Evening Star Newspaper, October 19, 1928, Page 10

10 \ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, SWITH ASSAILED Man in Audience Hit With Pitcher at Anti-Smith Rally His colleague, Senator Black, has in- dorsed the ticket, and so has Gov. Graves, a former official of the Klan: but neither Black nor Graves has taken the stump in,the rattling oratorical cn- ANTLSMITH FIGHT D. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER IS T Democratic State chairman, E. W.|negroes in the next Legislature of Ala- Pettus, places religion first among_the | bama.” jssues on which Smith is opposed in| There is much more of this both in Alabama. | the literature of the campaign and Blame for injection of the religious | MONE the spellbinders. Otherwise, the question into the campaign is laid at | issues run the usual scale. The Hoover the door of the Smith supporters by |PeoPle have made much of prohibition, | for_Alabama is so dry politicaliy that | FOR WET PROPOSAL alleg on Shipments to Dry ‘ Territory. o Whitehurst a | N. Aldrich, who conducted the | | By the Assoclated Press meet CHICAGO, October 19.—The Wom-| | from en’s Christian Temperance Union issued a statement from it national headquar- | ters at Ev ves DIF Gov. Alfred E. S proposal amendment of ment. “In’ view of Gov. Smith’s proposal to| n amend the Constitution so that som remain dry while others can| PITTSBURGH, October 19 (#).—Com- | assumed a character so strangely in e nd soll l{q\‘vjl"' said the | menting on the radio address last night | contrast to tradition. In these latter statement, “it is interesting to Note | i yhich John L. Lewis, president of the | 4ays of the campaign it still rocks an just where the governor stood on the question of the shipment of liquor from wet to dry ter liquor industr back to the wall | Hoover, fought, desp: y inst any attempt United was 15 “So_f: e shipment of passing_over President Kenyon-Webb bill, the most d ti-liquor legis- laticn adepted in Congress up to that time. | “At the same time Assemblyman | Knight of the New York Legislature in- | troduced a measure against knowingly delivering liquor ot x- | Louis sept to bona-fi “Congress liquor into i E. Smit] clials of out of dry ships in New York|in th= drastic as_the s in New York Sta d of liquor from we districts which were desper- ately striving to keep out liquor, Hold Smith Responsible. | “Alfred E. Smith, then Speaker of | the Assembly, was responsible for the | failure of the bill to be reported in at least two ways. As Speaker he appoint- | ed the members of the excise comniittee. Eight of the thirteen committeemen | were New York City Tammany Demo- | crats, two were up-state Democrats and | three up-state Republicans. All the Democratic members of the committee | ind at least one of the Republican mem- | bers were wet. No legislation considered | as dry could get by this committee un- | less the Speaker so requested. | “The fact that the bills were never again heard of is evidence that the Speaker did nothing in their behalf.” CONTINUES SMITH JAUNT. | D. C. Veteran, 78, Riding Donkeyi From Here to Albany. ! NEW YORK, October 19 (#).—A 78- | year-old veteran, who is riding a donkey | from Washington to Albany, N. Y. | called at Democratic national head-| quarters yesterday to report progress on his 400-mile jaunt carrying messages | from the Smith-Robinson Veterans Club | at Washington to Gov. Smith at the | State capital. The veteran is Billy Patterson, whose Army service began 30 years ago. Maj. | Gen. Henry T. 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Attacks Record| | vus at an anti-Smith political meeting here last night he was struck by a glass water pitcher, complete his ement | ith amend- | yohn L. Lewis for G. 0. P. Nomi- | COMe to pass here in Alabama. i Revolfing Democrats Lead| Republicans in Campaign for Hoover’s Election. ed fo have been hurled by er Mayor H. S. Simmons. He only slightly injured se after Rev. T | BY BYRON RICE. | By the Associated Press. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., October 19.— Among the souvenirs bequeathed to| FER OVER HOOVER ; history by this campaign, none is more | + | certain of a place in the political curi-| — | osity shop than the situation which has ing, had invited expressions the audience. He did not Other States of the solid South have | likewise felt the shock of the revolt from Smith, but nowhere else has it} ee, Murray for Smith. | electorate fired with dissension over 1 slaught with which the Smith Demo- { crats are seeking to clear their salients of the enemy. | And all of this is taking place, not in North Carolina or Florida, with their considerable blocs of Republican in- fluence, but in a State so wedded to Democratic doctrine and tradition that for 50 years the Republican party here has been little more than a name. Nowhere is the astonishing character of the change more eloquently attested than within the historic precincts of the old Exchange Hotel at Montgome! long & gathering place of the Alaba Democracy. In the entrance-way a upon these premises Jefferson Davis the Confederacy. Inside the balconied lobby, two red and white placards an- nounce in flaming letters that Re- | publican_headquarters and the offices | ¢ of the Anti-Smith Democrats are on the floors just above. Handle Religion Without Gloves. Under the lead of Senator Heflin and others, Alabama has handled the re- liglous issue without gloves. Those who oppose the election of a Catholic to bronze tablet informs the visitor that| presided at the first cabinet meeting of | Oliver Street, the Republican national committeeman, who concedes _that “membership of Al Smith in the Catho- lic Church has become a very live issue | in this State.” Street says the people broached the subject by that those,who opposed their candidate | | were really actuated by religion and | that they thus started a fire which they now are sceking to extinguish | This 15 vigorously denied, but the agree- ment is general that the issue is a powerful factor in the present political | equation. | * Race Question Prominent. Nor is the race question discussed with less directness. From a Democratic standpoint, Chairman Pettus lists white supremacy as the outstanding issue. A campaign text book put out by the anti- Smith organization refers to Smith as “the negro’s candidate and says negro_papers out of every 10 in the | United States are supporting Smith. Al has never disappointed the negro. He gives him preference over the white man.’ | A poster circulated by the State | a State law prohibits sale of near-beer | | or any other substitute for alcoholic | drinks. The steel industries are ap- pealf;d to ‘on the score of the protective | tari! Smith Supporters. | Despite the defections, the Smith sup- porters.now have taken up the battle | | with determination. For the first time | in many years the Democratic organiza- | Senator Heflin, not a single iicumbent tion is conducting a State-wide cam- i “12 a8 f:,?;en’:‘::é"e Office' 16 oMb Sguinit the C] . paign on a major scale. The Demo- n,p15 agreed everywhere that nothing cratic congressmen form an important | since reconstruction days has stirred coterie in ‘the leadership of this cam- | Alabama so deeply as this campaign paign and Representative Oliver is its | However much of a conflagration there chairman. Democratic leaders minimize | may prove to be in Democratic rai the possibility of a Heover victory in | on election day, there certainly is a the State and say that, except for' great deal or smoke just now. Club Chantecler Now Open For Members and Their Guests Courert Supper Dancing Two Dollars Nightly, In Saturday Sunday, From 10 P. M. Three Dollars Phone Robert No. 1 Thomas Circle North 3720 for rescruations l”ilnlh]) f\hn'm_\‘. international vice pre: 1 S8 nts into dry arcas. That | ident of the union, with headquarters | o o limit shipmen i here, yesterday said cocRe Alfred E. Smith, Democratic nominee. | orats of Alabama fervently enlisted in out,” Murray said, “the miners of Penn- | {hey have taken possession of it. =By sylvania have given their unqualified|agreement they have substituted their dorsement to the candidacy of Alfred | oyn candidates for electors—dissenting Smith as are the remainder of the offi-| yyplican emblem. 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