New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 21, 1928, Page 10

Smith, Replying to Spikes Charges He Aided Crime NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1928 Another group of bills related to the subject of liquor tax certifi- | cates, Bill Introductory 1518 or 1910 sought to give to the holder of a liquor tax certificate the same benefit that the Court of Ap- Editor White, Calls “Cowardly” Excuse Offered by Republican| Committee—Shows G. O. | I | erate attempt P. Assembly Voted Same | show that my votes azalt with a fur | | greater number Way He Did on Alleged ! Offensive Legislation, ! | great many Lills designed to change Aug Gov- || ernor Alfred L. Smith today seemed | | well pleased with the reception throughout the country of 1 statement earlier in the day regard-| | ing the charges made and retracted | ¢ by William Allen White, Kansas ed- |! itor, beto latter for Europe. relorn thro the agency of Henry J. Allen, zector of Republican publicity The Smith statement goes into th charges in detail, includes the back- ground of the bills on liquor regula- tion, gambling and prostitution ferred to in the original Whi charges, and charges the Repub- lican mational committes with hav- ing pursued a “cowardly” ¢ in “attempting 1o evade responsibili by the childish claim that it (pub-| lication) had been ghven out by, accident. Most Republicans in the Jican legislatures which sat the bills complained of were under consideration votcd the ne way Smith did, the statement nd | i the late Rev. Canon John P. chairman of the Committee Fourteen, leading anti-vice society, | repeatedly thanked the present |l governor for his cooperation. it is|1 stated. f The governor's statement tollows: For some reason best known fo | himself, Mr. William Allen White of | Kansas in an interview made slan- | derous statements about me 7 my legislative record statements had received wide publicity, and on July 31st Mr. | White eaid: “e ® ¢ The Governor in those votes against those bills might honestly have felt that the bills were unconstitutional, or] were not enforceablu, or infringed) upon personal liberty, or encour- aged police blackmail “But Governor Smith cai*einly is entitled to fair treatment. i Ziways have tried to fight fair. I have never consciously questioned any man’'s motives and so this morning before the morning papers have come and before 1 know what, 1if any reply Governor Smith has made | to my statement of yesterday, 1 ,y,A,} i Albany, N. Y. 2 c sailed di | | Ik |t ) Rey when of as is to | nation- | casting | reform | sire to withdraw the charges tor- mally in so far as they affect his! votes on gambling and prostitution, |; but not his position as to the saloon “So the ten or a dozen votes on | gambling and prostitution come out of the record. I hope now Ameri- can newspapers, and particularly Republican newspapers, will give the same consideration to th ment that they gave my sta yesterday. At the bezinning of this state- ment, I szid the reason for the tack was known only to Mr. White. However, the appearance of the Republican National Committee in the controversy indicates that it was a political attack probably inspired | by that Comnmittee, because the Re- publican National Committee this| week issued an official release to| the newspapers in which Mr. White | retracts his retraction. Here we| have an unmistakable evidence of the Republican National Committec openly associating itself with this| personal attack. Lacking the cour- age to stand by its own complicity in the attack, the Republican Direc- tor of Publicity the day states that he withdraws his issuance of Mr. White's withdrawal of his with- drawal. I am glad to have this matter taken out of the whispering stage and put into the open; once and for all T shall meet it now. I regard it as purely political. and when the campaign begins, I do not propose to have the issues of that cam- paign befogged by controversy over irrelevant things, such as the dis- cussion of my votes as a legislator some twenty or more years ago, My record as an opponent of im- morality is fixed and secure. Pub- licly and by many letters in my p session, the late Reverend Canon John P. Peters, when Chairman of the Committee of Fourteen, the leading anti-vice society of New York, repeatedly thanked me for my cooperation with that organiza- tlon. No one in all of the twenty- five years of my public life has ever dared to make the vile suggestions which emanated from Mr. White, with the approval of Henry J. Al- len, Publicity Director of the Re- publican National Committee. What a cowardly course the Republican National Committer pursued! It is- slanderous statement its official publicity bureau and then, after its general pub- lication in the press, attempted to | evade responsibility by the childish claim that it had been given out by accident. That is not fair p 1 am confident in the belie he people of State of New York approved of my legislative record; otherwise, they would not have elected me to the highest of- fice within fheir gifft—the Gover- norship of New York four | terms. ' | the 1 cannot, however. 1ot go unchal- Irnged the political attempt to tear down my scter and reputation | by seeking to alizn me on the side | of opposition 1o the regulation of | the liquor traffic and in favor of | gambling and prostitution My eritics seem to take the posi tion that every amendment to the former New York Excise Law which apparently made it stricter was 2 good bill. If they studied the ques- tion they would have come to the same conelusion which the Co mittee of Fourteen expressed in it annnal report for 1914, which s “Very frequently the most obvi- ous correction is found to conflict with the purposes of those inter- ested in the law in another way." Bach blil mentioned by my eritics allowance for the duplication 1 the same am ond, straighten out an of Mr s that I voted to allow saloons within | place of wub- | mentioned was so White me, | enti Gotham. feet of a church. Acting under | cision of t purchas and then streets for service to the the hotel itself. with a decision as between a license | for the sale within the the hotel and the spectacle of bell- boys walking through with baske peals gave to violators of other laws | when that Court in an opinion said | | that suspcnsion of sentence sus- | pended all operation of the law | against the convicted person. l! voted against (his bill because 1| thought it was harsh, unjust and unreasonable. Bul 1062 of without of a arge number of bills dealing with subject matter in accord- the well-known legis In this way a delit being made to has been listed separately ance with ative pract 1911 was an unim- portant one, reducing the time from two years to one year when | an application to renew a certifica | might be made by one who had been previously deprived of it through misconduct of a servant or nt, and not of the owner him- self. The fairness of this bill is best attested by the fact that only 44 men out of 150 in the Assembly voted inst it. 7 of 1911 was designed to cure 4 defect in the law with re- spect to the transfer of certificates. It was supported by the Republican | leader of the Assembly and only 11 nen out of 150 voted against it Even more striking is the criticism of e for voting for Assembly Bill 1119 of 1911 which was a technical amendment 1o the Excise Law with | | relation to the surrender and can- | cellation of tax certificates. It was | unfairness| @ departmental measure requested i °] ! by the Commissioner of Excise. Not a single member of the U fect of a church or schooi any | YOI°d #sainst it. | on Manhattan Jsland south| I am eriticised for voting against | 9th street of the bills|a large number of local option bills: | rawn, but if Mr.| Introductory Number 625 of 1904 | was disposed {o be fair to| Infroductory Number 141 of 1905. | he would read the bill in jts| Introductory Number 466 or 1906, | sty and find that by its word- | i two different forms, | it appli=d only to the Hotel| Introductory Number 134 of 1910. | This hotel was within 200 | Introductory Number 1529 or | a de- | 1911, | courts, the hotel served | Introductory Number 347 of 1911. Introductory Number 617 of 1911 iquor to its guests by the device of L enting a house outside of fhe 20| In the same class are bills Num- | foot limit having a hotel employes | Drs 1128 of 1911, 722 of 1907, ind | 5 of 1906, | the liguor in this house | carry it through ‘he| Most of these bills are duplicates guests in | ©f One another. The popular opin- | of so-called ills than in fact they did 1 have divided discussion into | is made .‘} liquor | For conv he Dbills R u roups. noe to he law with r ishment of p iquor within or school, T ct to the estab- ses licensed to sell feet of a church certed and long dra reak down this ot our E all of these bills were ceomplish tw cis Tact designe o pur s to permit the Hotel Goth- | 3th street and Fifth avenue | o0 secure a liquor license; the | al lative enactment recom- | nended by thé Court of App appar of the of the ittack, mst s, at n the langy Excise As an e White's Assembly ; ng, ion of this State at that time on the | subject can best been seen by look- | ing at the vot: on Bill Number 134 | of 1910, In that year the Assembly was strongly Republican and yet | only men out of 150 voted for | this bill; 4 men, Democrats and | alike, voted against it Fair-minded men were confronted premises of | the e akers and hands. 1 chose street wine cocktail 5 in their | was eleven e'clock. It was not being | | workers than any other region | representatives of the villages | volved voted in the affirmative and | ond and third classes, but also publican tloor leader. Assembly Bill Introductory Num- Number | ber 1049 of 1911 was a bill which | not sufficient for me to compromise added one hour in the morning to the tune when liquor could be sold, and | provided that the hours of sale in ! cities of the third class and villages of over five thousand inhabitants should be the same as in first class | cities. The latter provisions were | earnestly sought by the large vil- | lages on Long lIsland. Under th ol law the closing hour for them | observed and its existence was a | source of corruption among local volice officials in those villages. 1 remember the addition of an hour in the morning was intended for | the accommodation of night work- ers. In my own district all tI niOrning newspapers were printe It probably contained more night of | cimilar size in the country, and in voting tor the bill I was certainly representing my constituents. It is| worthy of note that on this bill the division was between the city and country representatives, but the in- with a balunce of power passed the bill. The foregoing record indicates that not only cities of the first, sec- the larger villages, tavored the passage of this bill. Mr. Williami Allen White for Europe with a happy and con- | tented mind, I hope, and 1 would not disturb it by attempting to des- cribe to him the heavy weight that he laid upon my family when he ac- cused me of being a friend of pros. | titution. Apparently, he was asham- ed of it himszIf as is evinced by his | attempt to withdraw it. It was all predicted on my vote against As- sembly Bill 2627 of 1910. Among other things this bill sought to reg- ulate the renting of rooms in hotels Like a great many other measures intended to bring about some high- | ly desirable purpose, it was unques- | tionably unconstitutional and workable. In 1910 the Assembly w strongly Republican. When the bill first came before that body it was overwhelmingly defeated, and in 211 of my legislative experience 1 rever heard from lawyers in the | Assembly a more convincing argu- | ment egainst the constitutionality of a pending enactment than that made against this particular 111l sailed end the hypoerisy cedure, cha at- | support the of such a in of the reter of the hotel, pre and view h h hotel might just as well be sold in it political ed by a Republican ture The language of the law ed pefore this time made it impos ts liquor license if a school urch came within 200 feet of it | Sent that cars after the hotel had been built, | MIEht issue for premises within 200 The question was litizated as to the wording and intent of the statute |-S€mbly that year and did not vote ppeals. all the way to the Court of In the decision that court said: “That the operation of the statute in cases like the one now before us is manifestly harsh and would doubtless be a cogent argnment to proposition that such effect, an miight be conclusive were the langnuage of the statute at all ambiguous; hut in view of the clear phraseology of the law the contention is inadmissible nd he courts must remit those aggrieved thereby to reliaf by legislative ac- tion ™ That relief, suggested hy highest court, I voted to give our The bills were opposed by only a hand- | ful of assemblym measure only 31 men voted in the negative On the out of 1908 150 few minutes kills to | | that time against I was en. | tirely satisfied that if liquor was to | be consumed within the it | | dry sections, the substitution of so- The Gotham Hotel bills received | called clubs for places licensed by | the support of the leading members | of the Assembly by hoth parties from the citie them was pas Leg and one of | Came to it where sale was made in =n more strikingly nunfair \si‘""“‘ the comment on Bill Number 51 1911, which is the other biil in this | Vere group which ex 7 of | 2nd 1n thus casting their votes they | Assembly Bill Introductory Num- ble for a hotel to renew |DFr 616 of 1913 permitted a private or | €chool. not a public school, to con- the | Legislature could not have intended the State, of the lice | Three wecks later, after consider- a strong sentiment at|,p1e pressure from certain sections the extension of | o¢ tha state and admittedly for po- local prohibition by the local obtion | jyical purposes, the vote | was method because of the inability of | sonsigcred and the bill was passed officials to enforce the law in the | 1¢ wao freely admitted that 1t cre. | ated no new provision of law and added nothing that was not already and the loss by the State |5 tno pena) Code. T was right in se fees and tax which |y girst vote when an overwhelm- : | ing majority of the assembly, both the normal legal way. Practically | piigerats and Republicans, voted every assemblyman from the eities | i ey S T Dodition as [ did on these measures. | nyargumont was made to change | | my mind. The political expediency undoubtedly representing the | 2 & | will of their constituents. m‘ a liquor tax certificate feet of it. T was speaker of the as- one way or the other on that bill | Assembly Bill Introductory Num- | ber 436 of 1915 sought to prohibit | the sale of liquor in a eity adjacent to a college or university support- ed wholly or partly by the State. | There were grave constitutional ob- jections raised to the bill and dras- tic criticism of the technical fea- | tures of its provisions. 1In an over- | whelmingly Republican Assembly | lonly 47 out of 150 members voted | | tor it Similarly, Assembly Bill Intro- | ductory Number 81 of 1915 was at- | tacked on constitutional ~grounds. | | The Speaker of the Assembly that | vear was a well-known prohibition- | ist. Even he opposed the bill. In| voting against the bill, T was in the | | company of the Republican Speak- | er. the Republican Chairman of the l“omm!nev: oin Rules and the Re- \'H'lll(l "(' m EVERY HOMI: Another mosquito? Not if you use Flit. Flit spray clears the house of every mosquito and disease-bear- ingfly ina few moments. Itquickly reaches the cracks where roaches, bed bugs and ants hide and breed, destroying their eggs. Fatal to in. sects, harmless to you. Will not stain. Do not confuse Flit with ordinary insecticides. Greater killing power insures satisfaction with Flit. One of the largest corporations in the world guarantees Flit to kill in- sects, or money back. Buy Flit and a Flit sprayer today.’ of the Republican party, appealing|dinary session after the 10 certain sections of the State, was|had Leen fully thrashed out and disposed of at the regular session. with a principle. On this bill. and| One other bill raferred to by Mr. this single bill alone, Willlam Allen | (hite sought to prevent oral bet- White would have my wife, Iy i{ing at the race tracks. How impos- children and my friends believe | gihle such a statute was of admin- that in my long public career 1 was | jstration I need not say. It requires a friend of public prostitution. ['but a small amount of common Mr. Whiie also made reference to | sense and judgment on the part of bills dealing with betting. All of | any intelligent person to know that these bills had 10 do with the race | that was nothing more or less than tracks. 1 was in sympathy Wwith ||ymbering up the state's statute Governor Hughes at the regular|pooks wih a gesture that never session of the Legislature and voted | could have any real force or effect. with him against the race tracks.| I have given to this matter a In the extraordinary session, 1lgreat deal of my time and 1 have voted the other way, not that Iy answered subject by subject and bill vote made any difference, but 1. by bill. In my speech of acceptance joined with a substantial number of |1 will define in no uncertain lan- members of the Assembly who used ge my aftitude to the public their vote as a protest against what | saloon, and I lay before the people they believed to be the unjustified | of this country for a close study the action of the Governor in calling record of my twenty-five years in the Legislature back into extraor- clective public office. 1 denounce as matter | unfair, unmanly and ug-American this slanderous attack “upon me |and my record. I have the gatisfac- tion, however, of knowing that it is not concurred in by the people of my own state who have year after vear expressed their confidence in me, notwithstanding that a large part of this matter herein referred | to was laid before them in the past | by agents of my political enemies. T am sure that 1 am right when 1 | say it is not eoncurred in by the | fair-minded, intelligent, thinking | people of the country. 1 have been called by my party to the leadership in a great cam- | paign. T am hoping to be put in | position to do for the people of this country what I have accomplished for the betterment of the govern- ment of my own state, and from | mow on I shall refuse to be drawn | into any further discussion of these matters. Another Ship Reports No~ Sign of Amundsen Party Oslo, Norway, Aug. 21 (A—The Norwegian steamer Michael Sar which has been searching the pa |sages to the southwest of Esperance {1sland for traces of the lost explor- er Roald Amundsen and his party, reports it has found no sign of the ‘unssms men. ! On Esperance Island the searchers !found a letter dated August 1925, written by a Dutch journalist, Van Hogendorp, who said he Lad been {disembarked on the island by mis- |take instead of at Spitzbergen. 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