Evening Star Newspaper, October 20, 1928, Page 10

THE EVENING YHITE RESUMES ATIACK N SHITH, Vominee’s Explanations for Saloon Votes Called Specious. v ihe Associaled Press. INDEPENDENCE, Kans., Ociober 20 7 WS v. Al-|son for it except a deliberate effort to | Renewing his charges that Gov. Al get away from the record of the previ- | od E. Smith was subservient to Tam- any Hall while a member of the lew Yorwk Legislature, William Allen Vhite, Kansas author and editor, took he stump here last night and declared he explanations given by Smith of his otes on saloon legislation were “all pecious and all twisted with the Tam- nany viewpoint.” “In his defense of his record more han in the record itself,” rted, “Gov. Smith today by his shift- undemocratic explanation of that 2cord reveals himself the perfect flow- of Tammany who does not dare, »ecause he cannot, appeal to the Amer- can conscience.” “Young Al Smith always gave his ole on_ the liquor question to Tam- regard to the nation-wide question of | nany,” White declared. “If Tammany 125 & good saloon record, then young A" Smith should have been a Methodist »ishop.” Charges Withdrawn, White, in a staiement issued to New ork some weeks ago, detailed Smith’s ote: sills eflecting saloons and drew a heat- *q reply from the New York execu- tive. Charges by White at that time that Smith's votes in the Legislature had been for the protection of prostitution and gambling later were withdrawn by the editor. In his address last night at a rally vader auspices of the Republican State committee, White declared the “Tam- many oligarchy” was the real issue of the presidential campaign and he said the Democratic presidential nominee typified the “Tammany mind.” In contrast, White said, ‘“Herbert Hoover, idealist, humanitarian, a farm boy consecrated to public service, has e American mind and the American background.” Record Published. Gov. Smith’s long, unbroken record | 25 a member of the Legislature voting | «.ith Tammany on the question of liquor was published several weeks ago,” While | said; “That roll call was read to prove | ove ‘thing, that in the New York As- s2mbly, young Al Smith put his vote on the saloon and its interests in es- | crow with Charles Murphy, the boss of | Ta any Hall | “Fhese Tammany votes, which he d not deny, show him lining up with Tanimany on every question affecting ihe saloon and its associates. The roll call shows him voting to allow saloons to operate near schools and churches. “In vetoing a bill to allow saloons near schoolhouses, Gov. Charles Evans Hughes revealed the American mind in sharp contrast to the mind with the ‘Tammany taint. Gov. Hughes evident- 1y felt that the American public schools have rights which Tammany and the liquor interests are bound to respect.! But Temmany has no use for the pub- | lic schools. It has debauched them time | and again for its own grafting ends. | “Gov. Smith was confronted with his | voie on bills which would make con- viction ‘easier for violators of the old saloon law. He justified that vote by saying that a majority of the Assembly- | men voted against it, not explaining | that to make that majority he was | voled with a solid Tammany block | along with a few Republicans—a brand- } ed tiger cub in s cage. Fails to Explain Vote. i “He does not in any of the long roli- call lists discuss the moral implica- tions of the bills. Never once does heM explain his vote for the saloon upon the ground of reason or conscience, * * * “When it was proved that he voted to keep the saloons open after midnight in small towns his defense was peculiarly a Tammany defense. Yet it was not made 20 years ago. but less than 60 days ago, when he declared in voting to open saloons after night he was repre- senting his constituents. He lived in 2 part of New York City, then maggot- eafen with =aloons, and because the liquor interests wanted more profits from the laboring men, Gov. Smith, not 20 years ago but now, declares that his vote was a good one. A long list of ex- planations like this make up his de- fense of that Tammany record.” 1 | White said the discussion of Smith's | Sen; legislative record was ‘“not to pretend that any moral turpitude lurked in these votes,” but to prove ‘“how Tam- vy contaminates the minds and ;.n»%m of those who serve her.” “It is no attack upon Gov. Smith, no imputation of his honesty. as a man or | a sfatesman, to presume that he would , stand in the White House as he stood | in Albany.” Laugh at Dry Law. ‘To national prohibition, White said, “Tammany and all the little Tam- magies of the land pay the tribute of a hos laugh.” Acknowledging “that in our Northern cities there is Republican corruption and plenty of it,” White said “Repub- licaps are not angeis, but they have not { exalted corruption into the holy hey have set up no Tammanies. | No Republican presidential candidate kowtows to Bill Thompson and his Chi- cago machine or bows in reverence be- fore a Sinclair filling station as evidence of his faith in Sinclair’s vice regency in Republican politics.” AUDIENCE CHEERS BILBO, ATTACKED BY UPSHAW Georgian Calls Mississippi Gover- Turncoat Who Reversed His Former Position.” By the Associated Press. 3 NATCHEZ, Miss., October 20.—Cries of “Hurrah for Bilbo” were heard from the audience here last night as former Representative Willlam D. Upshaw of Georgia, Tenewing his speaking cam- vaign in Mississippi in opposition 1o the candidacy of Gov. Smith, called Gov. Bilbo of Mississippi a “turncoat governor who reversed his former posi- tion 10 enter the political bed with Al Smith. a dripping wet, and Raskob, a | v the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, October 20.—Gov. Smith's address here last night follows: “The record of the present adminis- tration is a guarantee of what may be expected in the next.” ‘The words that I just read are taken. from the Republican platform adopted in_Kansas City last June. Why’ did the Republican platform | drafters limit the guarantee to the | present administration? They have ibeen in power since the 4th of March, 1921. I can see no other rea- ous administration. However, the Republican candidate in his speech of acceptance said: “The record of these seven and a half years constitutes & period of rare courage in leadership and constructive action. Never has a political party period with more satisfaction.” let us therefore deal tonight wit | that record, a record which the candi- h White as- | date looks upon with satisfaction and a | {record which the Republican party {offers as a guarantee of what may be | expected in the next four years if it | is continued in power. | | ¥arm Relief Cited. | Let us take first the record with |relief for agriculture. As far back as 1924 the Republican party in its pla | form definitely promised such legisla~ | tion as would give to agriculture the | benefit of the tariff and place it on an economic equality with industry. They so signally failed in that promise that they found it mecessary to repeat it as an Assemblyman on various ! word for word in the platform of 1928. | The Republican candidate, who is the | chief adviser to President Coolidge on | matters affecting agriculture and its | promotion, holds out no hope to the farmer in his speech of acceptance. Senator Borah, today the chief | spokesman of the Republican party, is | making a special appeal to the farm- ing sections of the country for a re- newal of their support, so freely and | so cheerfully given to the Republican party in years gone by. Let us consult the record and find out how much help Senator Borah gave to make good their previous promises. | As far back as 1925, speaking of the ! farmer, he said: “His problem is still with him, and | | Congress should, before many months, | pass a law to give him the relief to | which he is entitled.” Senator Borah, now pleading for farm support for his party, voted | | against the only bill suggested to bring that relief, and at the same time offered no solution of his own. Quotes Borah's Words. A further extract from his speech is amusing and entertaining and I shall read it to you: “Don't forget that bhoth major par- ties promised this relief when they| asked the farmer for his vote last year | (meaning 1924). Both parties always show a great love for the farmer just before election time. Now the hour to make good is at hand.” ‘When that hour struck neither Sen- ator Borah nor his party was prepared to make good, and, as a matter of fact, did not. - We find the Senator out now just before election time, again promis- ing that relief and again expressing | that great love and devotion to the cause of the American farmer. He is himself engaged in doing the very thing that he accused both parties of doing. He is going a step further and misrepresenting the situation to the American farmer in an effort to make him believe that Mr. Hoover kept up farm prices during the war and in the reconstruction period thereafter. I read a cablegram addressed to one of the farm leaders by Mr. Hoover in which he said he was keeping the prices down. Who is right: Senator Borah or Mr. Hoover? Let them ex- plain the matter to the American farmer. I am convinced that the farmer is not taking the Senator very seriously.| For a great many years he had the reputation of being a progressive rep- resentative of the great farming sec- tions of the country. ‘campaign, however, discloses that he is more anxious for the success of party than he is for the vindication of any great principle that he has heretofore enunciated. . Cites Attack on Hoover. Tet us see how he deali, with the! candidate of his party when thai can- didate was not. leading the Republican forces bul was the head of the Administration Buresu under President In the course of his speech in the Senate on a bill to appropriate $100.- 000,000 for food for suffering Europe ator Borah, in opposition to the appropriation, had the following re- marks to make about Mr. Hoover, then food administrator. I read them from the Record as he spoke them: “I challenge successful contradiction that three of the vast mongpolies which control food in this country have with relation to their commodities, directed and controlled the Food Administration since its organization.” Speaking further of Mr. Hoover, he sald: “He permits there people to in effect fix their own prices. It is a case of an individual dealing with himself.” Further on in the speech, speaking about the food monopolies, he said: “Their profits under Mr. Hoover amounted to all the way from 20 to 40 per cent for the last two years. ‘ Shall I be called upon under my oath as & Senator here to turn over $100,- 000,000 to feed the poor of Europe, when I am notifled that out of that $100,- 000,000 those that control the food praducts of this country will ask—and probably receive—from 25 to 40 per cent profit on their investments?” Asks Borah Question. This to my way of thinking was quite an indictment of the efficiency and the ability of Mr. Hoover to administer the fund for foreign relief. PFurther on in his speech, speaking about the ap- propriation of $100,000,000, he used this remarkable language: “No man who has such perverted views of decency ought to be trusted with the unlimited power to deal with $100,000,000.” I ask Senalor Borah this question: To whom did he refer? What man did he have in his mind when he made that statement? On a subsequent occasion Senator Borah said: “Mr. Hoover, who violated the most fundamental principles of the Consti- tution of this country, will not have very much regard for a statute in Europe.” ; ‘That to my mind is a polite way of calling a man a lawbreaker. That was | 'TEXT OF GOV. been able to look back upon a simllflr‘ for the presidency, and who, I have no doubt, read the guarantee that I to- night quoted from the platform, when he sent this message to the convention: “I have stated publicly that I did not want the nomination unless the Re- | publican party was prepared to meet { fully and fairly the agricultural problem. | I have waited upon no particular rem- edy. but I have stated at all times if there was a better method than the so- called equalization, I would gladly ac- cept it. I have urged, however, that it is the duty of the Republican party to find some way to rescue agriculture | from the ruins that threaten it. This, |in my judgment, the convention by its platform just adopted, has failed to do. I. therefore, authorize the withdrawal of my name from before the conven- tion.” _Gov. Lowden’s knowledge of this sub- | Ject is broad enough to suggest to him, as it does to me, that when the buying | power of those engaged in the pursuit | | | of agriculture is paralyzed, not only | does agriculture suffer but business suf- ifel‘s. A paralysis of the buying power of the American farmer is reflected in 1 all the rest of the business that is con- | | ducted in this country. Poverty on the farm is disastrous to the storekeeper, | the merchant, the manufacturer and to | the laborer engaged in industry. If the platform of the Republican party was not good enough for Gov. Lowden to run on, what must the Amer- ican farmer think about it, because he was devoted to their interests first, last and all the time? The difference between Senator Borah and Gov. Lowden is the difference be- tween a politician seeking success at the polls and a statesman devoted to a principle. The American public can | distinguish between the two men. I | hold that Gov. Lowden is the statesman. Promises ¥arm Relief. « If the records of the last seven and a | half years is a guaranty of what the farmer may expect in the next four— in the event of Republican victory—- then let us look forward to more bank failures in the farm districts, millions more of men leaving the farm for the cities and, as Gov. Lowden predicted, the realization of the ruin that threat- ens agriculture. ‘The Republican party, with the full knowledge of the record, in full posses- sion of all the facts, says in unmistak- able language to the American farmer: The record of which you so bitterly and so justly complain is the Republican guaranty of what you may expect in the next four years. On the other hand, the Democratic party, in a clear-cut, concise and defi- nite platform plank, recognizes the great underlying and fundamental difficulty confronting agriculture, and promises immediate solution of the problem with a constructive program for its relief. I stand hard and fast by that plat- form, and I promise you that if I am elected President of the United States it will be entirely unnecessary for me to seek excuses for non-performance in the carrying out of that pledge, because I shall make good that promise, and T shall not be scurrying around the United Stats to look for words to build up the reason why it was not done. Let us look into the record for a minute and see if we can find a reason why the platform builders of the Re- publican national convention desired to confine themselves to the present ad- ministration, as against the last seven and a half years. There is no doubt in my mind that they were endeavoring to get away from the black, disgraceful record of public corruption disclosed in connection with the ofl reserves of the country, the administration of the Vet- erans’ Bureau and the office of the alien property custodian. The Repub- lican candidate, however, was not in ac- cord with the purpose of the platform builders, because he said that. the party | could look back with satisfaction on the record of the last seven and a half years. | Reviews Oil Scandal. It is true that certain operations with regard to the oil scandal were before the Am people in 1924. The Re- publican party in that year was success- ful in inducing the electorate to believe that the guilt was personal and that the responsibility for it should fall upon unfaithful members of ‘the party in- trusted with high public office. How- ever, since the last presidential election Senator Walsh of Montana has brought to the public attention the fact that a | large part of the money growing out of the oil scandal found iis way into the treasury of the Republican national from the oil operators were exchanged with prominent members of the party for their checks as a_contribution to meet the deficit in the Republican cam- paign chest. The effect of this testi- mony was fo bring the responsibility right o the leaders of the party. The bonds were offered by no less a person than the chairman of the Republican national committee. Here we have Senator Borah again assuming one attitude in the Spring of the year and an entirely different one in the Fall of the year. Last Winter, during the session of the United States Senate, the Senator borrowed a halo and a pair of wings and, standing on the floor of the Senate, said: “No political party is responsible as a party for the wrongful transaction of individual members who in secret betray it. But when the transaction becomes known to the party, it must necessarily become responsible if it fails to repudi- ate the transaction and return the fruits thereof.” I have been a fairly close student of what took place. I have no recollection that the President or the candidate for President, or any prominent official of the Republican party, used any lan- guage to repudiate the transaction, and certainly they have not returned the fruits of it. Senator Borah himself sug- gested a conscience fund and ventured the opinion that there were plenty of Republicans who would be glad to con- tribute from a dollar up in order to clear their party of this humiliating stigma. T refer to it as a conscience fund. The amount required to remove the stigma from the Republican party was $260,000. $1.36 for Conscience Fund. ‘When it came to the conscience fund, widely heralded by the winged apostle of reform, lo, the mountain d and brought forth a mouse. Instead of $260,000, they got $1.36. That apparently satisfled the Sen- aior, because he is now on the stump vigorously advocating the retention in power of the Republican party, stigma or no stigma, Dr. Work, chal of the Republican only yesterday natiogal commiftée sald: “The people are tired of hearing of ! the Republican na- | these oil leases.” L committee. and Liberty bonds coming | PEC ETAR. tired but they are disgusted. | What gave rise to this statement by the chairman? ! The discovery that an improper and illegal sale of the Federal oil royal- ties in the Salt Creek oil flelds was ex- ecuted in behalf of the Government by the Secretary of the Interior in December, 1922, The present chairman of the Re- publican national committee, when Secretary of the Interior, renewed the contract in January of this year. Shortly after its renewal the question of its validity was submitted to the Attorney General, who, in an opinion within the last four days, declared it to be invalid in that it was improperly and illegally executed. While it purported to offer the valuable oil rights to the highest bidder, the bids were so rigged as to let one individual bidder have a distinct advantage as against all the rest. Contract Held Xilegal. When these rights were advertised for public bidding, the advertisements for the bids called for the purchase of the oil for a period of five or ten years. The company that-won the contract did not bid according to the advertisement, but, on the other hand, bid for a five- year term with an option of renewal, thus placing the company in the posi- tion of bemg able to walk away from their contract at the end of five years, if it was unprofitable to the company, and leaving it in a podition to continue the contract for 10 years provided it was unprofitable to the Government. That bid was accepted as against the other companies and as against the form of advertising, and that led the Attorney General of the United States to say the following about it: “It is well established law that a public officer given power by statute to enter into a contract on behalf of the public with the best bidder has no power io grant that bidder any term materially advantageous to him which was not announced in the advertisement for bids. The contract entered into must be a contract offered to the high- est responsible bidder by advertisement. ‘This being so, I think the Secretary has no power to enter into a contract with the highest bidder containing an option | of renewal provision, when such provi- sion was not offered to all the bidders in the advertisement for bids.” On March 2 of this year President Coolidge forwarded to the Attorney Gen- eral correspondence and papers sent to him in relation to this matter by Sen- ator Walsh of Montana. What hap- pened ‘between the 2d of March and the 15th of October? ‘This is a simple question of law that could be determined in one hour by any lawyer in the country. I do not know how the American people feel about it, but I am forced to the conclusion that there was an attempt to suppress this decision until after election, and I am satisfied that it would never be given out in the heat of a political campaign if it was not forced into the open by the in- sistence of Senator Walsh and news- paper activity, both designed to bring the facts to the American public at the earliest possible moment. “Tired of Oil Leases.” ‘The ‘puhlic official responsible for the renewal of this invalid and 1|1egul lease is no less a personage than the chairman of the Republican national committee and, according to the news- papers, his -only explanation is: “I have no comment to make. Those things are past. People are tired of hearing of ti oil leases.” The record of the present adminis- tration is a guarantee of what may be expected of the next, and the candidate sald: ““The record of these seven and a half years constitutes a period of rare cour- age and leadership and constructive action. Never has a political party been able to look back upon a similar period with more_satisfaction.” In 1920 the Republican platform. speaking of World War veterans, said the following: “We hold in imperishable remem- brance the valor and the patriotism of the soldiers and the sailors who fought in the Great War for human, liberty, and we d)ledse ourselves to discharge to the fullest the obligations which a grateful . nation justly should fulfill in appreciation of the services rendered by its defenders on sea and on land.” Veterans’ Funds Looted. ‘This plank from the Republican platform was a declaration of a noble purpose. It was patriotic and it was humane. 1t was what might be ex- ted from an American political party voicing as it does the sentiment of the American people to the men that offered themselves to the country in her /hour of.,need. What happened afterward, however. constitutes one of the darkest pafi of American history when it was discovered by an investi- gating committee that a large part of the money taken from the Treasury of the United States to pay only in part American gratitude to the soldier was so misapplied that the Republicart director of Veterans’ Bureau served a term in Atlanta Penitentiary. When speaking of the evidence adduced be- fore that commitiee, Gen. O'Ryan, com- manding officer of the 27th Division, summed it all up when he said: “No American can read it without a feeling of disgust of the manner in which the great work of aiding the disabled was prostituted for self-ag- grandizement and greed. No soldiers can consider it without feelings of rage and shame that the disabled among them should be so callously ex- ploited. The testimony of witnesses and exhibits of the bureau all tell a story of almost unparalleled waste, recklessness . and misconduct. This transaction resembles more the work of buccaneers in the looting and scuttliing of a ship than the mere neglect of trusted Government officials.” I could add nothing to thaf, and while the platform of the Republicans attempts to evade responsibility for that, let it be borne in mind that the candidate looks back with satisfaction upon the record of the last seven years. ‘While we are on this subject of fair and proper treatment of our veteran soldiers, let me call your attention to a telegram received by me since I ar- rived in the city of Chicago. The United States Government mdintains a sanatorium for the care of tubercular soldiers gt Tupper Lake in the Adiron- dack Mountains in my own State. I am in possession of information that the Republican inspectors of election refused to permit World War veterans in that sanatorium to enter their names upon the register as electors. Deny Soldiers Vote. No matter what may, be the decision of the courts, it stands nevertheless upon the record that the Republican election officials in that section of New York State are attempting to deny to | ! | in view of hi: Let me say a word to you about | water power. The country’s water | power possibilities are practically the very last of our great natural re- | sources that have not fallen into the | hands of private monopoly. It is the contention of the Democratic party as outlined in its platform and in my | speech of acceptance that these great | God-given resources belong to the | people and should never be alienated, | and should be developed under public ownership and under public control, to the end that a public ageney, whether State or Federal, may be in a position by supplying the energy under contract to fix the rates to the ultimate con- | sumer, and also to provide for its just and equitable distribution. The Democratic party has taken the big, broad, progressive view of devel- oping electrical energy from water power. The Republican party, on the other hand, bowing in obedience before the power trust, evades the subject, offers no definite program, and the Republican candidate in his speech of acceptance refers to it so vaguely that nobody understands his position. When recently speaking at Elizabethton in the State of Tennessee, he made some men- tion of dangerous and destructive doc- | trines in relation to this problem. I can spell nothing from his language | except opposition to public development | and public control. By their very action they have aligned themselves with the great interests that seek to wrest this last resource from the hands of the people themselves. That they lend moral support to the propaganda, of the lighting companies, spread broadcast through the country to dis- courage public ownegship and control, there can be no question. Raps West’s Appointment. No satisfactory explanation can ever be made of the appointment of Roy O. West as Secretary of the Interior, in which position he fs ex-officio a mem- ber of the Federal Power Commission, | is long history of connec- | ;glvatv mlwer companies. 'am, with its great possibili- ties of electrical energy.g rem;,giss l:fl':- developed. Muscle Shoals, constructed | With Government funds during the war | and capable of building up a large sec- tion of the country by the production of electrical energy at reasonable prices, is standing idle. A bill for its further development and ‘its operation under governmental control met with a veto at the hands of President. Coolidge, and he rebuked the Congress for spending $0 much time talking about it, on the ;};%O;yérfi he hinmelttimd, that it was any more i on:‘fll;lsl.-cm;s bnmeshi;fl S sor . the end of seven and a hi public development has not o:}:fr 5’;::; arrested, but there is every sign on the | Republican political horizon that these | great natural resources will, if left to the Republican party, finally find their way into the hands of private individ- uals and private corporations for private gain and for private profit. ‘This is the record of the present ad- ministration as far as water power is concerned, and that record is offered to the American people as the guaranty of what they can expect in the next four years in the event of Republican success. Development of our inland waterways is promised every four years by the Re- publican party, and 1928 sees us with- out even a plan, not to speak of a de- velopment, and so far as these arteries of trade and commerce are concerned, the record of the present administration is the guaranty of what we may expect from . another Republican adminis- lrnitlon n my speech at Louisville last Satur- day night I offered from the record ab- solute proof that the Republican ad- ministration paralyzed the Tariff Com- mission recommended by President Taft :2:"';‘5}1 ago and latgr:y President Wil- 3 e purpose, and only purpose, of the Tariff Commission is mphy before g;n;cg:cu l;.]h':mfm:t.: and figures from an igent and under: lalI’lfl bidll‘ ":ellx;' be drawn. S mmedial following my speech the Republican candidate entlrelypgismrled my remarks and attempted to make the American public believe that I desired to transfer the law-making power from Congress to a Tariff Commission, when no such suggestion came from me. I merely asked that there be made ef- fective 'and that there be strengthened the thought and the idea of a fact- finding Tariff Commission originally an- nounced by President, Taft. I read from the record and T showed how President, Coolidge did his full share o paralyze 35‘51 Tariff Commission and render it| ess, tion with Boulder i Attacks Dry Record. This is the record as far as the Tariff | Commission is concerned, and it consti- | tutes the Republican guaranty of what may be expected in the next four years mltth/f event t:lw Repfub]lcnn success. s & matter of common knowled throughout the length and breadth 5; this land that the Republican party in the last seven and a half years has entirely closed its eyes to the problem of prohibition. Its record is one of double dealing and double crossing. It has attempted the impossible by trying to carry water on both shoulders.” It has tried to be dry among the drys and wet among the wets. I have the testimony of a Republican official that it was used for Republican patronage purposes. ‘The long record of corruption con- nected with its attempted enfocement indicates that men paid from the pockets of the taxpayers to sustain the law exacted payment from those who were permitted to wink at it. As to the fundamentals of the problem, the Re- publican administration, like the ostrich, has buried its head in the sand and has assumed that everything is all right. The Republican candidate says it must be worked out constructively. ‘What he means by that no living person can tell. It is & matter of record, how- ever, that no attempt has been made by the Republican administration over seven and a half years to work it out in any fashion. While referring to it as a noble experiment, the Republican candidate speaks of the grave abuses that have crept into its administration. There is nothing on the record that indicates that the Republican party has donie a single thing in the last seven and a half years to eradicate these abuses. If they did anything, they help- ed to promote them by the character of the men that they insisted, for pat- ronage purposes, be charged with the enforcement of this law. Seeks Dry Amendment. ‘This is the record and thev cannot EWASHINGTON. " D.” U5 SATURDAY.” OCTOBER 20.7 1978, SMITH'S SPEECH AT CHICAGO Lowden, who was a formidable con-|he could have gone a little bit further; | life to the.country the right to cast his tender for the Republican nomination | he could have said they were not only | ballot in the coming election. escape it. and this record they offer | as a guarantee of what is going to| happen in the next four years. The | poor, weak, vacillating, broken down Republican ‘machine is unable to offer a constructive suggestion for the relief of the present_intolerable condition. Against this I offer to the country a constructive policy. 1 have two duties as President with | regard to prohibition. First, to enforce the law as I find it. The American public may rest assured that if I take | the oath of office as_President of the | United States on the 4th of next March T will sustain the Constitution and the laws of this country with all the force and all the vigor I am able to bring to my command. My second duty is to advise to Congress as to what in my opinion is in the best in- terest of this country. With respect to prohibition, I shall CONNECTICUT GOAL OF GURTIS TODAY Senator to Speak in New| Haven and Hartford—Hits | Democrats on Tariff. By the Associaled Pres: | EN ROUTE WITH SENATOR CUR- TIS TO NEW HAVEN, Conn., October | 20.—Connecticut was the objective ta-l day of Senator Charles Curtis, the Re- publican_vice presidential nominee, as he concluded another heavy week of | campaigning. Tonight he speaks at Hartford. Leav- ing Trenton, N. J., after two strenuous advise an amendment to the Volstead act that will give a sane, sensible, scien- tific definition of what constitutes an intoxicant. Thinking people through- out the United States are all in accord with the fact that the present definition is a dishonest one and not in keeping with fact or truth. I shall also recommend an amendment to the eighteenth amendment that will permit a sovereign State, after an affirmative vote of its people, to dispense alcoholic beverages' to its own inhabitants under such regulations as will prohibit its sale in any public place. I predicate this recommendation upo: the Jeffersonian theory of State rights. I would leave to the dry States the full Dprotection of the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead act. I would, on the other hand, where a majority of all the people of a State demanded it, allow a State to handle the question by itself under the restrictions and safeguards laid down in my speech of acceptance. I believe that in this way we could | make this law responsive to the will of the people in the various States of the country, bring back respect for law, pro- mote the cause of real temperance and at the same time put an end to the cor- ruption, the lawlessness and the boot- legging which have become so wide- spread in this land today. Sees No Hope Ahead. ‘Time will not permit me tonight to lay before the public the full record of the present administration, which I am thoroughly satisfied they would be un- willing to accept as a guaranty of the way they want this Government con- ducted in the next four years. The more I analyze that statement in the Republican platform the more I become convinced that it is entirely and thoroughly characteristic of the Regub- lican party. They never see anything new; they never make any progress; they never make any advance; they never attempt to meet new conditions; they never attempt an up-to-date solu- tion of the problems of government. Reactionary to the last degree, steeped in Bourbonism—which learns nothing and forgets nothing—they frankly say that the record of the present admin- istration is a guaranty of what may be expected from them in the next. That holds out no hope to the American peo- ple of a sane or sensible solution of any gir the problems pressing them at this ime. As far as I am concerned, government should be constructive and ng:'- destruc- tive—progressive, not reactionary. I am entirely unwilling to accept the old ord&r f‘ &lngs as !‘51‘; best unless and unt ome convinced that it not be made better. s This I stated in my speech of accept- ance, and it sums up in a few words my attitude io the progressive reforms that T think must be adopted in the in- terest of progressive government. The Republican party disagrees with the Democratic platform and disagrees with my declaration and frankly says to the %e’rll‘un pfi}plek: ';Nothl:g new; nothing ppen;; orward 1o no progress in overmment: o ki of con ns as they exist, because record of the last four years is all thfl;: you can expect in the next four if we win. If I understand aright the thought of the ‘American people, the Republican guaranty is so far from sufficient to meet the needs of today that the forces of progress in the country will reject the Republican platform, the Republi- can guaranty and the Republican can- didate and turn to the Democratic par- | tv for vigorous and progressive leader- ship. SINCLAIR OIL LEASE SCORED BY WALSH Montana Senator Says He Will ‘Ask Senate Probe of Salt Creek Contract Renewal. By the Associated Press. LEWISTON, Mont., October 20.— The Salt Creek oil leases came under the fire of Senator Thomas J. Walsh in a political address here last night in which the Montana Senator urged mjx:rt of the Democratic national Walsh declared he would have an “'flflllil'y instituted in the Senate as to ‘why the Secretary of Interior, Mr. Work, failed to get reliable legal opin- ions on the validity of the option clause in the Sinclair contract for the purchase of Salt Creek royalty oil before re- newing the thing.” Walsh referred to & contract made by former Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall with the Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Co. for the purchase of Government oil in the Salt Creek, Wyo., field, which was renewed for a five- year period last January and which was declared vold by Atftorney General Sargent a few days ago. The Senalor was chairman of the Senate committee which investigated the leasing of Teapot Dome in ‘Wyoming. New_York ‘United Parents’ Asocia- tion offers $500 prizes in school poster contest. | look for no_betterment | days in New Jersey, he stopped in New York for a visit with party leaders. He | will stop in New Haven late in the | afternoon and again at Meriden before | proceeding to the night meeting. National Radio Hook-Up. A national radio hook-up was at the disposal of the vice presidential nomi- nee at Trenton last night and he de- voted the most of his half hour to read- ing his party’s record during the last seven years and asking its retention in power on that record. Also, he lashed again at the Democrats on the tariff, declaring their proposal for a “competi- tive” tariff was “no tariff at all.” He referred to Gov. Smith, saying his Louisville declaration for protection of American labor from “ruinous compe- tition” did not go far enough. “The Republican party,” he said, “wants to protect, and has protected, American Jabor, not only from ruinous competition, but also from foreign com- petition of any kind.” Audience Is Enthusiastic. The Senator again referred to Gov. Smith as “the distinguished gentleman who thinks he is running for Presi- dent.” The Senator's enthusiastic Trenton audience was ready to cheer at all times and gave this along with some remarks about the governor's tariff position a hand. “We have established a tariff for the protection of the American working- man, the farmer and industry,” said the Senator. “We have cut income taxes four| times. We have relieved more than | 2,000,000 taxpayers from the necessity of making any tax payments. We have reduced the national debt from | $24,000,000,000, in round numbers, in| 1921 to $17,000,000,000 in 1928. We ask | your vote on our record.” e T DANIELS SAYS 6. 0. P. IS FOE OF THE SOUTH| Former Navy Secretary Declares Party Has Replaced Equality ‘With Privilege. By the Associated Press. NASHVILLE, Tenn., October 20.— Josephus. Daniels, delivering two ad- dresses here yesterday in support of the Democratic standard bearer, Gov. Smith, warned Southern Democrats to remember that “°‘thou shalt not steal’ is a greater commandment that thou shalt not booze.” ‘The former Secretary of the Navy declared that Republican cabinet mem- bers had “enthroned privilege in the place of equality.” The Republican p;éty. he added, is a foe of the South. know the South so dele- gates to the national convention can be purchased.” Mr. Daniels’ initial address, delivered at a rally at the historic Maxwell House, in the afternoon under the aus- pices of the women’s division of the Davidson County Democratic Club, was brief. His principal address was de- livered last night at Ryman auditorium. Mr. Daniels was en route today to| Lexington, Ky., where he is to deliver the latest of a series of addresses in| 10 A. F. OF L. WILL ADHERE TO NON-PARTISAN POLICY, Executive "Council Urges Re-elec- tion and Selection of Progres- sives for Congress. ‘The executive council of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor in a statement yesterday declared that there will be no change in the non-partisan political policy of the federation. “This was made evident,” the state- ment said, “after a discussion in the meeting of the executive council as to the political situation. There was not | even a suggestion that a change should be made.” “Reports were received from many parts of the United States,” the state ment continued. “and these gave hope- ful indications that not only would all Progressive members of Congress be re- there would be additional chosen. ‘The executive council will be in ses- sion for several days to prepare its ree port to the convention of the Federa~ tion of Labor, which opens in New Orleans November 19. $50 PENSION GRANTED. Award to Gladys I. Black, Retired From Woman's Police Bureau. The District Commissioners today awarded Gladys I. Black, a former member of the Woman’s Bureau of the Police Department, a pension of $50 a month, retroactive to December 1, 1927, the date of her retirement. She was retired on the ground of physical disability. incurred in line of duty, at the age of 33, after about three years’ service. The police retir- ing and relief board declared that while fainting spells to which she was sub- ject disqualified her for performance of duty, she was not totally incapacitated to make a livelihdod in other ways, and declined her a pension. Since her re- tirement she has conducted a vigorous fight for financial relief. University of Illinois boys will' grow whiskers _for_prize: .00 Round Trip Cleveland CANTON, AKRON, O. Sunday, October 28 SPECIAL TRAIN ves Saturday night, O¢ ' Washi - v Lea ctober 2 5250 P, ice by Pen: Coach Lunch Serv ‘Railroad attendants Pennsylvania Railroad Correct lubrication is conservation—the preven« tion, of wear, the savin of umdue expense, the lengthening of the life of; your car. Nothing is more important -than thorough lubrication. AUTOCRAT—THE OIL THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM ALL OTHERS Beware of Substitutes, Bayerson Oil Works: Columbia 5228 Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky. SMITH DEFEATED ? Do you desire to assist in the overwhelming de- feat of the “wet Tammany candidate” for the Presidency, Governor Alfred E. Smith? help to give the voters im; If so, portant facts. 1t is desired to send at least four additional com- munications to each voter. The cost of each sepa- rate communication (including printing, folding, addressing and mailing) cents. ing even 200,000 voters in is approximately three Therefore, for example, the cost of reach- Virginia with four com- munications would be approximately $25,000, and, in fact, the Smith Democratic Committee of Vir- ginia is asking for $250,000 or $300,000. ‘The cost of similar work in Alabama, Arkansas,. Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Lousiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia will be in proportion to the number of voters in those States. Send check for largest amount possible to TREASURER ANTI-SMITH DEMOCRATS, BOX 674, RICHMOND, VA, if you want this work done proj ingly defeated. James “From Eleva I6HT:COUGHS Positivelys almostin- ¥ e ?uunt.ly v‘ryitmnp:iwfllow of & AOXINE » perly and Smith overwhelm< Cannon, Jr., Chairman ™ tor | S e ok ) s & Hotel Manager! Lewis-Training Gets Credit for » ‘Amazing Success of E..V."Matloch ~—Typical of Hundreds" "OUR fine course gave me the [ 2 7 nwkdie of, hotel work.” writes E. V. Matloek, man- 'he chairman of tional committee ager of the 200-room Hotel Homer in Akron,| ; only nine years ago, and today Senator | wet Republican.” h Borah is busily engaged in explaining told the truth, but!the afflicted soldier that offered his During Upshaw's attack on the Mis- | Central Armature Works Ohio. sissippi governor a slight stir was noted in the audience and the speaker issued a warning that he had men “planted | in the audience” to prevent any dis turbance. | Upshaw and county Republican lead- ers were refused permission to remove photographs of Gov. 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