Evening Star Newspaper, September 9, 1928, Page 21

\ - DN MISSISSIPPI Chairman of State Hoover Committee Is Ap- pointed. Br the Associated P Republican chiefs are now turning | their eyes on the normaily overwh ingly Democratic State of M whose traditions have led in every p idential or State campaign to a virtual rain of anti-Republican ballots Appointment of Lamot Rowlands of Picayune, Miss, as chairman of the ways and means committee of Missis- &ippi for the Hoover camprign. was an- nounced yesterday at Republican na- tional committee headquarters. This was said to follow a docision to open a vigorous campaign in Mississipy “in_response to thous: from residents of the S Rowlands is mow in Jackson, Miss.. whore plans call for State headquarters to be opened Regarding reports that Rowlands was to replace Perry Howard as Republican national committeeman of Mississippi it was said on highest authority at na- tional headquariers. that no resignation of the post had been received from Howard and that the matter was en- tirely in the hands of the State organi- zation. Coincident with Rowlands' appoint- ment, the national committee publishod 8 report to Chairman Work kv former Representative Bennett, who represen ed a Harlem-Washington Heights dis- trict in New York in Congress for 12 ears and who now resides in Chicago, the effect that Hoover would carry Mississippi. COLORADO VOTERS FAIL TO REGISTER | wiisperns - Bhow Apathy Toward Tuesday Primary—Damocrats Con- ; fident of Victory. 8p-cial Dispatch to The Star. DENVER, Colo.. September 8.—Colo- rado has a primary election Tuesaay, but the fact does not seem to have reg- istored to any extent with the voters in the State if the word of the politicians | candidate for Pr THE SUNDAY STAR. | i -~ SMAITH'S HIGH TAX £ pet : ‘IDeclares While New York | | Revenues Increasqd Public Never Got Benefit, | By the Associated Press Scptember 8 —Oaden y cf the Treasury declared in an address here today that since Alired E. Sn ith first became Gov- ernor of New Yorg the revenues of th State have mcrcased from approxi mately $75.000.000 to $218.000,000, but that neither tax rduction nor payment | of the State debt had followed. Mills cited these figures in a discus- | sion of Smith's disputation of Repub- lican claims ot cconomy and tax red tion and derlared that the govers ot ver ocd posiiion-to criticize. | VDR CmARLES migyhARTON | “IOS N VELY S0 Bosion < ol { of Dover. Del, who September 4 Was | {4 has “beon caten up by increa | nominated in his heme town as the | opanditure: and. far from reducing { Democratic candidate for governor of | grl0 G T (R hurden of in- [ that Stats. -A. P. Photo. | jerest charges, under Gov, Smith it ha | | been found necessary { | of the farmer during the last eight years | !than during any other period in our y: and if a final solution has not ot been found, it has not been beca: f lack of gnod will or Jack of abilit but because ot 1 ility of the most able and best friends of the farmors th selves to agree on a solutiol i - - State- Secretary Prepares Analysis of Governor’s Appointments. Special Bispatch to The & ptember 8.— sprang sud- ['denly to the front of national politics New York State during this past | week with Gov. Smith. Demceratic | Gen:, as the cenural | though silent figur | Waen the governor a: were draw ezainst the | a picsidential candida inio tha light by the gover- nor’s running maie. Senator Rosinson | of Arkanses, in a cpirited defense of 5 personal drinking habit. the goveraor remained as well known sphinx. It X not the time for him to leap into the fray for the purpose of nailing the un- “Mountain Rule” on Gover- nership Is Big Issue for Republicans. the govern who are most vitally interested in the outcome of the balloting can be b(‘-} lieved. “Very apathetic” is the way | u‘L, describe the attitude of the pop- | ulacs. | Registration is lighter than for a number of years and the vote is e pected to be correspondingly small. Ab- | sence of any outstanding contest in either party is held to be largely re- sponsible for the lack of interest, but | since, under a newly enacted primary | law, voters must declare their party | gret‘erence before voting. party leaders | 2d hoped to get out a big vote for the | line 1t would give them on the probable | result of the November election, both | as to local and national candidates. | Leaders of the Democratic party still insist Al Smith wi'l give Hoover a good | li-king in Colorado. His visit to Denver | on September 22, when he is scheduled | ty speak i the municipal auditorium, | will, they assert. elinch th» victory for | him. On the cther hand. Papublican | leaders ere equally imistiz, They point out the faiiure of Hoover to schedule Coloado on his itinerary as | evidence that the biz guns of the party feel Colorado is safe for the G..O. P. The Democrats put another construc- tion on it. to wit: Hoover knows he can't beat Smith in Colorado and isn't | going to waste any time trying. | Senator Curtis is coming to Denver for a speech Scptember 24, but his stay | will be of less than a day's duration. Every straw vot> so far undertaken in | Colorado has given Gov. Smith the edge over the former Commerce Sec- | Tetary. . J.B.DAY. | G. 0. P. SEEMS SURE OF WYOMING VICTORY A A S | August Primary Vote Reveals Pre-| ponderance of Repub- lican Strength. | | | pecial Dispatch to The Star. CASPER, Wyo., September 8.—With the vote in the August primaries show- ing the strength of the Republican arty to be about two and a half tim:s | hat of the Democrats, leaders of the | Al Smith movement in Wyoming are | scratching their heads for means with | which to convrt a Republican majority | to the Democratic nominee. Aside from the presidential ‘race, 1m- terest in this State from a national as- | and_defend. have been dents and many presidential BURLINGTOY, Ceptember 8.— . The Republican voters of Vermont will Bui, if the governor was silent, he | declare next Tuesday whether they con- | was not inactive. This wos quickly | sider inviolable the so-called “mountain | evidenced by the fact that one of the | myle that has prevailed sinca 1841, and members of his State “cabinct,” Robert | the closely-connected policy, that cach | Moscs, secretary of State, let it be | governor should be limited to two years | krown that he had prepared an analy- ! of service. Until about the time of the | sis of the governor’s appointmonts with | Republican convention last May fo reference Lo their religious and politi- | choose dclegates to the national con- cal affliations. Out of 195 appoint- | tention, it was assumed that Gov, John ments investigated, it was found that| g weeks would retire at the end of his 47 were Catholics and 129 Proicstants, ' torm next Jenuary, in accordance with | 76 Democrais and 83 Republicans. The | this unwritten le that the office figuies were forwarded to the national | gnould alternate between the two con- committee for its use, and the mate- | pressional | districts, which are emed to be on hand (o spike at| rated by the Green Mountain ra least vhispers, that threat- | gyg thate seemed to b a considerabie ening “pri le” d. | demand that Gov. Weeks should be With the first of the gover-| gapt in office for another term in order nor's speakinz itin announced, the | {5 continue the work of rchabilitation governor began A fortnight's respite | forjowing the flood of last November. from things political. Organization be- | * This demand was recognized by Judge gan in at headquarters, with| gtanley C. Wilson of Cheisea, who was and professions to be handled as unils | Republican nomination in case a in certain sections of the country for | change was to b» made, and he with. organization purposes. | drew from the field. Gov. Weeks un-} Another feature of the Democratic | pouncing at the same time that if the (.»rganlza‘lnn work is th> preparation people wanted him to Ve annlhvl‘ for an auicntobile campaizn among | term, he would do so. This action made women of the country. This is con- | judge Wilson the most prominent can- | temploted by the bureau of women's| didate for the office of lieutenant gov- ectivities of the national commitiee. | ernor, the office being vacant at the Three cars will be furnished the women | present time because of the death of | by each State organization, according | Lieut. Gov. S. Hollister Jackson, who | to present plans, and it is hoped 10| st his life in the flood, and until about | reach a large proportion of the Woman | six weeks ago it had bzen generally ac- | voters before election day. | cepted that the Republican State ticket Keen intercst was shown in the ques- | would be Wecks and Wilson. tion of whether th2 governcr prope: The announcement by Ma to carry his speaking campaign to the | i Daavitt of Montpelier thai he w Pacific Coast or into any of the South- | pe a candidate for the Republican v em States. His first week’s itinerary | ination for governor at the primary called for specches during the week of | September 11 therefore occasioned some | Sepiember 15 at Omaha, Oklahoma | syrprise. Mayor Deavitt gives th2 City and Denver. He will be back in | mountain rule and the single term pol- New York State September 30, ready | jey as his principal reasons for entering for the Democratic State convention | the fieid. The new candidate 15 2t Rochester October 1 and 2. It is | years of age, a lawyer, was State treas- | gencraly believed that on one of his| yrer for cight years and s now serving 1(mmmi::n swings. he will invade at| his third term as meyor of Montpelier. | o States. | The Democrats also filed One of the mtcresting features of his | ticket for the primary, h-aded by H cemprign train will bS an exhaustive | ¢ Shurileft, a M economic libr: sclected for him by | as their candidate for governor, Thoy specialis's and covering the schecules | are enthusiastic for Al Smith and tnhere of prohibition, farm rclief. waterways, | j5 every reason to believe that the | tariT and other more or less comblex | governor will poll a larger vote in Ver- matters which he will have to discuss| mont next November than any cratic candidate for the presides | The governor intends to take an ac-| yeceived in many years. Prohibition tive part in the Siate campaign here. | will be made an issuc, at least in the | He has for some time been the actual| first congressional district, which | leader of the party in New York and| porders the State of New York and he intends to see that his stepding | which is much “wetter” than the east pect is centering upon the respective candidates for United States Senator. A | vote of approximatelv 29.500 for Repre- | sentative Charles E. Winter. Republican, | against 12.000 for United States Senator | o ks acs: & vicwory I Novermer 1or | EX-GOVERNOR FOSS | S ‘ the former. However, despite the pre- ponderance of Republican votes in the | primary, chiefs in the Democratic party | maintain that their cause is far from hopeless, and point to the fact the tota] primary vote 1s less than half of that cast in the presidential election four | Declares years ago. | Notwithstanding the undaunted cour- age of Smith adherents in this State. Republican leaders maintain that |'\” rimary vote is conclusive evidence epublican strength. not only assuring a substantial majority for Hoover. hut the election als of a Republican United Etates Senator and Representative EMMETT FULLER. PROHIBITION IS MADE ISSUE IN MONTANA Democratic Convention Fails to Back Imitiative on Anti- Liquor Laws. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. HELENA, Mont.. September 8.—Pro- hibition became fhe leading issue in Montana when the Democratic State convention in session here Wednesday fatly refused to indorse initiative No. 32 under which the drys of the State &eek to restore, in the comina election State anti-liquor laws. which were wiped off the statute bnoks by initia- tive two years agn. The resolution | offered 1n the convention hy former Gov Sam V. Stewart of Helena. long 2 dry leader, was defeatzd by an over- whelming aye and nay voie on a motion to_table. The wets apparently were in com- plete control ot fhe situztion and as the State Republican resolution recently indorsed No. 32, they expect to reap the dry vote in both parties, while the Democrats confidently expect wet de- fections from Republican ranks. The Democrats ousted W. W. Mc- Dowell of Butte. long a State chair- man and a dry, and elected Maj. Charles P Nevin of Butte. Th2 Demo- cratic platform indorses Smith and Robinsen and the State Democratic administration in reference to prohibi- tion. It recommends legislation to drive bootleggers from the vicinity of schools and churches and also to prevent the sale of liquor to minors. LOUIS M. THAYER. down frem the pilot house after a|side of the State during the years when | dozen vears will not leave the ship| Vermont had a local option” Jaw. The abandoned. Republican State committee has sensed | THOMAS C. STOWELL. | this enthusiasm for Gov. Smith and i | doing more campaign work than usual | in an effort to get out th> Rrpublican | there is no likelihood of Vermont going Democratic | ~united States Senator Frank L.! S VER ! Greene ‘and Representatives Eibert & T0 SUPPORT HOO ER‘ Erigham and Ernest W. Gibson vill | _— have no Republican opposition at the primary for Rtion, and the | . H or a rencemina N e Smith Wet Platform| only conteet in sight is that between . Wecks 2nd Deasitt. W, B. GATES. Would Set Nation Back i 50 Years. s o e | AL SMITH CLUBS | BOSTON. September 8.—Declarinz | | that the “election 01’ Gov. Smith on the | wet platform would set this Nation [ back 50 years.” former Gov. Eugene N. | Democrats Plan to Reach Every { Foss announced vesterday that he 3 X { would vote for Herbert Hoover for Town ani County in | President. | This announcement by Mr. Foss, who State. served three terms as governor of & o | Massachusetts and has been a leader of | the Democratic party in this State for | Special Dispatch to The Star { many years, was contained in a letter | ATLANTA, Ga., Septrmber 8—A to Arthur Lyman, State chairman of the | movement to “carry Al Smith to the | Democratie finance committee, declin- | doorstep of every home in Georgia” is | ing an invitation to become a member | now under full swinz throughout the | of the committee. | State. This plan to decentrali | "I brlieve that national prohibition,” | Democratic mal camorian he said, “is ving such a success | been inaugurated during the past nic standpoint that every | by the State committec with a large civilized nation in the world which |rally in secks world markets will be compelled | Tollowing this, Smith clubs are be- to follow in our footsteps, ing formed in every ward in Atlanta | “The election of Gov. Smith on the and the some plan for a great number wet platform would sct this Nation back | of small Smith oreanizations is being | 50 years. We would be unable to con- {carried out in all other cities and | tinue o pay Gur high wage scale and | towns n Georgia. compete in foreign markets and we | Threats to bar so-called “Hoover | | ould also lese heavily to our foreign | Democrats” from the State and county | competitors in our home markets | Democratic_primaries came to a head | || “The Democratic party committed When the State Democratic committee {hari-kar1 at Houston in nominating a'met early in the week and ordered that wet candidate on a dry platform. This the ngm= of J. H. Peeples. candidate for {1s not the first time the Democratic |the public service commission and an | party has got on the wrong side of a|admitted Hoover supporter. be stricken great moral question. Slavery. 16 to 1,|from the primary ballots. Having taken and now prohibition. miliating defeat awaits the party in|Hoover man running for a State-wide November that it has suffered every |office, the committee rocommended that jtime it has blinded itself to a great |all district and county committecs take {moral fscue. T shelieve the party will |similar action in cases under (hen not carry a single Northern State, not | jurisdiction. even New York. and it bids fair to| Peeples has notified Chairman G. E. los> some of the Southern States. Maddox that he will contest the action “We Democratic drys, who refuse to|of the committee and will seck a court support the candidate, need not regard | injunction to prevent the omission ourselves az bolters. for Gov. Smith |of his name from the ballot blazed the way in repudiating the dry| Former Representative William D. plank in the platform Upshaw, well known dry leader, who is - -— running for Congress as a Hoover sup- Construction of a svstem of national [ porter. eceaped the pruning knife when highways. nearly 10.000 miles long and | the district committee, after consider- penetrating nearly every part of the' ing his case, declined tn make a martyr country, 15 under way in Salvador. out of him. P. W. HAMMOND. 3 ‘ | I 1 der cover attacks similar to thos2 which | Special Dicpateh ta The Gtar. H The same hu-|this step against the only avowed | in an autho reas ur i A - debt of aimes: L "‘A L il R ke bl el || i y [ {cerned.” Mills continued, “more i " J ticn has baen enacied for the benefit | | ERMONTERS D | TOPOULSTOESAY epecial emphasis on foreign-born voters | the most prominent candidate for the | || one of the border Scuthern ' the capital | GEORGIANS FORM || WASHINGTON, D. 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