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OHIO DEMOCRATS FACING BIG TASK Must Win Over 250,000 Re-| publican Voters to Carry State. Spccial Dispatch to The Star. COLUMBUS, Ohio, September 22.— | At a conference of Democratic State leaders at the campaign headquarters | this week. facing the State campaign | which is to be opened formally on both | sides within the coming week, they were brought to a realization of the big job that confronts them as they set out to win the Ohio electoral vote for Gov. Smith—even with the advantage that the wet and dry issue in the con- test gives them in the larger cities of the State. They are obliged to use the figures from the election of 1924 as indicating the normal Democratic vote in the State, and on that showing they will have to win over to the ranks of the supporters of Gov. Smith at least a quarter million Republicana to carry the State. It is admitted that all f Ne Gwe large cities in the State wil wther go for Smith or register a very Vwxe \ute Cleveland, Cincinnati and 1+ledo will probably give staggering Smith majori- ties. Columbus and Dayton will be close. The five secondary cities— Akron, Youngstown, Springfield, Can- ton and Zanesville will also be close— giving in the aggregate, probably a considerable Smith majority. But few competent judges of the situation would estimate the possible Smith ma- jority in all these large cities at as much as 150,000. Admitting that the urban Smith majority will be that large, the Democrats will have to look elsewhere for 100,000 more Republican voters to come across the party line and support Gov. Smith, in order to give him the State. Is Slow to Change. ‘That any such a result is to be ex- pected in the village and rural vote of the State few will believe. In the first place, that vote is very slow to change. When there has been a turnover in the vote of the State, it has been accom- plished by the urban vote. The farmer vote has been notably persistent. The Democrats have but two things to count on to cause such a change in the rural part of the State. One is the persistence of the anti-Hoover feeling that was strong in the rural part of Ohio in the presidential primary, and the other is opposition to the Republic- ans by the farmers because of the failure of farm relief legislation. There will be some of this beyond question, but there is no evidence that it will be anything like such a sentiment as would be necessary to work so great a change in the rural vote of the State. And this is to be taken into consid- eration in estimating the rural vote in this State: The farmers are almost solidly dry, and there will be a counter movement in the country in this elec- tion of Democratic farmers going over to the support of Mr. Hoover because of the attitude of Gov. Smith toward rohibition and the Volstead law. The letters-to-the-editor columns of the newspapers of the State are full of such letters from Democratic farmers re- nouncing their party en this account. It would seem from t¥as that the elec- toral vote of the Stawa is safe for Mr. Hoover, even though the Smith vote in the cities should resch the high point predicted by the most sanguine Dem- ocrats in the State. Organizes for Drive. State Chairman H. D. Silver of the Republican campaign committee has been organizing his_headquarters force with a view to solidifying the party after the presidential primary split. For instance, Charles H. Jones, who was the late Senator Willis' secretary, has been placed in the speakers’ bu- reau. Both Senator Fess and Mr. Burton have been given representation : On Ohio Stump SENATOR FESS, Who will devote much time to speech making for the Republican ticket in ROBINSON ROUSES SOUTH ARDLINAS Democrats Say Smith Will Receive at Least 100,- 000 Votes. Special Dispatch to The Star. COLUMBIA, S. C., September 22. - The visit of Senator Robinson to South Carolina has awakened the Democrats of this State from lethargy and has stirred them to make an active cam- paign for the national Democratic nom- inees. Smith-Robinson clubs are be- ing organized and speeches are being made by enthusiastic supporters. The result is that predictions are now being made that Gov. Smith will receive more votes in the general election in South Carolina than ‘Woodrow Wilson in 1916 Wilson'’s vote then was 61,846, against 1,550 for Hughes. In 1924 John W. Davis received 49,008 and Coolidge 1,123. Gov. Smith is likely to receive 100,000 or more. Mr. Hoover may re- ceive 10,000, hardly more. The vote in the Democratic pri- maries, which means the election, is generally about 200,000. The Republic- ans have no primary. The opposition to Gov. Smith, which has become more and more vocal, but never formidable, has aroused the sup- porters of Gov. Smith, and the address o‘t Senator Robinson put them in mo- tion. “ Some reaction to this is seen in the fact that what was at first called the Hoover Democratic organization has changed its name to Anti-Smith. And this faction has repelled advances by the Republican organization, and aa- nounces that it will hold a convention in October and will then put in the field an electoral ticket of its own. ‘The activity of the Republican party so far has been confined to confer- ences held by its leader in this State, Joseph W. Tolbert, with Democrats who are in favor of Mr. Hoover. Albert E. Hill of Spartanburg, cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan in this State, and other Hoover advocates held a conference in this city last week, but no statement was made in respect to the conference. The drawing away from the Repub- licans of the organized Anti-Smith Democrats, however, would indicate that the Republicans can hope for little_comfort from the disaffection in the Democratic ranks. - FITZ HUGH McMASTER. by placing a confidential friend of each in the headquarters, and considerable section of the primary headquarters of Representative Begg, who was defeated for the party nomination for governor, has been taken over into the Republic- an State campaign headquarters, while State Chairman Silver was himself the manager of the ’primary campaign of Myers Y. Cooper, the party candidate for governor. At least all has been done that could be done toward setting the Republican house in order for a general home-coming of all factions of the party in the campaign. The Republicans have set September 28 as the date of the formal opening of the State campaign. It will be staged here in Columbus. All the State can- didates will be here and speak briefly, but Senator Fess and Representative Burton will divide most of the time given to local speakers. There will be one speaker from outside the State, elthelx; Charles E. Hughes or Senator rah. Probe May Hit G. 0. P. An investigation of election practices in Cleveland, now in progress under the direction of Attorney General Turner, may develop some embarrassment for the Republicans, it is intimated. Action was taken on an order from Gov. Dona- hey, whose attention to the matter was called officially by the Cleveland Bar Association. After spending a few days in Cleveland looking over the evidence that the bar association was ready to lay before him, Mr. Turner ordered the Cuyahoga County grand jury into spe- cial session, and he is now opening the ballot boxes and placing before the jury the facts thus to be obtained. Though the Democrats may be, involved in the same way, that is not intimated in the first stories. It has been found here and in other parts of the State that by failure to obey the legal provision requiring rota- tion of names on the ballot so that no candidate should appear at the top of the list more often than any other, tre- mendous advantage has been given favored candidates by those who could control the printing. The practice is said to have been employed especially in primary elections. Here in Franklin County surprise followed the defeat of a candidate who was not only very popular but was supposed to have or- ganization support, and a partial in- vestigation, so far as it was carried, showed that that candidate’s name was never permitted to reach the top posi- tion on any of the ballots J. H. GALBRAITH. DEMOCRATS RALLY. Meeting Opens National Campaign in New Hampshire. Special Dispatch to The Star. CONCORD, N. H., September 22.— The national campaign got away this week with the Democrats holding a rally at Manchester. Democratic Na- tional Committeeman Robert Jackson paid his respects to Senator Moses as a prophet, pointing out that the Sena- tor had picked Ora Brown as the suc- cessful governor candidate over Charles ‘W. Tobey. Mr. Jackson said that the Senator said that Tobey had as much chance as Al Smith had of winning Vermont. Both major parties hold their State conventions next week. The Repub- licans gather here Tuesday with Rep- resentative Fort of New Jersey as the keynoter. The Democrats meet the mnext day. J. J. McCARTHY. U.s. I}leet Ships Reach Yokohama. ‘TOKIO, September 22 (#).—A flotilla of five destroyers of the United States DEMOCRATS SPLIT IN MISSISSPP Clerical-Klan Faction Bolts Party and Plans Own Campaign. Special Dispatoh to The Star. JACKSON, Miss., September 22— ‘War to the knife has been declared be- tween the two factions of Democrats in national politics and the clerical-Ku Klux element has bolted the party, or- ganized as Hoover Democrats and planned State headquarters from which to direct a stump-speaking campaign. The first gun in the Democratic revo- lution was the skirmish in Franklin County when a small group of the perty committee a few weeks ago condemned Smith and indorsed Hoover. = Absent members charged trickery and. in turn repudiated the alleged “minority ac- tion.” This week the fight reached State headquarters and M. R. Carpen- ter, rebellious leader, was read out of the party and stricken from the com- mittee rolls at a political drumhead court-martial presided over by Char- man Noel White of the Mississippi committee. Carpenter demanded the right to voice his defense. He was de- nied a word. His committee place has been filled. Hold War Council. Closely following this, in which it was charged that Carpenter had twice visited Washington and had accepted Hoover money and that the Democratic autocracy had dealt ruthlessly with him, the revolutionists held a council of war and chose L. D. Gates as tem- porary commander of the forces and named Morgan Jones of Laurel as field marshal for the political war. Gates, a Baptist minister, is well remembered in this State as an ardent Ku Klux leader who once charged in public church utterances that the Pope con- trolled the Associated Press. are supporting Smith, have named E. M. Lane as army commander and have opened_headquarters in Jackson to rout the bolters, get out the old vote and to wage a war for “white supremacy at the polls.” Mississippl Republicans have a long standing civil war of their own. Af present, they are about even on the break, Lamont Rowlands of Picayune, white, usurping the campaign leader- ship of Perry Howard, colored, who, although fired from the office of Assist- ant Attorney General in Washington be- cause of a Federal court indictment against_him alleging sale of Govern- ment offices, still holds his place as a national executive committeeman from this State for the G. O. P. Hoover Gain Seen. In Republican ranks, it is a bitter fight between whites and colored for party leadership. Among the Demo- crats it is a sharper fight between the church and the party over control of the State. The gain at first glance is decidedly for Hoover. Much difference of opinion is found. Frankly Repub- lican leaders admit they have no ho) of carrying Mississippi for Hoover but claim a higher percentage of vote for the party than registered since 1872, fwhen the carpet-bag con- Asiatic fleet arrived at Yokohama today on an informal visit. The vessels will remain until September 28. regime 1l trolled the State and held it in line 2 to 1 for Grant over Greeley. REX ; B. MAGEE. all agree that the trees are much older. Burklin states. _THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. SEPTEMBER on 29, 1928—PART 1. BORAH'S SPEECH STIRS MICHIGAN | | Stresses Public Works as| Major Issue of Cam- paign. Special Dispatch to The Star. DETROIT, Mich., September 22— | Republicans of Michigan formally launched their national campaign Wed- nesday with an lddr;sf, gy '?‘em':fir Borah of Idaho, preceded by ami- cable State convention in which the present State office holders were re- | nominated without a_dissenting vote. | All State officers excepting the governor and lieutenant governor, who are nomi- nated in the primary election, are sub-‘ ject to nomination by party conven- tions. Senator Borah's address consisted of a laudation of the public works of Her- bert Hoover. “The Idaho Senator did not_mention prohibition in his speech and said the problems of the campaign are farm relief, cheaper transportation, | development of our waterways, control | of our rivers, simplification of govern- ment, a public utilitles policy, conserva- | tion of electric power and the mainte- | nance of the Constitution as it has been written. The Democrats in Detroit are stress- ing Smith’s wet views, while out State they are making much of his Omaha speech, in which he upheld the princi- ples of the McNary-Haugen farm relief | Ibill. The Republicans are using the New York Governor's pronouncement in the past for an ocean-to-lake water- way through New York for an attack on him, Republican newspapers col tending that because of New York fluences he cannot be unbiased if elect- ed and would favor the New York plan in preference to the original St. Law- rence waterway plan, to which Michi- gan is welded. In the recent primary election Gov. Green, Republican, won the renomina- tion by a vote of a'#10st 2 to 1 over his opponent, George W. Welsh, former lieutenant governor. The 13 Michigan Representatives, all Republicans, were renominated. Senator Arthur H. Van- denberg, Republican, was renominated without o] ition. 63 i P. C. POWELL. TEXAS INSURGENTS WAGE HARD FIGHT Group Asks Hoover to Ma‘ke Speech in State, Thereby Setting Precedent. Special Dispatch to The Star. AUSTIN, Tex, September 22.—A furious campaign by _bolting Texas Democrats to weaken the party’s vic- tory in the State with long-range hopes of victory for Hoover electors, was start- ed immediately after last week’s State convention, when the anti-Smith Dem- ocrats marched out, amid considertble nose-punching and eye-blacking to hold a rump convention. This week a group of bolt leaders, headed by former Assistant United States Treasury Secretary Thomas B. Love, journeyed to Washington to tell Secretary Hoover they could pledge Texas to him provided the Republican nominee would make a single speech in Texas, a precedent for Texas' en- tire period of Statehood. Mr. Hoover did not indicate he would continue his Southwestern trip into Texas. " Straton to Speak.” Dr. John Roach Straton, New York pastor, who svddenly forgot his eager- ness to meet Gov. Smith in debate, and took to the road in an anti-Smith cam- paign, will speak in Texas next week. Dr. Straton will make 10 speeches in Texas. ‘The anti-Smith bolting movement, headed by several ultra-dry politicians, has been found to be made up largely of the remnants of the known old Ku Klux Klan organization in - Texas, which six years ago controlled several “State - elections and threatened Gov. Nefl's re-election, only to go down in disintegrating defeat two years later with a candidate for governor against Miriam A. Ferguson, Texas' woman chief executive. ‘Temperance and prohibition organi- zations have joined hands with the anti-Smith bolters from Democratic ranks, who have pledged their suj 6 the Republican electors. The bolters got busy first and have made consider- able showings before the regular Demo- crat campal organization began to function. Gov. Dan Moody, dry, regular, w)}a opposed Smith’s nomination but pledg- ed his followers to vote for the nomi- nee, is still in hot water over insistent requests that he speak in Texas and in doubtful States for the national ticket. He this week stirred considerable anger on the part of the zealous Smithites when he refused the request of National Committceman Jed C. Adams to address a tri-State fair at Amarillo next week in behalf of the ticket. Moody insists that refusal did not mean he will avold all speaking engagements in Texas. loody - declared the invitation of Speaker Chairman Tydings that he put in the month of October in speaking for the ticket in dobutful States is “ob- viously impossible” for him to accept. He will likely make one or more speech- es for Smith outside Texas, it is be- lieved here, but his continued refusal to commit himself to the fullest support of the national nominees, though in keeping with his stand throughout the year's campaign in Texas, has caused the aggressive Smith leaders much anxiety, since it is accepted that the Texas governor is at the head of the major element of Texas voters, the who are nominally regular in Moody Is Scored. In the meantime, regular Democrats | t | divorce and an order to restrain the drys, Democratic support. 8. RAYMOND BROOKS. ASKS DIVORCE. Woman Attributes Loss of Voice to Husband’'s Actions. Mrs. Anna L. Eckert, 1207 Virginia avenue northeast vesterday named her husband, Harry Otto Eckert, of the same address, a defendant in a suit filed in the equity division of the Dis- trict Supreme Court asking a limited husband from entering the premises. She is represented by Attorneys Charles E. Quigley and Hyman M. Goldstein. The plaintiff tells the court that she and the defendant were married in Rockville, Md., September 18, 1905; that the husband is addicted to the use of intoxicants and that as a result of his actions her health has been im- paired and she has suffered a stroke of paralysis, and is unable to use her voice. . Olive Trees Are Everlasting. The chief industry of some of the islands in the Mediterranean is that of growing and preparing olives. Some of the olive trees of these islands have been bearing fruit for centuries; no one seems to know how long. Their trunks are gnarled and twisted in a manner that seems io indicate their great age. The presses in which the 19 | Stumps for Hover SENATOR BORAH, Who_spoke Wednesday in Michigan in behalf of the G. O. P. national ticket. CONVENTIONS OPEN COAST CANPAI California G. 0. P. Still Con- fident of 250,000 Ma- jority. Special Dispatch to The Star. LOS ANGELES, September State conventoins of the Republican, Democratic, ®rohibition and - Socialist parties held here this week formally inaugurated active campaigning in the presidential contest and afforded oppor- tunity for various partisan leaders to perfect their respective organizations. The Republicans demonstrated a solid determination to give the Hoover- Curtis ticket united support, but were unable to agree on many issues of local importance. Such disagreements as have developed relate for the most part to maneuvers calculated to effect the gubernatorial contest two years hence. In contrast to the representative character of the Republican crganiza tlon was the one-sided aspect of the Democratic convention, which was at- tended almost exclucively by those identified with the Smith campagin prior to the California presidential primaries last May. The absence of several prominent dry Democratic lead- ers apparently indicated the determina- tion of the leaders of this tong of the party either to support Hoover, which many of them are doing, or to refrain altogether from active participation in party politics this year. Electors named by the Republican convention were indorsed by the prohi- bitionists, who placed Charles H. Ran- dall, Los Angeles city councilman and former member of Congress, in the field for United States Senator in opposition to Senator Hiram Johnson. Tabulation of registration figures for 2. have a Republican registration in excess of 1,500,000 when the time for signing the voting register expires early in Oc- tober. The Democratic registration will approximate 500,000. The relative strength thus far shown by two major parties is heralded by Republicans as ample assurance that Smith cannot capture the block of nearly 400,000 votes received by La Fol- lette in 1924. Estimates of a Republican majority in California this year range from 250,000 to 400,000. KYLE D. PALMER. WALKER FOLLOW HOOVER 10 JERSEY Democrats Seek to Offset Enthusiasm Roused by . G. 0. P. Nominee. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEWARK, N. J., September 22—New Jersey will continuc to be debatable ground in this election campaign not- withstanding gains made by Herbert Hoover during his two-day intensive drive this week in the populous northern counties of the State. The Democrats intend to keep this normally Republican State doubtful until the last day. They sent Mayor Jimmie Walker of New York in two days after Hoover left and stirred up again what Democratic enthusiasm may have cooled by Hoover's reception. ‘They announced, just as Hoover left New Jersey that Gov. Smith would play a return engagement to the State the Tuesday before election, climaxing a day here with a speech at night in the same Newark armory where Hoover spoke Monday night. Mr. Hoover’s trip served the Repub- lican organization in the State well in that it gave local leaders the chance for intimate contact with the party stand- ard pearer. This contact, at a series of luncheons and during hours of touring through small municipalities, pepped up the men and women who must get out the vote, and they have the inspiration of the leader to spur them on. Republican politicians had hoped for a new rallying cry from.the head of their ticket, but he failed them in this. They ‘had asked him to come to New Jersey to give them an issue to -offset prohibition, around which all New Jersey campaigns have been. fought tor a decade. The candidate made a speech widely praised for its non-partisan tone. Its prosperity theme was what the old Republican stock in New Jersey likes to hear. It is going to be hard, though, for local nwllblnderfl to enthuse audi- ences for the next six weeks in ipdus- trial centers when across the street the Democrats are shouting personal liberty and promising, as they do, to make New Jersey as wet as the Atlantic. The lines upon which New Jersey will divide showed. clearly during Mr. Hoo- ver's stay here. In the larger cities the crowds did not come out to cheer him on his way. In the suburban towns and in the rural sections the streets were lined with enthusiastic supporters. JOHN J. FARRELL, Jr. RAISE $865. Money Will Go to Deficit Fund of Friendship House. A total of $865.82 was raised at the benefit carnival of Friendship House, 326 Virginia avenue southeast, last Wednesday, Miss Lydia A. H. Burklin, head resident, announced yesterday. This leaves $1,134.18 yet to be raised to finish covering a deficit of $2,000 incur- red mn running the house through the Summer. Many of the persons to whom tickets were mailed for the carnival have not P! extraction of the ofl takes place are extremely primitive and have evidently been in use for many generations, but’ yet been heard from. If the money is remitted for the tickets still outstand- ing the deficit will be covered, Miss LT R VP Ve California indicates that this State will | IDWAREPUBLICANS - PUTONDEFENSIVE |Smith’s Omaha Speech Has| Widespread Effect in State. | Special Dispatch to The Star. DES MOINES, Iowa, September 22.— | | Interest in national politics took & turn upward in Iowa during the last| week with Gov. Smith speaking Tues- day at Omaha and Senator Curtis speaking Wednesday at Spencer in | northwestern Iowa. The unqualified indorsement which Smith offered the equalization fee or | the principle of opposing the cost of marketing the surpluses ‘“upon the ' commodity benefited,” definitely put Republicans on the defensive for the first time in the campaign. At Spencer, where Senator Curtis | attacked Smith for misrepresenting | the part played by the Republican | party in farm relief during the last eight yars, Gov. John Hammlill as- sumed "the defensive in introducing Curtis. ‘The governor, who has led the swing to Hoover in the State, refused to ac- cept Smith's Omaha statement as a straightforward indorsement of the equalization fee principle and challeng- ed Smith to make his indorsement more specific. In Des Moines, where the Iowa Farmers' Union began Wednesday its two-day convention, Henry A. Wallace, editor of Wallace’s Farmer, told the delegates that the farmer would best serve his own ends by voting for Smith because of his favorable attitude toward the equalization fee, which he con- trasted with Hoover’s disapproval of the fee, a subsidy or tariff debenture. 1t is still too early to predict what ef- fect: Smith’s indorsement of the fee will have on the farm vote in Iowa, Re- publican leaders being unanimous in claiming that a swing to Hoover has but begun. N. B. REGISTER. DRY ISSUE ABSORBS WAGHINGTON STATE But Hoover-Curtis Ticket Is Still in Front—Wets Win Primary. Special Dispatch to The Star. SEATTLE, Wash,, September 22.— An analysis of the recent primary elec- tion vote in this State finds that the wet and dry issue promises to be of deeper importance than the old-line Republican leaders have been inclined to give it. Candidates for party honors, Demo- cratic and Republicans, refused indorse- ment by the Anti-Saloon League, virtu- ally swamped the league-indorsed can- didates. As a result, wet candidates ‘were nominated. The combined wet vote in each party was fully 30 per cent higher than the combined dry vote, and this causing some’ uneasiness among Repub- lican leaders who fear the Democratic drive for votes under a plea that the election of Smith means modification of than 56 per cent of those registered par- ticipating at the polls in the rural sec- tions, is indicative of an alarming lack of Interest on the eve of the general campaign. The renomination of Gov. Hartley has started a bolting of Republican news- papers and leaders, wi are publicly ‘ing the Democratic nominee for gov- ernor but going down the line for the rest of the Republican ticket. ‘There is little question but that the Hoover-Curtis ticket is well out in front in the presidential campaign, with the Democrats having only a fighting chance. In the senatorial race, Senator lican nominee, are staging a close race, with the Republican having a shade the best of it. All four Republican Repre- sentatives are certain of re-election, with an even break in the fifth district, now represented by a Democrat. With the exception of the governorship, the Re- publican State ticket is safe at this time, although, if the wet and dry fight be- comes mere open, there is a possibility of a general upset from top to bottom. This is largely due to the general grow- ing resentment af t demands being made upon candidates for public office to pledge themselves to programs spon- sored by dry organizations, backed by threats of reprisals if nominees do not programs. JAMES DE K. BROWN. DEMOCRATS URGE cal Publication Kept From Mails. Demand that the Fellowship Forum, local publication, be barred from the mails, was made in a resolution adopted Club at Democratic headquarters, 16 Jackson place, Friday night. John B. Colpoys, chairman of the Democratic State central committee and of the federated Democratic organiza- tions, offered the resolution. He dis- that it is “filled weekly with reading matter and cartoons of a vile and scur- rilous nature.” Representative Steagall of Alabama, prohibitionist, declared he favored Smith as against Hoover because he believes Smith would make an earnest effort to enforce the dry laws, whereas, he said, it has never been made plain where Hoover stands on the prohibition question. Representative Steagall bit- terly attacked the Republican adminis- tration for what he described as if laws, Leaves Estate to Widow. Clinton F. Brown, who died Septem- ber 14, left his entire estate to his wife, Bessie Brown, according to the will, filed for probate yesterday by Attorney David Hart. The estate includes the premises 3249 P street, where the widow now_resides. REPAIR PARTS For Furnaces and Hot-Water Boi FRIES, BEALL & SHARP 734 10th St. N.W. LONG DISTANCE MOVERS CRATE AND PACK BY EXPERTS fact is | the Volstead act. The low vote, less || announcing their intention of support- | Dill and Kenneth Mackintosh, Repub- || subscribe to proposed legislation and BARRING OF FORUM| Smith-Robinson Club Wants Lo- | at a meeting of the Smith-Robinsen | played copies of the paper, declaring || failure to enforce prohibition and other Of S Special Dispatch to The Star. SPRINGFIELD, Mo., September 22. “After this election there will be no more Solid South.” M. D. Lightfoot, chairman of the N tional Constitutional Democratic Com- mittee, organized at Memphis a few days ago by representatives from i7 States, is firmly convinced Herbert Hoover will make deep inroads into the Democratic South. Mr. Lightfoot has been in every border and Southern State organizing Democratic Hoover Clubs. “‘People do not realize the size of the defection from Gov. Smith in the South,” Mr. Lightfoot declared. The best people, not the political riff-raff, are joining the bolt. I believe Mr. Hoover will carry North Carolina, Ken- tucky, Tennessee and Oklahoma. He now has an even break in Georgia, Florida, Virginia and Alabama.” The best Democratic Hoover organi- zations are in Texas, Oklahoma and Missourd, Mr. Lightfoot explained. In- tensive work is being done in all the Hoover Organizer Forecasts End olid South After El.cctiomh Southern and border States, where his | organization is centering its efforts. | This week will see 21 States organized, | Mr. Lightfoot asserted. The Democratic Hoover campaign seems well financed. Mr. Lightfoot says that $100,000 now is pledged. “And not one cent of this money is coming from Republicans,” he added. “All of it is being contributed by Demo- crats.” Hoover Democrats are being urged to support their local and State Demo- cratic candidates. This is only a fight on Smith. Democrats had been signed up for which he said are Democrats who re- quested that they be permitted to join the anti-Smith organization. Mr. Lightfoot has been prominent in Democratic politics for many years. He has served several terms as a_member executive committees; also as chairman of the congressional committee here. PARTY COMMITTEES MEET IN ARIZONA | Councils Will Gather Following Conventions Tomor- TOW. Special Dispatch to The Star. PHOENIX, Ariz, September 22-- Pending the convening here Monday of both Democratic and Republican State committees to perfect their representa- tive organizations. to be followed im- mediately by meetings of party coun- cils, as approved by law, at which party platforms must be adopted, lead- ers of both parties devoted the past week to preliminary platform work. The outline of the Democrats' platform indicates strong indorsement of the | candidacy of Smith for President, and also a plank denouncing the Swing- Johnson measure as inimical to the | interests of Arizona in the Colorado | River and the usual praise of past | State administrations of Gov. George W. P. Hunt, who is seeking re-election for the seventh time. | Regarding the Swing-Johnson bill, | the Republican platform is likely to be similar to that of the Democrats, since opposition to this measure is the only issue upon which majorities of both parties seem agreed. Smith for Presi- dent stock took a slight rise in the political market here during the week when the State Federation of Labor, acting through its subsidiary, the Non- | Partisan Political League, indorsed him. This was offset in some degree by re- newed attacks from clerical quarters upon Smith's prohibition attitude and the injection into the campaign of the religious question, which was raised the anonymous phlets attacking all Catholic and Mor- mon candidates. FRANCIS K. DIAS. during the recent State primaries by | stribution of pam- | |COLORADO DRYS ; OPEN OFFENSIVE | Anti-Saloon League Anticipates Arrival of Gov. Smith. Special Dispatch to The Star. DENVER, Colo., September 22.—An- ticipating Al Smith’s arrival, the Colo- rado Anti-Saloon League launched its major offensive in this State against the Democratic presidential nominee, asserting the belief that prohibition is the paramount issue in November and that Gov. Smith is “trying to tie a bartender’s apron on Uncle Sam.” A. J. Finch, State superintendent of the league, annpunced the opening of an organized campaign for Hoover in every county mn Colorado. A speakers’ bureau and a full campaign organiza- tion for every county is the program of the drys. These will be separate from the regular Republican county organi- zations, and will function from now | until election day, Finch said. At about the same time Finch was making his announcement the Denver XPnsbytary. including every Presbyte- rian minister in Denver, announced the adoption of a resolution authoriz- ing its members to take politics into | their pulpits in opposing wet candi- dates. While the resolution mentioned no names, it obviously was aimed at Gov. Smith and Representative White of the Denver district, who is a can- didate for re-election. V. B. DAY. Cause for Alarm. Dad (to daughter)—Now that your mommer’s away for a holiday. you'll | have to see that I get up in time for work every morning. Daughter—All rightie, dad, I'll try | In Missourl, Mr. Lightfoot said 60.000 | o isonce that Herbert Hoover is vitally Hoover. In his home county are 1,700, | of the Democratic State committee and | FORT AND METCALF SEEK GERRY FO: Conference on Senatorial Race Shows Hoover’s In- terest in R. I Special Dispatch to The Star. PROVIDENCE, R. I, September 22.- interested in the outcome of the sena- torial battle in this State was forth- coming here when Secretary Fort oi the national committee conferred with Senator Metcalf and National Commit- teeman Frederick S. Peck within th past few days in an effort to secu: an agreement as to the G. O. P. cana. date to oppose Senator Gerry. Mr. Peck and the State organizatio. are backing Judge Felix Hebert of fc~ fourth district court. Senator Metere has declared himself for former K- resentative Ambrose Kennedy on tn- ground that he is an experienced legis- lator and a better vote-getter, whes- chances of dislodging Gerry ‘rom his 12-year seat are greater than those o Hebert. The State faction and . Peck object to Kennedy, citing the fact that in 1922 he left the State and cam- paigned for Henry Cabot Lodge in Mas- sachusetts after he, Kennedy, had been refused the G. O. P. nomination for governor, to which he aspired. While here Mr. Fort refused to dis- cuss his cenferences, but he went back to Washington, having accomplished little in the way of eliminating one of the candidates. This week Providence held its dis- trict caucuses and the battle centered upon election of delegates to the State convention, where Hebert and Kennedy will fight it out on the Joor for the senatorial nomination. In most parts of the city the local organization of the party won out, but the Kennedy back- ers are placing their faith to some extent in the truism that political dele- gates rarely stay put.” They also be- lieve, and rightly, that they will re- cruit most of their strength in the towns and cities outside of Providence and declare they will capture the full delegate strength of a dozen or more towns and cities. Elphege J. Daignault, excommunicate and leader of the Franco-American, this week published an editorial in French on the front page of his Woon- socket, R. I, newspaper, captioned “Vive Hoover, Vive Hebert,” and calling upon his followers to defeat the Dem- ocratic party because of the Irish can- didates who have affiliated themselves with that organization. He denounces the “Irish Episcopate” and Gov. Al Smith, and calls for the defeat of the xfi;v bYr?x:: ?hoeven;:r, whom he says church into against_her will. Dot The Democrats held their Providence caucuses this week, but the contests were purely local, Senator Gerry being assured of the full support of the State tonvention for renomination. to get in in time.—Judge. K -~ . 1313 YOU STREET, N. W, PHONE NORTH 3343 | Wives of Presidents Romantic stories of women who have ruled the White House. Each article tells the love story of a President. “An interesting series of real life stories of women about whom little is known even by well-informed A series of compelling interest to women of Washington. The first will appear in The Toening Sfar next Monday [ 37 Be sure and have The Star delivered to your home.