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PROGRESSIVESHOLD EDGE IN WISCONSIN Blaine Forces Active for Smith—La £glleite Re- mains Silent. | (Continued from First Page) peact him to make any announcement | "‘man. In the same primary, all the | Progressive Republicans were nomi- | nated for the other offices, including | Senator La Follette. The defeat of | their candidate for governor helped, however, to embitter even more the Progressives and they are inclined to take it out on Hoover. Progressives Turned Down. Nor has the Republican national committee been politically wise in its | dealings with Wisconsin _Progressives. | After weeks of waiting it finally turned down the La Follette Progressives who had been chosen as members of the national committee, and_put in their | places the choices of the Stalwarts. Also when Mr. Hoover was traveling through Wisconsin before the State primary only Stalwart leade*s and Stalwart can- didates for office were received on his train. In contrast with this, however, was | the complimentary reference made to ! of his choice for President. He won the Republican nomination for Senator in impressive style, with a lead of 160.000 | vntes over his opponent. He is going to be re-elected on November 6 as sure as the sun is going to rise on that day. It iz quite obvious that if all 1a Follette Progressive Republicans in the State—all those who voted for the Jate Senator La Follette in 1924—should | vote for Smith this year, Smith would | carry the State. But investigation | shows clearly they are not all going to do that thing. but many of them will | vote the Republican national ticket. Declared 50-50 Bet. That being the case, the Smith- | Hoover contest in Wisconsin is a real | horse race. Some of the La Follette Progressives hest, qualified to judge po- | litical conditions in this State say they ! do not know how the election is going. Some substantial Democrats with whom | I have talked say the same thing. They | express a hope that Smith will carry | the State, but they admit they are by no means sure. They even say it is a 50-50 bet I have found several La Follette Progressives who say they be- lieve that Hoover is likely to carry the | State—and they are not in favor of | Hoover, but prefer Smith. That is their real judgment privately expressed But do the Progressive Republican Al Smith headquarters admit it is a_close race? They do not. They go so far as | to say that Wisconsin is definitely in | the Smith bag and that Gov. Smith | will carry the State by 100,000 votes aver Hoover, or even more. Repub- headquarters is claiming the . too, for Hoover, but are more modest, in’ their estimates of the out- come. Wisconsin has been noted for curlous | political situations in the past, but this | year it seems to have gone on a real political jag. The cross currents here are so numerous that not even the politicians themselves can follow them through and predict their effects on the | election. Like most converts. the Progressives who have rallied to Al Smith here are rabid. They are as rabid as the anti- Smith Democrats in North Carolina and other Southern States who have gone over to Hoover. They insist they have not turned Democrat “for good.” how- €ver, just. as the Democrats who are 2gainst Smith in the South insist they have not turned Republican. Hws Support of Wets. In addition to the anti-Hoover sup- port among the Progressives here, Gov. Smith has the support of the wets. some | of whom have been Progressives and #ome Stalwart Republicans. It would seem that if the New York governor is to cash in on the wet issue anywhere, he should be able to do so in Wiscon- the | n. A proposal that the dry laws should be amended so as to permit the manu- facture of 275 per cent beer, under governmental supervision and not to be consumed on the premises where sold, was submitted to the voters of Wis- consin in November. 1926. It was car- Tied by a vote of 349,443 to 177.602. In the same vear, Senator Blaine, running as a wringing wet candidate, won the Republican nomination for Semator against former Senator Lenroot, the Stalwart Republican nominee to suc- ceed himself. Wet, Milwaukee, made famous in by- gone days by its beer, was the scene of one of Gov. Smith's principal cam- paign speeches on his Western tour sev- eral weeks ago. Accounts vary as to tha reception that Gov. Smith received in that city, some alleging that he was accorded a warm welcome and others saying that it was a “flop.” Neverthe- Jess, it is predicted by the Smith sup- porters that he will carry Milwaukee by a substantial vote. There are other wet spots in Wisconsin, too, where he is expected to run strongly. But not all the La Follette Progres- #ives are wet. There are many voters of Scandinavian descent in the State and a good many of them are dry and yet 2lways voted the Le Follette ticket. Question of Blaine Strength. Tt ix a question in the game of pol- fica to what extent any leader can threw the vote which usually supports him to another candidate for office. It i a question right now how many of | his supporters Senator Blaine can throw to Smith in the coming election. Senator La Follette, despite the efforts of anti-Hoover, pro-Smith Progressives 1o bring him into line for the Demo- cratic national ticket, is making no at- tempt at this juncture to “(hrow” his | followers to Smith, and he has the| greatest following in the State today.| It is recalled here that even the senior Senator La Follette. at the height of | his power, was unable to bring about the election of Lenroot as governor. Wisconsin, despite its loyalty to the | 1a Follettes, father and son, has voted consistently Republican in_ national elections for many vears. When the late Senator La Follette ran as an in- dependent. in1924, as already pointed | o, Wisconsin cast its electoral vote | for him. It was a personal tribute. No | 1 Senator La Follette by Senator Curtis, the Republican vice presidential candi- date, when he spoke in the State. Here in Wisconsin the presidential | electors are on one ballot and the State | ticket is on another. This makes it easier for the voters to “split” the tickets, Republican or Democratic, as they desire. Progressives who wish to support the Republican ticket, includ- ing La Follette, can do so, and at the same time vote the Smith national | ticket without difficuity. | The Republicans have the better of it when it comes to organization. The | Democrats, while far better organized than they have been in recent years. still have many gaps and little time to fill them. The pro-Smith Progressive | Republicans are organizing in every county. But take it as a whole the R publicans have the better of the or- ganization problem, and that means a lot when it comes fo getting the voters to register and later to vote on election day. Large Silent Vote. In Wisconsin there are thousands of voters who are not saying whom they will support in the presidential race. It is this silence on the part of these voters which leads some of the shrewdest poli- ticians here to say it is a mistake to class Wisconsin as in the Smith bag at this time. The Smith people are mak- ing the greater noise, but there is still a question as to whether the greater noise means the greater vote. A Republican drive during the last three weeks of the campaign is about to be launched, and the Smith adher- ents are none too easy when they con- sider it. The Democrats and the pro- Smith Progressives are planning & big meeting in Madison Saturday night, which will be addressed by Senator Blaine and by Senator “Jim” Reed of Missouri. This is said to be the first speech that Senator Reed will make for Smith in this campalgn, and it is await- ed with keen interest. Both Blaine and Reed speeches will be broadcast. The Capital Times of this city, known as the Progressive organ of the State, which has always been a stanch sup- | tary of the Treasury Mellon and former THE EVENTNG STAR. WASHINGTON. D. ., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18. 1928.° MELLON COMBATS SHITH ON ECONONY Secretary Says Candidate Is Inaccurate and Misinformed on Federal Finances. | Gov. Smith's Sedalia attack on “Cool- idge economy” has brought down upon his head the indignant protests of two of the President’s most ardent cham- plons of the economy program-—Secre- Secretary of the Interor Work. now chairman of the Republican national committee. Secretary Mellon in a 10-page reply | today 1o the Democratic nominee | charges the New York governor with | “what even the most charitably minded | would have to describe as inaccuracies and suggests that “perhaps the most ac- curate statement in Gov. Smith's en- tire speech is the one in which he said | that the fiscal reports of the Federal finances were a Chinese puzzle to him. Dr. Work at the same time issued a | | to be undertaken was putting the Gov- | ernment’s ~own atement accusing Smith of being hrewd enough to avoid all reference to the four tax-reduction measures, totaling $1.800.000.000, which have be- come effective in the last seven and one- half years.” and of overlooking the fact | that the Republican administration has | paid off $7.000,000.000 of Government bonds, “known ‘as the interest-bearing public debt.” Mellon Strikes Back. “Under ordinary circumstances 1 would not think it wor while to answer a purely political speech,” Secretary | Mellon said. “But In the address de- livered at Sedalla, Mo., by the Demo- ! cratic candidate for the presidency he | undertook to challenge my good faith and to accuse me of presenting a false | picture to the Nation. He included in this charge the director of the Bureau | of the Budget and the Undersecretary | of the Treasury. In other words, Gov. Smith_accuses the financial officers of | the Government of carrying on a de- | liberate campaign of misrepresentation | intended to conceal the true picture of | the Nation's finances. This will not do. “Before. & Tespopstble man makes | such a charge he should have a thor- | ough and intimate knowledge of all the | facts and be able to support it with clear and convincing proof. “Let me begin by correcling Gov. Smith's conception of what this ad- ministration understands by economy in government. Economy is not just | saving, but wise spending; the elimina- tion of waste: the promotion of effi- | ciency and businesslike methods: the | building up of a sense of responsibility | to the taxpayer on the part of all pub- | lic servants: the careful management | of the Government's finances, as ex- porter of the La Follettes, has come out for Smith against Hoover editorially. This is regarded as a distinct aid to the Smith cause here. La Follette’s maga- zine, however, like Senator La Follette, is taking no sides in the presidential | train shed and waiting room. race. SMITH FORTIFYING ILLINGIS POSITION Spends Day Seeing Leaders After Big Welcome; Speaks Tomorrow Night. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 18.—Spurred by the arrival of the party standard-| bearer in their midst for a 60-hour visit, Tllinols Democracy was rallying | around the banner of Gov. Smith today awaiting the word he brings to this normally Republican State in the seventh and last campalgn speech of his present stumping tour. Tomorrow night in the 131st Regi- ment Armory the Democratic presiden- tial nominee will deliver his Chicago address, and Saturday morning will find | him trailing homeward to muster his reserve strength for the final weke-and- a-half drive of the campaign. Arriving in Chicago at 10 o'clock Jast | night after an all-day ride from Sedalia, | Mo, Gov. Smith was given a noisy ovation by a throng that crammed every | available space in the Union Station | Crowd Separates Party. “Hello, boys, how are you?” was his greeting, and as flashlights boomed and | a tremendous cheer went up from the| well-wishers he doffed his brown derby | { |as Gov. Smith would have us believe, | why hadn't they al emplified. for instance, by a policy of steady debt reduction with consequent | relief from the heavy burden of inter- est charges. Under such a definition expenditures might actually increase | from year to year and yet the Nation receive an economical and businessli administration of its public affairs, Defends Minor Savings. “If Gov. Smith understood the ! meaning of economy in government in | this sense, he would not point the finger of scorn and ridicule at the items of minor savings effected by individuals | holding subordinate positions in the | Federal Government. * * * 0 he realize that these examples of minor | savings effected by people holding sub; ordinate positions, sometimes In a dis- tant part of the world, are simply | proof that the example set by the | President at the top has reached down until it has permeated the whole civil service and revolutionized their atti- tude toward the expenditure of the pub- lic funds? “It is the best example of the high morale that has been built up under President Coolidge’s leadership, and nothing that I know of is more condu- cive to the destruction that morale. than to have a candidate for the presidency of the United States hold up to ridicule and contempt the efforts of public serv- ants to save the money of the tax- payers, “Gov. Smith sought to establish his case by claiming that the reduction in expenditures effected since 1921, was not due to economy and good adminis- tration, but to the automatic demobi zation of the war-time machine. The war had been over for 2!, years when the Republican administration took control of the Government in March, 1921. If this savings were inevitable, ready heen more .. largely effected? * Sees Smith Misinformed. “Overlooking minor inaccuracies, let | me come to the central point of the governor's speech, to the statement which he says is ‘a pretty good. clean, clear-cut statement,’ made ‘without equivocation,’ from which he has ‘got | nothing to subtract or deduct, and and smiled his best campaign smile. So dense was the crowd that several members of the governor's immediate party were separated from the nominee and Mrs. Smith. Once in their automobiles, the gov- ernor and his party were whisked down made ‘with the knowledge that the | figures are right’ What is that state- ment?: ‘All of the departments of the Government in 1927 cost $200,000,000 more than they did in 1924.” “I am afraid Gov. Smith has been trouble with that contention is that the | | deal with it in terms of fact.” | grossly misinformed. The total ordi- | nary expenditures of the Government, “ which does not include the expenditures | Michigan Boulevard to the Congress Hotel through another great crowd of cheering welcomers. Upon reaching the hotel the nominee was treated to another big demonstra- tion, and when he finally reached his payable from postal revenues, aggre- gated in 1924 $1,828,000,000, and in | 1927, $1.857,000.000, or an increase of $29,000,000, and not $200,000,000. The | suite on the fifteenth floor the shouting | not included governor by the use of a little diligence could have ascertained that in so far as public buildings are concerned it is not necessary that the amounts authorized specifically for projects be appropriated for in their entire! at once, as the Secretary of the Treasury is given au- thority o enter into contracts to the full limit of cost in each instance. Therefore, the estimates submitted to Congress are simply In such amounts as will provide adequate funds to carry each project until the following_appro- priation can have become law. It is all imple and readily understandable by hose having knowledge of the Govern- ment busines: “The governor cites a number of instances in which building sites were acquired some years ago on which no building has to date been constructed. The fact is that the last omnibus public building bill, the items for which were made up by the committees of the House and Senate, became a law on March 4, 1913. Work under that bill progressed steadily until the conditions brought about by the World War caused the then Secretary of the Treasury, in the interest of conserving manpower, materials and transportation facilities for war purposes, to suspend the letting of contracts for new buildings. Task Faced in 1921. “When the new administration cam into power in 1921, the immediate tas] | house in order: the estoration of economical and business- like principles of administration; the reduction of the cost of Government, necessarily followed by relief from the frightful burdens of taxation under which the country was staggering and which formed so serious an impediment to the restoration of the economic pros- perity of the Nation. Until this vital task had been accomplished, no thought could be given to expanding ihe physjcal plant of the Government “Once accomplished. the President recommended to the Congress that the time had come for expanding the phy cal facilities of the Federal Government. | but he was unwilling that we shouldj return to the old pork barrel practices® of an omnibus public buildings billy Accordingly a law was enacted, under, the terms of which, for the first *timej in its history, the physical plant ofthe Government would be constructed #on' the basis of actual requirementsirather| than by virtue of the political needs off congressional districts. “Since that time and in thejcourse of the last three vears a general thorization of $298,000,000 has beeni made for public buildings purposes, Jof] which_ $77.000,000 have been appro | | | | SMITH PROMISES Tells President of “Starvation of Children™ Will End If He Is [iBy the Associated Press. f NEW YORK, October 18.—Gov. Smith | recently made public through the Demo- | cratic national committee a letter he | wrote Dr. Haven Emerson. president of the American Indian Defense As- sociation, regarding what were termed shocking conditions under which Amer- ican Indians were living. | The governor said he believed im- | | mediate relief was essential. | Emerson asked what Gov. Smith would do about the institution if elect- ed. The governor said “starvation of Indian children will come to an im- mediate end if 'T am elected.” adding that in handling the Indian problem he would “consult with those, who know most about their difficulti Gov. Smith in his letter s “In looking over the rep rt made at | | the request of the Secretary of the In- | property must be continued. | terior by the Institute for Government | does not prevent the extension to the | Research at Washington, I am shocked | Indians of fu by the conditions which it discloses and believe that immediate relief is es-| sential “First of all I shall recognize the ob- ligation of the United .States to the Indians and T shali recommend to Con- gress the measures which will enabl> the Indians to continue to exist. Star- | | INDIANS' “SHOCKING™ CONDITION| TO ALLEVIATE Defense Association I Elected. | vation of Indian children will come to | an immediate end if I am elected and I shall see that proper steps are taken to accomplish this end. “‘Whatever organization changes are needed to provide adequate modern medical and health service to all In- dians, as well as anv inerease in funds to this object, I shail be ready to rec- ommend. “I believe that the Indians are en- | titled to_an accounting for the $T 000,000 of thelr income which are bei handled annually by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and for the $1,690,000,000 of capital which the Government holds in trust for their benefit. I shall take immediate steps to secure an accounting for them and provide for periodic ac- countings thereafter. * * * “Federal guardianship over Indian But t 11l constitutional rights and 1 shall lay before Congress a bill of rights for Indians to be en- acted into statute laws, insuring that protection to individual Indians and hing the right of Indians to or- ganize and operate -in corporate and tribal capacities with the same pro- tection protection. RECORD OF HOOVER 5 GTIZEN UPHELD R "Department Finds He ‘;,'Bonsis(ently Retained His 1 priated and of which $50.000,000 apg proximately are being annually pended. To date 251 projects haveltie authorized—244 for the country at las and 7 for the District of Columbia. Cites Brooklyn Case. he governor gave what he called.a) few shining examples of mismanage- ment. He stated that in the Borough of Brooklyn the Government acquired a' site as far back as 1915, and that up to and including this year not a single dollar has ever been appropriated to put a building on it. Now ‘what are the | facts? When the land in question was acquired there were buildings on it, and the very act which authorized its acqui- | sition provided for the remodeling of | those buildings. They have since been remodeled and have been in use by the Federal Government ever since. As al- ready stated, there was no public build- ings act until 1926. At the present time $2,700,000 has been authorized for the | demolition of the old buildings and the extension and remodeling of the main building. It is expected to advertise the foundations in January and the super- structure in April, 1929. “In Chicago, Gov. Smith states that a site was acquired at a cost of close 0 $4,000,000, that the new Federal building is designed to cost $14.250.000, and that at the last session Congress appropriated just $300,000, not enough | for the foundation. From which he| would have the people infer that this, project is being handled in & waseful and unbusiness-like manner. “Here again the Governor has been guilty of making charges without a careful ascertainment of the facts. It is true that a site has beeh acquired in 1928 at a cost of $3,890,000, but that site does not include all of the land | required for the new building. The Government was not able to purchase the balance of the property for what it concelved to be a reasonable price. Condemnation proceedings have had to be resorted to. Unitl this needed property has been acquired, it is im- possible to begin construction, and the $300.000 appropriated is all that can possibly be expended this fiscal year. U. S. Biggest Business. “These examples are, T think, suffi- clent to demonstrate that Gov. Smith has been led to draw rash conclusions | from insufficient data and inadequate study. “The business of the United States Government is the greatest business enterpirse in the world. Knowledge of it is not to be acquired hastily during the course of a few months' campaign. It is no reflection on Gov. Smith's ability that he is inadequately informed as to the business of the Federal Gov- ernment. What might reasonably be asked of him. however, is that he re- frain from charging others with mi representation and bad faith until by study and familiarity with his subject he has placed himself in a position to | | | Work Defends G. 0. P. Chairman Work said. in part: “When the Republican administra- tion came into power in 1921 the war had been over for two vears and a half: our troops had returned from France: our Army cantonments had been abandoned, our military and Naval forces demobilized. The _Sixty-sixth Rights as American. ‘hairman Work of the Republican ‘nagonal committee, with the aid of the | ‘State Department, today struck a 'death-dealing blow at what he believ Ithreatened to be an organized eleventn- | 'hour “whispering campaign” directed at | the Americanism of Herbert Hoover. Declaring that detectives and ne . he is informed, have been work in England preparatory to launch ing in America a campaign of “misrep- resentation and slander” that would be “an outrage on Mr. Hoover and a fraud on the American people,” Dr. Work made public State Department corre- spondence defending the Republican andidate’s citizenship. In his bristling statement Chairman Work denounced the reported move as | “one of the most unjust whispering campaigns in the history of presidential contests” and called on the Democratic national committee to join in denounc- ing it. The “whispers.” Work _explained, arose from the fact that Hoover was listed years ago on a roll of English | voters without his knowledge, in accord- ance with an established custom used where Americans rent British property Photographs of this Toll have been taken. according to information sup- tied the chairman, for the purpose of circulating them in the United States A State Department letter, signed by W. R. Oastle, jr. assistant secretary, and quoted by Dr. Work, said . that while Hoover was abroad he always maintained residence in the United States, and that “there never has been the slightest question” of his American citizenship. ‘The department heard a rumor as long ago as 1920 that Hoover had applied for British citizenship, it was stated, but inquiries made at the time proved the rumor had no basis Chairman Work said that “an im- portant newspaper has requested the State Department for information on this subject, in reply to which the State Department has today issued the following, in part: Routine of Registering. « T understand that the paper which | you represent has asked you to secure | from the department a record of the | dates, if any, when Mr. Hoover regis- tered at the American consulate in | London. “+You will realize, of course, that reg- istration of American citizens abroad was never made compulsory by law. There was. however, some discussion | of the interpretation of the act of Con- | gress of March 2, 1907, which resulted in a circular instruction from the De- partment of State to consular officers | requiring registration of American citi- zens resident abroad. In consequence of this circular consuls warned Ameri- can citizens of the desirability of reg- istration and opened registers there- for. “Mr. Hoover registered at the Ameri- can consulate in Londgn in 1908. He gave his permanent residence as in the United States. At the bottom of the registration blank he wrote: “I have, mn the practice of my profession, journeyed abroad to various countries from the United States for 11 years.” This registration was for an uniimited period and there was, therefore, no| | | | | | | 1920 the department heard a rumor that | acter (British citizenship) or a similar | taxes. | quire, their names continue on the roll | was never entitled to vote. The passport was given him without question as a result of the proof always required by the Department of State of an applicant for a passport ihat he is an American citizen. In 1911 Mr. Hoover secured another passport and again in 1913, when he was édmpelled | to go to Rusdia, he was issued still a third passport. Further passports were 1918, ““In all applications for passports, as well as in the original registration at the consulate, Mr. Hoover established the United States as his permanent residence. In every application he signed the usual form that he intended to return to the United States with the purpose of residing and performing the duties of citizenship. There never has been the slightest question of Mr. Hoover's American _citizenship. “'I might add—although it does not bear directly on the question of citizen- ship. which I take it was the reason for your inquiry—that as long ago as at one time in his_carer Mr. Hoover had applied for British _citizenship. | Merely as of passing interest, I may say that careful inquiries were made at the time. and it was proved to the entire satisfaction of the department that this rumor had no basis. ” Whispers Are Denounced. “I wish as chairman.” Mr. Work said. “to go further than this and to publicly denounce this whispering cam- paign. “In corroboration of the statement is- sued today I have had for some time in my possession a certificate from the proper authorities in Great Britain cer- tifying that no application of this char- character was ever even considered or presentegl. Every man who has known Mr. Hoover over these years has known his lifelong and almost fanatical devo- tion to his own country. “Another phase of these whispers is to the effect that Mr. Hoover voted in a British_election. This is equally un- true. He never voted or tried to vote. But there is in course of preparation an attempt to deceive the American people | on this point which necessitates that I should further amplify it. “Mr. Hoover's name appeared on two or three occasions during a period from 1909 to 1914 on a printed ‘register of persons entitled to vote' in a precinct where he rented a house near London and upon which he paid taxes. Anyone who rents a house in England pays The voting register in England is not & personal registration as it is in this country, but the voting roll is made up by a return from the tax lists to the election authorities, informing them of the names of taxpayers, there being a tax requirement for a voter in that country. “But all taxpayers are not entitled to vote in England any more than in this country. There is no notification of persons that they are on the roll, and unless they are interested enough to in- indefinitely, subject to test if attempt is made to vote. “As I have said, Mr. Hoover never voted. He never attempted to vote. He He would have been subject to drastic penalties if he had voted. At that very time, as shown by the State Department state- ment, Mr. Hoover was fully maintaining his home at Stanford University and San Francisco. where he or his family resided a considerable part of each vear and where his children were educated. “Mr. Hoover was not aware until a short time ago that his name even appeared on the roll. He became aware of this fact only by being informed of search being made of local records in England by representatives of Amer- ican detective agencies and opposition newspapers endeavoring to find some- thing which they could launch in this campaign. I am informed that they have taken photographs of these rolls and they propose to produce them in the United States. They have raised issued to him in 1915, 1916, and in! (From the 5:30 Edition of Yesterda: DENCGRATS EPORT LOA OF 000 National Committee Puts Receipts at $2,753,192. $2,555,353 Spent. Star.) { | By the Assoclated Press. The Democratic national committee yesterday reported receipts up to October 15 of $2.753,192.04 and expenditures of $2,555,353.18. A statement filed with the House campaign funds committee said that from September 1 to October 15 it had received $1,539,441.70, including a loan of $500,000 from the County Trust Co. of New York. The committee reported a balan~e in hand on October 15 of $197,836.48. ‘The national committee reported the following contributions received between October 1 and 15: $60,000—Thomas F. Ryan, Waynes- boro, Va. $50,000 each—J. J. Raskob and W. F. | Kenny, both of New York City. 000 each-—Edith A. Lehman and Herbert W. Lehman, both of New York City, and Empire Social Club, Bethle- | hem, Pa. $10,000 Donations. $10,000—R. A. and J. F. Corroon Alexander Smith Cochran, Bernard M Baruch, Jesse Isidor Strauss, James | Speyer of New York City and Jesse I $5,000—W. J. Fitzgerald. R. S. Clark, Morgan_J. OBrien, Robert Sterling Clark, Benjamin_Winters and John J. Hagerty of New York City; Thomas W Finncane, Rochester, N.' Y.. Josepa Obergfell, Cincinnati, Ohio; W. New- some, Boston, Mass.: J. N. Camden Versailles. Ind., and W. J. Winn, Cov- ington, Ky. $3,000—Campbell Jones, Houston, Tex. Carrington _and Richard Croker, both of New York City: Mrs. Edward L. Logan, Boston, Mass.; Samuel S. Fels, Philadelphi: Pa., and J. S. Cullinan, Houston, Tex. | $2,500—Herbert Bayard Swope, Den- inis J. O'Connell, M. H. Lynch, Jacob Ruppert, Sam H. Harris, Irving Berlin {and Frank A. Zunion, all of New York L City. $2,000—Walter J. M. Donovan, Max Bamberger, Herman A. Metz and H. Haggerty, all of New York City; S. Pea~ body, Chicago. $1,500—J. Ansbury. Defiance, Ohi erbee, Amos R. E. Pinchot, Joseph Leb- L. Brusstar, Paul Baron, James P. | Carey, Alfred F. Seligsberg, Judge Fran- ces X. McQuade, Mrs. Henry L. Sher- man, Grover A. Whalen, Thomas Grim- mins, James Byrne, Henry H. Plerce, | Joseph B. Mayer, Ashley T. Cale, | Charles Harwood, all of New York City; Thomas J. Walsh, Davenport, Iowa, four $1,000 contributions: John Walker, Harris Nevin, Brooklyn; Nicholas F. Walsh, New York City. |“ $1.000—Martin J. Gillin, J. George | Costello, J. P. Muller, Hicks A. Weath- Pittsburgh, Pa.; Harry H. Flagler, Mill- | brook. N.' Y.: Marcus A. Coolidge, | Pitchburg. Mass.; Michael F. Cudahy, Cudahy, Wis.; C. S. Harrison, Carl S Glitsch, John H. Harden, Judge S. W | Hayes, Reinhart & Donovan, R. W | Robberson and Mrs. J. B. Klein, C. S. | Beckman, Dan and Earl Tankersles | Thomas E. Ward, C. F. Anderson and E. D. Davis, all of Oklahoma Ci Okla.: Lee Jefreys, Utica, N. Y.; Wi {liam Hanley, Bradford, Pa.; Frank P. Dolan, Albany. N. Y.: Joseph P. Grace, Long Island City, N. Y.; Charles G. | Morris, New Haven, Conn.; Patrick H. | Joyce. Chicago, 1ii.; J. J. Dunegan, | Shenandoah, Towa: J. J. Gilmore, Shen- { andoah, Iowa; Thomas H. Lenahan, | New Haven, Conn.: Mary S. Townsend, Washingten. D. C.; James W. Byrne, | San Francisco, Calif.; Riehard Grozier, | Cambridge, Mass.; Jbhn F. Fitagerald, | Boston: Sherman_ L. Whipple, Boston: | John W. Henry, Buffalo, N. ¥.; Frank | Loughran, Asheville, N. C.; Robert S. | Lovett, Locust Valley, Long Island; John J. Burke, Cicero, IIl.; John K. | Mullen, Denver, Colo.; J. J. Prindiville, | Farmingham, Mass.; Walter J. Carlin, | Brooklyn: Frederick Pleasants, Upper | Montclair, W. J.: Caroline O'Day, Rye, N. Y.: Louis E. Kirstein, Boston, Mass. Dr. George F. McIntire. Boston, Mas Perry Belmont, Washington, D. C. | Mrs. Patrick Cudahy, Milwaukee, Wis. - | Mrs. Mary Hughes, Brooklyn, and | Thomas H. Hanrahan, Buffalo, N. Y. RASKOB NAMES BANK. | Says $500,000 Loan Was Arranged Through County Trust Co. | NEW YORK, October 18 (#).—John J. Raskob, Democratic national chair- man, last night said that the loan of $500,000 obtained by the Democratic national committee for the Smith- Robinson campaign had been arranged | through the County Trust Co. of New York. ‘The loan was disclosed in a financial statement accounting for all campaign contributions and expenditures filed | with the House campaign funds investi- | gation committee.in Washington by the Democratic national committee. “Yes, we borrowed $500,000," Mr, Raskob said. “It was arranged through the County Trust Co. They cannot lend that much on one loan. Their capital } is not big enough, but it was arranged through them. That is a common prac- | tice among banks. A bank will take a | loan and parcel it out among banks.” Mr. Raskob said he was “told that every campaign gets into this shape; at expenses run ahead of receipts and that receipts come in afterward.” | ths lang, Cornelius Sullivan, J. A. Mendour, | Milk centers, where all milk intended Thomas J. Hayes, James M. McCrum, | for consumption is sent for sterilization, Charles Keck, Joseph L. Burke, J. Lewis | are being established in Rome, Milan, Schoenfeld, Frank C. Armstrong. James REM EMBER the created by Lin landed in Paris! nounced fashion Hahn Special style good dressers. Trig ing the popular sueds Blue, black or high heel. Black all patent leather “Swagger ' Naples and Verona, Italy. “WINGS!” Popular Style Hit! tremendous sensation dbergh—when “We” In scarcely Jess pro- WINGS " "—newest hit—has scored with side laced tie, featur- es. brown suede with or brown suede, or with low heel. 1 Juniors other Progressive, even had he had the | outside was so intense that he came to | POStai expenditures are Congress, Republican In both branches, | necessity for subsequent registration. | a fund of money for their circulation. zupport. of the late Senator La Follette, could have hoped to turn the trick. Bryan, when he ran on the Democratic | ticket for President, never had a look- in in Wisconsin. The State went Democratic in 1892, for Cleveland. by a few thousand, but { for the very good reason that they are | met from “postal receipts, which the | law requires shall be kept separate and | earmarked for postal expenditures. Ex- ¥ “ | cept to the extent that there is a de- | Chicago's welcome to the New York ' ficency, they do not constitute a drain executive climaxed a series of greetings on the general resources of the govern- jon a smaller scale encountered in|ment. * * * |a window thre times to acknowledge | the cheers. Hearty Greetings on Trip. eliminated $1.500.000.000 of appropria- tions demanded by the Democratic ad- ministrative officials. So the 1921 Fed- eral expenditures were those of peace time, and Gov. Smith admits that the 1927 expenditures were $2,000,000,000 less than those of 1921 “+Before the war passports were not required in any countries except Rus- sia and Turkey. In 1909 Mr. Hoover applied for a passport to go to Russia. To circulate this material is misrepre- | senation and slander. It is an outrage | | on Mr. Hoover and a fraud on the | American peaple.” BN ~ “But he makes the assertion that the Republican administration was able to | make so good a showing because it had | inherited from the Democratic admin- | istration war material which had cost | the United States Government. $2.600.- 000,000. That is true, but whue Weaver, People’s Party candidate. and | “downstate” Tllinois, where the Demo.| . the Prohibition candidate, polled 2.000 | coote aoe mating. heir: hardest_drive | gouThis 1s the second time that Gov, uotes that year. which.' if added 10| for votes, during the trip up to Lake | Smith has been guilty of an error of the Republican vVote, outran the Cleve- | Michigan from St. Louis. At Alton, | ban cheracter. o his speech 6 A0 land vote. In 1912 Wilson carried the |Springfield, Bloomington and Jolfet [ gaPitncs. I chorging the et Co State also for the Democrats. but hiS|jam. crowds turned out to cheer the | or Wl EIAIR0 WiLh LIe ECCRerte vote was much less than the combined Sl e { °d | nominee when he appeared on the train |y for (1 “herent of patronage seekers, q vote for Taft and Roosevelt. and 1016 Wisconsin went for Hughes over made the first rear platform speech of | Wilsan by some 28000 votes, notwith- | standing the “he-kept-us-out-of-war glogan” of the Democrats. Harding | carried the State by more than 360,- | 000 votes over Cox. | Count German-American Support. | 1t was one thing for a La Follctte | to turn Wisconsin away from its Re- publican allegiance and it's another for Smith to turn the same trick The Democrats and the pro-Smith Progressives are counting on many German-American votes in the State for Smith. They are wet and anti- Hoover, a kind of carry-over of the old | antagonism of the German-Americans 1o the food regulations laid down by | Hoover in the Wilson war administra- | tion. it is said Milwaukee has a big | Socialist vote, but the regular Socialists sre expected to vote for Norman Thomas, their party candidate, rather | than Smith. whom Thomas has at- tacked along with Hoover There are many German-Americans in the so-called lake counties. Many of them were Democrats before the World War, but have voted Republican since. Many of them are Catholics, and it 1x generally expected that most of them will vote for Smith. The Western counties. on the other hand. are strong- ly Scandinavian and Lutheran. They may go against Smith. The pro-Smith Republican Progressives. however, in- sist that many of the Protestants will support Gov. Smith and point Lo prominent Luthe who are mem- bers of their committecs he old strife in this the La Follctte Stalwart. Republic obstacle which N Stale between and the e greatest Hoover faces here. Thiz year thev have been engaged in a particularly bitter row For the first t'me In vears the Republican Stalwarts suceeeded In combining their candidate 1 governar on the Republican riicket Walter J. Kiokler, a prominent bletiness platform. At the Illinois capital he his campaign. He urged the crowd to {listen_in on his Chicago speech, for he | would have “something of much in- terest” to all Illinois. Asked at a press conference on board his train what he thought of his chances in the five Southern and border States he had visited, the governor said he believed they were | right.” The governor had no comment to make on the Attorney General’s de- cision holding invalid the Salt Creek oil Jease by the Government o the Sin- | clair Crude Oil Purchasing Co. He in- dicated, however, he might have some- thing to say about it after he had had time to study the opinion. His Tariff View Restated. Pressed for his reaction to Mr Hoover's tariff speech, the picked up a clipping: which quoted the Republican presidential candidate as saying “the American people would never consent to delegating authority jover the tariff to any commission whether non-partisan or bi-partisan,” and declared “I said nothing about a delegation of | power to a tariff commission. He seems |{o think, or he must have thought, that 1 was going to say that I believed that !the fixation of schedules ought to be taken from the Congress of the United es and lodged with the tariff com- | mission, but no such thing was said INo such position was taken by me, 1 | distinetly sald that the tariil “commis- |sion wis o provide toe information and the busis tor scientific tarif- | making.” large delegation of Illinols Demo- crats boarded the Smith train _at | Springfield to accompany him to Chi- cago. Senator Wagner of New York also boarded the train at Springfield. as did George N. Peek, Midwest farm relief leader, governor | he makes this statement: ‘The appro- priations for independent bureaus and‘ offices not responsible to any cabinet | officer increased from $3,400,000 in 1914 | to $163.000.000 in 1921, and to $556,- | 000,000 in 1928 | Big Sum for Veterans. “Gov. Smith stopped there. He did not say that of the $556,000,000 ex-| pended in 1928 $500,000,000, or all but, $56.000,000 can_be accounted for by the | United Stales Veterans' Bureau, which | had not come into existence in 1914 and whose expenditures in 1921 were | | compuratively small_because the United | States Government had not then begun 1o mect its obligations to its wounded | and mutilated veterans. | “Gov. Smith cannot be ignorant of the fact that these large expenditures | on the part of the Government are not only justifiable but inevitable and irre- ducible in amount—and vet he would | create the impression that thege ex-| | penditures were due to the maintenance jof jobs for patronage seekers. This is & good example of the use of figures not to present an accurate and truthful picture, but quite the opposite. “And now let me turn to the gov- ernor’s third charge, that public works | have been neglected entirely. postponed. or started with grossly inadequate ap- propriations. The governor states that there is established in Washington what he calls a trick bookkeeping system, under which lurge umounts are au- thorized, while only smull amounts are approprialed year by year. Practice Traced to 1837, “He is apparently under the impres- sion that this practice was recently in- augurated for political purposes. Since 1837 the House of Representatives has followed the zound rule of not permit- ting an appropriation for any given purpose unless that pus had pre- viously been authorized. eover, the Gov. Smith was citing the record, he neglected to state that the cost of this material was based on fictitious war values; that the material was bought by Democratic officials without com- petitive bidding and frequently without even so much as a written contract or memorandum; and that it represented values and purchases under conditions that marked the greatest orgy of ex- travagance ever known in American history: and that when the Republican went to re the records of the War rhow that the Department surplus war material brought exactly 14 cents on the dol- lar. Gov. Smith is the first individual who has advanced the proposition that « legacy of bankrupt stock constitutes a valuable asset to those who have to dispose of it.” CALLS SMITH “BOLTER." 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