Evening Star Newspaper, October 13, 1928, Page 10

6 ™ ROBINSON ‘SELLING SMITH PERSONALITY Emphasizes “Humanness” of Nominee in Speeches Through Far West. By the Associated Press. EN ROUTE WITH SENATOR ROB- INSON TO SEATTLE, October 13.— ©Out here in the normally Republican Far West Senator Joseph T. Robinson, Democratic candidate for Vice Presi- | dent, is setting himself up as a political | salesman, and his wares are the per- sonality, accomplishments and govern- mental views of his running mate, Gov. Smith. «Whenever he speaks it is not so much to criticize the opposition party and | its candidates.or to tell what he him- #elf thinks about the issues of the day as it is to emphasize what he regards as the progressive qualities of the man | :‘ho heads the Democratic ticket with | m, Tells of Rise. A certain formal part of his speeches, & is true, is devoted to purely partisan | discussion, during which he endeavors to tear away at Republican policles and the Republican presidential candidate, ; But when that is done, he launches into | the informal and intimate phases of his | campaigning which, in a word, is “sell- | ing Al Smith,” as his associates put it. The Democratic vice presidential nominee likes to tell his listeners about what he calls the “humanness” of Gov.l Smith. All the way on his trip from | Reno to Seattle, where. he speaks to- | night, he told those who greeted him | of the rise of Smith from a poor East Side New York boy to his present po- | sition of prominence. Due in Borah's Home. When his campaign on the West Coast is finished, Mr. Robinson will turn Eastward, stopping at Boise, Idaho, early next week for a_speech in the home town of Senator Borah, who has | been campaigning for Mr. Hoover, Although he has not had a full op- Portunity to assess the immediate re- sults of his Southwestern and Western invasion, so far Senator Robinson de- clares himself to be greatly pleased With such reactions to his visit as he has noted. He told groups in Cali- fornia yesterday that he was convinced the Democrats have a good chance to carry the home State of the Republican Ppresidential candidate. Do You Know How to VOTE BY MAIL? Washingtonians who hope to vote by mail this year, but who are doubtful concerning the laws of their home States on the subject, may re- ceive the necessary information by directing. iries to The Evening Star, as follows: Voting Information, care News Department, Evening Star. The wuestions and answers will be Dublithed each day. Q. I have been a resident of Massa- chusetts for (;o number tor y?rs before a Government employe, naval service. Do I lose my legal residence in Massachusetts if I have registered voted in Virginia, having resided State one year? Can I register vote by mail in Massachusetts? Please give )EGS information about ap- you vote in Virginia you lose voting residence in Massachusetts. You cannot regain it until you return to Massachusetts and remain there for one year. You can vote by mail in Massachusetts, but registration is per- sonal. - Reregis! is not required if you have voted regularly and paid tax. for ballot is made to city clerk or the secretary of the com- :mnvu!th. on form obtainable at either fell me what I will have to do to vote by mail in South Carolina. I got my eertificate this past Summer.—H.J. W. A. There is no provision in the South Carolina law for voting by mail except in the. primary elections. Q. My husband and I have lived in Washington for the past eight years but have retained the State of Louisi- ana as our legal residence. Can we ter and vote by mail from our State? What have we to do to claim our vote?>—F. W. T. A. There is no provision in the| Louisiana law either for registering or: voting by mail outside the State. Q. I am a resident of Pennsylvania, ‘Though eligible to vote last year, did not cast my ballot since I was attending school in Wash- . Since my situation this year has not materially changed, would like to know if I could vote by mail— W. H. K. .—The Pennsylvania law does not permit voting by mai). Q—For many years I have been an Army officer; born. in Ohio and appoint- ed to the military service from that State. Have voted in my home town about three times during the period since my majority and have never voted | elsewhere. Can I vote in November by mail and what preliminaries are neces- “Inquirer.” i A.—You can both register and vote by | mail in Ohio, and you are eligible to | vote in ths November election. Call at the Republican Information Bureau, | 823 Fifteenth street northwest, or the Democratic Information Bureau, 1411/ G street northwest, for the blank appli- cations. If your Ohio residence has more than 11,800 population, registra- tion will be required, and the last day for filing absentee registration afidavit 1s October 20. Q—1T lived in a small town in South- ern New York and am in the Govern- ment service. My registration has been attended to up there and now I want to know how to secure the ballot.—H. M. J. A.—Absentee voters are required to | make application for the official ballot on prescribed form which can only be obtained by addressing the Board of Elections at the county seat of your county. This application must be filed not later than October 20, or 17 days before election. Q—I registered in Los Angeles, Calif., 4n 1926 and voted while there. I have been in the Army for the past year and will be discharged October 17. 1928, after which I will go to Florida. If there is any way that I can secure a ballot I would appreciate this informa- tion. Since January 15 I have been stationed here at Fort Hunt—J. H. deY. A—Write the county clerk of Los Angeles, Calif.. for the blank applica- tion for the official ballot, stating that you are in the Army service. Q. If one has been registered in a New Jersey town (population, 5,000) for four years, is it necessary to do so now for the presidential election? If so, can it be done by mail and when?—S8. O. 8. A. In municipalities of 15,000 or less the boards make a canvass of all legal voters ni their districts entitled to vote and even though temporarily absent ‘when such canvass is made your name will be entered. On the third Tuesday preceding election, October 16, the ards revise and correct the list. This done by adding thereto any names entitled to be included on personal ap- | plication. You should write to some rson who knows that you are eligible | 0o see that your name is placed on the list, and, unless the board is willing to do 'this, you would have to appear in rson the 16th: provided, however, The birth of the Republican party, in 1856, rising Phoenix-like out of the ashes of the ruins of the defeated op- position to Democracy in 1852, stands out as one of the remarkable political events of American history. Four years before the country had been almost unanimous in favor of the adjustment of the slavery question as made by the compromise of 1850, but the Southern Democrats, not content with that, pro- ceeded to push their advantage further under Pierce, and the Republican party sprang, full-grown, into the arena of politics as a protest against such a course. It remained for Pennsylvania, in a race in which the Democracy won by an eyelash finish, to cast the vote which the only time in its history rut one of its sons into the White House and kept out of it a man whose elec- tion probably would have meant dis- union and civil war four years before they came. Many historians have speculated as to what would have happeried had and Fremont succeeded Pierce in the White House. That secession would have followed seems inevitable. And what would Fremont have done in the presidential chair if such an event had come about? Many a Northern author- ity has registered his vow of thank- fulness that by the narrow majority of 1,025 votes Peznnsylvania postponed un- til 1860 the pivotal election in Ameri- can politics. The Republican party met in Pitts- burgh on Washington's birthday and called a national convention to con- vene in Philadelphia on Bunker Hill day. It met according to schedule, and such a small thing as credentials never cntered into the minds of the leaders of the movement. They felt that every- body at the convention was sincerely interested in the causc of anti-slavery, s0 every delegate had a seat. Weed and Seward. It was indeed with them a case of principles and not men, and the thought of most of the delegates turned to Wil- liam H. Seward. Seward declined the nomination, yet his declination was not of his own wish. Thurlow Weed had forced him ‘to it, and he frequently hinted to friends that Weed had be- trayed him for Fremont. Weed him- self tells a story which shows how clearl” Seward believed that if he could have accepted the nomination in 1856 he would have been renominated in 1860, and he, instead of Lincoln, would have been the Civil War President. The story goes that Weed and Seward were riding up Broadway one day, and when they passed-the Lincoln Monument in Union Square Seward said: “Weed, if you had been faithful to me, I should have been there instead of Lincoln.” To which Weed replied: “Is it not better to be alive and in a carriage with me than to be dead and set up in bronze?” Salmon P. Chase was considered for the nomination, and Justice McLean, who had been on the Supreme Court bench since 1829, also was talked cf. Horace Greeley wrote of him: “We do not consider him quite S. O. G.” The “S. O. G.” standing for a politi- cal slang expression of the day, “Sound on the Goose.” Charles A. Dana wrote to a friend: “You ought to rejoice at the interest of such a candidate rather than shed ;nra by the quart when he is done or.” In the end John C. Fremont was nominated. His political principles were little better known than were those of Zachary Taylor when the nomi- of fhe Khow Nothing pardy hed o of the Khow Nof P - nated Fremont some ‘time. before, and the Republicans sought to add that strength to their own. Lincoln was a candidate before the convention for Vice President and received 110 votes on one ballot, but W. L. Dayton of New Jersey was nominated over him. Lin- coln favored the nomination of Justice McLean and urged E. B. Washburne and other friends to do all they could in behalf of the eminent jurist. Know Nothings Meet. ‘The Know Nothings, of whom Horace Greeley wrote that they had as a party about as many of the elements of per- manence as an anti-potato-rot party, held their national convention on Wash- ington's birthday anniversary, their na- tional council having three days before drawn up the party platform. A split was precipitated by Fremont's friends over the right of the council to take away from the convention the framing of the platform. The regulars nomi- nated ex-President Fillmore and Sam- uel J. Donelson. The Whigs afterward met and ratified the nominations, the last convention they ever held. Thus they, organized into a political party by anti-Masonry, expired as an adjunct of anti-Catholicism. The Democrats met in Cincinnati, holding there the first national con- vention which ever met west of the Alleghenies. Although President Pierce was a candidate for renomination, it was early seen that the pa: course was to be determined from the fact that the nominee would have to carry some Northern States to win, and Pierce was unpopular in the North. So Bu- chanan got the nomination, with John C. Breckinridge as his running mate, Slavery Campaign Issue. “Free soil, free Kansas, free speech and Fremont” was the battle cry of the Republicans, while “Buck and Breck” was as much as the Democratic cam- poets could find for a slogan. %‘gnmgubllclm could find no term RENT 1324 Columbia Road 9 rooms and bath: h.w.h. electric sights: first-class condition, $100 per month. John W. Thompson & Co. 1626 Eye St. NNW. Main 1477 Next. “Pool” car to Florida about October 12, and to California late October. Reduced rates with greater security for household goods and baggage. SECURITY STORAGE CO,, 1140 15th St. Packers and shippers by freight, express, “Pool” cars, motor vans and “lift” vans (abroad). Roe Fulkerson (Glasses) NOW AT 1342 F National Press Club Building Two Doors From FOX THEATER at because of failure to vote two years | 2g0 your name was stricken from the Uste ' / ) fusion won in Pennsylvania in 1856 | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, The History of Presidential Elections XIII—Birth of the Republican Party. BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Author of “The American Government.” more gentle than “border ruffian” to apply to a Democrat. The Democrats retorted with “black Republican” and honors were easy. Buchanan Victor. Pennsylvania witnessed a fusion of <he Know Nothings and the Republicans —in Pennsylvania known as the Peo- ples’ party. Both parties nominated the same electors, and it was understood that if Pennsylvania’s vote should prove determinative of the result and fusion won, Fremont was to have it. Other- wise the electors were to be divided as the voters had voted, between Fillmore and Fremont. But fusion had no chance to work out the deal, for that 1,025 votes by which Buchanan won deter- mined the result and, possibly, changed the entire course of American history. Fillmore had no idea of winning in the popular election, but he did hope so to divide the vote between the Demo- crats and the Republicans that the election would be thrown into the House. The closeness of the vote in Pennsylvania shows how nearly he guessed it. The electoral vote was: Buchanan, 174; Fremont, 114; Fill- more, 8. - After Buchanan was elected he tried to get the country to forget about the slavery issue. In his inaugural address he referred to a forthcoming decision of the Supreme Court, and Seward al- leged that there was collusion between Chief Justice Taney and Buchanan, This so angered Taney that he declared afterward that if Seward had been elected President in 1860 he would have refused to administer the oath to him. And yet Lincoln repeatedly made the same charge without driving Taney to such refusal. All fair authorities acquit Buchanan and Taney of any collusion, (Tomorrow: The Four-Cornered Fight of 1860.) I0WA HELD .IN B_A‘I:ANCE. J. Hamilton Lewis Believes State May Swing Either Way. CHICAGO, October 13 (#).—Thomas F. Donovan, Democratic national com- mitteeman, today received the follow- ing telegram from J. Hamilton Lewis, former United States Senator from Illinois, who is in Minneapolis after a speaking tour of Iowa: “Just concluded a speaking tour of Towa. That State has. reversed itself by giving Smith the farm vote in the country and Hoover in the towns. It is my judgment that Iowa is in the balance so close that anything can turn it for either candidate.” Thief Nabs Surveyor's Level. $100 and a fancy comb also valued at the same amount, was reported to the police yesterday. William B. Ramsey, 228 Q street. said the level was taken from a new building at Georgia avenue and Sheridan street, and A. C. Det- weiler, 816 Connecticut avenue reported the comb, of silver, gold and set with pearls, was taken from his store. ‘Theft of a surveyors level valued at SHNONS ATTAGS PARTY HYPOGRY North Carelina Senator Says Democrats Use “Bigotry” Charges as Screen. By the Associated Pres NEW BERN, N. C., October 13.—Sen- ator Furnifold M. Simmons, Democrat of North Carolina, has hurled at his! party the accusation that its presides tial campaign is one in which hypocrisy is the predominant factor, Addressing a meeting of “Anti-Smith Democrats” here last hight, he declared that the party is waging a “militant liquor campaign” in the North, while be- | low the Mason and Dixon line it is evad- ing the prohibition question and raising a cry of intolerance against those who honestly oppose Gov. Alfred E. Smith because of his attitude toward the eighteenth amendment and the Vol- | stead law. Senator Simmons has long been a leader of his party both in North Care lina and nationall, In addition to be- ing identified actively with the “drys” of the Senate, he has led the minority party in legislation pertaining to Gov-| ernment finance and taxation. He r¢ signed as national Democratic commit- teeman for_ North Carolina after the nomination "of Gov. naming of John J. Raskob as chairman of the committee, Later he indorsed the efforts of North Carolina Democrats opposing Smith. “Dry Issue Paramount.” Terming prohibition “the paramount * Simmons last night Southern electorate should not be “influenced by the smoke screen of intolerance” thrown about the ampaign. He reiterated his charge that Gov. 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