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OHIOG.0.P FAGES | o e FACTIONAL STRRE Move to Create Special Hoo- ver Organization Brings Criticism. Special Dispatch to The Star COLUMBUS, Ohto, September 1 A cloud appeared this week in the fair skies that smiled on Republican affairs | in this State following the agrecment in State campaign committee last week composing apparently the conflicting interests of the Hoover and Wiilis fac- tions, when a movement was started to ereate a special organization to look aiter the interests of Hoover in the State regular State v D. Silver is It would, of course, expect to receive and expend the funds sel apart by the Republican national com- mittee for use in Ohio, and from the | very first caused suspicion and dis- . This feeling 18 shared by many oover's friends here and they are | urging that the movement be dropped, | as not only unnecessary but likely to | GOV. DONAHEY OF OM10, the State by .«In_vlni~ State convention at Col ALABAMAG.0.P. lumbus. Who caused a stir among Democrats of away from the cause party friction. Caught in *he doldrums of a heat wave that has hung all the week over the State, Ohio has largely suspended political activity. G. O. P. Chairman Sllver and Harry G. Brunner of the Democratic committee have kept closs to their offices, devising plans and see- ing only such party leaders as chanced to call. There ~vere no conferences. The State fair, a % eat annual event for the farmers, has been in session all week, but the farmer visitors were mos in a picnic frame of mind and not inclined to discuss politics Chairman Silver, taking advantage of the hot weather, arranged for distrib tion of palm leaf fans bearing the words. “Vote for Hoover and Cooper” (Republican candidate for governor among the State fair visitors, but it was promptlv stopped by the director of the fair, Charles V. Truax, who hap- pens to be the Democratic opponent of Senator Fess for the regular term as United States Senator—on the ground that it was against the rules to lend the State fair to aid any political movement. | Republicans in this State are at| some disadvantage, so far as prohi- | i- | bitlon functions as an issue in the| campaign, from the fact that there i not an outstanding Republican news- paper in the State that is for prohi- | ition. For this reason there is mnot | a recognized blican organ in the | State that did not find something | commendable to speak of editorially fn the acceptance address of Gov. Smith. It does not mean that they ! are all supporting Gov. Smith: but | they are certainly getting off on the wrong foot if the wet and dry issue is | to cut any considerable figure in the | Toledo Blade, from the days of | David R. Locke to the present time, has been a crusader for temperance. Long before the days of the Anti- Saloon League, the Blade was fighting the saloon under the slogan “Paralyze the Rum Power.” Locke has been dead many years, butn until '1'?«:““& 3‘\: ne T y remaine lnm'm‘lwlmfl)?m ll’: is now owned by Paul Block, who owns a string of news- rs and lives at Jersey City, where has a newspaper. Naturally he has the Eastern view of the wet and dry issue and his influence is seen in the editorial columns of the Blade, where one now reads commendatory refer- ences to Gov. Smith's stand on pro- hibition. All the newspapers of Toledo are with Gov. Smith on prohibition. 1f newspapers have any influence at | all, this cannot but help the Demo-T arsts in the campaign. But the re- sult of the. State primary election of the 14th may be used in sup- port of the premise that the news- s of the State do not control po« litical sentiment, for as a general ruie the candidates who had newspaper support were defeated. Democrats of the State will n;mm nmed measure be venturing upon new in the campaign, for in_the last four years death has made heavy inroads upon the ranks of the leaders and those 10 whom they looked for advice and di- rection. Among thoss who have died since the last national campaign was fought are Govs. James E. Campbell and Judson Harmon, National Commit- teeman E4. H. Moore of Youngstown, James Ross of Columbus, Thomas A. Nostor of Cincinnati, John A. Dwyer of Toledo, William L. Pinley of Kenton and Michael A. Daugherty of Lancaster —the death of the latter taking place this week. ting former Senator Atlee Pomerene and former Representa- tive George White, the party is without outstanding leaders. Gov. Smith found it impossible to at- { -~ SGORES A POINT Ballot Will Contain Names of Former Democratic 1 Loyalists. [ Special Dispateh to The Star MONTGOMERY, Ala., September 1 —Alabama Republicans have surren- dered to former Democrats who are di- rected by the Ku Klux Klan, with that once-hooded organization Kkeeping as /much in the background as possible. | | Appearing under the Republican em- | blem on the Alabama ballot this Fall | will be the names of men and women who have always stood by Democratic | nominees. | | The trick was turned in a meeting | of the State Republican executive com- | mittee in Birmingham Thursday or, to | be more exact, the meeting ratified | agreements previously reached betwecr old-line party men and the new re cruits. The move is expected to sim- | plify matters for the bolting voter who | {can thus vote against the Democrati | nominee in the simplest and most effective way. | With the question of a place on the | ticket settled and other differenccs | ironed out, the Republican machine is | proceeding aggressively to lay plans for capturing the Alabama electoral vote Aided by defections from the Demo- | cratic party, the outlook has taken on a rosy hue ‘where heretofore in presi- | dential elections years it was simply a | matter of capturing a county here and | an_office there. Plans have been made by the newly f{ocmed “Anti Smith Democratic” organ- lzzdon, which is pledged to support Herbert Hoover, to organize every county in the State. Meetings have been held or scheduled for the more | populous centers and the rural sections will be reached later. This work has | been left almost entirely to the ultra- | drys and anti-Catholic element, whue} the regulars are busying themselves with headquarters. In Democratic circles for. the first time since the State government was wrested from carpet bag and negro con- trol, the party leaders have become con- cerned. Beginning with a State-wide meeting at the Grand Theater in Mont- gomery August 25, when Representative Oliver delivered the keynote'speech, old political warhorses are sniffing battle in the offing. Practically every section of the State was represented at this rally and the reaction is fully up to ex- pectations. Young Democrats through- out the State are being organized and the campaign is taking on a tone not witnessed voters who have been marching to the polls in one-sided elec- tions for more then half a century. One development affecting Democrats during the week was the statement given out by Senator J. Thomas Heflin from his home in Lafayette, pointing out to Democrats a way to bolt and retain their party allegiance. The Sena- tor, however, declined to say that he | would take that step. | With the perfection of State organ- izations during the next few days, the hustings in Alabama will soon be ring- ing with political oratory. | campaign has “blown up.” THE SUNDAY DEMOCRATS LOOSE Speakers Will Visit Every County and City in the State. | Epectal Dispatch to The Star RICHMOND, , September 1. | virginia’s Democratic campaign reached the spellbinder stage this week with Harry St. George Tucker, Representative from the tenth congressional district S. Otis Bland, Representative from the {irst_congressional district, and Aubrey . Strode, former State Senator from the Amherst-Nelson district and a lead- ing prohibitionist, taking to the hust- ings to speak in behalf of Smith and Robinson. From now on until the No- vember election. the State Democratic | committee will keep a large corps of speakers in the fleld and every county and city will be visited, some of them several times 3 ‘The Republican speaking campaign appears to be somewhat delayed in get- ting started, but Joseph C. Schaffer. United States district attorney, who is opposing W. H. Rouse, Democrat, for Congress from the ninth district, will deliver his opening campaign address at Pulaski Labor day. Mr. Rouse will open his campaign with an address at Jonesville September 10. Democrats of the district are planning & big rally at Jonesville and in addition to Mr. Rouse, there will be speeches by Gov. Harry F. Byrd and retiring Representative George C. Peery The bolters who are supporting the Anti-Smith” campaign " of Bishop James Cannon. jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, are holding various meetings over the State. While these gatherings are not as largely at- tended as similar meetings earlier in the campaign, the enthusiasm of the audiences seems unabated Democrats declare that They point to the fact that the effort against the Democratic nominees has not resulted in causing a single Democrat of State- wide political prominence to leave the party. They also comment on the fact that in the early stages of the cam paign, 2,500 people attended a Can- non-Hoover rally in Petersburg, while a similar rally held lately in Richmond was attended by less than 250 persons. Bishop Cannon is now in Belgium attending an anti-Catholic conference. He is expected back shortly and when he returns the Anti-Smith campaign will take on renewed vigor. So far the Republicans seem to prefer to keep quiet and let the Democrats and the bolters fight it out R. L. C. BARRET. DEMOCRATS PLAN HARMONY DINNER Former Senator Blair Lee and Gov. Ritchie to Be at ° Frederick Gathering. Special Dispatch to The Star FREDERICK, Md.. September 1 Harmony will be restored to Western Maryland Democratic ranks when the Junior Democratic Club holds its an- nual dinner and meeting at Hagerstown September 11. Former Senator Blair Lee, Senator William Cabell Bruce, David J. Lewis, Democratic congressional nominee of the sixth district; Dr. J. Hubert Wade, an anti-Ritchie Democrat of Washing- ton County, and other prominerit mem- bers of the party from Montgomery, Carroll, Frederick, Washington, Alleg- hany and Garrett Countles will attend. In addition to those named Gov. Al- bert C. Ritchie and Secretary of State David C. Winebrenner, chief organizer of the club, will speak. It will be former Senator Lee’s first political activity since 1916 when he retired. Both Senator Bruce and Mr. Lewis apposed him in his last fight. Emory L. Coblentz, who is being named as possible gubernatorial candi- dluunl the party in 1930, will be toast- master, WASHINGTON STATE - VIRGINIA ORATORY the Cannon STAR, WASHINGTON, REPRESENTATIVE TUCKER, One of the Democratic spelibinders who are speaking in Virginia in behalf of the presidential ticket. DEFECTIONS LOOM IN'WEST VIRGINIA | Republicans Uneasy Over| Colored Voters’ Support of Smith. | | | | | Special Dispatch to The Star. CHARLESTON, W. Va., September 1 {~A campaign development that is | causing Republican leaders much un- | easiness has to do with Smith senti- | ment among the colored people. . Thi; | 1s & very unusual condition in West Vir ginla and contains a threat to party success, for the colored voters hold the { balance of political power in the State {and heretofore have been tractable in | thetr Republican habits The past week a local colored Smith organization opened headquarters in a prominent office bujding and claims to | already have a membership of about 200, In Marion County, home of Senftor Neely, where there are 2,234 colored voters, similar activity is re- ported. There are approximately colored voters in the State, which is normally 50,000 Republican. It is esti- mated that not morethan 5 per cent of the colored vote was ever lost to the Republican party in presidential elections. Therefore, the desertion this year is of prime party concern and an extra effori is Yo b¢ made to compose the trouble. Added to a liking by the | colored voter: for Smith's personality and his positic.1 on the Klan and prohi- Sp recelving enough recognition from the dominant party. The citizens of foreign extraction, too, are not so largely Republican this year. There are in the neighbarh®od of 18,000 Italian voters who in the main have favored Republican policies and tickcts. Smith will cut deeply into this strength. In Charleston and else- where in the State, leading Republican Jewish citizens are openly for the Democratic nominee. This movement is especially strong in the capital. It is impossible at this stage of the campaign to truly balance defections and accessions, but there is good ground for believing that the Demo- cratic women alone who have forsaken Smith for Hoover outnumber by far the colored voters who have left their party reservation. It is significant that the Democratic national committee is not claiming West Virginia even as a possibility, although some misinformed political writers persist in classing the State as doubtful. West Virginia is almost as depend. ably Republican as Pennsylvania. Only jonce in 32 years has her electoral vot: {gone to a Democrat for President, ars | that was in 1912 when Roosevelt split the party. In that year the Republic- an candidate for governor, Dr. H. D. | Hatfield, who is opposing Senator Neely |in this campaign, was elected. LYNN KIRTLAND. DEMOCRATS PROTEST - WHEELER ACTIVITIES Minnesotans 65,000 | bition, is & grievance that they are not | D. C. SEPTEMBER SMITH STILL MUM ON STUMP PLANS |Itinerary Reported Studied, | but Governor Maintains Silence. | Special Dispateh to The Star. | ALBANY, N. Y., Scptember 1.—Prob- inbxy the greatest general interest in | National political affairs in New York | State this week centers in the campaign | plans of Gov. Smith. 1t is an interest | which 1s undoubtedly shared by a large part of the country, for voters every- | where are wondering whether they are | | to have an opportunity to see and hear | { | the Empire State's colorful chief execu- | | tive as he campaigns for the presi- | | dency 1 September has come and still not | |one definite announcement has been made as to a single speaking engage- ment or “stump” plan of the Demo- cratic candidate. During the week it was said that at _the National head- quarters in New York train schedules were being studied and tentative itin- eraries being worked out. Three definite routes were reported to have been set up, but still there was a complete silence on the part of all, including the gov- ernor. One of these tentative schedules is said to have contemplated & swing across the continent to the Pacific, with | State of California. Only two things |are certain about the Smith cam- paign, and these are the unwillingness of | the governor to speak out of doors and | his desire to rely to an extent never }m‘fnre contemplated upon the radio to reach the voters, Rans Train Speeches. It the governor has his way, and he | speeches, nor will there be any great open air mass meetings to be addressed by him. His voice can not stand the strain of outdoor speaking, he holds, and above all things he wants to have | governor has said, are, in his mind, the | most important of the entire drive, and he wants to be able to speak then as he has never spoken before. Aside from the uncertainty and the growing restlessness as to the gov- ernor's cam) itinerary, the out- standing political event of the week seemed to be a decidely vigorous crop of claims of electoral votes for the two candidates by their managers. To the ordinary observers, it appeared to be a bit early to be counting electoral votes, even in American politics, where the roseate hues of pre-election prognos- tications are traditional. vigorously with John J. Raskob, Democratic na tional chairman, claiming no less than 309 out of the 531 electoral votes for Smith. As was to be expected, the reaction in G. O. P. quarters was almost in- stantaneous. “Ridiculous” was the characterization of the claim by West- ern Republican leaders who called at Hoover headquarters in New York im- mediately after the Raskob prediction was published. They declared that several States included in the Raskob claim were sure to be Republican, men- tloning specifically Oklahoma, Ne- | braska, Colorado, Wyoming, Nevada | and Minnesota. L, C. Hinkle, State chairman for Wyoming, denied that Smith had a chance there, where their chief interests are those on which the Republican party has made a clear and satisfactory record. See Hope In South. More than that, most of the leaders professed to feel that Hoover has an excellent chance of breaking into the solid South. 5 of chasing rainbows in ther sections of the country, the Democratic managers would do well to | take steps for the preservation of the solidarity of the South,” was the com- ment of Senator George H. Moses, Eastern director of the Hoover-Curtis campaign. Then Senator Moses got in his own | electoral vote prediction. Hoover will get no less than 276 with more prob- able, he sald. The necessary majority for a cholce is 266 and he proceeded to particularize, just as Mr. Raskob had. At any rate, he declared, the Repub- licans would not cease their campaign because Mr. Raskob has announced that the whole thing is “in the bag."” | Gov, Smith has always been popular | with labor Interests in his own State. ! By the Associated Press 5 'ROBINSON COMPLETES two or three speeches in Hoover's own | is one who has been in the habit of | | doing so, there will be no train platform { | & perfect speaking voice for the end of | ilhe campaign. The last 10 days, the ! But never- | o 1928-PART 1. SAYS DRYS IN MISSOURI WILL VOTE FOR HOOVER Prohibition Party Leader Declares His Group Will Withdraw Candidates in State. KANSAS CITY, September 1.—H. P. Faris of Clinton, Mo., Prohibition party candidate for President in 1924 and member of the party's national com- mittee this year, today announced that in Missouri this year the Prohibition party -would withdraw its candidates and unite with the Republicans to work for the defeat of Gov. Alfred E. Smith. Mr. Faris was here today on his way home from Chicago, where the execu- tive committee of his party met yester- day, and by a vote of 4 to 3 decided net to withdraw its candidates from the | presidential race. Mr. Faris favored | the withdrawal, but was outvoted. | He added that prohibition tickets | would be kept in the fleld in ail States not considered doubtful, as between the Republicans and Democrats. SOUTHERN TRIP PLANS | Schedules Speech Tomorrow Dallas—To Discuss Labor in and Campaign. By the Assoclated Press. | LITTLE ROCK, September 1-—Prepa- | rations were completed today by Sen-| ator Robinson for his political invasion of the Southland, which will start the first of the week with a speech in Dal- | las, Tex H He spent a busy day in the privacy of | his law office going over plans for the | too occupied with this to The vice presidenttal nominee will leave tomorrow night, ar- riving in Dallas the following morning. Inasmuch as Monday is Labor Day. a | | considerable part of his address will be devoted to a discussion of the Demo- |cratic party's attitude toward labor, a | subject which was not referred to in his | acceptance speech at Hot Springs. i Aside from this question, it is known | he is considering addresses on two other subjects—the qualifications of .Gov. | Smith for the presidency, and second, | what the Senator describes as the | “whispering campaign.” | It is regarded as probable that his speech on the Democratic presidential nominee will be delivered Tuesday i Cisco, Tex., and that the other subject | which was referred to by him in his ad- | | dress at the Lonoke home-coming cele- | | bration yesterday will be discussed | | sometime"during his tour of the South. | | 'WISCONSIN PRIMARY | | IS LIVELY BATTLE| Progressives and Opponents Seek | | Control—La Follette Renomi- | | nation Conceded. | By the Associated Press. MILWAUKEE, Wis., September 1.— | | The perennial struggle between La | | Follette Progressives and their op- | | ponents - awaits the decision of the | voters in the primary election Tuesday. The governorship and the Senate seat of Robert M. La Follette are the major offices around which the old struggle for supremacy has been waged by the two factions. Greatest activity has been shown in the race for the | Republican nomination for governor, in which the old factional lines have been | disturbed by the presence of Gov. Fred i R. Zimmerman, playing a lone hand in | his attempt. to repeat his triumph of | two years ago. Joseph D. Beck,' Progressive, and Walter Jadok Kohler, | self-styled ~“liberal,” claim & strong | chance for election. Obscured by the gubernatorial race |is the contest for the Republican | nomination for the United States | Senate. Opposed by George W. Mead, Wisconsin Rapids capitalist and manu. facturer, who entered the race a month | | ago, Senator La Follette has shown little concern for the outcome of the primary, apparently confident of & vic- ::Isry that is generally conceded will be | In addition to the major contests the | primary also will settle a fight between the two factions, Progressive and con- servative, for nominations for the 11 seats in Congress, now held by 10 Progressives and 1 Soclalist, and control of the Legislature, | TENNESSEE SMITHITES CHOICE AT $98 Closed All Day Labor Day Mon., Sept. 3rd % - = b 10-Piece and large, roomy chest. v 10-Pi A 3-pie with magazine rack and ¢ base and shade and smok furnish. i A complete’ Bedroom at a very moderate price. 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At | its biennial session here during the | Club Opens Headquarters in Nash-| CAMPAIGN QUIET sent his regrets and went to the State camp grounds on Lake Erie, where he claimed he had a previous engagement Probably never before was there a Demccratic State convention held in Columbus when there was a Democratic National Issues Play No Part for the present. But his friends ex- in Contests for Nomi- pect that after the November election, in whicl t to see the party | E o e Cully defeated, there will ‘be & | nations. urning to the governor as the one btnty governor not present to speak. At the executive offices, it was sald that flt\: overnor had prepared & message "hv convention which Representative Begg would read, but he did not. Mr. Begg said he forgot it. Evidently the break between the governor and the | organization of his party is complete fitted 10 assume again the command of ! the party in the State. Ly che Apabeiiiet 1 The statements of campaign eX-' pEpTROIT September 1.—Michigan Tequired by law show that|penni i SO paign, featured | Cooper and Begg for the Re-| romination for governor spent | zbout 0,000, Cooper's being a little rss than Begg's—rather large sums for Btate. This caused some unfavor- but it does not appear { the law governing red. ‘There 15 no y spent, but no one can mainly by a fight for the Republican nomination for governor, came virtu- ally to a close tonight will be cast Sensator publisher, is unopposed for renomina- ! tion, and his Democratic opponent, 10 per cent of the 5alary | yayor john W. Balley of Battle Creck which in this case would | 315" is “without opposition. Generally J. H. GALBRAITH. |pe Democrats have entered but one candidate for each office. MONTANA DEMOCRATS | Virtuslly b o by Gearge W, MAY SHUN RUM ISSUE Welsh, former lieutenant governor, op- : | publican gubernatorial _nomination i et 50 T | National tsues did not enter the cam- eklgoribisn e | palgn. Welsh assailed Gov. Green | HELENA, Mont, Seplember | e [his aaministration, charging fatlure o D et Wednesday, may | {ullill campaign promises and neglect called —y nesday, may | o hway construction despite in- to m i |oMce two years ago ot risd Candidates for lieutenant governor o endenvor | members of Congress and of the State L ague AN Y and similar | Legislature also are to be nominated ol R i s L, Al Michigan's incumbent Congress- o November, on all Republicans, are seeking re o e Gtate dry | nomination, with perhaps the keenest e wiped from the | campaign in the ninth district, where S ol e o e | the vetcran, Reptesentative MeLaughlin yeare g0 on et in | opposed for renomination by R e Cluid were caught napping, and | Glenn Dunn of Mulkzlun’uilxglw T‘m are getting behind Rank a bone-dry | Claude Miller Curtlss of uding! “II),Y Representative Clancy 1s now United Btates district N is a former atlorney general the State. While in the latter office, Lete liguor enforcement squad was | first district, | 15 opposed The election | will be held Tuesday, and indications | are that, lacking contests, a light vote Vandenberg, Grand Rapids posing Gov. Pred W. Green for the Re- L touch on the UAUor 1560€ | oreased taxation for that purpose s the campaign | OFeen replied by claiming a (reasury " |surplus against a deficit when he took opposed | foriner Reprosentative Bosnosé! in the . Representative McLeod by John G. Jefferson in the thirteenth; Representative Ketcham by Loomis K. Preston of Bt. Joseph in the | Republican Leaders See Either | Landslide or Hotly Con- | tested Fight. Special Dispatch to The Star. | _ BEATTLE, Wash, September 1.— | Republican leaders after getting their | | reports from every section of the State | | this week, declare that Herbert Hoover { will either carry this State by a land- | slide which will overshadow the vote given Calvin Coolldge two years ago, or the contest will be so close that it s problematical. This prediction is based upon a care- ful analysis backed by scout reports. The registration s unusually heavy in | | the cities. These are avowedly wet. At he same time there is a tremendous | woman vote registered both inside and | outside of the cities, the women in the | rural districts being heavily registered, | while the male vote is not yet qualified. | This woman vote. while considered | anti-Democratic, is the problem in the | citles where the male vote is considered | against the Volstead act. Republican | women, with working organizations in | every county, are confident that 75 per | cent of the women will support Hoover. | On the other hand there is a wide | breach In Republican ranks, with both men and women, on the gubernatorial situation, with a fear being expressed that & bolt of the Republican guberna- torlal ticket looms ahead and this may be 80 strong that straight ticket voting might carry Smith into the zone dan- gerous to the success of the national | ticket. Outside of political gatherings, it is | hard to obtain any general expression of opinion, although straw ballots show Hoover well in the lead JAMES DE K. CRASH WITH INSPECTOR BRINGS 15-DAY TERM| Alexandrian Pleads Guilty to Reck- | a BROWN. less Driving—Intoxication Case Pending. Alton H. Brown, 24, 420 South Wash- ington strect, Alexandria, Va., who col- lided with the automobiie of Inspector Albert J. Headley on Water street, last Wednesday, was sentenced to 15 days in jail by Judge John P. McMahon yes- terday for reckless driving, 1ally active and it 15 said his cam According to the testimony, the two e Ti"5e devoted Inrgely to agvo- | fourth, and Represcntative Hudson by | cars were golng in opposite directions ting re-employment of such a force, | Robert H. Cook of Detrolt in the Sixth. | when Brown’s machine swerved out of Y was abolished by the wet vietory | But three Democrats were entered in|jine and a head-on colllsion resulted 26 | Representative Hudson's district, but | rhe young man was cut about the face Hence, since they must back e wet | Representatives — Michener, = HOODEr, | und arms by broken glass, but Inspector e e candidate. It is felt likely | Mapes, Cramton, Vincent, Woodruff, | Jiadios' escaped injury H 1 Democrats assemble | Bohn and James are unopposed for re- Brown pleaded not gullty whep first y will ignore the liquor | nomination arraigned Thursday, and the case wis They cannot indorse | . continued to summons mmnun:x wlv& and back Al Smith ! nesses, Yesterday, however, he change: without stultifying themselves More- Japan's Motor Industry. his plea to guilty and was sentenced ove little thunder left in | Japan has but two automobile fac A charge of driving while intoxieated. 0 ankin has stolep it al toriex. one of which is under govern- | upon which he demanded a jury trial, L M TRAYER ment supervision, is pending against Brown, Special Dispatch to The Star. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., September 1 ~~Hot protests have been sent from the Minnesota Democratic organization to national headquarters in New York, objecting to the activities of Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana in the State. The Montana Senator, who | came into Minnesota as a special rep- resentative of the national committee to start organization of independent Smith. clubs, undertook to engineer a deal in the interests of Senator Henrik Shipstead, lone Farmer-Labor member of the upper house. . Senator Shipstead is up for re-elec- tion and has avolded any expression of preference as to President, hoping to draw_support from both Republicans and Democrats. Senator Wheeler, how- ever, proposed that the Democratic committee withdraw its senaforial can- didate, George F. Cashman, in favor of Shipstead, as a move to bring the Farmer-Labor vote in line Smith. ‘This proposal was flatly rejected, Mr. Cashman is beginning an active cam- paign and is speaking for Smith, espe- clally praising his stand on prohibition. This is bringing him support from the wets, who helped elect Senator Ship- stead 6 years ago. The Republican nominee, Arthur E. Nelson, is an out- n!amflng dry. Senator Shipstead caters to neither side, but is likely to lose support both ways. CHARLES B. CHENEY. COMMITTEE 6F LAWYERS TO AID SMITH CAMPAIGN John W. Davis Heads Organization, With Assistants Named for All Parts of Country By the Associated Press NEW YORK, September 1. John W Davis, Democratic candidate for Pres!- dent in 1924, will head & nailonal com- mittee of lawyers, now being formed, (o advance the candidacy of Gov. Smith, it was announced at Democratie na- tional headquarters today. Judge Joseph R. Jackson, formerly of the Bupreme Court of Montana, and now practicing law in New York, will be executive secretary For purposes of forming the commit- tee, the country has been divided into sections, and Mr, Davis' assistants will be: Homer Cummings, for New Eng- land; Roland 8. Morris, Philadelphia, for the Atlantic States; W. Gregory, Houston, for the Old South; Atlee Pom- erene, for the Middle West, Bamuel W. Fordyce, for the Central States; Thom- s J. Walsh, for the Western States, and Charles 8. Cushing, S8an Francisco, for the Pacifiec Coast Japanese Red Cross. In Japan there are 2,500,000 mem- bers of the Japanege Red Cross, for " Gov. | week, the legislative board of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen of the State indorsed the gavernor’s candidacy, declaring the governor always to have been “an out- standing friend of labor.” Then at its sixty-fifth annual con- vention in Rochester, the State Federa- tion of Labor adopted a resolution pledging the “sincere and energetic” support of organized labor in New York to the governor's candidacy. The in- troduction of the resolution was the signal for a real demonstration. THOMAS €. STOWELL. HARRISON REPORTS SOUTH STILL ‘SOLID’ Senators Glass, Swanson Fletcher Confer on Status and of Democrats. By the Associated Press A check-up on political conditions in the South was made here yesterday by Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi for the information of the Democratic national committee, and when he had concluded he predicted the usual Demo- cratic victories in Southern States. Bringing with him from committee headquarters in New York the informa- tion recetved there through numerous sources he placed it before Senators Fletcher of Florida and Glass and Swanson of Virginia, receiving in ex- change reports on conditions based on information which had reached them “I have no doubt at all about the usual result of national elections in the South, and next November will be no cceptiol Senator Fletcher declared. ‘Senator George's speech at Tampa a week ago did a great deal of good, and {1 will have the pleasure of introducin Senator Robinson, vice presidential candidate, when he speaks at Jackson- ville on the 14th. He will speak at Miami on the 17th." Senators Glass and Swanson sald they stood on the statement of Senator Harrison, GROUP BACKS SMITH Colored Organization Formed in Georgia to Aid Democrat. . VALDOSTA, Cia., September 1 () — The Valdosta Times sald today that an “Al Bmith for President Lea Was organized here last night at a rally of colored residents of this city. Resolu~ tions were adopted nondnmn&u the Re- publican attitude toward the colored people and commending Smith's views on_prohibition and other issues Dr. L, W. Willlams, a local colored leader, was made chalrman of the league, ville—Republicans Also Organizing. Special Dispatch to The Star. | MEMPHIS, Tenn, September 1.— | Encouraged by reports that Tennessee | Democrats are fast interesting them- | selves in the presidential campaign, the | State Smith-for-President Club Wed-‘ nesday opened headquarters in Nash- ville and announces that a strong fight | {will be made. Its president is Judge John A. Pitts, a veteran Democrat | who, incidentally, is remembered as one | of the leaders in the prohibition fight | in Tennessee. There 1s no disaffection among | Democratic leaders of the State. In| fact, one of the novel bits of news of ! the Summer came out of the Demo- cratic State committee meeting last week when the factions that fought to the knife in the recent campaign for | governor and Senator got together and buried the hatchet. While this was go- | ing_on, the Republican nominee for governor, Raleigh 8. Hopkins, called a fellow Republican a bad name and got | stabbed In the arm » Nashville is taking all the play in ‘Tennessee politics just now. While the Smith-for-President Club and the Re- publicans are organizing, an independ- ient Hoover movement s also under | way, headed by Bishop Horace M. DuBose, presiding officer of the three Tennessee Methodist Conferences, As- soclated with him are severnl leading Nashville minister THOMAS FAUNTLEROY. MOVING. 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