Seward daily gateway., 1925-12-01
TEMPERANCE BD.
 GIVES WARNING
 OF PROPAGANDA
COUNTRY NEEDS TWO STRONG POLITICAL PARTIES BADLY,
 STATES CHURCH ORGAN

NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-Press re- ports state that Mayor-elect Walker, of New York City, is to make a southern trip in the interest of Tam many, and presumably in the inter- ests of Governor Al Smith. The South will be interested to know Mr. Walkers connection with New York's odorous prizefghting game and with those elements in New York which are doing their best to murder Am erican standards of morality.
 The advancement of Governor Al Smith as a proposed presidential candidate is, in view of the circum- stances of the last campaign, aston ishing effrontery, and there is no doubt it will so appear to the south. MT. Walker, who will experience courteous hospitality not given to MT. McAdoo's southern delegates at the New York convention, need not be misled thereby into believing that the south will support the country's foremost political champion of the li- quor interests.
 The South has come into a new and wonderful prosperity which is the fruit of two generations of care full, intelligent conservation of the merits of the pre-war civilization and of devoted industry for fifty lean years. It has kept the faith and now has sympathy and understand ing of the entire country in the diff ficulties which are rapidly being cleared away, sympathy no less than southern pride in northern in- dustry and economic achievement.
 Let the south remember the de- fiance by Tammany of the Democrat ic decision rendered by the south, west and large portion of the east that the liquor traffic shall not be legalized and protected in it's ex- ploitation of the Aerican people. Let it remember the propaganda which is systema tically organized to in cite crime in the south and west in order that the prohibition law may be loverthrown by these criminal activ- ities. Let us remember that Gov. j Al Smith and his friends were the in tn introduce a religious issue into convention of political party, an atrocious thing to do in country where all religions stand upon the same basis The effort to make it appear that Gov. Smiths opponents are "prejudiced" against his religion is as false now as it was then. To a man they have more respect for a good Catholic than they have for bad Protestant. But they will never accept as a president man whose conduct of his office as governor pro- l dition of nullification in Americas l greatest state, and melted ignorant and criminal people turnout the coun- ! try to violation of the law. Let the south remember the insults and cpl ] thets that were showered upon the I delegates who refused 10 be bullied into this political conspiracy.
 The country needs two political parties and needs them badly. It needs a strong Democratic party and strong Republican party for the purposes of the 1928 campaign. It needs two parties which car con- mand the respect of the entire Am erican people. If Tdmmany, or 1 Tammany candidate is allowed to dic- tate the nomination at the next Dem ocratic convention the south knows that for all practical purposes there will be but one party when the peo- pie march to the polls in November. It is exceedingly doubtful if the Dem- ocrats could carry a single southern state with Governor Al Smith as can- didate for president, and it is not at. all certain that they could carry any state at all Let the south be on it's guard. Let all America be on it's