Evening Star Newspaper, October 28, 1928, Page 5

HOOVER PROGRANS FARM AD SESSN Will Call Congress Especially for Relief Action, if Elected, He Says. By the Associated Press. Herbert Hoover will call an extra ses- sion of Congress, if nescessary, to deal with egricultural relief legislation in the event the Republican party retains con- trol of the Government. ‘The presidential candidate in a formal statement yesterday said that agricul- tursl aid is the most urgent economic problem before the country and that its solution thould not be delayed for a whole year. This delay would be in- evitable, he believes, if such legislation should not be enacted at the coming session and the new Congress did not meet until a year from next December. Sees Relief as Urgent. “The question of a special session of | Congress after March 4, in event of the return of the Republican party, has been under discussion for some time" Mr. Hoover's statement said. ‘“There are a number of questions, particularly agri- cultural relief, which urgently require solution, and should not be delayed tor a whole year. It is our most urgent economis problem. “I should hope it can bs dealt with at the 1egular session this Fall, and thus & !Ee:ifll session be avoided. If, however, | that cannot be accomplished, I would, if | elected, not allow the matter to drift and would of sity call an extra session 50 as to secure early constructive ection ™ Hoover’s statement followed one by Senator Borah of Idaho. issued after u luncheon conference with the nomines Friday, in which the Senator declared strongly in favor of an extra session of Congress if the coming session did not satisfactorily conclude relief legislation. | Program Is Unchanged. Both outlined a_threefold program | which coincides with that laid down by | Hoover in his acceptance speech un | August 11. Its elements are tariff - | creases on farm product legislation for better marketing facilities and the creation of a farm board w Federa1 financial aid and authority handie the surplus crops. Both Hoover end Borah desire to have this relief program in upenflanl . €0 that it will apply to the marketing * Louis speech. in which on of the 1929 crops. While they are | hopeful that the present Congress can | 2ct at the coming session of threc months’ duration, there is doubt that a whole program could be completed sinc> Congress will be faced with the neces- sity of enacting all of the aporopriation bills for the next fiscal year, a rather large tesk in iteelf. The candidate spent "n;uch of ;'-.stesr- t his home working on h's B ke 1 ext Priday night he will voice his vit relief. During the morning he visited 8 downtown theater to see and hear himself in action in a talking motion picture of his recent New York speech. Followed McMullen Report. The declaration in favor of an extra session was the second statement the | nominee has issued on the subject in e t week. HA”;{ nnzuclfl‘emgj r;; to Gov. lam Mc] ;%mnskg, who said Friday that he had discussed the matter of an extra ses- gion with Hoover and predicted that one would be called if he were elected. The candidate’s reply in his statement was that while the question had been considered no decision had been ched. mAs the campaign went into its last stage the Republican national commit- tee completed arrangements for a clos- ing oratorical bombardment of country over the radio by a group of their outstanding spokesmen. In addition to_Hoover's spsech at St. Louis, Charles Evans Hughes, former Secretary of State: Senator Borah, Sec- retary Mellon, Secretary Kellogg and Dr. Hubert Work, chairman of the Re- blican national committee, will go to action in the final drive for a con- tinuation of the Republican regime. Secretary Mellon and Dr. Work will open the week with 15-minute speeches over a national hook-up at 8 o'clock tomorrow night and Secretary Kellogg | will speak on Tuesday night at 8:30 o'clock. On the following night Dr. Daniel A. Poling of New York will address the country at the same hour. Hughss will be the principal speaker at a Republican rally in Brooklyn Thursday night, and will go on the air at 9 o'clock. The hour for the speech of the candi- date at St. Louis has not yet been fixed, but on the following night Senator Borah will close his radio campaign with a 80-minute speech at Utica, N. Y. Borah will speak at Charlsston, W. Va,. tomorrow night, and at Norfolk, Va., the following night. He will not go | into North Carolina, as previously planned. The congratulations of Irving Bachel- ler, Hamlin Garland and Lawrence Abbott, New York authors and eritics, upon “the dignity and spirit” of Hoover's New. York speech were conveyed to him yesterday. “For these qualities and for its philo- sophical tone and insight we rank it with the now famous Cooper Union REPUBLICAN HEADS SEEK TO BECLOUD ISSUE, SMITH SAYS (Continued From First Page.) added, “as though there had ever been anv_attempt 2t enforcement.” “The situation could not be worse,” he said, end there was more spplause. The crowd again applauded when Emith promised, if elected, to carry the prohibition question to the American eople. “F Thall Iay the facts before them in & clear, calm, deliberate way,” he de- | clared, “and I shall suggest the remedy | thet T set forth in my speach of accent- | ence predicated upon the Jeflersonlan} #nd Democratic theory of the rights of the sovereizn States.” Here there was more app'ause, and the governor then added he disagreed | with Hoover and Hughes and all the | “Republican orators.” Auditorium Is Filled. “I believe that under constructive, forward-looking leadership,” he went,| en, “the American peop'e themselves gre fully competent to mak» the pro dicposition of this question.” Again there wes 2ppleuse. In a moment the soeaker added: “So much for that,” and the gudience laughed. Every foot of space in the auditorium was filled end outside the rrowd gwarmed =0 closely around the building that & number of press corresnondents holding pass»s could not get in. | 'As soon as the epeech was concluded, | ths governor end his party left, for! Claymont, Del.. tiis home of Chairman | John J. Reskcb of the Democratic na- | tional committee, who accomnenied th | nominse here from New York. | The governor w2s introduced hy Roland S. Morris, who served as Ameri- | ean Ambassador to Japan under Wood- row Wilson. W. W. Montgomery, jr.. Fhiladelphia law partner of Owen Roherts, one of the Government couns n the naval oil cases, also spoke briefly. | Following the fad of having biles to match c‘;\e"s dre: P cently appeasrd in gow firfl piaid patterns. Political Programs On Radio Today and Tomorrow Varied | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 27.—Po- litizal programs to be broadcast temorrow and Monday include: Demoiratic—Sunday: 9:15 p.m.—Sscond presenta- tion of playlet, “Up From the City Streets, rtraving life of Gov. Smith, with all-star cast, over WJZ and Blue network ot staticns. Republican—Monday: 8 p.m.—Dr. Hubert Work and Andrew Mellon over WEAF and i | network of 39 stations. | 8:50 p.m.—Attorney General | | Albert Ottinger, Rebublizan can- didate for governor, of New York State, over WEAF. WGY, Schenectady and WGR, Bufalo. D mocratic—Monday: 10:30 am—Edward Milton Rovle, author, over WJZ and net- work. 6 p.m—Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, over WEAF. WHAM, Rochester, and WGR, Buffalo. | 9 pm.—Governor Smith at Ballimore over WJZ and net- work. 10 pm—Ssnator Robert F. Wagner of New York over WOR end Columbia chain. DRIVE PUSHED HERE T0°GETOUT" VOTE Ten States in Which It Is Not | Too Late to Register Remain. With only 10 States remaining in which it is not yet too late to register | for ths election, the Republican State committee for the District of Columbia is preparing for an intensive drive as a wind-up of the get-out-ths-vote cam- paign that has been waged here for the pest two months. Reminding m-mbers of the rampaien committee at the local headquarters yesterday that many elections have been 'ost from overconfidence in the eleventh hour. Samuel J. Prestott, chairman of the Republican State committee, issued orders to his lieutenants calling for no let-up batween now and the close of th> camneign, With the view of “getting out” every possible Hoover vote, Chairman Pres- cotz has arranged to s°nd out h's so- called “flying squedron” of campaign speakers this week. Most of these speakers will made addresses over the radic, while others will address meet- ings. Among thess who will speak over the radio are John Lewis Smith, president of the Hoover and Curtis Club; Pearl B. Klein of the Prof-s- sional Woman's Leagus; W. W! Everett. president of the Washington Board of Trade; T. E. Roads and Maj. Julius I. er. Others in the “flying squad- ron” of speakers are Edward F. Col- , Republican national committee- man: Mrs. Virginia White Speel, Re- publican national committeewoman: E. C. Snyder, United States marshal for the District; Thomas P. Littlepage #nd A. E. Chaffee, reading clerk of the House of Representatives. What is expected to be the largest and most important meeting conducted by the Republicans in this city during the campaign is the one scheduled to- morrow night in the auditorium of Ma- sonic Temple, Thirteenth and H streets northwest. For the information of absentee voters quarters, 823 Fifteenth street north- west. that the 10 States in which it is not yet too late to register are: Personal registration—Florida up to October 30, Kentucky, election day or the day preceding: New Hampshire up to November 5, West Virginia up to Oc- tober 30. Registration by mail—Illinois, outside of the cities, up to October 30; Iowa up to November 3, Minnesota up to Octo- ber 30, North Dakota to October 30 and Wisconsin to October 30. It was announced also that the last date for applying for ballots follows: labama, Oct 28; Delaware, No- vember 2; Illinois, Towa, Minnesota and Wisconsin, October 28: Michigan and Ohio, October 29; Maine, New Hamp- shire and Tennessee, October 30; Ver- mont and Virginia, November 1, and North Carolina, November 2. VARE REGISTERS IN PHILADELPHIA G. 0. P. Leader, Ill, Motors From Atlantic City—Prediots Hoover Victory. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, October 27.—Sen- ator-clect William 8. Vare, Philadelphia Republican organization leader, motored from his Summer home in Atlantic City today to register for the November elec- tion. It was the first time he had left his home since he wes stricken with paralysis in August. Mr. Vare was ac- companied by his wife and upon arriv- ing at city hall, where th» registration commission sat today for the st time before clection, he was placed in a wheel ahalr and taken to the registration of- ces. Crowds standing in line to rogister gave the Republican chisf the right of \‘\'ny and cheered as he waved a greet- ng. “¥ou newspaper men,” he called, “just say that I enjoyed the ride from At- lantic City and am going back the same wav. As for politics, I am heartily in arcord with the Philadelphia speech of Senator Moses. I am confident Hoover and Curiis will be elected by 2n overwhelming majority. The roun- try knews it nexc's Hoover in the White Fol s the = scor to Coolidge and i teel it will send him there trium- phenily.” Mr. Vare said he would motor to V’h]flq{le“phfl election day to cast his bellot. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. OCTOBER 28 1928—PART 1. (Continued Prom First Page.) advocated its passage all over the coun- try, and who went to Kansas City and | demanded to be bard but were turned down—I want to say to them, if you still bslieve what you have been ad- vocating, you haven't a leg to stend on unless you coms out in this great con- test and support Gov. Smith.” Norris condemned the Revublican can- didate for his praiss of the last seven years of Republican administration. “I cannot forget,” he said, “that the men who opposed any investigation, the men who defended Daugherty, the men who defended Fall, who defended Sin- clair, who defended Forbes, who de- fended Miller, are, in the main, the very men who are managing and backing the candidasv of Mr Hoover. “During all ths weary grind, ths committee of ths Senate was t: to get the truth about ths bribery of | pubsic officials. Horbert Hoover sat in the cabinet of the President. H> was in d=ily touch with the very conspirators who defrauded the Government. I do not cherge him with any personal knowledge or in any way participating in the benefits of the crime and de- bauchery. but trom the beginning to the end he has remainsd as silent as a sohinx and has never condemned any of the men high in official position who were guilty of these crimes. Cites Roosevelt Policy. “Again I want to call your attention to the attitude of the immortal Roose- velt on such ouestions. He said that if he made any difference in prosscut- irz Republican rascals and Dsmocratic rasca's, he presscuted the Renublican rasnals a little harder. The public offi- in h's duty when he does not raise his voire in condsmnation of political de- bauchery even though it strikes at the very head of his political partv. Mr. Hoover, measured by this test, fails to come up to the proper level Senator Norris said in part: ““As soon as it became known that I had decided to support Gov. Smith for President, many of my Republican friends began to criticize me, in various degrees of severity, for the course I had decided to take. If mv critics are sincere and logical, they will necessarily have to condemn both Mr. Hoover and Senator Curtis for the seme reasons. “After Senator Curtis had served one term in the Senate he was defeated for renomination in ths Republican pri- mary by the then Governor of Kansas, In the camnaign following. Senator Curtis sunported the Democratic nom- ines, with the r-sult that we had a Demceratic Senator from Kansas for six vears. “Mr. Hoover left his pleasant home in Englan¢ to come to America in order to accept an office under De; ocratic administration. He became a Trmecrat, and in ths campaign in 1918 he advocated the election of a Demo- cratic Congress. This action on the part of Mr. Hoover was denounced by the leading Republicans all over the country. 1 mention those things to ghow mv Reoublican hrsthren that I am traveling in very distinguished com- pany. Urges Preservation of Resources. “The most important question for solution now before the American people is the preservation of our God-given natural resources, and this brings us at once to the consideration of the power question. Recent developments have clearly shown that the power trust is the greatest monopolistic or- ganization that has ever been put to- gether by human ingenuity. The prop- erty controlled by this great combina- tion is greater than the total value of all the railroads in the United States. “With its slimy fingers it reaches into every community and levies its tribute upon every fireside. There is no avenue of human activity it has not undertaken to control. It has under- taken to poison the minds of ‘our boys in the Boy Scout organizations. It has sent its secret emissaries to influence and control women's clubs. It has un- derteken to bribe the minister in the pulpit and, with its sinister, stealthy tread, it has even entered our public schools and tried to poison the minds of our children. It has secretly con- trolled college professors and high schrol teachers and has systematically undertaken to build up a sentiment in its favor by the control of the press. “And where did it get the money to carry on this wonderful campaign of deception? The power trust has but one source of income. and that is the contributions made from one end of the country to the other by those who use electricity in some form. ‘The manufacturer who makes the things we eat and wear must increase the cost of his product to cover the ex- orbitant power rates which he must The washwoman who has an electric washing machine or an elec- tric iron has made her contribution to this fund. The man who reads his evening paper by the electric light has added his mite. In other words, the people of the country, in every activity of life, rich or poor, have contributed in pennies to a fund that in the aggre- gete amounts to hundreds of millions of dollars, and this fund has been used to deceive the very people who have thns been compelled to make the con- tribution.” In support of his charges Senator Norris recited at length testimony and correspondence placed before the Fed- eral Trade Commission. Quoting from an article circulated by a propaganda agency in which public ownership was opposed on the ground that it would take the utility business into politics, he declared: “Trust in Politics.” “And yet the evidence before the Federal Trade Commission disclosed beyond the shadow of a doubt that the electric trust is in politics clear up to its neck. Moreover, it is dirty poli- ties, unfair politics, wick=d politics, con- taminated with corruption and dsceit. This trust is in politics from the White House down to the school district. It forgets nothing. It overlooks nothing.” Quoting testimony showing that over 70,000 copies of a “catechism” which he termed false and misleading had been used in the public schools through utility coempany influence, Senator Norris said: “Our public school system is dear and sacred to the heart of every patriotic citizen, and the man or woman who un- dertakes to undermine that system by secret and false propaganda is an en- emy to our country. He is striking at the very foundation stone of democratic Government and such conduct cannot be upheld or dverlooked by any rea!| patriot. “I have given you onlv a few samples of the work of this gigantic octopus ctal who will remain silent is derclict | closed are carried to their logical con- clusion it seems that this trust is ater than the Government and that it will aventulll{ control the Govern- ment. I, myself, cannot understand how any man who loves human liberty, who loves his country. can stand idly by and remain silent while this attempt to overthrow our Government and de- stre ur liberty is going on. “These disclosures were all public and were all known when the recent Re- | Diccussing the ofl scandals, Senator | pyblican national convention met, and yet that platform contains not one single word in condemnation. The Democratic convention was in its plat- form likewise as silent as the grave on this subject. When Mr. Hoover made his speech of acceptance he was likewise silent and nowhere did he utter one single word of comvlaint or condemnation of the shocking dis- closures that wers then public. “Smith Denounced Monopoly.” “It remained for Gov. Smith, with a veice that reverberated from ocean to occan and from lake to gulf, to de- nounce the activities of this giant trust and to condemn in the most coura- geous way the activities of this great monopoly. For his courageous stand on this—the most important issue now confronting the American people—h= is entitled to the warmest praise and commendation regardless of politics or of party. “The importance of the question transcends any party consideration. Never before in the history of our coun- try has there been such a startling dis- closure of a mammoth attack upon the very foundation corner stone that sustains our governmental fabric. Never in history has there been anything that will compare with it, and regardless of volitics, regardless of everything else involved in this camvaign, it seems to me the people of ths country must rise in defense of our liborties, in de- fence of our common country. and they must do it soon before we are helpless within the clutches and the control of this giant monopoly. “Gov. Smith's attitude on this ques- tion places him side by side with that great father of national conservation, Theodore Roosevelt. Have we so soon forgotten Roosevelt, the doctrines which he advocated and the policies for which he stood? He has many times called attention to the dangers which would beset us if we permitted monopoly to :‘omml the water powers of this Na- on.” After quoting Roosevelt’s speeches and messages, Senator Norris said: “Now let us turn to Gov. Smith and ses how remarkably similar his utter- ances are to those of Rooseveit.” Senator Norris quoted from an of- ficlal message to the New York Legisla- ture of Jenuary 5, 1927, in which Gov. Smith urged “the one basic principle that the State must itself retain owner- ship and control of water power at its source if the people and not private in- terests are to be the real beneficiaries by iis development.” Praises Development Plan. He praised the plan for State devel- opment submitted by Gov. Smith to the Legislature, saying it was very similar to the plan of Muscle Shoals in the bill vetoed by President Coolidge. “These views,” said Senator Norris, “correspond to the best progressive thought of the day. They are certainly in complete accord with the views so often expressed by President Roosevelt, and in all candor and fairness I want to say to those who have sympathized with and given support to the little group of Progressives in Congress, in their terri- ble struggle to preserve for all the people the great water power resources of the Nation, that it seems to me we are led, on this question at least, logically and inevitably to the support of Gov. Smith. “Every river and stream that flows down the mountainside through the meadows to the sea is capable of reliev- ing the drudgery of the home and the farm. It is a birthright belonging to all of us, and the trustees of the people, even in Washington or any State Legis- lature, who give it away to private corporations for their private gain are untrue to the trust imposed in them. “And when a gigantic monopoly has undertaken to poison the minds of our children, to influence our Legislatures, to control our churches and our com- mercial and social organizations in favor of turning this property over to a private monopoly, it is high time that those in authority should speak out. “Herbert Hoover has remained silent. He has uttered no word of protest dur- ing all the time this has besn going on, and during most of that time he has held a position of power and influence. Any man in such a position does not do his duty when he remains silent. It is common knowledge, known by all, and by no one better than the power trust, that Mr. Hoover is opposed to governmental, State or municipal own- ership of these God-given elements of human happiness. “Only One Avenue of Escape.” “It is known by all men that this great combination of wealth is so powerful that it has control of the po- litical machines of both of the great political parties, and that at the pres- ent time there is presented to the American people only one avenue of escape from the clutches of this trust. “That avenue is couragzously and ably held open to us by Gov. Smith, the Democratic candidate for President. Shall we be so partisan that we will place our party above our country and refuse to follow the leader—the only | leader—who affords us any escape from the control of the trust? “No class of our citizens is more in- terested in this question than the women of America. We are living in the dawn of an electric age. 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N.W. | take the priva element of human happiness. At the door of every home there is a new servant, knocking and asking for ad- mission. This servant will do all the washing and ironing, the lighting and cleaning of the homes of America at a nominal cost if she is given the oppar- tunity. In order to get the benefits of electricity it must be cheaper. We must profit out of the busi- ness. We must make it as common in every home as water. There is no rea- son why the United States should not have as cheap electricity as Ontario. “If we would drive the electric trust out of politics, if we would stop the expenditure of unconscionable millions used to decelve the American people and to debauch our public officials, we would be able to get the benefits whicn would accrue from a sane, honest and fair development of our power and iis distribution to the homes of America. “All these things are happening and going on across the line in Ontario, where power magnates do not control, where there is no electric trust, where the people get the benefits of their own property without paying tribute to mil- lionaire corporations that are using the people’s money to deceive the hand which feeds them. Constant Fight in Congress. “For eight years there has been a constant fight in Congress between the power trust and the people as to who should get the benefit of the great gov- ernmental development at Muscle Shoals. The administration of which Mr. Hoover was a part has been, from the beginning, on the side of the trust. In the last session Congress presented to President Coolidge a bill which final- 1y settled this question in behalf of the people, and he refused to sign it. “Sitting by the side of him was Her- bert Hoover, who was importuned on all sides by the progressive element of the country to use his influence with his chief in favor of this legislation. But he refused because he, himself, was op- posed to it. So it is safe to say that if Mr. Hoover had been President he would have vetoed this bill. It is likewise safe to say that if Gov. Smith had been President he would have signed it. This places fairly and squarely before the American people the attitude of these two men on this important question.” Senator Norris then launched into a discussion of farm relief. Admittedly, he declared, agriculture is in distress. He defined the causes as exorbitant freight rates, excessive cost of distribu- tion and the farmer's faiiure to get the benefit of the protective tariff because his surplus must be sold abroad and its price determines the price of the entire crop. He said: “Mr. Hoover, after more than seven years of inaction, comes forward with three remedies. His first remedy is ‘o give the farmer more tariff, when it is common knowledge that a tariff on any farm product of which a surplus is pro- duced has no effect whatever upon the farmer’s price. We have a tariff now of 42 cents upon wheat. It would be just the same if we had a tariff of $42 so long as we produce & surplus of wheat. “Second, Mr. Hoover would help agri- culture by building the St. Lawrence Canal. No one is opposed to that. If we were able to start tomorrow all of us would be dead and forgotten before the project would be completed. So, as a practical proposition for the relief of agriculture neither the St. Lawrence nor the other project of an all-American ranal offers relief within the life of the present generation. Cites Brookhart's Stand. “The third method of relief proposed by Mr. Hoover is to lessen the cost of the distribution of farm products by giving assistance to co-operative organi- zations. This is another remedy which no one, so far as I know, objects to, but this will not relieve the freight rate. This will not give the farmer the benefit of the protective tariff. “Soon after the war the Senate com- mittee on agriculture reported a bill to the Senate which undertook to relieve the agricultural situation by providing for lower freight rates and the lessening of the cost of distribution of farm products as they traveled from the producer to the consumer. “Senator Brookhart, who is a student of farm problems and for whom I have a great respect, has publicly proclaimed on the stump and from the floor of the Senate that this was the best farm bill that had ever been presented to Congress. It was, in modified form, twice reported from the Senate com- mittee on agriculture. It was twice | beaten by the combined efforts of the millionaire middle men and the political bosses. “One of the greatest influences that brought about the defeat of that legisla- tion was the powerful influsnce and voice of Herhert Hoover. The record shows that he appeared before the com- mittee and opposed the bill. He was an important element in an administration that brought all the power it could muster to ‘bring about the defeat of this measure, and thus any effort to give the farmer lower freight rates and to lessen the cost of distribution of farm products was defeated, and Mr. Hoover cannot shirk his part in bring- ing about such defeat.” Senator Norris recited the history of the McNary-Haugen bill, twice passed by Congress and twice vetoed by the President. He said: “Everybody knows that Mr. Hoover, from the beginning. was always op- posed to this bill. Now, what is ths position of Gov. Smith? In his Omaha speech he came out courageously and frankly in principle {nvolved in the McNary- Haugen bill. The only reservation was as to the machinery necessary to carry it out. He would undertake, if possi- ble, to improve it, and as one who sup- Under the Auspices of the Republican State Committee in and for the District of Columbia Republican Mass Meeting Masonic Auditorium 13th and New York Ave. N.W. the indorsement of the | gvrud that measure and as one who elped to frame it, I bid him God. speed in making any improvement as to the machinery that must be enacted into law to carry out the principle. Tired of Promises. “I stand ready to favor anything | that will simplify this machinery. and |1 want to say to you, particularly to my Republican brethern who have stood for the McNary-Haugen bill, who have advocated its passage all over the coun- try, and who went to Kansas City and demanded to be heard, but were turn- | ed down—I want to say to them, as I| look at it, if you still believe what you | have been advocating, you haven't a leg to stand on unless you come out in this great contest and support Gov. Smith. “I am tired of promises. The farmer represents the fundamental industry of | all industries. From his toil and sweat comes the food that supplies the world, but we cannot always continue to oper- ate under a system that, by a protec- tive tariff, puts everybody except the farmer upon a higher and an artificial scale of living. I am wondering now if the Republican farmers of the great Middle West are going to permit the poison of partisanship to blind their Judgment and to control their actions and their votes. “I do not agree with Gov. Smith in| his prohibition program. I am not in favor of the repeal or the modification of the eighteenth amendment and 1 shall oppose the repeal of the Volstead act at least until prohibition has been fairly and honestly tested. “But Gov. Smith’s ideas on prohibition are not of vital importance in this cam- paign. He cannot repeal or modify the eighteenth amendment. He cannot re- peal the Volstead act or change it. Such_action must come from Congress and I know-—and I think the country knows—that the Congress of the United States is bitterly opposed to such a proposition. “I make the charge here and now that there has never been a fair and honest attempt to enforce the prohi- bition . The present administration ind the head of its enforcement bureau are to blame for the dissatisfaction that is quite general over the country with existing conditions regarding prohibi- tion. I get letters from all quarters of the country, written by men who are prohibitionists, who say frankly that the enforcement officers are in league with the bootleggers and that the conditions in their various communities are simply intolerable. Demands Fair Enforcement. “What we have a right to demand is 1hat this l]aw shall be fairly and honest- 1y enforced, and I believe that if this 1s done we would get eral satisfac- tion with the law. But, at least until it is done. until the law has been fairly and honestly tested, I am opposed to its repeal. “Gov. Smith would probably have voted against the eighteenth amend- ment and against the Volstead act, had he been in Congress. But Gov. Smith has stated before the American people in language which cannot be misunder- stood that while he favors a modifica- tion of both the amendment and the law, if he is elected President he will enforce the law as it now stands. This is something that has never yet been done. I believe he will keep his promise. His record as Governor of New York shows him to be a man sufficiently courageous to do this and that he has always done it in the past. “I read an article by a leading woman in the West, who announced that al- though a Democrat she would not sup- port Gov. Smith. She said we should heve another man enforcing the law who was in sympathy with the law, and that she feared Gov. Smith would not, therefore, properly enforce it. I won- dered when I read this article if this woman fully realized the fact that the head enfcrcement officer of our pro- hibition law is a man who has made many millions out of the distilling of whisky. No one has ever claimed for a moment that Mr. Mellon believes in or ever did believe in either the eight- eenth amendment or the Volstead act, and there are now unnumbered graves all over this country filled with men who died from drinking too much Mellon whisky. Cites Oil “Debauchery.” “Mr. Hoover looks over the last seven years of Republican administration with a great deal of delight and satis- faction. When think of the oil scandals and the debauchery and the | crime which existed in high places, even among the associates of Mr. Hoo- ver in the cabinet, I th of those same seven years with a sense of hu- miliation and shame. “Almost from top to bottom the ad- ministration was honeycombed with fraud and corruption, and I cennot for- get that the men who opposed any in- vestigation, the mep who defended Daugherty, the men who defended Fall. who defended Sinclair, who defended Forbes, who defended Miller, are, in the main, the very men who are managing and backing the candidacy of Mr. Hoover. “During all the weary grind, when the committee of the Senate was trying to get the truth about the bribery of public officials, Herbert Hoover sat in the cabinet. He was in daily touch with the very conspirators who de- frauded the Government. Of course, I do not charge him with any personal knowledge or in any way participating in the benefits of crime and debauch- ery. But from the beginning to the end he has remained as silent as a sphinx and has never condemned any of the men high in official position who were guilty of these crimes. “Is it the duty of a Republican to cover up crime and evil when he finds it existing in his own Monday, Oct. 29, 1928—8 P.M. Addresses by HON. W. W. HUSBAND Assistant Secretary of Labor HON. GEORGE R. FARNUM A tant Attorney General MISS MARY STEWART Head of Professional and Business Woman's Division of the Republican National Committee AND HON. W. T. VERNON Former Register U. S. Treasury SOLOIST MRS. FLORA McGILL KEEFER The Public Is Cordially Invited SAMUEL J. PRESCOTT, Chairman Republican State Committee Come and hear the issues of t SENATOR NORRIS TELLS WHY HE SUPPORTS SMITH party loyalty have such a binding obli- ; gation that we must place the we of our party above our country? Again ! I want to call your attention to the attitude of the immortal Roosevelt on such questions. He seid that if he made any difference in prosecuting Repub- lican rascals and Democratic rascals, he prosecuted the Republican rascals a little harder. Denies Tammany Control. “Every public official knows that it is his duty to expose wrong and evil regardless of where he finds it, and the man who will remain silent, es- pacially if he occupies a high position of trust, is, in my judgment, derelict in his duty when he does not raise his voice in condemnation of political debauchery even though it strikes at the very head of his party. Mr. Hoover, measured by this test, fails to come up to the proper level. “The charge 15 made against Gov Smith that he is a member of the Tammany organization in New York. T have no more use for Tammany than I have for any other political machine, and I do not bslieve it is to the credit of Gov. Smith that in his early political life he associated closely with the Tammany organization, but I do think it is to his credit that he has risen above its domination and its influence. “His record, since he has been gov- ernor, shows that Tammany has not controlled his appointments of office. Whatever influence this organization might have had, Gov. Smith, by his outspoken and courageous method in official action, has risen way above and beyond the domination and the control of that organization. “But who is it who is crying out against him on account of Tammany? In the main, it is the same group of leading alleged statesmen who have opposed at every step the investigation of the crime and debauchery which has been going on in high places. “Let us not forget that at Kansas City, in the Republican convention, at the psychological moment, it was Vare of Pennsylvania who put Herbert Hoover across—Vare, the head of the Republican machine in Philadelphia. And that machine is now turning heaven and earth to secure votes for Herbert Hoover. If you will compare the Vare machine in Pennsylvania with the Tammany machine in New York, as it has existed for the last several years, it will make Tammany appear as a white-robed saint. Hits Nicaraguan Policy. “Mr. Vare was refused admission to the Senate. The disclosures of corrup- tion were publicly known before the election. Herbert Hoover knew about it. He knew of the crime and de- bauchery in Pennsylvania, where, under this man, the worst political machine that had ever been put together was controlling the State. He sat idly by while the administration lent its power- ful influence to secure the election of Mr. Vare. And he has been the bene- ficiary of the activities of this corrupt mlscs\me in the very nomination he now Senator Norris scored the Republican candidate for remaining silent on what he termed the administration’s “inde- fensible and illegal war down in Nica- ragua,” and by contrast praised Gov. Smith’s condemnation of 12 “In no uncertain terms he has con- demned thlxi In]usucel.;' he said. “In courageous lan; e has mised that any administration of his sphr:“ not leave behind it such a blot of dishonor.” “The cry goes out that Gov. Smith is a Catholic and that we must not elect a Catholic to the White House. What is the greatest fear that these anti- Catholics have? If you ask them and Wi sEy that the Catbeics ‘ahe opgosed vill say that the Catholics are to our public school system. o |to get control o about these two candidates in the de- fense of our public schools. When the Power Trust was stealing into ' our schools, when it was contaminating the minds of our children with pomod ropaganda, when it was bribing h- ers and preachers and professors,. what | did Hoover do? Again he was following the:Hoover policies by remaining abso- lutely silent. “But how about the Catholic, Gov. Smith? - We find him using his power and his influence in condemnation of this unholy attempt at monopoly. He comes to the defense of our public schools and denounces in patriotic ‘lan- guage the attempt of the Power Trust them. He has come the whole length. “Defender of Public Schools.” “He stands todey before the Ameri- can people as a candidate for President, defending our Yublh‘ schools against this attack, while his opponent is so silent that he cannot even be heard in a whispering campaign. Gov. Smith stands today before the American peo- ple the greatest defender in the Nation of our public school system “Look at the record of Gov. Smith while he has been governor. Look over the appointments he has made to office and you must be convinced that religion has been by him kept entirely separate and apart from his official actions. He has carried out, in spirit and in letter, the Constitution of the United States. “We are treading on dangerous ground when we object {0 a man hold- ing office because of his religion. There are men in all religious denominations who are unreasonable—men who would like to force their particular rel upon the state. But, thank God, V. Smith is not one of them. He is not only oppesad to it himself, but he stands out fearlessly and courageously and condemns any attempt that will inter- fers with the efficiency of our public school system. Under his leadership, in the State of New York, the greatesy development took place in the public Schflcls. of that State that has ever oz- curred.” Quotes Lincoln. Senator Norris quoted Lincoln and Jefferson in denunciation of religious prejudic: o religious objectors have their way, e _continued, “what will be the end> If we put a ban on Catholics. who will be the next to feel the rebuke of this im it spirit? The next, I presume, will be the Jews. Then will come the Lutherans, and so on, until everybody except a few reli- gious cranks will be prohibited from holding public office. Such conduct is contrary to the expressed provision of the Constitution. It is contrary to the teachings of the lowly Nazarene who taught to humanity the lesson of brotherly love. “Write my name as one who loves his fellowmen. That is a doctrine un- der the Catholic, the Jew and the Gen- tile, and all believers of any faith, can unite and go forward in our political world to bring about the maximum amount of happiness for our people. ‘That is the doctrine that ought to actuate every citizen when he goes into his booth with no ome but God to watch him. where, if he follows that doctrine, he will permit the still, small voice within his breast which never vet has led human being astray, to control his official action, because. in the end and in the highest sense. religion and politics ought to be broad enough and big enough so that we could all unite under. the bann-r of Abou Ben Adhem and, exclaim: ‘Write myv name as onz who loves his fellow- Col. T. J. Rogers Retired. Col. Thomas J. Rogers, United States Infantry, at Oklahama City, on leave of absence, has been placed on the retired list of the Army on account of ege. 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