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ety RESULT 1 TOSSAP INNORTH CAROLINA Politics Is Whirligig of Argu-| “ ment and Speculation as Prophets Disagree. BY BYRON PRICE, Associated Press Stafl Writer. CHARLOTTE, N. C, October 22.— Presidential politics still is a whirligig of argument and speculation in North Carolina, with experienced politicians disagreeing whether the final turn will give the State to Smith or Hoover. Like other leaders of their party throughout the South, the Democratic campaign managers declare a reaction | has re-established the normal ascend- | sncy. The Republicans say this claim 1s made without definite knowledge, and _purely for effect. Neither side is dis- Posed (o speak in terms of large ma- {dorities, and both concede that certain undercurrents still make it difficult to put the situation into exact figures. The point of departure of all these calculations is the fact that in North , Carnlina, as in no other Southern State, the friends of Gov. Smi 1 face a double handicap. Not only is the presidential nominee opposed by a long-influential Democratic leader. in the person of Senator Simmons, but this is one State of the Southern sisterhood where the Republican party is no negligible quan- jtity. In the last two-way presidential division, in 1920. Harding received 232,- | "848 votes in this State, to 305,447 for Cox. White Leadership. This is one State, too, in which the Republican organization has mot _been agitated and disturbed in the midst of the campaign by a revamping process in the interests of “lily-white” Southern | counties that many colored Cathclics | Crowe faction, who were nominated and Republicanism. In North Carolina the | are going to leave the Republican parly | sre mow on party has been under white leadership for many years. There were some fac- tional differences after the Kansas City convention, but they were adjusted with dispatch and the State-wide machinery turned determinedly to the task of gathering in these 12 electoral votes for Hoover. The anti-Smith Democratic organiza- tion, being much newer, has not gone into battle with the same co-ordination of effort. nor does it number among its personnel anything like as great a number of experienced politicians. Headed by Frank Monich, a Charlotte lawyer, of limited political prominence, its executive committee does include men who have long been conspicuous in the business, professional and educa- tional affairs of the State. Senator Simmons, who resigned from the Democratic national committee to op- pose the party's national ticket, has not gone fishing, as many Smith leaders supposed he would, but has made one public speech denouncing the Demo- cratic nominee and is to deliver an- other during the present week. Overman and Daniels for Smith. Caught between the jaws of this dual attack is a Democratic State organiza- tion built up largely by Senator Sim- mons himself, snd still functioning with considerable purpose now that Simmons is on the other side. Sim- mons’ colleague, Senator Overman, is stumping for Smith. :So is Josephus Daniels, Wilson's Navy and a pronounced dry. All of the Democratic Congressmen have indorsed their party’s ti-“et. Other elective State officers a.> have remained in line, and the Democratic leaders now reckon’ the effect of Simmons' defec- tion, not in term of its influence on the central State organization, but in relation to his personal following among the voters. ‘What this may mean as to the re-| Zonstruction of the Democratic party in the State is not yet apparent. It is a singular feature of the situation that rsonal bitterness seems to have been ept at & minimum. The Democratic organization has not sought to dis- cipline the Smith dissenters as they have been disciplined in some other Southern States. Those members of the State executive committee who ‘went over to the anti-Smith forces still are members of the executive commit- tee. The anti-Smith committee is cir- culating literature in support of the Democratic State ticke, pu out by the Tegular State headquarters. Nor has the discussion of issues run to such bitter lengths here 2s in other parts of the South. There has been some public talk of religion and white supremacy, but more of prohibition and immigration, the two issues on which the anti-Smith people declare the ncm- inee has bolted the platform. The Re- publicans have made irsistent use of the tariff issue in their appeals to the now-extensive manufacturing industry of the State. Campaigns Separarte. North Carolina stands virtually alone among the Southern States in the lack of fusion between the Republicans and the anti-Smith Democrats. Esch or- ganization has not only maintained its own identity, but the leaders say there has been no co-operation between them. Each makes its campaign in its own way, with its own speakers and its own literature. The anti-Smith Democrats are emphasizing their opposition to Smith, rather than support for Hocver. Even Senator Simmons has not said he ‘was for Hoover. These and other elements in the sit- uation make it impossible to include North Carolina in most generalizations as 1o the campaign in the South. No other State South of the border has North Carolina's large percentage of Re- publican voters, and no other State ex- cept Alabama, where the normal Re- ublican vote is not a serious factor, as a Democratic official of senatorial rank campaigning against the party ticket. In Georgia, for instance, the cam paign has brought together in Smith gupport elements of the State democracy which have not been united before for « many years, while in States like Vir- ginia and South Carolina the anti- Smith movement has brought down upon its head the concerted condem- mnation of the ranking leaders of the party. There is no question that the Smith Democrats of North Carolina have made a powerful resistence against the double attack, and now they insist they have the upper hand, although the opposition does not concede it. - Much work still is to be done on hoth sides. ‘The Republicans and Democrats both are reaching down into their county and precinct organizations just now to determine the points where concentra- tion is needed. In the course of th! process, both have probed into the u measured reservoirs of a now-recognized “silent vote,” whose voice on election day—if heard at all—will be an im- portant factor in swelling the chotus for Hoover or Smith. PLANS ELECTION PRAYER. Dr. Straton’s Chsu‘chvl‘o Ask “Tri- umph of Righteousness.’ NEW YORK. October 22 (#).—Cal- vary Baptist Church, of which the Rev. Dr. John Roach Straton is pastor, voted yesterday to set aside Sunday, Novem- | ber 4, as a special day of prayer “for the triumph of righteousness and the defeat of the forces of evil” in the forthcoming election. The members also will fast on November 4. The church invited other Baptist churches and other denominations throughout the United States to join in the day of prayer. : Dr. Straton is conducting: an anti- Smith campaign in the South. Secretary of the | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29 1928. Socialist (Zand}dale Asks Five-Hour Day And Five-Day Week By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, October 22.— A five-hour day and five-day week for workers were advocated by James H. Maurer, Socialist vice presidential candidate, in cam- paign speeches 'in Pasadena and Los Angeles yesterday. He declared that the unemploy- ment situation was the chief issue. “Both the Republicen and Demo- cratic platforms are nothing other than a lot of slogans,” he said, expressing the opinion that both might have been written by the same man. {ELECTION OUTCOME HELD DOUBTFUL IN LOWER MARYLAND (Continued from First Page.) | region. It makes the inhabitants, who are proud of their history, reluctant to discuss the religious issue in this cam- | paign. But that issue, nevertheless, be- | neath the surface and often, camou- | flaged, is the principal issue in near'y { every part of southern Maryland, just as it is in some other parts of the country. | Both Democrats and Republicans ad- mit this to be true when aiscussing the | situation _frankly. ang Charles Counties are largely Catholic. Calv | estant. The other big factor Maryland politics thi | has ‘been present ever War | voters. ~ Colored men and women vote 1ithout hindrance in Maryland. They | have usually been overwhelmingly T | publican in the past. This year th are strong indications in these three in southern ar—one that nce the | and vote for Smith, just as many white and colored Protestants, especially in Calvert County, apparently intend to | vote for Hoover, regardless of party. | Order Non-Political, In some sections, < principally in Charles County, one hears stories about a Catholic order for colored men known as the Knights of St. John, which some Protestant Republicans s belng used to keep the colored Catholics in line for or to switch them to Sm:ith. The Star correspondent was informed that this order was organized at the | county seat of La Plata, or at least ex- tended, in Charles County, following the nomination of Gov. Smith at Houston. But from another source came the il formation that the order is an old one, | at least in some places, and that it is strietly religious and non-political. In Charles County it was stated that | the Knights of St. John meet weekly and that some of the meetings have been addressed by speakers from other {places who have praised the Demo- cratic presidential nominee. How much truth there is in the reports of this al- | leged effort to influence a large number of colored voters in these counties is difficult to learn, but the fact is that | many Protestants believe them and one effect of their circulation has been to s~'idify white and colored Protestants of both parties for Hoover. There is | apparently little doubt that Republican politicians are using these reports for | their party’s advantage, however, in a quiet way. The religious issue is not | being openly discussed in this part of Maryland. . Cradle of Tolerance. This town, now the county seat of St. Marys Coupty, is only a short dis- tance from the site of St. Marys Cily, once the capital of the Colony of Mary- land and a cradle of religi Here the religious iss than elsewhere. In fact, it is scarcely mentioned, although it is always pres- ent. This county four years ago gave Davis 1,949 votes, Coolidge 1,653, La Follette 93 and the Labor party candi- date 8. The more enthusiastic Demo- cratic leaders predict it will give Smith & majority as high as 900. Most Repub- lican county leaders admit it will go | Democratic, but they estimate the Smith majority at less than one-third of that figure. Smith is admired in St. Marys County for several reasons. The people like his State rights views and his plan for local self-government, especially with regard to the manufacture and sale of liguor. Before the country voted dry, St. Marys County voted dry by local option, but the people there have always claimed the right to decide such questions for themselves. Liquor is easily obtainable all over the county now, and ‘much of the bootleg liquor sold in Washington | comes from there. The older residents of the county resent the fact, however, that outside bootleggers have invaded | their county. Democrats Ceded County. The Republicans of St. Marys are not s0 well organized as usual, while the two Democratic factions, headed by | George Beverley and State Senator J. Allan Coad, are working harmoniously | for Smith. ' Hoover meetings are being held among the colored voters, but the white Republican leaders have no real ope, of carrying the county and are bending their efforts to keep the Smith majority as small as possible, In Charles County the Republicans are much bothered by the defection of colored voters, mostly Catholics, from the Republican party. Thomas B. R.| Mudd, Republican county leader, and | other Republicans, claim the county ! by 500 majority or more. There are Some unbiased observers who think tk Tesult is in doubt. It is almost impos- sible to foretell what will happen, be- cause it is not known how many ored Republicans will vote for Smith and how much this defection will be | offset by Democratic Protestants voting for Hoover. Normally, Charles County is Repub- lican. Four years ago its popular vote for President was as follows: Coolidge, 2215; Davis, 1491; La Follette, 177, with '6 votes going to the Labor party candidate. Most Republicans doubt the ability of the Democrats to_overturn this normal Republican lead. The Dem- ocratic leaders thus far have refrained from claiming the county for Smith, contenting themselves with saying the vote will be close. State Senator Walter J. Mitchell is the chief Democratic leader. He is personally popular and is working hard to turn the county to the Democratic nominee. i Serene on Surface. ‘The religious issue in Charles County as in St, Marys, is not openly discussed. Any work along that line which may be in progress is proceeding quietly. On the surface thus far everything is serene. That Calvert County will give Hoover a substantial majority is admitted even by the Democratic leaders of th: oun- ty. One of them told The Star's rep- resentat:7e a few days ago at Prince Frederick that he expected Smith to be “snowed under” in the county. Asked why, he replied that the county is nor- mally Republican for President, that 95 per cent of the population, both white and colored, are Methodists and opposed Smith, regardless of party affiliations, and that numerous Democratic offic in the county have already an- nounced thelr intention of voting for Hoover. “We Democrats here who are stick- ing by the party this year,” said this informant, “are merely trying to kee the Hoover vote down to & minimum, ‘Thomas Parran and State’s Attorney Arthur W. Dowell, Republican county leaders, expect that Calvert County wiil give Hoover a majority between 700 and 1.000: - This county in 1924 gave Cool- idge 1,564 votes, Davis, 1,242; La Fol- lette, 84, and the Labor candidate 3. ‘There has been an unusually heavy registration in Calvert County this 1l G Regular air service is to be estab. liehed between Teheran angmBushire, month, especially among the woman oters. The Republicans say this fore- shadows a larger majority for Hoover 1he Democrats are willing to con- e | G.0.P.INCHICARO CALLS WEST SAFE Headquarters Claims Hoover| Will Carry Majority of | 28 States. (Continued from First Page.) ! for the Cook County offices than there | is in the national or State campaigns. | Judge John A. Swanson is the RPpub-“ iican nominee for State's attarney, win- | ning that nomination against Crowe, | incumbent. The Democrats have put up | Judge William J. Lindsay as their | candidate for this office and a real bat- tle is on. Swanson is the Deneen| faction candidate, nominated in April | when the Thompson-Crowe faction took (@ drubbing. All kinds of charges are | flying about in this fight. Linked to Beer Baron. Judge Swanson in an address here Saturday night. insisted that Judge Lindsay had been partial to Joe Saltis, South ‘Side beer baron, who has been A fugitive from police for five months: that Judge Lindsay had held Sunday court last year to release Saltis and | some of his friends, and that he| liberated Louis Albertie, a two-gun man | and rebuked police for making the ar- | ! rest. At the same time that Judge i County is predominantly Prot- | Swanson was delivering this broad- | foreseen. side Judge Lindsay was asserting that | the Deneen-Swanson group had formed |an alliance with John (“Dingbat”) | e 1| Oberta, a licutenant of Joe Saltis, and | is the large number of colored | committeeman of the thirteenth ward.!wiih Roosevelt, was seeking re-election and so it goes. In the uprising of last April in Chi- chgo, however, the voters concentrated on a few of the candidates and failed to eliminate several of the Thompson- | | the Republican _ticket. | | Among the candidates for trustees of | | the sanitary district is Morris Eller, | who is under indictment. Oscar Nelson, ! who is Mayor Thompson's floor leader in the city council, and Edward F. Moore, appointed by Maycr Thompson | as deputy commissioner of public works The sanitary board has the expendi- | ture of enormous funds. There are | several other adherents of the old| ‘Thompson-Crowe faction on the ticket. | : The problem at present is how to elect | Swanson and other Deneenites and eliminate the Thompson-Crowe candi- dates, and work in the State and na- | | tonal tickets too. | In consequence, there is a whole flock | { of campaign organizations and head- | quarters in the city, and some of them ! | working at cross-purposes. One thing | | is pretty clear, however—Chicago is| tired of the supremacy of vice and is doing its best “to clean up.” Drys Indorse Hoover. The Anti-Saloon League of Illinos | is out with its indorsements of candi- | dates. Herbert Hoover heads the list, | and Senator Curtis, vice-presidental | candidate, is second. The league has | indorsed also the Republican candidate | for Senator, Otis F. Glenn; the Republi- can candidate for governor, Louis L. Emmerson, the Republican nominee for attorney general, Oscar E. Carlstrom; state’s attorney in Cook County, Judge Swanson. Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCor- mick, Republican candidate for Con- gress-at large, and Richard Yates, also candidate for Congress-at-large, both Republicans, have the indorsement of | the league. The Democrats must look | to their support from the wets from ! | their presidental candidate on down the | line, it appears. In Chicago it is the poor and the | people of moderste means who are suffering most from the bombings and the gang warfare, not the ‘rich. The “Racketeers” undertake to say how many tailor shops and delicatessen shops shall be opened in a given district, for example, and: the poor are sick of vice lords and liquor lords. They are going to get rid of the kind of government which has permitted these criminals to operate freely, if they can. While all this is in a measure local, observers here say it cannot fail to have its reflection in the national election. For that reason claims that Smith will carry Chicago by a big| margin are discounted by the more conservative, not because he is in any way allied with'the outfit which the people are against, but because of the wet campaign he is making. The Democratic strategy in the West has been to win to the cause of Gov. Smith the support of the La Follette vote of four years ago. It has been to align with the Democratic ticket dis- gruntled farmers, and in cities like St. Louis, Chicago, St. Paul, the wet vote. it has played to the German-American vote wherever it could, and to other foreign groups, and particularly to the negroes, as here in Chicago and in Indiana. The Republicans have sought their strength among the drys. Among the women and among the farmers, for not all the farmers by any means are Ooff the reservation. They have sought to convince the Republican wets that it will be impossible for Smith to give them beer, wine or whisky, and that a Democratic administration might bring hard times, No Bread Lines. In the West, notwithstanding the farm depression and hard times among many of the farmers, there are no bread lines. The girls in Oklahoma, in Nebraska, in=Wisconsin and in fact in all the ‘States, wear silk stockings. America has become a silk stocking country. Political revoiutions or any other kind of revolutions are not ilkely to take place i & land where wives and daughters of the workiug men wear silk stockings. That, more than any- thing else, is playing into the hands of the Republicans today. The religious issue, just as in the South and the North and Eas, is mak- ing itself felt in this Western country. So’ bitter are some of the Democrais that they say that if it were not for the fact Mr, Smith is a Catholiz, he could 1ot lose ‘this year. But these Demiocrats fail to take into consideration the fact ! that there are many voters who believe | in prohibition, or the fact that a ma- Jority of the voters in the country are usually Republican. PREDICTS RECORD VOTE. | Good Says Hoover Will Win After | “Calm” Campaign. CHICAGO, October 22 (#).—James W. Good, Republican Western campaign manager, declared yesterday a record- breaking vote November 6 would fol- low a campaign which “as a whole }:IS been singularly featured by calm- e “It is not as a partisan but as an ob- server of facts,” said Good in a state- ment issued from his office, “that I say in my judgment the counting of this unprecedented vote will elect Mr. Hoover. The people are hiring an ex- ecutive for the most important, re- sponsible, difficult job in the world. “There is widespread evidence that the peoplé have seen a marked con- trast in the availability of applicants for the job. Mr. Hoover has been recognized as a great constructionist, organizer and . leader, skilled in the science of business and government, certified as to qualifications by a rec- ord of achievement as few men in Ppublic life have ever shown. “Goy. Smith has tried a variety of issues, not very successfully, I think, and by no means consistently or logical Public addresses bristling with ‘charges’ have left the impression of a prosecutor, striving to win a point on some one of many counts in a broad- side indictment, rather. than of a pros- pective President of the Nation, demon- strating reasons why chosen to that exalte | following, could not swing the needed The History of Presidential Elections XXII—Rece: BY FREDERI Author of “The Am: The elections of 1916, 1920 and 1924 are fresh in the minds of present-day voters, vet in the excitement of the present campaign many interesting and important points which have been de- veloped in these campaigns will prob- ably be forgotten. The electoral sys- tem ought to function properly this vear, with but two parties likely to share in the electoral Votes, yet feeling may run high enough and the result be close enough to place some strain upon the peculiar system under which we operate our presidential choice. In 1916 the Republican party. split asunder four years earlier, showed re- | markable ability to reunite its scattered elements. While Bryan kept the Dem- ocrats sundered Jfor many campaigns, Roosevelt split hés party wide open and saw the breach healed in record time Indeed the defeat of his party in 1916 is generally attributed directly to the one outstanding instance where the harmony program between conserva- tives and progressives failed to func- tion. The nomination of Charles E. Hughes, a justicc of the Supreme Court, was an effort to select a man who had been aloof from the trying events of 1912, On him the two ele- ments could, and largely did, unite, President Wilson Renominated. Wilson's_renomination was a fore- gone conclusion. His administration had been popular and a close fight was Hughes made a long trip around the country. and in California his visit failed to heal the progressive breach. Senator Jehnson. who had been the candidate for Vice President to the Senate. The old guard party leaders frowned on him, although he carried the party label. He was not invited to meet the presidential candi- date in his home State. The Johnson supporters felt slighted. and in the election Johnson carried the State by a wide margin, but it was lost to Hughes and the national ticket. Thus one little group of stubborn leaders, refusing to forgive and forget, had lost a presidency. Wilson won by a mar- gin so narrow that any one large State would have changed the out- come. The 1920 campaign saw another | demonstration -of clever _convention | management by the Republicans and | helpless blundering by the Democrats | under their two-thirds rule. A group | of Senators, led by Penrose of Penn- | sylvania, planned a careful campaign | to control the Republican gathering. Offering favorite-sun candidates in many States, they prevented any of the outstanding popular favorites from geining & majority of the delegates. Ecen a million-dollar pre-convention | drive, and a wartime popularity and | great’ support from the old Roosevelt votes to Gen. Leonard Wood. The senatorial group held too many lttle blocks—Pennsylvania for Sproul. New York for Butler, West Virginia for Sutherland, Ohio for Harding, Wash- ington for Poindexter, and so on. Small Group Names Harding. After a few preliminary ballots, a small group of men “in a smoke-filled room in the early morning hours” united their forces and named Hard- ing. Penrose, the guiding genius, was ill at his Pennsylvania home and di- rected proceedings by telephone advice to his followers, The Democrats, meeting for the first time in a national party convention on the Pacific Coast, balloted for 10 days at San Francisco, and finally chose ex- Gov. James M. Cox of Ohio. _Bryan again had sought to direct thé plat- form policies and to have a voice in the nomination. He lost at every point, his New York and other enemies. finally united on Cox, and he left the conven- tion, saying “My heart is in the grave.” His party hopes lay with it. Cox car- ried only the South, and lost even two States of that. The election of Coolidge four years ago was so overwhelming that already many people have forgotten how seri- ously the chances of an election with no majority were considered during the early part of the campaign. As in 1912, the break of the Progressives from the party created this possibility. The La Follette group, uniting with the Socialists and other discontented ele- ments and naming two Senators, La Follette, a Republican, and Wheeler, a Democrat, appeared at the outset to have serious likelihood of splitting the electoral vote and throwing the elec- tion into the House. Oddly enough, as in 1912, that body was almost evenly nt Elections. C J. HASKIN. erican Government.” divided—so closely that the insurgent Republicans could have deadlocked it on a presidential ballot. It was this possibility which gave rise to the slo- gan, “Coolidge or Chaos.” Democrats in Long Deadlock. The Democrats had repeated their 1920 experience, with double emphasis, SMITH MAPS OUT WHIRLWIND FINISH Speaks Wednesday in Bos- ton—Due at Philadelphia Saturday. balloting for more than two weeks at their New York convention in the longest deadlock ever recorded in a party convention. The final choice of | John W. Davis was not made until | McAdoo ‘and Smith had fought each other to a standstill and split the party beyond hope of immediate unity or suce Democracy’s last tribute to the marvelous power of William Jen- nings Bryan was the nomination of | his brother, Charles W. Bryan, for | vice President. It was an eleventh- | hour effort, to keep Bryan in line. By that time, almost every one else was | out of ligk, and nothing came of it. The Gredt /Commoner had the satis- faction of dominating his party to the end, for hé was to pass on before another national convention met, this time entirely in the hands of his lif [long party enemics. No man since | Henry Clay had swayed party destinies | for so many years, or with such uni- | form lack of ‘succe | "The steady decline of strength in the third party movement eliminated the chance of throwing the election into Congress. The failure of long and strenuous personal tours by candi- dates was given another notable dem- onstration. That system of personal speech-making *campaigns had found a popularity never wholly justified by results, and for 30 years and more had proved a total failure, yet it has never, until the present campaign. been en- tirely abandoned. Bryan always fol- lowed it, striving with his great ora- torical powers to sway millions of | voters. McKinley beat him with a | front-porch campaign. remaining at his home in a small Ohio city and let- | ting groups of people come to visit him and hear his occasional speeches. The election of officers will be Wednes- Radio as Campaign Aid. Roosevelt did some speaking, al- though more of it in 1912, when he lost than in 1904, when he won. Wil- son spoke a little in 1912 in the field, and in 1916 remained at home, while Hughes swung around the circle. ' Cox made the grand tour in 1920, to no avail. Davis traveled widely, and so did La Follette when his health per- mitted, while Coolidge remained al- most a passive observer, making a few carefully prepared speeches. The spread of campaign arguments by newspapers and more recently also by radio has proved far more effective than efforts at personal persuasion through oratory. In 1920 Cox brought strongly into | public view the questiorf of campaign expenses, charging the Republicans with having a vast fund and buying the election. ' Subsequent revelations of contributions from one millionaire oil operator who later secured great Government oil fields have justified some of these charges. The public has come to scrutinize campaign expendi- tures more closely, vet both parties this year are frankly seeking and spending all they can honestly get. It seems true that in 1920 and 1924 the winning party had from two to four times the campaign funds of the losers, but the public is not at all certain that,this advantage alone set- tled the result. Many Citizens Neglect to Vote. Even more attention has been given to the fact that only a little more than half the eligible citizens actually vote at Presidential elections. The pro- portion has been much reduced since suffrage was extended to women in 1920. The stay-at-home vote is obvi- ously great enough in almost every State to change the result. No definite general plans are now considered for changing the electoral college method of choosing a President, nor the methods of nomination through party conventions. A constitutional amendment bas several times passed the Senate providing that newly elected Presidents take office in Jan- uary instead of in March and that | the new Congress come in at the same time instead of a year after the elec- tion. The uncertainties of the elec- toral plan, however, cast some doubt on the wisdom of too hastily changing administrations. If a quicker change | is desired, a more certain decision by the November elections should prob- ably be provided. Tomorrow: What of Today? RASKOBSAYSE. 0.P. Do You Know How to VOTE BY MAIL? Washingtonians who hepe fo vote by mail this vear, but whe are PROIBITION PARTY Letter to Dr. Work Charges Indifference to Demo- cratic Challenge. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 22—John J. Raskob, Democratic national chairman, in an open letter to Dr. Hubert Work, Republican _national chairman, made public at Democratic national head- quarters yesterday, declared that the Republican party “has now become simply the prohibition party of the United States.” “I have noted a generc! call to arms of all your speakers, from Mr. Hoover down, since our demonstration that the issue of the policy of protection is no longer in politics,” Mr. Raskob wrote. “I quite understand your per- turbation. Without that issue, your party has only one permanent policy left. You now become simply the pro- hibition party of the United States.” Charges Misrepresentation. Going into a discussion of Gov. Smith's attitude toward the Underwood tariff and Mr. Hoover’s attitude on the post-war _ wheat price, Mr. Raskob charged Dr. Work and other Republic- an leaders with deliberate misrepre- sentation of fact and with evasion of his challenges to prove the truth of their assertions. He said the purpose of his first let- ter to Dr. Work, in which he offered to resign as national chairman and vote for Hoover if Dr. Work could prove that Gov. Smith had indorsed the Un- derwood tariff, was “to raise a question of your veracity.” “Your reply,” he wrote, “contains neither proof nor retraction of, nor reference to, your assertion. I assume from this that you thus express indif- | ference to the question which it was| the purpose of my letter to raise. Discusses Wheat Price Charges. “This is not the first occasion in this campaign in which you have led, and your speakers have followed, & course evincing a like indifference to the same virtue. = You recently and publicly charged Senator Robinson with falsely asserting that Mr. Hoover had held down the price of wheat after the armistice. '* * * I promptly referred you to the cable in which Mr. Hoover {Pennsylvania to enter the Government { was assessed not later than 60 days and doubtful concerning the laws of their home States on the subiect, may re- ceive the necessary information by directing Inquiries to The Evening Star, as follows: Voting Information, care News Department, Evening Star. The questions and answers will be published each day. Q. I am in the Government service in Washington and have a vote in New Jersey in a municipality with a popu- lation of less than 15000. My name was not given to the canvassers by the relatives from whose home I vote. I have been informed that I may call at the polling place and have my name entered on the register immediately, prior to voting. Is this correct? I can find nothing to this effect in a copy of the New Jersey election laws, which I have consulted—W. T. A. You have been correctly informed. Q. Please flve information as to method of voting by mail at James- town, R. I—T. J. K. A. 'There is no provision_in the elec- tion laws ‘of Rhode Island for either registering or voting by mail. . I was born in Elkhart, Ind., Sep- tember, 1894: lived there until my mar- riage in September, 1918, when my husband and I moved ‘o Willlamsport, Pa. He voted there in the State clec- tion in 1917, but I have never voted. My husband has never voted since we moved to the District. Are either of us entitled to a vote, and what must we do?—Mrs. H. E. M. A. 1 judge, from the lapse of time since your husband voted in Willlams- port, that you have both lost your resi- dence in that State. This will depend entirely upon whether ‘or not he left service and has been in Government employ ever since, but, granting that you are both still residents of Pennsyl- vania, you are too late to qualify for voting in the November election, as the law requires that one must have paid some State or county tax within two years next preceding the eldction which paid not later than 30 days before the tlection. O gram_which I had brought to your attention. “I know of no other s0 deceitfully conceives of Senator Borah's.” On the tariff question, Mr. Raskob referred Dr. Work to Gov. Smith's Louisville speech, and said he desired to “commend it to your candidate as a much-needed example of a man tak- ing a definite stand on a political question.” ublic document as this speech himself had accepted responsibility for keeping down the price of wheat. immediately afterward, Senator Borah read to a farm audience in Minneapolis all the numbers of the correspondence of which this cable was the climax—all e should be'of which was irrelevant to the point in | unifarmly ch this correspon igsue—but omitted the crucial cable- You | tinuing the discussion between us,” he did not reply personally, but, almost | concluded. “I can see no useful purpose in con- “I am willing at any time to meet and discuss issues on accurate By the Associated Press. | ALBANY, N. Y., October 22.—Con- | | fident that he has lined up under his i banner all of the States touched on his 1 3.600-mile tour just ended, Gov. Smith | |now is pinning his hopes on five | | strategic Atlantic seaboard States with | |a total clectoral vote of 123, or 10} |less than half the number needed to | place him in the White House. | Starting Wednesday with & speech at Boston, the Democratic presidential | nominee will carry his fight to Mary- | land, Pénnsylvania, New™Jersey and New York, making his final 10 days { of campaigning before clection a whirl- | wind affair closely paralleling his past | | subernatorial battle finishes, { \ Tentative Schedule. | only a tentative schedule Kad been 1 mapped out today beyond the Boston | | address. Subject to change, it calls | | for speeches at Philadelphia next Sat- | | urday. Baltimore, October 20: Newark, October 31; Brooklyn, November 2, and New York City, November 3. While labor, foreign relations, reor- ganization of Government and other | | subjects remain to ‘be discussed by the | candidate, he has not definitely settled in his mind where he will take up these particular questions. He has indicated that he may make his Boston address an appeal to the labor elements of that center, but he is withholdfg decision. All five seaboard States to be visited by the nominee were in the Republican column four vears ago. Massachusetis. with its 18 electoral votes 45, Pennsylvania's 38, New Jersey and Maryland’s 8, all fell under the | avalanche of ballots that swept Calvin Coolidge to victory. : Gov. Smith, however, is cofident | that he has bright prospects in this | vital political region and is preparing | to bring his best oratorical talents into | play in a supreme effort to swing all | fivé States into line for the Democrats. Sure of States Visited. Assessing the results of his second campaign tour, he said: “We have pretty well settled the States we have beer” in, from what I can hear. Of course. I never shared the doubt about Tennessce that was going around. I never believed that was off the hook, or North Carolina. either. I did not know about Kentucky when we started, but I am satisfied with it.” id his optimism also ia, Alabama, Texa: Florida. Missouri, Indiana and Illinois. Referring to anti-Smith sentiment in some of the Southern States, the nomi- nee said all that were heard from in those States “are the' noisy minorities.” “They are loud, but not numerically strong,” he added. During a press conference, the gov- ernor was led into a discussion of “the value to the people of the candidate taking the issues to them.” That, he said, was “demonstrated in the first instance by the number of tele- grams and letters that we get in re- sponse, in which the people say, ‘That is the first explanation I have heard of that subject in any detail’ And that must be so because it is so completely at variance with the manner and method of conducting campaigns here- tofore, where there have been no definite subjects before the house, but all this general talk.” Raps Farm Promises. ‘The Republican party, he said, talks in “glittering generalities about helping the farmer, about being a friend of the farmer—they are going to give him the protection of the tariff, when they know in their heart and soul that the tariff alone does not work for him.” “It also applies to finances,” he con- tinved. “A man could talk for hours on the financial system of the country. That does not do anything about it and nobody finds it out. The same thing applies to prohibition. Hoover says it must be worked out constructively. What does that mean? You would not expect a candidate to say it ought to be worked out destructively.” Asked if he would have a “mythical White House spokesman” if elected, the governor replied firm! *No, sir—no, sire. I shall talk for my- self. Press conferences daily.” THOMAS ASKS LIBERALS NOT TO VOTE FOR SMITH Effort Will m for Demo- crat Cannot Be Elected, Socialist Declares. { | By the Associated Press. READING, Pa. October 22.—Norman Thomas, Socialist presidential candi- date, in an address here last night ap- pealed to liberals and progressives not to “throw away their votes” by casting them for Gov. Smith, “who almost cer- tainly cannot be elected.” “Everything Hoover has said and done,” he declared, “makes it clear that he will be on the side of special privi- lege. Contemplating this spectacle, some of our progressives are ready to throw away their votes on the Demo- cratic party. Almost certainly they can’t elect Smith. Certainly they can’t rehabilitate the Democratic party.” ‘The Catholic Church is more solidly behind Smith than the Protestant sect are behind Hoover, Thomas said, add- ing that “only the Socialists have really opposed bigotry by ‘insisting that ques- tions of religion and race do not belong in partisan politics.” Factory Fire Damage $375,000. DETROIT, October 22 (/).~—Fire which originated in the boiler room swept through the plant of the Ajax Bolt & Screw Co. here “early today, causing damage estimated at $275.000. i pression_than youresif. = \ It is not necessary to have had an Ac- count at this Bank to Borrow, Easy to Pay Loan $120 $180 $540 $45.00 $1,200 $100.00 THE MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U. 8, Treasury and clear-cut statements of fact, but I! cannot do so on the basis of such mis-l quotations and misstatements as have | “Wd your side of' 1408 H STREET, N. W. Mad Man Declared Taken From Engine Of Smith Train By the A ed Press. ALBANY, N. Y., October 22 The Knickerbocker Press today said that a man, reported to be mad, was taken off the front of the engine which hauled Gov. Smith's special train from Syra- cuse to Albany yesterday, after a hand-to-hand encounter on the cowcatcher with a New York Central Railroad policeman. William Keith. the policeman, the newspaper said, was sent to the Albany Union Station after word was sent from Utica that the man was fboard the train Neither the governor nor mem- bers of his party knew of the in- cident. Keith jumped on the cowcatcher as the engine slowed down at the station and arrested the man, who said he was Lester Skinner, 23, who had escaped from the State Hospital at West- boro, Mass., three weeks ago. WATERWAYS QUERY PUT UP TO HOOVER Carrington, Head of Proposed Canal Group, Asks Nominees Stand on Question. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 22.—-Col. ward C. Carrington, chairman of the Great Lakes-Hudson Association, f ed to promote the building of an all- | American canal from the Great Lakes to tidewater, yesterday made public a tter he had written to Herbert Hoover 2sking the Republican nominee for a statement of his views on the construc- tion of national waterways. The letter id Gov. Smith has “stated his present position as that of being willing to restudy the question and leave the ultimate decision to Con- gress.” The letter quoted from cor- respondence between this country and Canada to show that the Dominion is offering determined opposition to con- struction of the proposed St. Lauwrence waterway” and continues: “No one is credited with more pre- cise information in reference to the matters to which you give public ex- We think the people of New Jersey and New York { have every reason to invite you to make | a declaration in respect to your present attitude as to waterways that will af- ford an outlet to the 40,000,000 land- locked people of the Midwest, giving them the benefit of an all-water bill of lading.” }Enters New York in Final CURTIS TO SPEAK 1+ | INUTICA TONIGHT | By the Associated Press. { EN ROUTE WITH SENATOR CUR- | TIS TO UTICA, N. Y., October 22.—A | double-headed Republican attack for New York's 45 electoral votes today | brought Senator Curtis, the party's vice | presidential nominee, into the Upstate | sector while Herbert Hoover was in New | York City. | Senator Curtis speaks tonight at | Utica. Wednesday he speaks at Roch- | ester. This is his second sally into | Upper New York. He appeared at the | State Fair in August at Syracuse, | “The Scnator has objected to going { into . the official home city of the | Democratic presidential nominee, say- 1 ing it against his way of campaign- but it is planned for him to have heon at Albany at noon tomorrow with party leaders |/ Opening the final two weeks' drive of the campaign, the 68-year-old nom- ince came into New York State today facing a steady grind from now until election day. but he pronounced him- self “fit” and “ready to go.” He rested in Hartford, Conn.. yesterd He is due in Utica by midafternoon. Senator Curtis has abandoned writ- ing his speeches in advance, but he in- | dicated today he would discuss the tariff and Gov. Smith’s tariff views on his campaign in New York. He has gone in entirely for extemporaneous speaking of late. He goes to Ohio for speeches in Akron and Columbus on Thursday and Friday nights, respectively, and then to De- troit for Saturday night. The last week will see him hastening again through the farm belt, with appearances prob- ably in Indiana, Wisconsin, South Da- kota, Iowa and Missouri before he winds up in Kansas on election eve. . Tax Decision Reversed. A sState may not tax a resident beneficiary of a trust beyond his in- terests outside the State where the per- son creating the trust and the trustees are not residents of the State, the Su- preme Court decided today in reversin the decision of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia in the case of Rich- ard Crane vs. Charles County, Va. ~ D. 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