Evening Star Newspaper, September 5, 1928, Page 5

"'HE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1928. 6. 0.7 FACES FIGHT {FRNEW ENELAND Wet Sentiment Encourages Hopes of Democrats to Nose Out Victory. By the Associated Press 3 BOSTON, September 5.—Going about fts political chores with a native de- liberation. most of New England is now beginning to give serious attention to the national issues which awakened pther,. sections of the country weeks - where the State election takes place Monday. none of the States of this northeasternmost group has emerged from that prelim- inary stage -ef the campaign in which State tickets are selected and local alignments perfected for the test in November. But already certain visible signs point to Massachusetts as focal point of the impending and to prohibition and econc ity as the issues to be kept the voters All six of pt for Maine before New England States epublican nom- v with almost Two of them. Maine and Vermont. have long since come to be regarded as strongholds of confirmed Republicanism. New Hamp- shire is Jooked upon with hope by some rats, who take historical com- fort from the fact that Wilson ear- ried it against Hughes in 1916, but no Republican leader classes it as even debatable in 1928 Of the six this leaves Connecticut. Rhode Is and Massachusetts, all of which at this early period of the campaign present some puzzling factors Wet Sentiment Is Aid. Briefly. the Democratic hope of break- the Republican solidarity of New England in this year's presidential cam- paign may be said to rest primarily on these considerations: Connecticut and Rhode Island have been hotbeds of anti- ition senttment and are the only tes in the Union that never ratified the prohibition amendment. Rhode Is- | 1and has a wet Democratic Senator who | has been once re-elected. Massachu- | setts has a divided record on prohibi- | tion and has elected and re-elected a | wet Democratic Senator, who also is a | Catholic. The Democrats feel sure, fur-! thermore, that they have little to fear from the religious issue in any of these three States, for in each one Catholics make up a very large percentage of the | ton. On other hand, to win any of the | three th# Democrats must bring about wholesale changes from the presiden- | tial record of recent years. In Massa- chusetts in 1924 Coolidge polled a vote of 703,000. and the combined vote for Davis and La Follette was only 432,000. | In Connecticut the figures were 246.000 | for Cool . with 152,000 divided be- tween Davis and La Follette. Island gave Coolidge 125.000 and Davis and La Pollette together 34,000. The Republican leaders, taking assurance | from this record. figure that the votes are there if they can be got out. and are preparing to meet the Democratic enslaught by organizing every precinct Appeal for Prosperity. All over New England, whose life essentially industrial = . Republican speakers -are appealing for the regularity a continua tion under Hoover of the Coolidge in- However much they | may have been smothered by other issues in other parts of the country. such | points as the tarift, | prosperity” an iness ex- pansion are kept constantly in the at-| tentions of the New Englander. In the Jukil and factory ceterk which .d;;; w England map. empioyer alike are advised by the Hoaver | THE LOW SALE PRICES LIFETIME FURNITURE ]worken never again to intrust their fortunes to a Democratic administration at Washington. Judging by the past, Republican | managers express confidence that before {election day ihis sort of argument will win back, even in wet States, such Re- publican voters as may have been car- ried off by the first wave of enthusiasm vhich followed announcement of Gov. Smith's modification program. They de however, ng Island the Republican organization must face a ticket carrying the names both of Gov. Smith and of Senator Gerry, up for re-election again after 12 years in the Senate, and having a special interest in the success of the national ticket by virtue of his responsibilities as chairman of the national Democratic campaign advisory committee. Connecticut has had no Democratic_Senator since 1876, but did choose a Democratic governor for two terms more than a decade ago. Massachusetts is the biggest stake of all. She has 18 electoral votes. and all of the other New England States put together have but 26. It is here that the heaviest battle forces of both parties will be concentrated, and no State along -he Atlantic seaboard, save New York, seems more certain to be on the stumping itineraries of both presidential nominees. | It is expected here, too, that President Coolidge will visit his home State at some time during the campaign, and whether he makes a speech or not, will lend his presence to his party’s workers. STRATON ATTACKS SMITH IN ATLANTA Defends Ministers in Discussing “Moral Issues From Pulpit” Dur- ing Address to Women. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Ga. September 5.—Dr. John Roach Straton, New York city, 1 an address here last night attacked the candidacy of Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York for the presidency, de- fended ministers who discuss “moral issues from the pulpit” and repeated his offer to debate with Gov. Smith in the South. Speaking to an assembly in the City | Auditorium. announced as sponsored by the “woman’s division, anti-Al Smith committee,” Dr. Straton discussed his recent refusal to debate with Gov. Smith in Calvary Church. “There are two places Al Smith can't go, politically speaking,” said Dr. Straton, “Calvary Baptist Church, New York city, and the White House in ‘Washington.” Dr. Straton’s address came after pas- sage of a resolution expressing disap- proval of “certain recent actions of the State Democratic executive committee— that in sending delegates to the Hous- ton convention, without consulting the people of Georgia, the State executive committee not only acted without au- | thority, but absolved every Democrat in Georgia from any duty to support the action of that convention.” Dr. Straton said the Democratic party can't hope to win with a covenant with death and an agreement with hell as represented in its candidate.” He said he had “no personal ill will toward Mr. Smit! Textile Man Supports §mith. | Special Dispatch to The Star. DANVILLE, Va. September 5.—H. R. Fitzgerald of this city, president of the | American Cotton Manufacturers’ Asso- ciation, came out today for Gov. Smith. “I do not believe.” he says, “that our people realize that in the religious in- tolerance so commonly and employed against Goy. Smith there lies & subtle poison to democracy.” Jumping upon a France, a cat knock revolver, which discharged a boy that was asleep in bed. on ‘iDemocratic Outlook Even 217 SMITH VOTES SURE, SAYS RASKOB, Brighter Than Last Week, I He Declares. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 5.—John J."; Raskob, Democratic national chairman, sald yesterday on his return from the Robinson notification at Hot Springs, Ark., that the Democratic outlook is| | even brighter now than it was last week | | when he said in St Alfred E. Smith would get 309 electoral votes. | En route East, he said, he was a: sured that Gov. Smith would carry Ilii- | nois and Indiana and also Ohio, if his acceptance speech appealed to farmers as much as State leaders believed it had. “There were States with 185 electoral | votes with which I was not familiar | enough to make any prediction wh I gave out that St. Louis statemen he said. I said that we expected to | get at ieast 100 of those. These three States, Ilinois, Indiana and Ohio, were | included in that 100." | Sees 277 Votes Certain. | In discussing an analysis of the States by Senator George H. Moses of New ! Hampshire, vice chairman of the Re- ublican Eastern advisory committee, ‘hairman Raskob said that Gov. Smith would receive at least 277 electoral votes | “If you give the South to Smith,” he | said, “plus Oklahoma, Tennessee and | K.e'il:ucky. that makes 149 electoral | Vo | “Senator Moses does not claim Ari- | | zona, Wisconsin, Montana, Maryland or | Missouri. There are 46 more vote: “Hardly anybody in the East at the | § minute thinks the Republican chances | are as good as the Democratic chances in New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey | N |and Rhode Island. There are | electoral votes. The total is 277 Feeling Against Prohibition. Mr. Raskob said he came back from | his trip with the belief that generally throughout the country tihe feeling is | that “prohibition does not prohibit.” J “Industrial leaders I come in contact with,” he said, “think that prohibition | is & good thing for the workingmen. but | don't believe in abstaining from drink ; themselves. Maybe that is all right, but | I don’t think it square with our scheme | of government, where all men are sup- | posed to have equal opportunities. i “I believe that generally throughout | ERVICE SATISFIES We Lay Our Own Goods Denlers in Armstrons Linoleums SUPERIOR LINOLEUM CO. 943 Eye St. N.W. 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T asked them particularly about the farm situa- | tion. They said that the number of | farmers who had their farms mortgaged to the limit was appalling ‘One lawyer told me he had In his| office 25 foreclosure cases that it was not worth while to bring up at all. | They told us that the prices of wheat and oats did not compare with the cost of producing them CAPT. KEANE RESIGNS. The President has accepted the resig- of Capt. Daniel J. Keane United States Cavalry, recently sta- tioned at Fort Meade. S. Dak. Capt Keane is from Connecticut and served as a major of Cavalry. National Army. during the World War The first rayon factory in Rumania has just been established. nation clean and spot- ect credit upon this result for you cme Rug Renovators Sanitary Carpet & Rug Cleaning Co. 106 Indiana Av Millwork New Building Material Complete MAIN OFFICE-6™ & C.Sts. S.W. CAMP MEIGS-5™ & Fla. Ave.N.E. | BRIGHTWOOD-592I Ga. Ave. N.W. MOSES FORECASTS END OF TERM “SOLID SOUTH” Declares Hoover Fairly Certain of Carrying North Carolina and Border States. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, September 5. — United campaign in the East. declared yester- |day that the Republican nominee was | “fairly certain of carrying North Caro- {lina_and the border States and of giv- ing the Democrats such a scare for the future that the term solid South will | pass into the realm of the obsolete.” Senator Moses stopped here while en [route to New York long enough to confer with Fred N. Peck, national committeeman for Rhode Island, and Louis K. Liggett, national committee- man for Massachusetts. While the ! Senator expressed himself as reason- ably well satisfied with conditions in New England, he warned Republican leaders here that they could not afford | Hampshire, in charge of the Hoover |iq relax when faced by an opponent of the resourcefulness of Gov. Smith. 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