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Q 10 2 19 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, ; *SMITH GIVES IDEAS N |91.—"The text of the speech Gov. Smith | prevented their alienation and pre- | | prepared for delivery here last night |served them for our people and for our | Reporters’ Questions Bring! Out Nominee’ Views on Farm Relief. By the Associated Press. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., September 21.—Apparently as much as ease at a press conference held in a crowded hotel Toom overlooking _Oklahoma Broadway, as_he would be on New York's Great White Way, Gov. Smith, in a dressing gown, yesterday faced a barrage of questions from newspaper men of the Southw panying him on his campaign tour, who sought to draw him out on virtually all phases of the presidential campaign He expressed the view that. there was no outstanding is: xcept the general one of the prosperity and contentment of the people. examined him as to his exact views on the _equalization-fee provision of the McNary-Haugen farm bill. “At Omaha you offered a prescription for the ills of the farmers, and said vou intended to leave no doubt as to your stand on farm relief,” the ques- tioner. who is traveling with the nomi- nee, started off. “I find that even those who are with you place a different con- struction on your stand on the equaliza- tion fee.” Tells Plan for Farmers. All right, then I'll clear it up for you,” Smith replied. “First, we have the ‘definite, fixed principle that in or- der to give the farmer bencfit of the | tariff we must lift the surplus out of | his crop, the cost to be levied on the | unit benefited. Just how to do that best I'm not prepared to say.’ “Isn't that the equalization fee?" the | reporter pursued. | Not necessarily,” Smith responded | “There are four or five plans. I'm no familiar with them all. I'm not even familiar with all the provisions of the McNary-Haugen bill. I don't attempt to set up the machinery. If elected I'll call a nonpartisan conference to make | & recommendation as to the exact| mechanics.” { Then we can quote you that what | you favor is not the equalization fee?” “I don't think I should say that said the nominee, with a trace of im- patience. “I don't either,” said the newspaj cailing attention to the statemenr | of Gov. McMullen of Ne- ! braska, in which he said that he re garded that Smith had given “un-| equivocal” indorsement of the McNary- | Haugen bill. Explaining that he had not read the McMullen statement, which was givea out while the nominee was paying h: a brief visit on his way here from | ©Omaha. Smith added “If Gov. McMullen is so interested Il put him on the commission I'm | going to name the day after election.” His reception here today was de- scribed by Smith as “wonderful,” and | he added: Appreciated Welcome. “Any man who didn't appreciate such a welcome would have no heart. I have liked crowds all my life; I'm never lonc- some.” ‘What's your attitude toward Okla- homa?” some one asked. “What do you mean?” was the come- back. “How important do you regard it “If you mean electoral votes, all States | are important,” Smith responded. “No | man would like to lose an election by two voies. They're all important. - I'll| take them all. | “Thoy say you're a New Yorker and don’t know miich about the West,” some one els2 put in. “I knew all about Oklahoma before I tame nere.” the governor declared. “This | count the same all over. The, crowds I saw today are the same I'd see if I rcde up Fourth avenue in New York. Out here you've got a patented ! yell though—a cowboy shriek, or what- grer sou call it. I never heard it be- ore.. ‘How about the Indians?” “Indians? We've got them in New 3 T've been dealing with Indian os in my own State.” ‘What do you think of the party bolter: “Partv “Ye: bholters .—Hoover Democrats,” porter explained. “Never heard of such a thipg.” re- torted the governor. “But I've heard of Smith Republicans. How about the solid South—are you afiaid of a split-up?” the nominee was asked | “Individuals of both parties often | shift iheir allegiance from campaign to campaign " replied the Democratic stanZe-d bearer, and let it go at that. FORT SCORES SMITH'S POSITION ON TARIFF New Jersey Representative Says the re- | Democrats Oppose Policy Which Paid $6,000,000,000 War Debts. Br the Associated Pre NEW YORK, September 21—The thrce main differences between the Re- publican and Democratic national plat- | forms are on debt reduction. farm relief | and tariff, Representative Franklin W. For: of New Jersey said last night in a speech broadcast by station WEAF of New York On debt reduction. he said, the Demo- eratic party stands for a policy of slow pav. and demands abandonment of the Republican poli a result of which we have paid over six billions of our war debt in seven years and reduced our annual interest charges over $275. 000.000." He charged that Gov. Smith in his has interpreted “vet more ¥ the Democratic farm relief plank. itsolf “so beautifully vague that it defies detection.” After a hundred years of clinging to low tarifl. he said, the Democratic party. “recognizing the fact that the American people believe in protection. has tried this year to camouflage its to reduce the tariff with words h sound like a concession to the protective principle.” “The issue is clear,” Representative Fort said. “The Republican party stands for the preservation of Amer- jean markels for American products, the Democratic - for yielding to European producers a share of those markets. Barrage of Egg_;s Breaks Up Speech Attacking Smith By the A TALLAHASSE. Fla., September 21.—A barrage of eggs_broke up former Gov. Sidney J. Catts' anti- Smith address here last night. The egg throwing began when Catts took up the religious question after he had been speaking for about 30 minutes. The address was being delivered in an open-air bandstand It was said that some of the eggs hit him. Catts and went offer of reward came down off the stand into_the crowd with an for the location of the egg throwers. He was said to have challenged any man in the TEXT OF GOV. SMITH’S SPEECH | By the Associated Press. control of their water powers, their OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., September | greatest God-given resources, and have prosterity. “I sponsored legislation which brought about. reform of the ballot, the passage of direct primary laws and provisions against corrupt practices in elections. { follows: | “Our country has achieved its great growth and become a model for the na- tions of the world under a system of | party government. It would be difficult 7 | to predict what might be the evil conse- | “The first bill for a bonus by the | quences if that system were changed. |State of New York to the World War {75 it is to survive. campaigns for the | veterans was signed during my adminis- presidency must be fought out on issues | tration. really affecting the welfare and well- | “Although a city man, I can say to being and future growth of the country. | you without fear of contradiction that I education has been one of foresight | broadcast through the mails of this ., and progress.’ | rest of this evening with similar ex- | pressions from men and women who st and those accom- | Then a reporter cross- | | gress 1 born. | County | the Legislature overwhelmingly Repub- | | lican. | In a presidential campaign there should be but two considerations before the “lectorate, the platform of the party and the ability of the candidate to make it | | effective. | | “In this campaign an effort has been | | 2lectorate from these two considerations | and to fasten it on malicious and un- American propaganda. Hits Former Senator. | “I shall tonight discuss and denounce | that wicked attempt. I shall speak open- | |1y on the things aboiit which people haie | been whispering to you. | | " “A former Senator from your own State. a member of my own party, has | | deseried the party which honored him. i upon the pretense, as he states it. that | because I am a member of Tammany Hall T am not_entitled to your support for the high office for which I have been inominated. Tonight I_challenge the truth and sincerity of that pretense. I brand it as false in fact. I denounce it as a subterfuge to cover treason to the fundamentals of Jeffersonian democracy and of American liberty. What Mr. | | Owen personally thinks is of no account |in this campaign. He has, however, | aised an 1ssue with Tespect to my rec- ord, with which I shall deal tonignt | without mincing words. 1 know what lies behind this pretense of Scnator Owen and his kind, and I shall take | that up later. Proud of Record. “What he says. however, has been | seized upon by the enemies of the| Democratic party and the foes of pr ve government. They have th made my record an issue in this cam- | paign. I do not hesitate to meet that ssue. My record is one of which I am | justly proud and needs no defens 1t is one upon which I am justified in | asking your support. For the present let us examine the record upon which | has beaten the light of pitiless publicity for a quarter of a century. I am will- | ing to submit it to you and to the pi’o-} ple of this country with complete con- | fidence. | “Twenty-five years ago I began my active public career. I was then elected to the Assembly, representing the | neighborhood in New York City where I was born, where my wife was born. where my five children were born and | where my father and mother were 1 represented tha# district con- tinuously for 12 years. until 1915, wi was elected sheriff of New vo vears later I was elected to the | position of president of the board of | ldermen, which is really that of vice | mayor of the City of New York. Elected Governor in 1918. “In 1918, T was selected by the dele- gates to the state convention as the | candidate of the Democratic paity for governor, and was elected. “Running for re-election in 1920, I| was defeated in the Harding landslide. However, while Mr. Harding carried the State of New York by more than 1,100,000 plurality, I was defeated only by some 70.000 votes. After this defeat, I returned to pri- | vate life, keepng up my interest in| public affairs, and accepted appoint- ment to an important State body at‘ the hands of the man who had de- feated me. “In 1922 the Democratic convention, by unanimous vote, renominated me for the third time for governor. I was elected by the record plurality of 387.- | 000. And this in a State whica had | been normally Republican. | “In 1924, at the earnest solicitation | of the Democratic presidential cand! date. 1 accepted renomination. The | State of New York was carried by President Coolidge by close to 700,000 | plurality, but I was elected governor. | On the morning-after election I found myself the only Derocrat elected on the State ticket, with both houses of | Longest Tenure as Governor. | “Renominated by the unanimous vote | of the convention of 1926, I made my fifth Statewide run for the governor- ship and was again elected the Demo- cratic governor of a normally Repub- lican State. “Consequently, T am in a position to | come before vou tonight as the Gover- nor of New York finishing out his| fourth term. | “The record of accomplishment under | my four administrations recommended me to the Democratic party in the Na tion, and I was nominated for the presi- dency at the Houston convention on the first_ballot. “To put the picture before you com- pletely. it is necessary for me to refer briefly to this record of accomplishment “In the face of bitter opposition, I succeeded in bringing about a reorgan- | ization of the government of the State | of New York. consolidating 80 or mor= | scattered boards. bureaus and commis. sions into 19 mafor departments, and | bringing about efficiency, economy and | a thoroughgoing co-ordination of all the | State's activitie: ! | the millions of dollars now being spent | endeavor to show my appreciation and | | did more for agriculture and for its pro- | motion in the State of New York than | any governor in recent history. Co- operative marketing was encouraged. New impetus was given to the construc- tion of State highways. State aid was City's |/ 2de to aistract the attention of the | furnished to towns and counties to bring the farm nearer to the city, and turing my terms of office there was ap- propriated in excess of $15.000,000 for the eradication of bovine tuberculosis. Public Offices Reduced. “The business of the State of New York was handled in a strictly business way. The number of public place hold- ors was cut down. Appointments and promotions were made on a strictly merit basis. In consequence there was offered a reduction in taxes to the farmer and small home owner from 1923 to 1928 of from 2 mills to one-half mill of the State’s levy upon real prop- crty, together with a substantial reduc- tion'in the income tax. “Public improvements in the State, long neglected under Republican rule, are being carried out at a rate unprece- dented in all its history. “Bear in mind that all this was ac- complished without the co-operation of | the Legislature, because during my entire carcer as governor both branches of the legislature have been Republican except for a period of two years, when one "branch—the Senate—was Demo- cratic. It was brought about because I took the issues to the people directly and brought the force of public opinion, regardless of party affiliation, to the support of these constructive measures “During my governorship I have made appointment of scores of men to public office requiring the confirmation | of the Scnate, and, while the Senate was in control of my party in only two out of the eight years I have bheen governor, not a single appointment of mine was ever rejected. Veto Never Overridden. “The reason for this was that I made my appointments to public office in the State of New York without regard to politics, religion or any other con- sideration except the ability, the in- tegrity and the fitness of the appointee and his capacity properly to serve the State. “Contrast this with the rejection of major appointments made by the Presi- dent of the United States by a Senate of his own party. “I read in the press only recently that a Republican Congress passed four | bills over the veto of the Republican President in one single -day.. During my entire eight years the Legislature. hostile to me, never passed a single bill over my veto. “Has there been one flaw in my rec- | ord, or one scandal of any kind con- ith my administration that gives any meaning to this cry of Tam- many rule, a cry which thousands of independent and Republican citizens of my own State treat with ridicule and contempt? Says No Scandal Exists. “The Republican party will leave no stone unturned to defeat me. T have reduced their organization in the State of New York to an empty shell. At the present time sixty millions of dol- lars of public improvements are in prog- Toss in my State. If there was anything | wrong or out of the way does it not | strike you, as men and women of com- | mon sense, that the Republican party | in New York would leave no stone un- | turned to bring it to light? The fact | is they have searched and searched in| vain for the slightest evidence of im- | proper partisanship or conduct. They | found no such thing; they could find | no such thing; it did not exist. And| in the face of this Senator Owen and | his kind have the nerve and the effront- ery not to charge but merely to insinu- ate some evil which they are pleased to call Tammany rule. “One scandal connected with my administration would do more to help out the Republican national committee in its campaign against me than all nected by them in malicious propaganda. Un- fortunately for them they cannot find it, because the truth is it is not there. I challenge Senator Owen and all his; kind to point to one single flaw upon which they can rest their case. But they won't find it, they won't try to find it, because I know what lies behind all | this and I will tell you before I sit| down tonight. Takes Pride in Record. “I confess 1 take a just pride in this record. It represents years of earnest labor, conscientious eort and complete | self-sacrifice to the public good in some | gratitude to the people who have so | signally honored me. “Don't you think that I am entitled | to ask the people of this country to| believe that I would carry into service | of the Nation this same devotion and | energy and sacrifice which I have given in service to the State? Don't you think that my party is entitled to make this argument to the American people, be- cause it is not only the record itself that speaks in unmistakable language “I could tax your patience for the are the leaders of thought and affairs in the State of New York, independents in politics, most of them never affiliated with any political organization. “Do Senator Owen and the forces behind him know more about my record than these distinguished men and women who have watched it and studied it? But Senator Owen and his kind are not sincere. They know that this Tammany cry is an attempt to drag a red herring across the trail. Says Religion Is Cause. “I know what lies behind all this and I shall tell you. I specifically refer to the question of my religion. Ordinarily | that word should never have been used in a political campaign. The necessity for using it is forced on me by Senator Owen and his kind, and I feel that at least once in his campaign I, as the candidate of the Democratic party, owe | [ it to the people of this country to dis- j cuss frankly and openly with them this | ‘| attempt of Senator Owen and the forces | behind him to inject bigotry, hatred. | intolerance and un-American sectarian | | division into a campaign that should be | | an intelligent debate of the important | | 1ssues which confront the American | people. | “In New York I would not have to !discuss it. The people know me. But in| iview of the vast amount of literature | anonymously circulated throughout this | ountry, the’cost of which must run into | huge sums of money, I owe it to my | country and my party to bring it out into the open. There is a well founded | belief that the major portion of this | publication, at least, is being financed i through political channels. A recent | newspaper account in the city of New York told the story of a woman who ! called at the Republican national head- | {ouarters in Washington seeking some iiterature to distribute. She made the “eauest that it be of a nature other than political. Those in charge of the Re- nublican publicity bureau provided the .lady with an automobile and she was i driven to the office of a publication no- torious throughout the country for its censeless. stunid. foolish attacks uvon {"hp Catholic Church and upon Catho- tlics generally. Sees Disaster in Tssue. “I can think of no greater disaster to this country than to have the voters of 1t divide upon religious lines. It is | ~ontrary to the spirit, not only of the Declaration of Independence, but of the Constitution itself. During all of our national life, we have prided ourselves | throughout the world on the declaration of fundamental American truth that all |men are created equal. | “Our_forefathers in their wisdom. ! seeing the danger to the country of a ! sivision on religious issues. wrote into i the Constitution of the United Sta in no uncertain words the declaration that no religious test shall ever be ap- plied for public office. and it is a sad | thing in 1928. in view of the countless billions of dollars that we have poured | into the cause of public education. to see some American citizens proclaiming themselves 100 per cent American and |in the document that makes that proc- |lamation suggesting that I be defeated | for the oresidency because of my veli- gious belief. “The grand dragon of the realm of | Arkansas, writing to a citizen of that | State, urges my defeat because T am a | Catholic and in the letter suggests to { the man, who happened to be a dele- |gate to the Democratic convention, | that by voting against me he will b | upholding American ideals #nd instite tions as established by our forefathers. Attacks Ku Kiux Klan. “The grand dragon who advised a delegate to the national convention to vote against me because of my religion is & member of an order known as the Ku Klux Klan, who have the effrontery to refer to themselves as 100 per cent Americans. Yet, totally ignorant of the history and traditions of this country and its institutions ahd in the name of Americanism they breathe into the | hearts and souls of their members hatred of millions of their fellow coun- trymen because of their religious be- lief ‘Nothing could be so out of line with | the spirit of America. Nothing could be so foreign to the teachings of Jef- ferson. Nothing could be so contradic- tory to our whole history. Nothing | could be so false to the teachings of our Divine Lord himself. The world knows no greater mockery than the use of the blazing cross, the cross upon which Christ died, as a symbol to instill into the hearts of men a hatred of their brethren, while Christ preached and died for the love and brotherhood of man. “I' fully appreciate that here and there, in a great country like ours, there are to be found some ignorant or mis- guided people, and under ordinary cir- | cumstances it might be well to be charitable and make full and due al- lowance for them. But this campaign, so far advanced, discloses such ac tivity on their part as to constitute in my opinion a menace—not alone to the party but to the country itself. “I would have no objection to any- body finding fault with my public rec- ord, circularizing the whole United States, provided he would tell the truth. But no decent. right-minded, upstand- ing American citizen can for A momemt countenance the shower of lying state- ments, with no basis in fact, that have been reduced to printed matter and sent Edmonstcn & Co., Inc. I Home l6¢ (ihe B ainal F oL Fatnsi boses for everybody, and the = | misleading propaganda purposes, I repeat that I see in this not | lieve in Christ. country. “One lle widely circulated, particu- larly through the Southern part of the country, is that during my governor- ship I appointed practically nobody to office but members of my own church. “What are the facts? On investi- gation, I find that in the cabinet of the governor sit 14 men. Three of the 14 are Catholics, 10 Protestants and 1 of Jewish faith. In the various bureaus and divisions of the cabinet offices the governor appointed 26 people. Twelve of them are Catholics and 14 of them are Protestants. Various other State officials, making up boards and commis- sions, and appointed by the governor. | make a total of 157 appointments, of which 35 were Catholics, 106 were Prot- estants, 12 were Jewish and 4 I could not find out about. Lists Other Appointments. “I have appointed a large number of judges of all our courts, as well as a large number of county officers, for the purpose of filling vacancies. They total in number 177, of which 64 were Catholics, 90 were Protestants, 11 were | Jewish. and 12 of the officials I was unable to find anything about so far! as their religion was concerned. This is a_complete answer to the false, mis- leading, and if I may be permitted the use of the harsher word. lying state- | ments that have found their w: through a large part of this country in the form of printed matter. “If the American people are willing | to sit silently by and see Jarge amounts | of money secretly poured into false and for political only a danger to the party but a dan- ger to the country. “To such depths has this insidious manner of campaign sunk that the little children in our public schools are being made the vehicles for the carry- ing of false and misleading propaganda. At Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the public prints tell us that a number of schoolgirls asked their parents if it were true that there would be another war if Smith was elected. When questioned by their parents as to how they came to ask such questions, one of the girls said: ‘We were told at school that Wilson started the war in 1917, and if Gov. Smith were elected he would start an- | other war.’ “‘As contemptible as anything could possibly be is an article on the very front page of a publication devoted to the doings of a church wherein the Gospel of Christ is preached. I refer to the Ashland Avenue Baptist, a pub- lication coming from Lexington, Ky., in which a bitter and cruel attack is made upon me personally, and is so ridiculous | that ordinarily no attention should be paid to it. It speaks of my driving an automobile down Broadway at the rate of 50 miles an hour, and specifically states I was driving the car myself while intoxicated. Everybody who knows me, knows full well I do not know how to | drive an automobile, that I never tried ! it. As for the rest of the contemptible, lying statement, it is as false as this part. Quotes Sunday Text. “On the inside of this paper the morning worship on the following Sun- day gives as th esubject, ‘What Think Ye of Christ>’ The man or set of men | responsible for the publication of that wicked libel, in my opinion, do not be- If they profess to, they at least do not follow His teachings. If I were in their place I would bo deeply concerned about what Christ might think of me. “A similar personal slander against | | me was dragged out into the open about | a week ago when a woman in the southern part of the country read what purported to be a letter from a woman | in my own State. Fortunately, the names of both women were secured. Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church when she said: ** ‘There are 2,000 pastors here. You have in your church more than 600.000 members of the Methodist Church in Ohio alone. That is enough to swing| the election. The 600.000 have friends in other States. Write to them.” Extract From Speech. “This is an extract from a speech made by her in favor of a resolution offered to the effect that the confer-| ence go on record as being unalterab’s opposed to the election of Gov. Smith and to indorse the candidacy of Her- bert. Hoover, the Republican candidate. Mrs. Willebrandt holds a place of prom- | inence in the Republican administra- | tion in Washington: she is an Assistant Attorney General of the United States. By silence after such a speech the only inference one can draw is that the ad- ministration approves such political tac- tics. Mrs. Willebrandt is not an irre- sponsible person. She was chairman of | the committee on credentials in the Re- publican national convention at Kansas City. ‘What would the effect be upon these | same people if a prominent official of | | York under me suggested to a gather- ing of the pastors of my church that suggested be done for Hoover? It needs | no words of mine to impress that upon vour minds. It is dishonest campaign- | ing. It is un-American. It is ouf of | v |line with the whole tradition and his- tory of this Government, -and. to my | way of thinking, is in itseif sufficient to | hold us up to the scorn of the thinking people of other nations. Hits “Meanest Thing.” “One of things if not the meanest | thing. in the campaign is a_circular | pretending to place some one of my faith in the position of seeking votes for me because of my Catholism. Like everything of its kind, of course, it is | unsigned, and it would be impossible to | trace its authorship. It reached me | through a member of the Masonic order, | who in turn received it in the mail. | It is false in 1its every line. It was de- | signed on its very facc to injure me | with members of churches other than | my own. “I here emphatically declare th: do not wish any member of my f: in any part of the United States to vote for me on any religious grounds. | 1 want them to vote for me only when | in their hearts and.consciences they be- come convinced that my election’ will promote the best interests of our country, | “By the same token. I cannot refrain from saying that any person who votes | Hoover's attitude with mine on the all- against me simply because of my re- | important question of flood control and ligion is not, to my way of thinking, a |the conservation of our land and prop- good citizen. erty in the valley of the Mississippi “Let me remind the Democrats of | Then take the record and find out from this country that we belong to the party | which party you get the greatest com- of that Thomas Jefferson, whose proud- | fort and hope for a determination of est boast was that ‘he was the author |that question. of the Virginia statute for religious ““Take the subject of the reorganiza- freedom. Let me remind the citizens | tion of the Government in the interes of every political faith that that statute | of economy and a greater efficiency. of religious freedom has become a part Compare the platforms. Compare the of the sacred heritage of our land. speeches of acceptance, and be sure to look into the record of the Republican Product of America. failure to carry out its promises along “The constitutional guaranty that|these lines during the last seven and a there should be no religious test for pub- 1 half years. lc office Is not a mere form of words. | ‘1 declare it to be in the interest of 1t represents the greatest guarantee of | the betterment and welfare of the peo- | through official spoke One of my friends interviewed the woman in New York State and she | promptly denied having written such a letter. The woman in the southern part | of the country refused to talk about it | refused to produce the letter. single out these few incidents as | typical of hundreds. I well know that | I am not the first public man who has been made the object of such baseless | lander. It was poured forth on Grover | Cleveland and upon Theodore Roose- velt, as well as upon myself. But as to me. the wicked motive of religious in- tolerance has driven bigots to attempt | to inject these slanders into a political | campaign. I here and now drag them into the open, and I denounce them as A treasonable attack uvon the very foundations of American liberty. Hits G. 0. P. Silence. “I have been told that politically it | might be expedient for me to remain si- lent nvon this subject. but so far as I’ am concerned no political expediency will keep me from speaking out in an endeavor to destroy these evil attacks “There is abundant reason for believ ing thar Republicans high in the coun- | cils of the party have countenanced a | large part of this form of campaign, if | they have not actually promoted it. Al sin of omission is sometimes as griev. ous as s sin of commisison. They may men, disclaim a; much as they please responsibility for| dragging into a national campaign the question of religion, something that ac- | cording to our Constitution, our history and our traditions has no part in any campaign for elective public office. “In giving them the benefit of all rea sonable doubt, they at least remain silent on the exhibition that Mrs. Wille- brandt made of herself bhofore the Ohio | the Government, for its betterment, for liberty that was ever given any people. I attack those who seek to undermine it not only because I am a good Chri tian, but because I am a good American and a product of America and of Amer- ican institutions. Everything I am, and everything I hope to be, I owe to those institutions. The absolute sepa- ration of state and church ‘is part of the fundamental basis of our Consti- tution. I believe in that separation in all that it implies. That belief must the government of the State of New |pe a part of the fundamental faith of | every true American “Let the people of this country de- they do for me what Mrs. Willebrandt | cide this election upon the great and | real issues of the campaign and upon nothing else. “For instance you have all heard or read my Omaha speech on farm relief. Read the Democratic platform on farm relief, compare my speech and that plat form plank with the platform plank of the Republican party and the attitude of Mr. Hoover so that you may decide for yourselves which of ‘the two parties or the two candidates, according to their spoken declarations, are best calculated to solve the problem that is pressing the people of this country for solution. By a study of that you wiil be conserving the interest of the cotton growers of the State and promoting its general pros perity. “Take by attitude on the development of our natural water power resources. Take the Democratic platform and with Mr. Hoover’s attitude and record on the same subject, and find out from which of the twc parties you can get and | which of the two candidates you can | at 1|look forward with any degree of hope | aith | for the development of these resources | under the control and ownership of the people themselves rather than t heir alienation for private profit and for pri- vate gain. Confident of Outcome. “Compare the Democratic platform with the Republican platform and Mr. ple, the duty of every citizen to study the platforms of the {wo parties, to | study the records of the candidates and | to make his choice for the presidency |of the United States solely on the | ground of what best promotes the in- terest and welfade of our great Repub- lic and all its citizens. | "“If the contest is fought in these lines, as I shall insist it must be, T am confident of the outcome in November.” 'WALKER LAUDS SMITH IN NEWARK SPEECH New York Mayor Declares Ant: | Wet Attacks on Nominee Are Insincere, By the Associated Prass. NEWARK, N. J. September 21— Mayor James J. Walker of New York | last night at the Newark armory deliv- red his first speech in this campaign v. Smith. He drew his greatest | applause when he declared that oppo- sition predicated on the governor's posi- |tion on the Volstead act was not sincere. | “The truth of it is that the antagon- | ism is leveled at him because he has a | manner of worshiping God according to the dictates of his conscience and his loyalty,” the mayor said. Disputing figures on unemployment which Herbert Hoover had presented from the same platform Monday night and criticizing the Republican nom- inee’s description of prohibition as a "nfihla experiment,” ~Mayor Walker said: “Where does Hoover compare, If you will. in_his Americanism with Alfred E. Smith?” Conimander Byrd’s Parting \’[éssage “Under it was set up for the first time | for me; it is the expressed apporval of | Famous Physical Culture Style-Plus Comfort Shoes for Women the cabinet of the Governor, | the leading fellow citizens of my State | . who have never had the slightest af-| filiation with Tammany Hall, and many of whom have been its political oppo- | nents 1 “My election to the governorship our times has not been accomplished | merely by Democratic votes, because New York is a normally Republican State. I have been elected by the votes of the Democrats, together with the | votes of tens of thousands of patriotic, intelligent _citizens of all forms of po- | litical belief. who have placed the wel- | fare of the State above party consider- ation, drastic reform was secured in the manner and method of aporopriating the public money. commonly referred | to as the executive budget. Sponsored Child Welfare. | “During my legislative carcer, as well | as during my governorship, I sponsored | and secured the enactment of the most forward looking. progressive, humanita- nian legislation in the interests of wom- en and children ever passed in the his- tory of the State. I appointed the first commission on child welfare while speaker of the Assembly, as far back as| “T had a large part in the cnactment of the workmen's compensation law and | i the rewriting of the factory code. which | went as far as government could to promote the welfare. the health | and the comfort of the workers in the | industrial establishments of our State. Stood Behind Schools. “I have stood behind the dopanmon!! of education with all the force and all the strength I could bring to my com- mand. The present commissioner of cducation is a Republican. Any one in Oklahoma, or in any other part of the United States may write to Frank P. es, department of education, Al N. Y. and ask him this quy dered the greatest service to the cause | of public education? And I am confi- ! dent he will write back a letter with | my name in it. Figures sometimes speak louder than words. In 1919, my first year in office, the State appropri- | ated to the localities for the pmmmlm\| of public education eleven and one-half million dollars. Last year for the same purpose I signed bills totaling $86,000, 000—an increase in appropriations for public _education of seventy-four-and- one-half million dollars during the period of by governorship. “I have given of my time, my energy and my labor without stint to placing | the Department of Public Health upon | the highest level of efficiency and use- fulness to bettering the condition of the unfortunate wards of the State hospitals and institutions, for the poor, the sick and the afflicted, and to the de- | velopment, over the opposition of a hostile Legislature. of a comprehensive unified park system, heving in mind not only present requirements. but the needs and the welfare of the generations to come. erowd to fizht him singl, ..'The rest of the address was called . possibly | * | me an *honorary degree, stated that I| tion: What governor of that State ren- | * Quotes From Hughes, “Take the statement of a man who has not supported mé for the governor- hip, Charles Evans Hughes, a state-| ment not made for political purpos but in presenting me to the Bar Asso- ciation of New York City. He described me as ‘one who represents to us the | expert in government and I might say | a master in the science of politics’ He | said of me ‘the title that he holds is the proudest title that any American | can hold, because it s a title to the | m and affection of his fellow citi- | Nicholas Murray Butler, president of | Columbia University, in conferring upon | ‘alert, eective, public spirited and courageous, constantly speaking the true voice of the people.’ { “The Very Rev. Howard C. Robbins, dean of the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine, stated that I had shown myself ‘a singularly well balanced. capable and forceful executive He added: ‘He has been independent and fearless. He has had the interest of | all the people of the State at heart and his sincerity and courage have won for him Nation-wide recognition.’ | Other Leaders Quoted. | “Robert Lansing, Secretary of State under President Wilson, said of me: | public: service and is ‘eminently fied | candidate.’ ‘made an cxcellent governor and shown | possessed.” i ‘His public career is convincing vroof | to fill with distinction and ability any “Virginia G. Gildersleeve, dean nf" a knowledge of State affairs which very “A aroup of distinguished educators, “For 10 vears T hattled against bitter that ‘he possesses the true spirit of | office for which he might be chosei Barnard College, stated that I had fow of our governors have ever! headed by Prof. John Dewey of Galum | | E flc)H LIFT The young ones som quire a correction where tendency toward weak arch or “toeing in.” We provide many models in shoes that will counteract errors. 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X —in which he makes interestin inqui in ing into detail with the ¢ es have come to him—as to the purpose of this expedition-—what he hoped to accomplish by such a perilous undertaking— its value to science, etc.—that the Commander has written an article for exclusive publication in he Sunday St Next Sunday, September 23 answers to these bjects of the dash to the South Pole—how he hopes to accom- He also pays tribute to the pioneers who have preceded him—and tells of what value even their meager discoveries will be in the advancement of his fuller undertaking. History is going to be made in this expedition— a new geography of that little-known territory is going to be mapped —all of which makes this preface of Commander Byrd's of all the more In next Sunday’s Star Republican oppositipn to retain for the |bia University. said of my recogd on! people of the State of New York thel public education: ‘His whole attitude on o] —— =|o|c———=]alc———au].———a]