubtless figuring that the result of the national election in November tnay be 8o close that the five electoral votes of Bouth Dakota may be the de vermining factor, the Republican na- tional campaign committee has ap- pointed Charles 8. McDonald, this city, Btate Senator and well known State itician, to have charge of the wer and Curtis campaign in South Dakote. He will work in conjunction with the national committce of his party and with the Republican State committee of South Dakota. His i 1o be supplemental to that dons by the national and Eigte eonunitiee ALFRED BURKHOLDER credited his defeat largely to the ab- sence of more than 125,000 of his sup- porters from the polls because of their refusing to take the pledge to vote for Gov. Smith in November. Gov. Dan Moody, leader of the Demo- cratic 1egulars, has not vet disclosed | what part he will take in the fight, but is looked to by the party as the leader of its fight to support its nominees. The Democratic State convention Sepieraber 11 will adopt pledges com- mitting those who take part in it and | 2ll nominees for State offices to active | defense of the party against encroach- ments of the bolters “Schools of instruction” will teach Democrats in larger cities. particularly the strongholds of the Ku Klux Klan in past campaigns. how to vote the split ballot for Hoover electors and Demo- cratic nominees for other officers, The Republicans will make no fight except for the electors, they have indicated. 8. RAYMOND BROOKS. Bad Wine Ires Boosters. Boosters in Chile are indignent over the results of raids by inland revenue officials, who ook samples of wine in bars, canteens, shops and hotels, and submitted them to analysis. The report snowed that 35 per cent of the samples sumption, and the boosters are urging severe punishment for the offenders, claiming that the reputation of fthe country as a great wine producer 1§ injured by such concoctions. Gov. McMullen Comes Out| for Hoover—Howell | on Stump. GOV, MeMULLI Kansas City, carries much influence in this State Democrats _have in_several instances | followed the lead of Dr. Jennie Callfi Democratic national committeewoman in deserting the Smith ranks. One candidate for elector has resigned bis While she ha announced she regards her place va- cant, Dr. Callfas says she will not | resign to Chairman Raskob, whom she | Chairman Raskob | calls a Republican. says it is the Nebraska State commit- tee's place to fill the vacancy. No meeting has peen called for this pur- e It is evident that the religious ques- | tion is playing a part in the State cam- paign. Nebraska is one of the extra dry States, also having a bone dry con- stitution and laws that prevent issue Democrats a therefore plen to concentrate on thorough mustering of the liberal vot and will stress the farm aid issue, de- | cision on which most observers concede will be the deciding factor in view of the large Republican malority to be overcome. GFORGE F. FISHER. WOMEN HOLDING STAGE N OREGON Lead Men on Registration| Books—Religious Issue Comes to Fore. PORTLAND, Oreg., September 1.-Tf Herbert Hoover raceives a considerab!” majority over Alfred E. Smith in Oregon, it will be due to the women. Extraordinary interest is being dis- played in the presidnetial campaign by women and under the promptings ol the Republican organization. there i: now in progress a remarkably heavy registration of female electors. Records of registration clerks di close that there are more women thin men being enrolled. Particularly this noticeable in the Republican ranks. where the women aré in excess of men in new registrations. It is on this fc..inine vote that the Republicans de- pend to offset defections of wet Re- publicans to the Smith camp. Prohibition is only a thin veneer of | the real reason that women are opposed to 8mith. The actual motive is re. ligious and an antagonism to the Demo- | cratic nominee’s particular church affiliation. An attempt is now under way to re- | vive the Ku Klux Klan in Oregon. A | national organizer has appeared on the | scene and is endeavoring to resusci- | tate the order by holding up the possi- bility of Smith's election. The Klan was now practically extinct. Thus far littic progress has been made in interesting former members of the organization. As is other sections of the country minisfters are now attacking Smith from their pulpits, while a leading Episcopal minister took the radio this week to castigate the Methodist and Baptis: preachers for bringing polities into the church. Pointed propaganda against continues to pour into the State. This | is based on Smith's religious belief. It ix apparent thal & vast sum is being spent by some one or some organize- | tion in the printing and distribution of this literature. | A new survey of the State discloser Smith | and Staff T every point along the pol- itical battlefront pickets are | being drawn in and the main | forces of the opposing parties are coming rapidly Into sharp collision, according to the Jatest. dispatches to The Star from \ts correspondents In all parts of the country. Both presidential candidates. hav- ing completed the formalities and made a few preliminary campaign specches, are resting—Hoover in Washinglon_and Smith in Albany— while the Republican and Demo- cratic national committees complete plans for their further participation in the fight While the battle is likely to be close almost everywhere, it 15 becom- ing apparent that it will be sharp- est in the East and in the strip of States extending from Ohio West- ward to include the corn and wheat belts. Overshadowing every other issue In the East. from New England to Maryiend, is the liquor question The Democrats hope to win many electoral votes for Smith in this sec- tion because of their candidate's wetness, The Republicans in these States realize they are in the hard- est. fight. of vears and are. hurrying up their reserves in readiness to strike back with their heaviest pro- | jectles L B 4 | In the Ohio Valley and Midwest- ern States the liquor fasue is shar- ing importance with farm relicf. Each party is trying to make the farmers in this section belicve fits candidate is more to be trusied than his opponent to remedy agricultural conditions. Although ‘the religious issue, ont- side the South, is not being discussed 50 openly as the two other issues, it is just as much alive in the North- east, Midwest and Par West as it is below the Mason and Dixon line But the national campaign managers on both sides seem to have con- cluded that public debate will not change religious convietions nor votes based upon such convictions, and is, therefore, futile. There is. however, every indication of worry in both camps over the effect . of the religious question, which is tear- ing down party lines, helping Smith in some sections and Hoover in others. An increasing reluctance on the part of seasoned- observers to hazard pradictions about the outcome of the election is everywhere notice- able. Such predictions as are being made—outside of the meaningless claims of partisans—are so hedged about with qualifications as to be almost valueless to any one who is sincerely trying to eatch the drift of sentiment. ¥ ob % o¥ With the Maine State and con- gressional elections only nine days | off. both parties are keeping up their drives to poll as big a vote as | possible. Unusual activity on the ' i part of both Repubiican and Demo- cratic campaign managers Is ported from Massachusetts. where | conservative observers say the race | will be extremely close. Republicans | | re- under new management in the Bay State are putting forth every ounce of effort, while the Democrats, led by the popular Senator David 1. Walsh, are organizing enthusiasti- cally everywhere, even in the west- ern part of the State. which s counted a great Republican strong- hold. New Hampshire continues to be called debatable ground, and .so does Connecticut, where the Republi- | s are reported to be encouraged | by the figures of the recent State- | wide caucuses at which were chosen delegates to the State conventions. | The Republican vote came out in | somewhat surprising strength, con- sidering the lack of contesis in most of the 169 towns. The Democrats are looking to the citles to give | Smith pluralities and the Connecti- cut Republicans are relying on the smaller towns to offset them. " oKk Gestures toward the farmers of New York State, who usually vote the Republican ticket, have been made during the last few days by | both sides. Smith visited the State falr at Syracuse before settling | down at Albany to attend to State | business and decide upon his speak- ing itinerary. Senator Curtis. Re- publican vice presidential eandidate. also visited the State fair and spoke of what the Republican party’ has done for the farmers in the past and will do in the future. Upstate reports Indicate that Smith will that the Smith sentiment is holding it< own. Especially among the working class in the lumbering, cattle and min- ing districts. Cowboys, lumberjacks prospectors and men engaged in high- | way construction camps are loud ror | Smith, but these are migratory men | and therefore will not cast voles for the Democratic nominee in November There is a distinct Smith fecling in the agricultural region where hops are | grown, this being noticeable now that the crop is being harvested. JOHN W. KELLY Dresden Celebrates. With the object of attracting tourists to the city, Dresden, Germany, has started a “June in Dreeden” campaign This year the plans include a special festival month of ths State Opera with | & first performance of Richard Strauss’ | Iatest composition entitled “Aegyptische Helena,” as its main attraction. The Technical High Scheol of Dresden an- nounce & celebration of the 100th an- niversary of its foundation. and the Annual Show of German Work is the third feature. The city will make “June in Dresden” an annual event McLeod's Stand on Reapportionment Bill Enlivens Campaign in Michigan Bpecial Dispalch to The Star DETROIT. Mich, September 1 forts bemng made by Representative a member of the miftee, to get congressional candidates i both partles to agree to obstruction- 15t methods in the forthcoming session of Congress \f o congressional reap- portionment bill is made the first order have taken advantege of McLeod's po- sitlon 1o agree to the obstructionist program and all have pledged them- selves publicly to such procedure. Re- publican candidates, all of whom are seeking re-election, are AMrming & desire to force through a reapportion- | ment messure, but & number have de- murred against McLeod’s program MeLeod announced this week in De- troft that after the convening of Con- {grese pe sent out biank pledges 1o | 150 rafmbers of Congress on his re- ork | apportionment plan, Sixty have signed | | the pledges, hr Michigan, by 4. ason of & heavy in. 1 crease In ,ncuuuon, has endeavored | Leod of the Detroit district, who s | House census com- | | for several years to force a congres- | slonal reapportionment plan through | | Congress, contending reapportionment, | is mandatory under the Constitution , every 10 years. Detroit alone would get four ~ additional representatives under this plan The fight between Gov. Fred W Green and George W Welsh, former | lieutenant governar, for the Republican | gubernatorial nomination, = recelved | Added impetus this week following the arrest al Battle Creek Tuesday of ‘Thomes Bigger, chalrman of the State | boxing commission, on a charge of drunken driving, and his discharge by | the governor For several weeks Welsh had been | demanding that Green dischirge Big- ger, pointing out that former Gov. Alex J. ‘Groesbeck had discharged Bigger for corrupting Imfln1 in Michigan, that | Green had reappointed Bigger and ‘lu)od behind him recently after the five members of the boxing commission had charged Bigger with unsportsman- like conduct. governor refused to discharge Bigger and the five members resigned | disehurg® tn dlseredit Green among the dry out-State voters r. ¢ PRWELL. Waeish hes seized Bigger's arrest and | probably have a hard time to carry REPUBLICANS SEEK | RECORD MAINE VOTE State Chairman Returns From | Parley With Leaders in New York. Special Dispateh (o The Star ! | AUGUSTA, Me., September 1.—Daniel | | | F. Field of Phillips, chairman of the Re- | publican State committee, sald today that the Republican national commit- | tee believes that the presidential con- test between Hoover and Smith will be a close and hard-fought battle. He has just returned from a conference with the natfonal committee in New York where the matter of finances and additional speakers for Maine dis- cussed. | 7T was urged to use every effort to bring out as large a Republican vote in | Maine as possible," Mr. Field said, “In | tact, T was asked to get & new mark for , Republican majorities in Maine.” Chalrman Fleld assured representa- tives of the national organization that the party workers in Maine were alive to the situation and would try for a record majority. | The Democratic organization seems to be centering its effort in the second | congressional district, where Repre- | sentative Wallace H. White of Lewiston, | Republican, Is bheing opposed by Col. | Albert Bellevieu of Rumford, former | | { commander of the Department of Maine, American Legion | Edward C. Moran, sr., chafrman of | i the Democratic State committee, made | !an appeal to the Democratic national | committee (o send Gov. Smith to Po |land for one speech during the cam- | | Palgn, but was told that it would be | Impossib'e for Gov Smith to come. It | i Is expecied that Gov, Ritchie of Mary- | yland and ex-Gov. Nellle Tayloe Ross of . Wyoming will speak in Portland before the close of the campalgn. J. CLEMENT MURPHY E Mother, Daughter Live to 104, Mme, Madeline Malherbe, s velative of M. Barthou, the French minister of jus- tice, expects to live longer than her | mother, who died at 104, Mme. Mal- | harhe © 45 just entered her 104th vear [ Al her home i Bordesux. She is still ahie to climb slairs te her bedroom un- alded, ' | administration and the THE WEEK IN POLITICS Summary of National Developments Based on Reports From The Star's Special Correspondents Writers. his own State in November in view of the Hoover sentiment in that nor- mally Republican region. New Jersey Democrats were up- roariously enthusiastic when Smith paid their State his first visit after the_formal opening of the campaign. Republicans are fearful of losing Delaware on account of factional troubles. The campaign is proceed- ing normally in the usually Republi- te of Pennsylvania. parties are completing plans for the final drive In Maryland, the Republicans being somewhat slower in getting to work on account of discord in their ranks. The border States of West Virginia, Tennessee. Kentucky, Missouri and Oklahoma continue to present difficulties to both parties and are reported in the doubtful column. with the Repub- licans having a little the best of it in West Virginia and the Demo- crats in Tennessee and Oklahoma A curious fact, disturbing to the Republicans, is that many hitherto Republican colored voters are ap- parently leaning strongly toward Smith in these and other States P In Ohio a little cloud appeared in th> fair sky that has been shining over the Republicans when a move- ment was started to create a special organization, apart from the regular State committes, to look after Hoover's interests, but a split in the Democratic ranks was even more apparent as Gov. Donahey failed to attend the Democratic State con- vention. The battle for Indiana’s electoral votes has started in dead carnest. some amusement being caused by the appearance together on the stump of Senator Jim Wat- son of that State, a regular of the regulars, and Senator Brookhart of Iowa, radical Republican, whom Watson once voted to oust from the Senate Minnesota Democrats have been thrown into confusion by the ac- tivities in their State of Senator Wheeler of Montana, against whom strong protests have been sent to the Democratic national headquar- ters. The Republicans are re- ported to have the best of the pres- ent situation in that State and in Michigan, while Wisconsin is classed as doubtful on account of the wet sentiment_there. ‘While Democratic National Chair- man Raskob has been visiting the Midwest and laying plans to get votes for Smith in Missouri, Towa, Nebraska, Kansas and the Dakot: many encouraging signs have ap- pearsd for the Republicans in this debatable region. Gov. McMullen of Nebraska, atter a long silence, has declared for Hoover. lowa voters appear apathstic and present indi- cations are that Hoover will carry that State with a normal Repub- lican majority. Charles 8. McDon- ald has been chosen specially by the Republican national committee to take charge of the Hoover campaign in South Dakota, and this move has led the Democrats to claim that the Republicans are fearful of losing the State. A Little change in the situation in the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast States has been reported. Democrats in_Oregon, Washington, California, Colorado and other parts of this region claim that Smith is gaining strength. but Re- publicans are cheered by the appar- ent swing of woman voters of both parties to Hoover on the liquor issue. As evidence of the feminine intercst n the campaign, many women tried to vote for Hoover and some for Smith in the recent State primaries in California, not realizing that the time for such balloting had not yet arrived. In the old South the campaign is getting livelier, but there are still no definite indications that any of the States of this section will go Re- publican, although the Democratic anti-Smith bolters in Alabama, North Carolina, Virginia and several other States are quite active. The regular Democrats have sent spell- binders to stump Virginia for Smith and will keep them in the field from now until election day. There are indications that both parties in North Carolina will be better sup- plied than usual with money in this campaign Democratic bolters and Republic- ans have reached an agreement to vote for the same electors in Ala- bama. A curious turn in Arkansas is that many colored voters, hitherto Republicans, are supporting Smith Mississippi Democrats are checking up reports of Hoover gains in cer tain parts of their State. which thev fear may reduce the normal Demo- cratic majority (Consrishi. 1926.) NORTH CAROLINA DRIVE WILL OPEN THIS WEEK Special Dispatch to The Star. RALEIGH, N. C. September 1 With all sides expecting more ample supplies of funds than usual, the polit- ical campaign In North Carolina will next week pass out of the “survey” stage and reach fts stride. Former Gov. Cameron Morrison, whose wife is rated as the wealthiest woman n the State, is expected not | only to contribute liberally to the State campaign but as Democratic national commitieeman is expected to be able to secure all necessary funds for party purposes. Immediately after his elec- tion by the State executive rnmmmrrl he went Lo New York for a conference | at_national headquarters, The Republicans have had an eve on the sinews of war as evidenced by the election of Stuart Cramer, wealthy Charlotte textile manufacturer, as finance director and also have thelr eyes glued on the treasury at national headquarters. The use of money in this State by efther party will be a distinct novelty, as in the rest of the South, but both parties seem to anticipate sufficient funds and the efforts of prohibition leaders to organize “anti-Smith Demo- crats” have been singularly free (rom appeals for money R. E. WILLIAMS lowa State Fair Indicates Voters i Are Apathetic Toward Campaign! | O'8Sullivan, Alfred N. Phillips. Soecial Dispaleh (o The St PES MOINES, lowa, September | lowa's attitude toward political ques- tions, as evidenced at the State falr now In session here s apathetic Speakers who denounced the present treason” of the McNary-Haugen veto talked to but a few hundreds here Farm Bureau day. Other speakers have found few to listen to their defense of Hoover's stand as heir to the Coolidge administration. An informal poll conducted in one day at the fair grounds, where dally attendance has run around 0,000 since August 24, disclosed that Towa farmers have litile ith_in the sin- cerlty of Mr. Hoo WATSON SETS DOUBTS AT REST | BY DECLARATION FOR HOOVER 1Takes Stump in Heart of | Indiana's Corn Belt. Calls on Farmers. i i Democratic Meeting Opens | Dailey’s Campaign for Governor. | Special Dispatch to The Star INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. September 1. —The battle for Indiana's electoral | votes started in earnest this week when | both the Republicans and Democrats formally opened their campalgns. Ihere was perhaps more of a national |angle to the Republican meeting be- cause of the presence of Senators James E. Watson and Arthur R. Robinson. | while the Democratic gathering was largely a setting for the opening of the drive to make Frank C. Dalley | governor. | " Chief interest in the G. O. P. meet- ing. which was held at Frankfort in the heart of the Indiana corn belt, was centered in Senator Watson, who de- feated Herbert C. Hoover in the| | Hoosier primary. Senator Watson set | at rest any doubts that he was whole- | heartedly for Hoover by calling on the | | farmers to place their trust in a man of known and proved ability The Senator, w'e: was one of the sup- | porters of the McNary-Haugen bill, cast it overboard as a means of firm | | relief _and asserted that both Hoover | and Smith would have none of it | “Both sides.” he said. “intend to take the machinery provided by the Me: Nary-Haugen bill, but Smith propose: [to call a conference to determine how to set it in motion. while Hoover says |that he will take the money directly | trom the Treasury to give it force and leflect. One has a concrete plan, a | defimite program, while the other pro- poses to leave the whole-thing to some | conference to be called hereaiter.” | Audience. Is Dry. | Some comment was aroused by Sen- ator Watson's effort to show that | Smith, in the event he is elected. could | not make the country ve! he | | audlence was unmistakably “dry” and | | some of the G O. P. strategists thought the Senator should not have empha- | sized Smith's problem so much as he | should have stressed the “wet” angle. | Senator Robinson, one of the leading | | beneficiaries of the Indlana Anti-Saloon | | League. openly charged that if Smith | |is suceessful and the eighteenth | amendment is repealed. “it means the return of .the American saloon.” The speeches indicated that the Re- publicans are dropping farm relief in favor of the prohibition question as the issue on which they will seek retention |of power. In general they are seeking ito show that there is no difference he- tween the views of Smith and Hoover on thke agricultural problem. hoping | thereby to keep the Republican farm- ers in line. The Democrats, however, are hopeful that they can make in- | that the Republicans, after eight years have done nothing for the relief of the farmer. Dailey, who has been criticized by some of the Democratic drys for prais- ing Gov. Smith, went a step further when he opened his campaign at Salem {by asserting that the “acceptance | 'COLORED VOTERS 'SUPPORT SMITH, | 1 | Arkansas Club Says Members Have Paid Debst to Re- publicans, Special Dispatch to The Star | LITTLE ROCK, Ark., September 1.— | In this year of grace, when political | lines have been drawn along quaint | lines, it is astonishing to find many colored people in Arkansas supporting | Alfred E. Smith for President. During roads among the farmers on the plea ' Sen NATOR JAMES E. WATSON. speech of our standard bearer. as an expression of faith in the ability of the American people to control and direct their own government, is the most pro- found pronouncement since the days of Thomas Jefferson.” That set at rest rumors that Dailey would cut loose and wage an independent campaign, which some of his mbre timid advisers had urged. Albert Stump, Democratic senator- hip nominee, is waging an individual campaign, however, in that he is tak- ing the dry side of the argument while at the same time attempting to praise Gov. Smith's administrative record. He Iready has incurred the open hostility of some of the more rabid Smith fol- lowers. With both Stump 2nd Robin- son, however, standing as drys. there is not much choice for the wets Leslie Slow to Start. Republican worries are multiplying over the failure of Harry G. Leslie. gov- ernorship nominee, to get his cam- paign off to a proper start. Leslie, they fear, is holding back the Hoover movement and there are indications that the Hoover people. who already have authorized a separate organiza- tion, were actuated in part by a desire | to cut loose from Leslie. What was hailed as an important ap- pointment was made when Samuel Rauh, president of the Indianapolis Union Railway Co. was made sev- enth _district financial director for the Democratic national organization Rauh, who has been listed as a Dem crat, has not been active for scveral campaigns and his return to the fold was looked upon by the Democrats as | an indication that Indianapolis business circles are looking with more favor on Smith. Another indication of this w: seen in the acceptance by John E. Fredrick, president of the Kokomo Steel & Wire Co.. of a similar post in the ninth distriet. Prederick’s one of the biggest employers of labor in the State. Some laughs are golng the rounds as the result of the appearance on the | stump together of Senator Watson and or Smith W. Brookhart of Iowa at a Lake County political meeting. It was recalled that Watson voted to oust Brookhart from the Senate, but now that the flery Towan has come out for Hoover, he was instrumental in get- ting him to Indiana for a scries of speeches. HAROLD C. FEIGHTNER. £.0.. CONFIDENT O GONN[GII[IUT# Encouraged by Figures -in Recent State-Wide Caucuses. Special Dispatch to The Star HARTFORD, Conn. September 1.— firm s | | 63 years, the colored people in the State The Republicans have reason to be en- have been led to believe that if they | couraged by the figures of the recent fail to support the Republican ticket | State-wide caucuses at which were chos- they will reveal ingratitude for their en delegates to the State convention. . They believe ! emancipation and their previous condi- tion of servitude might be restored. The colored people did not stop to analyze these stalements but voted according to orders. hen peimitted to | | 1t did not occur to them that | | some of the greatest leaders of the Unfon cause were Demacrats, or that | the South was glad to be free of the | incubus of slavery. In a stalement recently, Dr. J. M Robinson of Little Rock, president of the Colored Smith-for-President Club, declared that members of the club feel that they have discharged their obli- | gation, if any, to the Republican party, and now are free to vote for a Demo- crat | Preliminary organization of these clubs has been perfected in 14 counties, and will be exiended to all coun!k:i where there are many colored voters, following the notification ceremony of | Senator Joe T. Robinson. While it is true that many colored | voters are deserting the G. O. P, It is also true that the bulk of colored voters will be held in line by the [riendly atti- | tude of Herbet Hoover toward the race, as manifested on many occasions, and | the defection this year will not be great. | But it presages strange political compli- cations In years to come FLETCHER CHENAULT. Nile Debris Threatens. Transportation on the Nile is being | threatened by a block of sudd, or debris, | 6 miles long. Steamboat trafc is be- | ing held up, and it is feared more dam- | age to commerce will follow. Engineers have been fighting the accumulation of reeds and the soll about their roots, torn from the banks in stormy weather and accur ulated by some obstruction, and th efforts had been successful for years until the present sudd was formed. 1t is hoped thai before great damage is | cone the flood caused by the sudd will | ‘pflu'lln!r it and cause it to break up| into floating islands, * | | | | him when he says he will carry out the Coolidge policies and can see noth- ing that means immediate rellef in waterways, tariffs or loans. | At the same time there is no evi- | dence of a Republicun swing to Gov. | Smith. Even those who regard the prohibition question as of minor im- portance are antagonistic to Democ- racy Political leaders meeting the | State falr predict that Hoow will | carry the State with the traditional Republican majority. 1f the Demo- crats spend in Towa an appreciable amount of the §1,000,000 Mr. Raskob | says has been set aside for wark in the | Middle West, it is diffieult to determins what would happen. 6. 0. CLIFTON. | thes There were contests in only a few of the 169 towns. but, with nothing at stake in most of them. the party vote came out surprisingly well. This is regarded as_indieating two things One Is that the Democrats. who ex- pect to roll up Smith pluralities in Connectlcut cities in November. but who realize the party's usual weakness | in the small tow where they are doing missionary ly not been able to make serious in- roads on the Republican small-town vote. The other is that the Republic- ans are showing more interest in ths campaign than for many years. That Connecticut will cast larger vote than in 1924 cannot b doubted and, with a big vote, Republic- n leaders will have no doubt of suec: cess. Their fears, if they have an are not so much of Smith strength of Republican apathy. There is now no reason to expect this apathy. Not only has the nomination of Gov. Smith aroused the Democrats to unusual activ- ity, but it has caused the Republicans to feel that they have. after winning in a walk, a worthy foe and It has spurred them to unusual energy Both parties will conduct a lively cam- paign, which will be aided by prominent | speakers from outside the State. Women's political organizations will play an important part in the cam- paign and, unless there is a marked change from 1920 and 1924, the women's vote will be more helpful to | Republicans than to Democrats. While Gov. Smith's acceptance ad- dress has been well received here by press and public, the same is true of Hoover's and there is no reason to be- lleve that there has been any mportant switch from one party to the other that can be traced to thess declara- tions of the candidates. With both Republican and Demo- cratic conventions meeting next week At New Haven, there is no certainty as to either nomination for the United States Senator, while the choice of a Democratic candidate for governor is still in doubt. State Senator Frederic C. Waleott and Tax Commissioner Wil- liam H. Blodgett are the rival Republic- an aspirants for the seat of Senator McLean, while® former Representative Augustine Lonergan and Patrick B. Stam- ford's mayor, and_E. Kent Hubbard, manufacturer, s7o Democratic possibili- Charles G. Morrls and Willlam E. Thoms are candidates for the Demo- cratic nomination for governor H. 1. HORTON Bees Capture Bedroom. Bees swarming In housos have caused much trouble in rural ssetions of Eng- land recently. At Middiesborough thousands entered a house, and alter fiying through every room they seitied In a bedroom. Several peaple ware stung before a bee keeper went to the vescue, At Goyire hees swarmed in a mall box and prevented the postman from making 'pm colleetions, R, ork, have apparent- | a much | vears of | All Others on Campaign Front in Eastern Stales CURTS LONGES * HEYSTONE BT Pennsylvania G. 0. P. Gains | in Confidence as State i Is Surveyed. | | Special Dispaich to The Siar HARRISBURG, Pa. September 1.— Having seen and heard both the presie dential and vice presidential nomi- nees within a week. Pennsylvania Re- publicans have shaken off the lethargy of Summer inactivity and started their campaign in earnest Herbert Hoover. on his trip from | California to Washington, stopped six times in Pennsylvania to meet voters at 1oilroad stations. At some of the cities !he made short speeches. Four of the | stops were in_Pittsburgh, Greensburg, Johnstown and Altoona, in the wesiern end of the State, where his presence was most helpful at this stage of the campaign. The others, in Harrisburg and York, were in sections alrcady strong for the Republican ticket. Appearance of Senator Curtis at the | Grangers' fair at _Williams Grove { Thursday launched the campaign with greater vigor than is customary at such an early date. With less than a weck to prepare his reception, Republican leaders brought in delegations from | nearly every county of eastern and cen- | tral Pennsylvania and women's delega- tions from nearly every section. ‘the 1air for years furnished a rostrum for prominent _political figures. but since Woodrow Wilson opened his Pennsyl- | vania campaign there in 1912, no can=~ didate for presidential office had graced the platform. The Thursday meeting was the mosi largely aitended |rally hald in Pennsylvania in many years. Drys Promise Support. The Anti-Salcon League. which is not as powerful in this State as in | many otners, has taken a hand in the | campaign and Rev. Homer W. Tope. superintendent for Pennsylvania. has promised Republican leaders to have his organization aid in getting out the vote | throughout the Staie. The campaign to get voters to the polls is on in tull swing, the most ef- lective work Teported. ihus far b2ing among the women. Regisiration days | will start next week and the organiza= tion which Repubiican leaders have been perfecting will get iis first taste of action then. 2 Republican leaders hail the omission of Pennsylvania from the list of States claimed by Chairman Raskob for the | Smith ticket as an admission that the | claims of Pennsylvania Smith leaders |are not taken too seriously at national | headquariers. While it appears certain | that Smith will get an unusually heavy | vote for a Democratic condiaate, 1t does not appear probable now that Pennsylvania will go Democratic for the first time in 70 years. Democratic State Chairman John R. | Collins rema:ns of the opinion. however, that Smith has an excellent chance of | catrying the Staie, or at least all of the Stawe except Philadelphia. He has been plunging into the campaign with a vigor which Pennsylvania is unaccus- temed to see among Democrats. With other officers of the State committee, he has spent the week touring the State, holding conferences with leaders n all of the important cities. Informa- tion gleaned from these meetings will decide the final strategy of the cam- paign. Senator Gore Speaks. | The Democrats also had their day at the Williams Grove fair this week, with former Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma the spokesman. His speech is noteworihy largely to illus- trate the course of campaign in a very dry section, as contrasted with the Democratic demand for modincation voiced at Allentown in a very wet sece tion 10 days earlier. He declared Smith no wetter than Woodrow Wil= son, who vetoed the Volstead act. s there is little difference between “drip- ping drys and dusty wets,” and to prove that prohibition has not prohibited displayed an interesting coliection of liquor-making paraphernalia in com- mon use today. Prohibition as an issue | vas not glossed over, but Gov.. Smith’s sllnad was explained rather than ded. | Smith workers who have been in | contaci with various var.s of the State | express the opinion .aat the dedfection { of former National Caairman Vance C. | McCormick is not hurting the Smith | cause much in the State. The irrecon- | cllable_drys. they say, would have op- posed Smith anyway. while others who had followed the McCormick lead. thev cay, are more free to work for Smith than if McCormick' had not bolted. WALTER D. ROOS. PARTY RIFT HURTS HOOVER IN DELAWARE Sussex County Republicans Claim | Right to Nominate Governor. Special Dispatch to The Star WILMINGTON, Del. September ! - A Dbattle between the organization :. anti-organization forces of the Repud- lican party over the candidate for gove ernor is threatening to lose the State | for Hoover at the coming election. Sussex County Republican leaders have been claiming the right to name the governor and although no caucus has been held, the majority decided that 1. D Short of Milford. former State Senator, should have that honor. Tt said that Short has enough delegates pledged to contrel the caucus when the Stete convention is held i Dover | September 11 Besides the Sussex | County delegates, he says that he will | haye some of the Kent County men ‘The. organization leaders in this part |of the State have declared their in- tention of opposing Short. and have as & gubsrnatorial candidate C. Douvg- | las Buck, State highway engineer. The Jorganization concedes that Short will have 22 of the 42 delegates from Sus- | sex County, but claims that 120 of the | 160 members of the convention can be {swung to Buck. It is altogether prob- {able that the fight over the governor- | ship will be carried to the floor of the | convention | Sussex Republican leaders sav that “if Short is beaten by a New Castle County man, when by right of rotation the nomination should go to Sussex, ! there will be wholesale cutting on elecs tion day and that the presidential can« | didate will suffer with the others on | the tieket. The statement has been ;made {f Short is not nominated. Sus- | sex County will be Democratie by 2,500, It is conceded that Kent County will be for Hoover because it is the center of the drys. Vateran politicians refuse |to estimate what the result will be Wilmington and rural New Castle | County. ‘There are more wets in Wil- ixsrltl.n‘l'wn than in any other part of the | It is claimed that announcement | Lammot du Pont that he wouldnmg vort Hoover will counteract anything Smith may have geined by Plerre S, du Pont coming out in favor of the New York QGovernor. It is now said rthat other members of the du Pont family will not support Smith. The opinlon seems o be that Ruby R. Vale of Milford will be nominated for United Statea Senator L. D. GRAY, P