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“SMITHHTS HOOVER FOR SLENCE ONOL Nominee Turns East After G .0. P. Record Attack at Helena. (Continued from First Page.) the Republican candidate for Presi-| dent?” he asked, and then continued: | “Why, there is not a single man in this country who knows 1t better than he does. He sat in the cabinet of the President while all of this was going on, and you can search that record from one end to the other, you can ex- amine it in the minutest details, and | you will fail to find a single word of condemnation on his part.” Gov. Smith also trained his guns on the Secretary of the Treasury, whom he | charged with “concealing knowledge” | from the Senate committee that traced | $260,000 in Liberty bonds, profit from the Continental Trading Co. oil trans- action. to Republican campaign coffers o help cover a deficit hanging over from that party's 1920 presidgential campaign. “He was unwilling to become a party to that deal. He got the stench of oil, and he gave his check for $50,000, but declined to take the bonds,” the gov- ernor said. “Honorable enough,” he said, “but this must be said: During all the period that the Senate committee was endeavoring to unfold this crooked deal before the people of the United | States he had the knowledge and could have given it. He chose to conceal it.” The Democratic nominee was refer- | Ting to what he termed a “unique way L of transforming oil into money and making the money look clean, getting the benzine smell off it.” Attacks Mellon. ‘The chairman of the Republican na- | tional committee had the $260,000 in Liberty bonds, he said. “He offered ¥/ them to prominent Republicans in as- sorted lots, in accordance with the abil- ity of the victim to meet the demand, 1 and the prominent Republicans got a present of $25000 to $50,000, as the case may be, and, in return, performed the patriotic service of voluntarily giv- ing checks to liquidate the indebted- ness. ‘Strange to say,” Gov. Smith assert- ed, “the names of the men approached ‘were spied out by the committee from the handwriting of a dead man.” If there was anybody in the country ‘who was ready to say that the Republi- can party should bear no responsibility for this, the nominee declared, “they must be prepared to say, aside from the guilt of individuals or persons, it is all right for a political party to fill its depleted treasury with the proceeds of + official corruption and crime.” Declaring that the Republican party “was able to convince the electorate four years ago that all of this guilt ‘was personal, and that it did not run to the party as a party,” he declared there could be no excuse in 1928, “be- cause since then we have some new dis- closures.” He then dwelt on the Continental oil deal revelations and a little further on declared, amid applause, that the people would “never have heard the end of it” if, in 1920, the Republican party could have “unfolded a record of that kind against the Wilson adminis- tration.” “Would there be-in any charity in their heart toward the Democratic party?” he asked—and a voice in the gallery came back “Not a bit.” “Oh, I can imagine how the Repub- Ycan orators would rear against Demo- cratic corruption,” he continued as laughter and applause swept the audi- torium. Candidate Quits To Give Time to Smith Campaign By the Assoclated Press. MINNEAPOLIS, September 25.— George F. Cashman of St. Cloud has withdrawn his candidacy for the United States Senate to devote his “undivided attention” to the presidential campaign of Gov. Al- fred Smith. “My personal fortunes must be subordinated to the greater good of the State and Nation. To divide the progressives of our State on an is- sue would be unfortunate,” Mr, Cashman said. HOOVER MAPS OUT TENNESSEE VISIT Nominee Arranges Strenuous Program for One-Day Excursion. By the Assoclated Press. A rather strenuous schedule has been arranged for Herbert Hoover on his one- day excursion into the South early next month, during which he will visit two cities and pass through half a dozen others in the Tennessee and Virginia mountajns by train or automobile. The Fepublican presidential candidate will make two speeches, the principal one at Elizabethton, Tenn., in mid-after- noon on October 6, and the other at Johnson City, Tenn., late in the day just before he boards his private train for the overnight return run to Washing- ton. As the schedule is now arranged the party vill leave here over the Southern Railway at 11 pm, on the night of October 5 with the first stop at Lynch- burg, where the transfer will be made to the Norfolk & Western. Bristol, which straddlez the Virginia-Tennessee line, is to be reached around 9:30 am. and there the nominee will make a rear platform appearance. Parade Is Planned. Switched back to the Southern, the special train will then proceed to Eliz- abethton, arriving about 11:30 a.m. The train will be halted outside the city limits and the party will motor through the town, the parade ending in time for luncheon at 12:30 o’clock at which Mr. Hoover will be the honor guest and at which te may have a word or two to say. At 2 p.m. the nominee is to review a pageant in connection with the in- dustrial and battle of King’s Mountain celebration, which then will be in rogress. From the reviewing stand the nominee will be taken to a natural out- door amphitheater, where he will de- liver the fourth prepared address of the campaign, but one which will be as nearly non-political in character as can be one delivered by a candidate for the presidency. Should Hoover run into bad’ weather —and if he did it would be the first he has encountered while on the road campaigning—the speaking will be in a huge pavilion, which is reputed to have a seating capacity of 7,000. If the exercises are held out of doors a crowd many times that size is ex- pected to be within the range of his voice, as preparations are being made to run excursion trains into the town from four States—North Carolina, Ala- bama, Tennessee and Kentucky. Speech to Go on Air. ‘The speech is to be carried over a “The Democratic misuse of |large part of the South by radio. but the public money, Democratic neglect | there has been no effort at a national of the moral duty toward the soldier,” | hook-up, use of the hour of the he continued, “why, they would be all | delivery. wrapped up in the American flag and you would hardly be able to see them.” Jokes About Curtis. Referring to the newspaper account that Senator Curtis, the Republican vice presidential candidate, had lost his voice over the week end, the pominee said: “If he has been talking against the Democratic party with that kind of a record he would have lost it a week 0. lg"l believe,” he asserted near the end ; of his address, +' ceedingly harmful to the morals of the youth of the country if in the face | of that record the American people on the 6th of November were to put their stamp of approval on it. It . would be harmful if they were to agree that that record indicates moral lead- ership and progressive reform. It would be exceedingly harmful if the American people were willing to look back complacently over that past and cal it a record of great accomplish- ment. “American citizens, T believe, irre- spective of party, will not approve of that record, but, on the contrary, will use the power and influence of the bal- lot to rebuke the party that made it so that for all time there may be fixed upon a political party a sense of respon- sibility to the trust that will prevent a repetition of the disgraceful acts com- plained of. “And, furthermore, I am satisfied that the American people will put a stamp of approval upon the unimpeachable record of the Democratic party.” Gov. Smith was introduced by Sena- tor Walsh, who referred to him as “the most engaging personality in American public life today.” Urges Wheeler's Re-election. J. Bruce Kremer, Democratic national committeeman from Montana, who is accompanying the nominee on his tour of the West, closed last night’s meeting with a plea for the re-election of Sena- tor Wheeler and the declaration that “the leadership of your party is in good and safe hands.” “In his long public service, 1ncludlng" four terms the governor of the great State of Ne ferring to ‘Smith, publican has had the temerity to even snuggest by innuendo that they was one single act of dishonesty in any of the various departments of his State.” “If Gov. Smith cannot stand on his record, I do not know what he can| stand upon.” he added. The nominee paid a tribute to Sena- tors Walsh and Wheeler early in his address. “Let it be said to the everlasting credit of the State of Montana,” he said, “that it produced the senior Sen- ator. Senator Walsh, and his com- panion, genator Wheeler, for the greal part they played in bringing the Re- publican party to the bar @f public opinion.” =2 PRI STRATON IS HECKLED IN ATTACKING SMITH Minister Reitorates Before Texas Audience Charge That Governor Is Foe to American Progress. By the Associated Press. BEAUMONT, Tex., September 25— ite intermittent heckling from his audience, Dr. John Roach Straton, pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church of New York, reiterated here last night his statement that “Gov. Alfred E. Smith is the deadliest foe in America of the forces of moral progress and political wisdom.” The pastor replied with wit and vigor to various persons who heckled him as * he spoke. One woman who shouted “Robinson's_all right!” was told, “We will see in November.” He said Gov. Smith was the first polter from the Democratic party in the present campaign. He charged that Bmith had made “a covenant, with evil and a league with cvil by falling into tions of Tammagy.” After the address Hoover and his party will enter - automobiles for the 10-mile ride over a mountain highway to Johnson City, which is planning a fine welcome for the Republican nomi- nee. Hoover will go to the Soldiers’ Home there, one of the largest of the country, and will make a brief address. ‘Then he will motor through the city to his train, which will be run over from Elizabethton early in the afternoon. ‘The Elizabethton speech now is reach- ing its final form and, as he did yester- day, the Republican standard bearer “that it would be ex- |‘will spend the forenoon at home work- ing on it. He has only one engagement for the day and that late in the after- noon with Roy O. West, New Secretary of the Interior and for years secretary of the Republican national committee Mr. Hoover laid aside his new role of presidential candidate last night to fol- 10w a custom of seven years' standing during his Commerce Secretaryship by attending the national conference of business paper editors. Closing his desk after a day of work- ing upon his Elizabethton, Tenn., speech, the nominee spent an evening with the editors at their regular dinner, at the National Press Club. He has been a guest at their dinners since the beginning of his service as head of the Commerce Department and as such THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER MINISTER EXPLAIN ~ ANTI-SMITH VIEWS Rev. Dr. F. B. Harris Cites Nominee’s Wet Stand in Coming Qut for Hoover. Declaring that an apparent change of heart on the part of Gov. Al Smith of New York in 1924 on the matter of liquor law enforcement, failed of per- manence, Rev. Dr. Frederick Brown Harris, pastor of Foundry Methodist Church here, today explained why he voted for and supported Smith in 1924 and is now aligned with the opposi- tion. It was following a prohibition con- ference of governors with President Coolidge that Smith came back to Al- bany with an apparent ‘“change of heart” as to prohibition enforcement, Dr. Harris said, but the ‘“change of heart”. was not apparent in his an- nouncement that he would work for the modification of the prohibition en- forcement law immediately after he re- ceived the nomination from the Demo- cratic party. Rev. Dr. Harris’ statement, replying to a statement from the Democratic national committee criticizing :115 attack on Gov. Smith recenti; lows: Dr. Harris’ Statement. “The fact that I voted for Smith as Governor of New York in 1924 could not have been known, of course, had I not willingly divulged it. One of my Democratic friends evidently peddled that news to the Democratic national committee, unconscious of the fact that it was loaded with anti-Smith dynamite. I presume the motive of the one glee- fully delivering that contribution on the doorstep of the Democratic na- tional committee was the belief that it would muffle the thunder of my speech of last week. It was a silly decision of the Democratic national committee to bn‘);dcust that as a reply to what I said. “One of the leading business men of this city told me yesterday that the fact that I voted for Smith as governor made my statement, opposing him now, all the more_effective as it absolutely cleared me of any possible charge of intolerance and bigotry, when I, a Protestant preache; and a Republican, voted for a Catholic Democrat as Governor of New York. 1 voted for him because, in spite of his many failures of the past with regard to prohibition, he had just come back from the conference of governors called by President Cbolidge. The Pres- ident had pleaded with the governors to get back of enforcement. Smith came back to New York with what seemed to be a change of heart. He announced that the prohibition law must be en- forced, called a meeting of State officials to maxe positive his assertions, and de- clared he would hold them tv honest enforcement. Cites Wet Outbursts. hinking that perhaps, in spite of his saloon record, if given another ; chance, with ‘one hand on the Bible and the other raised to heaven’ as he took the oath of governor, he might keep his word, I voted for him. He was elected by Democrats and Republicans. Again _he lifted his hand to take the oath, but he did not lift a finger to enforce the law. His outbreaks against the whole prohibition experiment be- came more and more violent. The wets of the country rallied to his nom- ination. He sent his infamous tele- gram to the convention, virtually veto- ing all that the temperance forces had accomplished in the platform com- mittee. Had he sent it before the balldting he would not have been the candidate today. “That post-nomination betrayal of the party is now marshaling hosts of anti-Smith Democrats in the South, who do not enjoy being doublecross- ed. He immediately appointed as his campaign manager a Republican, who eagerly accepted the job in order, as he put it, ‘to rid the country of the | damnable affiiction of prohibition.’ I gave Smith the benefit of the doubt as Governor of the State. Recalls Smith’s Record. “Now the Democratic national com- mittee thinks I am inconsistent for be- lieving him then and opposing him now. Smith has proved that he cannot even approach the ‘onble experiment’ of prohibition with the scales of moral and economic judgment, but always with a thirst, a bottle and a Tammany tomahawk. His record in New York as the arch foe of prohibition explains why, in 1926, outside of foreignized New York City, he carried but 4 counties out of the 62 in New York State. And the same record will explain why a good many poitical eggs that Tammany is now counting will not hatch on November 6. . 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Fletcher of Florida in an address here last night inveighed against “the efforts now .being made to retain control of Government with a man in the White House who*served in the cabinet under Harding,” and coufled with it a plea to Democrats to stand squarely behind the leadership of Al Smita. “Florida from 1876 to this good hour has known and detested Republicanism,” he told a Democratic rally at the Muni- cipal Auditorium, “and our safety and welfare now lies in that course. Once the people of this State get the facts of true history they will go to the polls in November and turn up a tremendous majoriiv for the national ticket headed by Smith and Robinson.” Payinz tribute to Gov. Smith, the Sen- ator said: “There is no basis for alarm by reason of any personal views of any candidate respecting a better way to accomplish real temperance and sobriety through- out the land. More than that, when a man of the courage and integrity of character Gov. Smith is known to pos- sess declares when he places one hand on the Bible and raises the other to high Heaven and swears to support the Constitution and enforce the laws passed in pursuance thereof, he will do it—that is enough for me. When a woman is talking about get- ting her hair washed she can make it sound as though that was a bigger job than harnessing a Mississippi flood.— Cincinnati Enquirer. By the Assoclated Press. EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, Mo., Septem- ber 25 —FEngaging in an impromptu de- bate with the Rev. L. E. Floyd in the First Baptist Church here Sunday night over the presidential candidacy of Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York, Timothy Healy of New York, labor leader, faint- ed and struck his head on a radiator. Healy rose from a pew after the pas- tor had concluded a violent attack on the Democratic nominee and obtained permission to speak. In the debate which ensued Healy denounced the minister as “un-American.” Mr. Floyd had asserted Gov. 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It has been seven years of demonstration of the fact that good wages, stability of employment and increase in standards of living can be accomplished in the end only by the sane, sound develop- ment of economic forces.” Retired Business Man Dies. Special Dispatch to The Star. POTOMAC, Va, September 25.— Philip G. Bramble, 72 years old, died yesterday at his home 407 Hume ave- nue, Del Ray, and the body is to be sent to Chevy Chase, Md., for burial. Mr. Bramble retired from business sev- eral years ago. A son and. two daugh- ters survive. qualified him from being President. | When the congregation clapped hands in an attempt to drown out the heck- ler’s voice, Healy fainted and fell. “The Lord silenced him,” several of the congregation cried. “It was just my fighting Irish,” Healy explained when he recovered. “When I heard this man's attempt to | inflame his audience against 20,000,000 | good citizens of the United States, d| simply boiled over.” | Healy, who served four years as coro- ner of New York County and for years was president of the International Union of Stationary Firemen, came here for his health last Saturday. o= 1928.° MARK ANNIVERSARY. Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Wilson Cele- brate 50 Years of Marriage. er, whose orchestras are widely known in Washington. Mr. Wilson was employed at the Gov- ernment Printing Office for 39 years, re- tiring in 1925. Out-of-town guests at the celebration tonight will include Mrs. Anna Yarnall of Phoenixville, Pa.; Mr. e 5 CLAIMS SMITH’S VISIT AIDS OKLAHOMA G. 0. P, By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 25.—Senator W. B. Pine of Oklahoma, who called at national Republican headquarters here yesterday, declared that if Gov. Smith visited Oklahoma again, the Democrats would carry the State for Herbert Hoover. “Farmers of my State,” said Sena- tor Pine, “are not turning over their tGroubles Io;' sal;l'flon by Tammany and R ov. 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