Evening Star Newspaper, November 3, 1928, Page 5

THE. KVENING STAR. WA HINGTORN. n. G, SATURDAY. NOVEMBER " 1928. L) * .3 FARTY CANPAGHS NEARNG WO Hoover and Smith in Final| Formal Appeals—Conflict- ing Forecasts of Election. BY BYRON PRICE, Associatea Press Staff Writer One of the memorable political cam- | paigns of history is ending in a dizzy- | ing burst of effort and enthusiasm. | As Hoover swings through the West, and Smith makes his final rounds among his neighbors in New York, mil- lions of their fellow-citizens join in noisily to lift the drama to its proper climax. Party rallies are in progress in_metropolis and hamlet, and party workers everywhere are lavishing advice | on every wavering voter. Most of this tumult will end tonight, when Smith speaks in New York City and Hoover at Pueblo, Colo, while ~wres of the lesser figures of the stump wind up their speaking tours and turn homeward to cast their own ballots | on Tuesday. It will remain for the | nominees themselves to sum up the ar- gument Mm radio addresses Monday night. Each, Predicts Victory. | As #h.y prepare to close their doors, both Smith and Hoover headquarters are predicting victory. As put out for publication, these predictions on_either side sometimes go the length of fore- casting a landslide. When they talk privately, the estimates of party lieuten- ants are less sweeping, but even then each insists that enough votes have beén won to insure the election of his candidate. These claims are advanced | *arnestly and defended warmly, whether | made on behalf of Hoover or Smith. Of course, the details of these fore- casts overlap, and both cannot be cor- rect. It has been the sort of campaign to arouse unusual expectations, and party leaders down along the line have made surprising reports to their head- made surprising reports to their su- periors—reports which even the most enthusiastic of the experienced poli- ticians hesitate to believe. Some Dem- ocrats even now are claiming Pennsyl- vania and Michigan, and some Repub- licans are claiming Georgia and Arkan- sas. When such predictions are voiced in the presence of any leader of the opposing party, they are greeted with ridicule. Yet they illustrate the vague hopes which are afloat upon the twisting currents of this campaign. Claims Analyzed. Even though they are so conflicting that one set or the other must be re- garded as untrustworthy, the more studied predictions of the politicians, as made privately, meet at certain points and are worth analysis. ‘They disclose a general agreement that expectations of a Hoover victory ang, based on the gremlse of a Repub- lican sweep through the East and West, enveloping the border and perhaps, part of the South, and that expecta. tions of & Smith victory rest on a sup- position that he will hold the South, take a good part of the East, and pick g a few additional States here and ere along the border, in the farm country, and in the far West. ‘The overlapping aspects of these cal- culations point to certain States as highly important factors in the result —States earnestly claimed by both sides as a part of the quota of victory. They forecast a particularly determined bat- tle, in the very last of the campaign, in such Eastern States as New York, Massachusetts, Maryland and Rhode Island; in the border States of Ken- tucky, Tennessee, Missourl and Okla- homa; in hotly debated Midwestern and Northwestern States like Nebraska. Wisconsin and North Pakota, and in the far Western States, notably Mon- tana, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico. ‘Where Predictions Conflict. ‘This list does not, of course, include all of the States in which the hopes of the parties overlap. It does include. however, most of the States in which the minimum claims of the more modest of Smith and Hoover partisans come into violent conflict. In the East, some Democrats would claim not only the four States named, -but would add also New Hampshire, ecticut, Dela- ware and New Jersey®*In the South, some Republicans are stoutly claiming North Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Vir- | ginia and Texas. There is a similar situation in every section of the coun- try, and for the first time since present party alignments came into existence, a compilation of the more optimistic of Republican and Democratic claims Wwould involve almost every State in the Union. Not that conflicting pre-election claims are, in themselves, anything new; the novelty this year is in the particu- larly wide range of the conflict, and the extraordinary reasons which underlie it. Even in‘normal times, political leaders Teceive over-enthusiastic reports now and then from zealous party workers, and are misled into predictions which | afterward appear foolish. One Mistake Recorded. Not many years ago a presidential nominee received a telegram on the| day before the election from a trusted and experienced politician, saying his State would return a favorable majority of more than 100,000. It actually went overwhelmingly the other way. There is an added reason why some oliticians habitually overclaim. It has s explanation in the old maxim that in every contest, confidence is half the battle, and it finds it practical applica- tion to politics in the fact that there @re voters who want to be on the side Of the winner for practical reasons. A Wise sutdent of politics once said that in every election there are three parties =the Republican party, the Democratic party, and the bandwagon party. ! HOOVER IS PRAIéEli Hoover and Curtis Paths Cross in City here Convention Met By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, November 3.— Campaigning down the final stretch as they hurried homeward to vote, the heads of the Re- publican national ticket crossed i | trails today in the city where they | ‘were nominated last June. Neither | | candidate made a public appear- | | ance here. J Herbert Hoover's train, en route to California, skirted the city after a brief suburban operating stop, and then proceeded into the home State of Senator Charles Curtis shortly after 5 am. The i vice, presidential nominee arrived from Moberly, Mo., at 7:50 am. en route tn Wichita, where he will speak tonight. SUNDAY ARRAENS DENORATLEADERS Famed Evangelist, in Local Pulpit, Says South Will Defeat Smith. “Billy” Sunday came to town yester- day and last night he leaped and climb- ed about the pulpit of the First Con- gregational Church, Tenth and G streets, tarring Al Smith, Tammany, John J. Raskob, Carter Glass and Josephus Daniels with the blackest brush his rapid-fire tongue could mus- ter. Back on his old stand, fighting “Old King Alcohol,” the famous evan- gelist was in old-time form. He used up four handkerchiefs mopping his brow and wilted to a sodden mass a fresh stiff collar. Explaining that he had “nothing at all against Smith,” Sunday spent near- ly two hours in denunciation of him and his cohorts of the Democratic party, touching not only on liquor, but attacking the stand of the Democratic candidate on immigration, farm relief, his affiliations with the Roman Catholic Church and on his association with ‘Tammany. . “I'm sick and tired of this fellow Raskob and the rest of them passing the buck of religious intolerance to us,” he said. “They're just as intoler- ant on the Catholic side of Herbert Hoover as we are_or the Protestant side of Al Smith. If Carter Glass goes about Virginia downing Bishop Cannon for his activities against Smith, what right as Carter Glass to speak in favor of Smith?” Attacks Saloon. It was the saloon that Sunday par- ticularly attacked. “They talk about Al Smith’s record as governor of the State of New York,” he said. “New York is the worst run State in the Union. There are 10,000 speakeasies and suchlike cesspools in New York City, and Tammany runs them. Al Smith runs Tammany. They'll all cry ‘bring back the saloon but don't call it a saloon.” Sunday predicted that it will be the South that will defeat Smith. “The South is dry,” he declared, “and it is in rebellion. Not with bullets, this time, but with patriotism against party and with principles against politics. ‘The South will snow Smith under on Tuesday.” Discusses Western Trip. “Smith,” he said, “goes out to the West to tell the farmers how to run their farms. about farming? to a hog. He doesn’t haw and wouldn't know which side of 8 cow to sit on to milk her.” ‘What does Al Smith know He never carried slop know gee from About 2,000 persons were unable to get into the church for the meeting. For more than an hour they stood in the rain in front of the church while the reserved seats were being filled by contributors to the cost of the meet- ing. Then the doors were opened, and not more than 200 of those who had been waiting for the public seats were able to enter. DEMOCRATIC RALLY AT NORBECK CROWDED Senator Tydings, Former Senator Lee, Mrs. Menefee and Others Speak for Smith, Democrats of Montgomery County held the biggest rally of their campaign at the Manor Club, Norbeck, last night. Speakers were United States Senator Millard E. Tydings, former United States Senator Blair Lee, Mrs. Eliza- beth Menefee of Cumberland, Demo- cratic _committeewoman of Maryland; Mrs. Gertrude B. Fuller of Montgomery County and E. Brooke Lee, Speaker of the Maryland House of Representa- tives." The 900 chairs of the hail were filled and more than 100 persons stood throughout the proceedings. Senator Tydings made a plea for re- ligious freedom, defended Gov. Smith’s prohibition policies, attacked Senator Borah as having voted against woman suffrage and being at prescnt against their interests in supporting Herbert to the lack of public relief in many na- tional problems. Former Senator Lee urged the elec- tion of Smith for President, Cavid Lewis for the sixth district Congress seat now occupied by Frederick N. Zihl- man and the re-election of Senator Wil- liam Cabell Bruce. Some years ago Lee and Lewis were opposing candi- dates for the United States Senate in AT CHERRYDALE, VA.! Republican Rally Speakers Call! Candidate Nation’s Greatest Hu- mantarian and Leader. a bitter campaign. The m-cting last night was presided over by Speaker Lee of the Maryland | House, 'BYRD SAYS CANNON STy | HITS CATHOLIC FAITH CHERRYDALE, Va., November 3.— Herbert Hoover was characterized as| the Nation's greatest humanitarian ana Jeader by speakers at a Republican | Tally held in Firemen's Hall here last night, under auspices of the county Republican ~ committee. Those why £poke were Edgar C. Snyder, United | States marshal for the District of Co- | lumbia; William H. Collins, assistant United States attorney for the District of Columbia: Thomas P. Littlepage member g of the Washington bar; Mrs, May Lightfoot, member of the speakers’ committee of the District of Columbia Republican organization, and Paul Keough, 18-year-old member of the varsity debating team of George Wash- ington University, The rally was opened by Harry B Mason, Republican, of htis section of the county, who urged importance of voting, declaring that a Republic majority in Arlington County might b> the means of swinging the State into the Republican column. He then turned the meeting over to Clarence W. Burger, one of the county Republi- can leaders, who introduced the speaxers. All of the speakers assailed the Democratic nominee's stand on vital issues of the campaign, including pro- hibition, the tariff, waterways and im- migration. Hoover, on the other hand it was said, has proved himself the world's greatest business executive and was a much betier grasp on natijnal and international affairs than his op- ponent, Governor Charges Bishop Cloaks Opposition to Smith by Plea for Prohibition. | By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., November 3.—Gov, Byrd in a statement here yesterday de- clared that Bishop James Cannon, jr., i of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, “openly raises the religious issue in anti-Catholic statements wherein he atfacks the Catholic religion ufder the thin excuse of endeavoring to prove that th2 Catholics are more intolerant tha Protestants, independent of politics.” | “Bishop Cannon has said that his op | position to Gov. Emith is bacause of pro- hibition and notecause of his religion,” the governor said. “He has sald that he vculd have supported Senator Walsh as a dry Catholic, yet in his effort to | Republicanize Virginia, Bishop Cannon | openy raises the religious issue. It is | grove’ responsibility for Bishop Cannon | to instill hatred and make the hecrts of | Americans against other Americans | merely because they chose to worship | the same God we worship, but in a dif- ferent way.” | Briancon, the highest town in France, being 4,000 feet up among the Alps, was \ recontly isolated by the flooding of the iver Duranc on whose banks it &tands, L) Hoover for the presidency and referred ! SO ACELANS HOOVER S AN Senator Keceives Enthusias- i tic Boston Reception. Closes Tour Tonight. By the Associated Press. BOSTON., November 3.—A cam- paign swing through nearly every sec- tion of the country, a journey of more than 10,000 miles in 16 States in be- half of Herbert Hoover's presidential candidacy, will be completed tonight by Scnator William E. Borah at Utica, N. Y. ; The Senator left here this morning for the up-State New York city, where he will delver his twentieth and final speech over a Nation-wide radio hook- up, starting at 9 o'clock Eastern stand- ard time. Thousands Hear Boston Speech. Before an audience which nearly filled the 12,000 seating capacity of the Bos- ton Arena last night, the Senator pre- | dicted that Hoover would be President | “not for the next four years, but the next eight When a heckler shouted “Oil!” as the Senator started to enumerate the prob- lems Hoover would face, if elected, Borah replied: “No one more than | myself despises the cgwardly men who defrauded their Government and be- trayed their party. They have been driven into seclusion, some of them into jail, and all of them ought to be there. “I do not ask you to judge Gov. Smith by his associates; it would be too se- vere.” Emphasizes Hoover's Fitness. ‘The confidence of the voter in the‘ capacity and fitness of Herbert Hoover for the presidency was the keynote sounded last night by Senator Borah | in a speech which culminated a hugei demonstration by Massachusetts Re- publicans for the Hoover-Curtis ticket. This confidence of the electorate was characterized by the Senator “as the dominating, winning factor, pointing toward Hoover's victory.” His address, prepared for delivery late last night, was the climax of the Bay State capi- tal’s rally, which included a two-hour torchlight parade and the listening by a large audience filling the Boston Arena to the radio reproduction of the ‘Republican standard bearer’s speech in St. Louis. “That is an element in the campaign which pervades the entire country,” the Senator continued, “and breaks across party lines. The poise and judgment, the wide experience, Hoover's achieve- ments in the field of economics and his services to humanity and, above all, his phenomenal record for completing any task which may be assigned to him, complex and difficult it may be, have radiated respect ande confidence among the voters. % Extolls Hoover as Man. “In the South, they do not speak of parties, but of Hoover; Hoover, the executive, the man among men. The business man, the laborer and the farm- er feel that he approaches the prob- lems of today both as a student and as a doer of things, as a man who will not be driven to accept false theories, but who insists upon thoroughness and permanency as the elements of his pro- gram. “In the last 40 days, I have talked with men and women in every walk of life and with almost every outiook upon life and that is the measure they are giving to Mr. Hoover. They believe he is equal to the task; that he is equipped to deal with our great economic and social problems and to deal with.them not only soundly. but with justice.” Emphasizing that the Govrenment “touches the life of American citizens at almost every point,” the Senator ap- pealed to the Bay State electorate to support Hoover on this basis. “Both our material and moral welfare are vitally affected,” he declared, “for bet- ter or for worse, by the wisdom or un- wisdom of our Government, no less by administration of laws than the laws which we pass. SEMTOR BLANE ASSALS HODVER Hits G. 0. P. National Com- mittee Report on Pennsyl- vania Contributions. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 3.— Senator James J. Blaine of Wisconsin dealt | with eight issues of the national cam- paign at a Democratic rally here last night. Teapot Dome, farm relief, waterways, water power, foreign policies, injunc- tions, the Volstead act and campaign contributions received attention from the Progressive Republican, who in- dorsed the candidacy of Gov, Smith. Calling attention to the report of | the Republican national committee on contributions, Senator Blaine declared $200,000 of the total of $4,100,000 had been received from the “ways and means committee of Pennsylvania” and another $100,000 from “the Republican national committee of Pennsylvania.” Charges Klan Aid. He demanded to know why the con- tributors of those committees were not | named and declared that a triumvirate | of organizations is backing Herbert Hoover—the Republican national com- mittee, the Anti-Saloon League and the Ku Klux Klan. { “They have joined together in a cam- paign with their fostering of racial and religious animosities,” he said. “They have joined in a song of hate and they are whispering their anthem of ‘rum, rags and Romanism’ against Gov. Smith, who is a sheet anchor to our personal, political, religious and eco- nomic rights and liberties.” | Senator Blaine said these forces were | backing Mr. Hoover with his full ap- proval, “if not in fact through his so- licitation,” and if they succeed “no home, nb man, no church, no fraternal organization will be secure.” The Klan and the Anti-Saloon League he accused of spending millions in the campaign. Refers to Oil Scandal. As to Teapot Dome, the Senator said Mr. Hoover “sat in the cabinet and the whole dirty mess of the oil scan- dal, reeking with bribery, became a \repeulod subject of discussion by the cabinet.” He sald Mr. Hoover was nersonally notified by Col. Helms “of the verious steps to rob Government, | and the only intsrest he took in the maiter was.to sond a_memorandum to Mr. Fall that he would convey to Col. Helmfi any message Fall would sug- Cold? Metal Weatherstrips Windows, $2; Doors, $3 INSTALLED COMPLETE HEFLIN “WORKING ON AL.” Alabama Senator Waives Question of How He Will Vote. BIRMINGHAM, Ala, November 3 (#).—On the eve of his address here last night in opposition to the can- didacy of Gov. Smith, Senator J. Thomas Heflin declined to say whether he would vote for Hoover. He had previously announced that He would ?1“ vote for Smith under any condi- ons. “I never have said I would vote for Hoover,” Senator Heflin said. “I'm working on Al There will be plenty who will vote for Hoover without me.” o Counterfeit $50 Bills Appear. Watch your $50 bills. The Government has found a new counterfeit of this denomination, Chief Moran of the Secret Service warned last night. The counterfeit is a $50 Federal Reserve note, on the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. S An American art dealer and his son have spent nearly $5000,000 on art treasures of Europe this year. RASKOB'S CHARGE SHARPLY DENIED Never Discussed Re'igion and Will Not, Moses Says. Answering Raskob. By the Assoclated Press. George H. Moses, Republican Eastern advisory chairman, last night, when shown a copy of what was said to have been the pamphlet he was charged with having sent to Zeb Vance Walser of Lexington, N. C., said: “So far as I can recall, and I think 1 have a good memory, I never saw this form of words before.” Asserting that he “never yet descend- NEW YORK, November 3.—Senator | ed to a discussion” of the questions in- volved in the document, he declared that he would decline “now to be in- volved in it " Assails Foes' Tactics. | Senator Moses was at the home of Daniel E. Pomeroy, vice chairman of the Republican national committee, in Englewood, N. J., when he was shown a copy of the pamphlet, which was made public by John J. Raskob, Demo- cratic national chairman. The Senator had dinner at the Pomeroy home before proceeding to Newark where he made an address. “So far as I can recall, and I think I have a good memory,” he said, “I never saw this form of words before; however, when people will descend to rifling United States mail and violat- ing a Federal Taw, during a political campaign, I do not wonder that they will descend to other methods. “If, however, the Democratic man- agers wish to make this a holy war, I will be reconciled to whatever the re- sult may be But 1 have never yet | descended to a discussion of the ques- | tions involved in the document now | presented to me, and 1 decline now to be involved in it. ‘One of the choicest recollections of my boyhood is that of my father, the Baptist preacher in the State of Maine, to lead the procession of the clergy of the town to the town hall, where the Garfield memorial exercises werr to be held. I could not be false to that memory and I will not be, no matter what misrepresentations are submitted against me. “I_can well understand that since Mr. Hoover and Dr. Work are on their way westward, I should become the Democratic target There is no closed season upon me, and I will withstand | anything which the Democratic mud- patteries will produce in this last clos- |ing stage of a desperate canvass to bolster up their forlorn hopes. Cites Previous Incident. “Here in New Jersey, where I am to- night, we have seen a similar attempt to yoke the Republican party and its organization up to a religious warfare. We have scrupulously maintained an attitude of obstension from that kind of warfare. 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