The New York herald., 1922-11-08
I'VE GOT TO MAKE
GOOD N0W,' SAYS AL
Finds Increased Response
bility as Vote Passes
Expectations.
SONS BRING RETURNS
Act as Messengers While
Family Dimes at Bilt-
more Quarters.
DADS CIGAR GOES OUT
.Wonderfulr He Exclaims as
He Hears He Carried Mil
Ier's District.
DADS CIGAR GOES OUT

ler's District.
Alfred e. Smith received the returns
in his headquarters on the second
floor of the Hotel Biltmore, from which
he has directed the greater part of
his campaign. He had dinner there
earlier in the evening with his wife
and five children, Alfred E., Jr, Miss
Emily Smith. Walter, Arthur and
Catherine. and Miss Helen McNallis, a
classmate of Miss Smith at Mount st.
Vincent School, and Senator and'Mr
James j. Walker and Miss Rose Ped
rick. Mr.. Smiths secretary.
Mr.. Smith is a veteran campaigner
and received the returns which showed
him to be winning a remarkable VIC
tory with less emotion than any one
else In the party. But even he got en-
thusiastic when he learned that he
had carried Gov. Miller's own election
district in Syracuse, and when the
New York city returns began to come
in, he got into such an un-Smith-like
attitude, in fact, that when he came
out Of the ,Biltmore dining room at 8
o'clock to go down to Tammany Hall
the famous cigar that he usually has
in corner OF his mouth had gone out
and he had not thought to light 1t
again.
A telegraph instrument was rigged up
in a room adjoining the room in which
the Smith party had their dinner. and
the two younger boys. Walter and
Arthur. acted as messengers and d.
vided their attention between food ard
the bulletins that came in from the up
State Democratic headquarters at Syra-
cuse. from Tamhapy Hall and from
other parts OF the city and State.
sons I'm scra BILE.
Food ran a very poor second when
the two boys began getting bulletins
that their father was running away
ahead OF Gov. Miller. They listened
eagerly for .he sound OF the telegraph
and every time it sounded
they leaped from the table and
scrambled madly across the floor and
In the other room, each eager to be the
one to bear the glad tidings to dad.
they got so enthusiastic that
they fused q bit over the messages, and
two or three times the sheets got torn
and each boy brought proudly into tire
dining room one-half OF message. And
great deal 1f happiness. while Mr.
Smith and Senator Walker fitted the
torn parts together. Ana then away
went the two Loys fo- more.
Mr.. Smith did not issue any prepared
statements while he was at the Biltmore,
but. between receiving messages from his
sons. he went into the newspaper room
and gossiped with the reporters, many
Of whom had followed his political for
tunes for years.
Calls UP Mother.
He telephoned his mother, Mrs. Cath
crime Smith, at her homo IN Brooklyn,
to give her the good news, but
she had II before he gave It to her.
"A1. my dear boy" she said. you're
elected. A reporter from the Eagle was
Just here and told me all about It."
Fine" said Mr.. Smith. Then IN
see you tomorrow"
"And I'll bet," he said to the reporters.
that my mothers dreams tonight are
as pleasant as my own"
At o'clock Mr.. Smith, in response to
a request for statement, said this:
This vote is only carrying out my
prediction, as I've had my hand on the
pulse OF the situation all the time"
When the returns from Syracuse
showed that that Miller stronghold was
giving the Democratic candidate a re-
cord vote and that he had carried Gov.
Afller's own election district by a vote
OF 301 to 1872 Mr.. Smith said just one
word:
WONDERFUL
He said IL two OF three times, and
then went back TO Join his family. smil
ing the Al Smith smile and saying II
some more.
Then the Manhattan and Brooklyn re-
turns began to come In. IL had been
expected. OF course, that Mr.. Smith
would run away ahead in the Tammany
stronghold OF Manhattan. but even in
the iron bound Republican districts of
Brooklyn he seemed to be returned the
victor. That was the cause OF much
happiness among the members of the
Smith family and party and their laugh
ter and excited exclamations could be
heard through the door OF their dining
room, And not the least happy, and by
all odds the most excited. were the two
little boys who were doing the most i'm
portant work OF their young lives-car-
rying messages to Dad telling that the
people of New York State were again
honoring him with the greatest gift
within their power. 1t seemed some
times. In fact, as IL the little boys
would just naturally explode with the
OF their Job.