New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 18, 1928, Page 2

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MR Sreane LINES GONE ALL OVER NATION Personal Preference of Yoters Makes Forecast Dificult By GEORGR H. MANNING (Washingten adent, N. B. Herald) Washington, D. C., Bept. 18.—If what the country needed, in ad- dition to the well known good five- cent cigar, was a good political shake-up, a realignment of major parties, and an all-round unheaval then this is the healthiest presi- dential campaign of the century. Issues that have never appeared in a presidential campaign before | have assumed such importance as to make the final outcome extremely puzzling for even the life-long pro- fessional politiclans. Never have party lines scemed to be less binding. The contest be- tween the dewmocratic and the re-| publican national committees in | announcing defections from the oth- | er party and in attracting the inde- pendent vote seems up o the pres- | ent time to be a draw, Every tim the republicans announces that a “life-long democrat” is out for Hoover, the democrats counter with | a *“life-long republican” out for Smith. Every time the democrats add some outstanding indepencent to the rolls of the party workers, along come the republicans wi-h the | appointment of some such person to | a campaign post. Yet not in recent vears has :uch an appeal been made to the hoary party principles. The republicans have gone back to the old issues, such as the tariff, trying to coun- teract the defininte change in th: democratic party on this gquestion with a reminder of what the demo- crats have done In the past on the tariff. The democrats have, frem Claude Bower's keynote speech on, been shouting the battlecry of Jef fersonian Democracy, of states rights, of cqual rights against spe- | clal privileges. Rarely have so many of the old rules of the political geme been dis- carded. Particularly is this true in the Bouth, where the movement for “lily-white republicanism” has re- ceived a great impetus by the 8Smith candidacy. That is to say, many democrats Southerners who are dvy or who are anti-Cathelic would gladly join with the repub- licans this year if there were sat. istactory white republican leaders 1 the South, Part of the whispering campaign agamnst Smith in the South—and some of these “whis-. pers” have been published " and widely distributed—is that he “countenances” social and econoliic equality for the Negroes. This campaign against Smith s doubtless helpful in winning white votes for Hoover in the south de- spite the wide distribution of Sen- ator Cole Blease's speeches about Hoover's having white and negro clerks work in the same rooms in the census bureaun, but it is very embarrassing to the republicans in the north. In many cities the ne- groes have been wavering, for the tirst time. The report comes to Washington from Detroit that the vacillating colored vote is being won by the sole argument, *“Of course, Smith is all right, but what if he should die after he is elected. There is another novel factor en- tering into this campaign. The can- didates for vice-president are un- usually important. The nomination of a southerner by the democrats is tremendously helpful in reconcil- ing the south to New York leader~ ship and to Tammany, just as it is alicnating, apparently, negro votes that might have gone to Smith, /nd certainly the republican nomination of Scnator Charles Curtls for vice- dent is largely responsible for obtaining the endorsement of the National Woman's Party for Hoover. Hoover did not come out definitely tor the Woman's Party's equal rights program, but Senator Curtis sponsors the proposed equal riglts amendment in the senate, and was a big factor in the passage of the suffrage amendment. Some of the republican leaders consider it unwise to abandon the old political methods in the south, They do not believe that it will n as many white votes in the south as it will lose colored votes in the big cities of the north, such as Chicago, New York, and Boston, where the republicans have o big fight on their hands. The Fast is the other difficult problem. The traditfon that many Eastern areas are democratic local- Iy and republican nationaily threat- ens to be unrzliable this year., The large number of Catholics and of wets in these citics is held to be responsible for this uncertainty. Even from Maine, where the re- publicans, without a chance of be- ing defeated, fought so hard to ob- tain their impressive majority in the state election, there are rumors that the French-Canadian (Catholics and the Irish Catholics may vote together for once, and throw a larger democratic vote in the mna. tional election than in the state election, On the other hand, some declare that the results in Maine show that people are not voting on a reigious basis at all, for the pre- ponderance of Catholics there might have told a different story had peo- ple been considering their religion when they went to the polls. Other New England states are not as def- initely republican as Maine, and they are chiefly wet while Maine is dry. Thus the democrats have to com- >at in the east a tradition that it “is better for business” to have a republican in the White House, while the republizans have to com- bat anti-prohibition sentiment in the citics and the possible feeling on the part of Catholics that they should support a Catholic for the presi- dency just because of the fact that the anti-Catholies in the South and the Middle West have made such an issue over Governor Smith's re- ligion. The voters this year seem to be made up of the following groups: Staunch party people who will not scratch the ticket even though they are’ violently opposed to the presi- dential nominss, and the are many of these in both parties; anti- Smith people; anti-Hoover people; and enthusiastically pro-8mith peo- ple. The republicans have not suc- ceeded in working up a tremendous personal enthusiasm for Hoover. At the same time, they have to fight against an exuberant personal en- thusiasm for 8mith, but they have on their side an equally vociferous anti-8mith group. It is certainly a curious and di- verting apectacle to watch a cam- paign in which both basi¢ princi- ples of difference between two par- ties and two men are more import- ant than they have been in any recent campaign while at the same time prejudices and emotions are being appealed to with an iIntensity not usual in a somewhat unexcit- able citizenry. GODFATHER BALKS Paris, Sept. 18 (UP)—France's bachelor president, M. Doumergue, receives 50 many requests to act as godfather to new-born French children that he has been obliged |to draw a limit, He henceforth will lend his serv- fces by proxy at the christening of children only who are born to parents possessing at least ten. In this way he hopes to encourage the repopulation of France. By French custom, the godfather must furnish the nut candy distributed at the baptism ceremony. 1.0.6. . HONORS NEW BRITAIN MEN Johnson, Westberg “and Loa! Elected to Grand Office At its annual meeting during Sat- urday and Sunday in Bridgoport, Scandinavian Grand Lodge eof I. . G. T. reelected Beverin Johnson of New Britain as Grand Chief Temp- lar. Two other local men were elec- ted officers of the grand lodge. Eric Westberg, 23 Nordon street, was reelected grand secretary and Eric Loef, 49 Main street was re- elected Grand Superintendent of Temperance Education. The officers reports showed that the Grand Lodge had advanced considerably in membership and also financially during the year. At a social gathering Saturcay night in connection with the zrand lodge meeting Rev. Edwin W. Din- widdie of Washington, D. C., was the chiet speaker, He urged the mem- bers to take pat In the election campaign and to work and vote cnly for such a presidential candidate that stands squarely for an effective enforcement of the prohibition. The speaker believed that the repub- lican nominee Herbert Hoover i: a man of such quality. The meeting was attended by a great number of members from all the lodges in the state. There also were several visitors from New York, Brooklyn and Philadelphia. Next meeting 18 to be held in Naugatuck in September next year. MAYOR WALKER REPLIES Tells Attorney General's Department 12 Complaints Were Made Against One Club But No Action Taken New York, Bept. 18 (P—Mayor James J. Walker made public last night his reply to a letter from Mrs, | Mabel Walker Willebrandt in which the assistant United States attorney general in charge of prohibition en- forcement praised local police for | “beginning to make a drive on New | York night clubs.” Mayor Walker in his reply said the records showved police to have reported to the department of jus- tice since January 1, 1926, a total of 1,593 violations of the liquor laws. Although twelve complaints were made against one place, the letter said, no action was taken by peaking Of Our 15 Banking Services— Metropolitan Banking In Up-To-Date New Britain Build «And Help ‘Build The great banks in the world’s money metrop- olis—New York—are veritable department the department of justics. faying that 3.600 pelicemen have been added to the forpe during Mie administration, Mayor Walker 3 pressed the conviction that “noth, ing made this incroase in eur pelice force 50 necemary as the disrespect for law, the bootlegger fouds, ders, crimes of violence prevalent use of narcoetics wi lowed the enactment of the Volstead act,” CATFISH OCOQUERED Welectka, Okla., Sept. 13 (UP)— A hand-to-band encounter with a 100-pound catfish in the middle of the Canadian river of Oklahoma was won by L. O. Lockhart, oounty commissioner. While logging in the river, Lock- hart was attacked by the fish. Aft- er wrestling with it some minutes, he finally succeeded In bringing it to shore. 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