New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 6, 1928, Page 4

e A g SNSRI S e PSTATERS ARE |= AGAINST GOVERNOR “A” Nees With Opposition Ouiside of City Syracuse, N. Y., Sept. ¢ —In all of his battles for the political mas- tery of his own state, Governor Smith has met his greatest opposi- tion outside the boundaries of his pative New York city, in the half hundred and more counties known collectively to politics as “Upstate New York.” It is so in 1928, ‘Throughout this northern coun- try the republicans are organizing once agaim with an impressive de- termination to overthrow by upstate strength the heavy majorities Smith always has commanded in the down state metropolis. The issues still are somewhat indistinct, and the re- sult is likely to remain a matter of dispute for weels to come. If the public claims and confidences of both sides were averaged up mathe- matically, the answer would be a stand-off. A great deal of water | has yet to go under the bridge in this New York campaign, and it is safe only to predict that neither side will leave undone znything it can find to do toward capture of the Empire State prize of 45 electoral | votes—more than one-sixth of the total number needed to elect a pres- ident, i Familiar Ground { In its early stages the campaign | is turning on old familiar ground.| The drys are active. Talk of pos-| sible hard times for business under | a democratic regime at Washington goes about among the Hoover men as they seek to alienate from Smith, the presidential candidate, as l"x\an)'I as possible of those who have sup-| ported Smith, the candidate for gov- ernor. There also is the old com- plaint of domination of the state’s political machinery by down-state leaders in the confidence of Tam- many Hall. Various local issues will make or lose votes in the sm:\ller‘ communities. | On the basis of past returns, any | prediction would be possible. Not since the Cleveland era has New York voted for a democrat for president, save only when Taft and Roosevelt disagreed in 1912. Most of the reeent republican majorities have beep overwhelming. In the last president year, Coolidge carried the state with 600,000 more votes than Davis ‘and LaTollette combin- ed. But the other side of the pic-| ture is that while Harding was| sweeping New York in 1920, Smith was running more than 1,000,000 votes ahead of his ticket and losing the governorship by but a handful; and that he since has been elected governor three times, the last time in 1926, by a plurality of 247,009, 8o far as up-state New York alone is concerned, the question this year is not whether the supporters of Hoover have a normal advantage, but whether they can so use that advantage as to outbalance Smith's strength in his great stronghold downstate. Almost all of the up- state counties are normally republi- can, both in state and national poli- tics. A great majority of them are normally dry. In all of the coun- | In addition, theu ‘who oppose Smith because he is a Catholic are sald to feel that the religious issue can be used against him with great force mow that it is a question of the presidency itseit, instead of the governorship. In the rural sections the meeting notices of the ku klux klan have reappeared here and there on roadside telegraph poles. Has His Following But it would be a mistake to as- sume that Gov. Smith is without his personal following up-state. He al- ways has run ahead of his ticket in the upstate counties, and in several normally republican up-state cities like Syracuse he has come through occasionally with a city majority. In 1924 he polled more votes for gov- ernor than Davis did for president in 60 of the 62 counties of the state, and in nearly all of these his vote was greater than that of Davis and LaFollette combined. The democratic nominee recendly told newspapermen that he took no stock in reports that many who have voted for him for governor will not support: him for president. Nev= ertheless he is keeping his eye on the state, and may be depended on to do so until election. He prob- ably will wind up his campaign somewhere in New York and have the last say to the voters he has ad- dressed so often, after Mr. Hoover has made hs speech in Carnegie hall October 17. Tickets Not Certain One factor that makes predictions perilous just now s the uncertainty over the makeup of the respective state tickets. The republicans hold their nominating convention here in Syracuse late this month, and the democrats will meet in Rochester (the first two days of Qectober. It is an evidence of Smith's close at- tention to the state situation that he has promised to so arrange his |speaking plans as to be present at ithe Rochester convention, which will look to him for guidance in making its ticket. The comparative strength of the nominees for gover- nor is expected to have influence with that considerable number who like to vote a straight ticket in No- vember. So far as party leaders are con- cerned, at least, bolting Jias been at a minimum in up-state’ New York, and virtually all of the newspapers likewise have kept to their former policies. At about the time the New York Sun was coming out for Hoov- er, however, the Syracuse Herald announced it would support Smith. Only twice before has the Herald supported democratic presidential nominees—Cleveland in his first campaign and Wilson the first time he was a candidate. It has been for Smith in two out of five of his campaigns for governor. .l v, \‘:~. e— NORTH DAKOTAIS | SPLIT IN TWAIN 6. 0. P. at 0dds Over Support- ing Herbert Hoover Bismarck, N. D. 8ept. 6 UP— North Dakota republicans today had split over the question of sup. porting Herbert Hoover for prei dent. The nonpartisan league faction of the party was on record as refusing to endorse Hoover's candidacy while the independeat republicans are btacking him, The action came yesterday at a meetis called to organize the re- publican state central committee. The independents oftered a resolu- tion endorsing Mr, Hoover and his stand on agriculture. This was de- feated by a vote of 19 to 9, As a consequence, the indepen. dents or “regular republicans” or- ganized separately and decided to carry on a vigorous campaign for the national ticket, as nominated at Kansas City. The nonpartisans in their resclu- tiona criticized Mr. Hoover as a “tool of big business” and asserted that the republican party hog! stray- ed from its original course. The resolutions made it clear that the action was intended to show a lack of faith in the republican party and its candidates rather than an en. dorsement of Gov. Alfred E. Smith. Urge Remain “Regular” Among the nonpartisans who backed the original Hoover resolu- tion, were Fred F. Graham, repub- lican national committeeman. and Stephen Terhorst, who is manager of the Hoover-Curtis clubs in North Dakota. Both Graham and Terhorat urged that the party should remain ‘reg- ular" in this campaign and back Hoover. They later joined the in. dependents meeting. The ‘*regulars” were defeated by the committee members from dis- tricts which had been hostile to the present Coolidge administration and the nomination of Mr. Hoover. The independents’ committee also disre-” garded the stand taken by United States Senators Lynn J. Frazier and Gerald P. Nye, of North Dakota, who have issued statements an. nouncing support for Mr. Hoover, Both Mr. Nye and Mr. Frazier were elected with nonpartisan leagus en- dorsenients, Democrats Meet The democratic state central com- mittee also met yesterday and KILL ' /mosz ANNOYING 7~SPIDERS « +opray FLY-TOX into cornerse essvices and webs . . spiders curl up and die. Nothing equals this pure, clean, fragrant spray for housebold use. It is stain- less. Fragrant . . harmless to pesple . . guaranteed. uunlnm Placed M- ”pmll on the party's national platform and ticket hoaded by Gov. Bmith for president and Senator Joseph T. Robinson fer vice president. ‘The question of agriculture reliet Is the great issue before the people, according to the committee's resolu- tions, which aded that “the demo- cratic national convention has promised an organization through which agriculture may work out and apply its own remedies as well as receiving government and through a federal farm board. Bombs Rock Section Of Kenosha, Wis, Kenosha, Wis., 8ept. 6 (M—Bomb- ers rocked the northwest section of Kenosha last night with the thir- teenth blast of their dynamite cam- paign. A woman employe of the Allen A. Company was seriously injured when she was pelted with fragments of the exploding *pineapple.” Her home was partially demolished. The home of Chauncey Pitts “/as the new bomb target. . Pitts is a union tinner and has no direct con- nection with the Allen A strike. His wife however, is an inspector at the knitting plant, MLLION DOLLARS FOUND HISSING Baptists Announce They Can't Pay Salaries Now Atlanta, Ga. Sept. 6§ UP—The home mission board of the Southern PBaptist convention today had an- nounced itself unable to pay current salaries because of the discovery of a $1,000,000 shortage in accounts of Clinton Carnes, treasurer, who disappeared August 15. Developments piled high yester- day as a special church committes headed by Dr. C. W.. Daniel of Rich- mond, Va., dug deeper into the af- fairs.of the board #nd Carnea, be. fore taking temporary adjournment, The committee was able to an- nounce the approximate size of the shortige after it was found that Carnes kept a secret file‘in which were _entered special loan ‘transac- tions with more than 150 banks in A good place to trade NEW amwk DAILY nzum. 'raunsp , SEPTEMBER 6, 1928, auditors or of the church. Cowrt Action Pirst court action was announced when Walter K. Brown, Baptist lay- man and lawyer intervening as & church contributor, ebtained a tem- porary injunction returnable Sep- tember 29 against several possible sources of funds to rehabilitate the | Loard. Criminal court proceedings were indicated in the announced deter. mination of Assistant Solicitoy Gen. eral E4. A. Stephens to begin grand Jury proceedings against the mission treasurer as soon as practicable, He began conferences with the joint church committee for that purpose. Meanwhile there was little to in- dicate what Carnes could have done with the money he allegedly obtain- ed during the period of the accur- ing shortage, which was estimated to be several yeara, poasibly eight. Nor was there any word of the missing treasurer, who vanished after telling his chauffeur he would not be at his home for dinner on August 15 because of a business trip to Raleigh, N. C. He was never seen at Raleigh or elsewhere, 20 far aa has been determined. The Pan-Am sign always marks a relie able service station. It is only issued to men of known business integrity. Nova Scotis Law-Making Body Xe wHalitax, N. 8. Sept. ¢ m—ru- mier E. M. Rbodes yesterday nounced the dissolution of the )’M Bcotiy legislature. The annownces ment followed a session of the leg- islative council. A provincial general election is set for October 1. with lflnlllflm scheduled to be made September 24, Premier Rhodes issued a manifeste to the electors, reviewing the activi- ties of his government, which teok office following the election of June 1925. General elections in Nova Scotia are normally called every four years. The forthcoming one will be a year ahead of schedule. The legislature dissolved toduy was the fifteenth since confedera- tion. In the 61 years aince the es- tablishment of the Dominion, Nova Scotia has had enly 10 administra- tions, B A Nfl tem bowel called the or ‘over heuuiu the dess, Stop sufferi Chew & Next day brigh day at the nearest gett Drug Stors. Thiseasy-pouring,five-gallondrum gives you a good home. supply try sections and among up-state city | g . populations as well the republican | - 8 z of safe oil; and the one-gallon tariff and anti-Tammany pleas have | been used effectively at times in| d Wi iy ey in seer o previous campaigns. 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