Evening star., 1928-10-20
VERY beautiful" was Mrs. Smiths

Very beautiful" was Mrs. Smiths
reply.
Mrs. Smith was herself the guest of
honor and observed of all observers at
reception given in Stevens Hotel yes
terday afternoon. Some 5000 women,
shouting and singing. crowded into the
room, and in their attempt to greet Mrs
Smith and shake her by the hand, she
was crowded this way and that, and
finally she and her daughters, Mrs.
pullman and Mrs. Warner, were spirited
away from the reception through a rear
door by detectives.
| During his stay here Gov. Smith saw
and talked with all the leading Demo-
Gratis Of Chicago and Illinois. They
gave him to understand that he was
strong, particularly in Cook County, and
that he was gaining daily. How many
OF the people who saw and welcomed
Gov. Smith will vote for him is a uues-
ton. Thousands wanted to see the man
who has been Governor of New York
for almost decade and who has made
the brown derby famous.
Taxi Driver Indignant.
Typical of the interest shown in the
| governor by the people was an escapade
OF telephone switchboard operator at
| one of Chicago'S big hotels.
Il saw your boy friend" said she to
| one of the bellhopS after Gov Smith
had gone on his swing around the city,
land I shook hands with him. He's
swell. He's going to get my vote sure"
That was when you were away from
the board for 20 minutes and nobody
| could get number" said the bellhop.
YES" answered the switchboard op-
| orator, II guess I'll get called for thar,
k,,kp -, .,,lAI
| smile, ''it was worth it."
A taxi driver was indignant last night
because, he said, the newspapers had
| undereStimated the crowd which saw
| the governor in his tour through the
| Loop.
Newspapers" he said, "is all against
| AL, but all the poor people are going
| to vote for him" He insisted there
had never before been so large a crowd
anywhere as the crowd which turned
out to welcome the governor.
But another taxi driver assigned to
| drive one of the cars of the official
Smith party took different slant.
I'm going to vote against Gov.
Smith," he said. "I don't hold with
him. I've been here in Chicago since
1881"
Little straws, but indicating that
there is. after all, some division of
opinion in Chicago.
Endorsed in Advertisements.
But the Endorsement given Gov.
Smith for the presidency is not con-
fined by any means to the poorer
ried yesterday huge paid advertise
ments indorsing Smith, signed by a
committee of Chicago'S most select,
some of them residents of the Gold
Coast" Among the signers were Mrs.
Kellogg Fairbank Mrs. William G.. Hib-
bard, Harold F. Mccormick, E. N. Hur-
ley, Mrs. Stanley Field, Mrs. Mitchell
D. FollanSbee and Robert Allerton. The
advertisement read, in part:
They said the same things about
Lincoln"
"Who did? The snobs of 1860. They
laughed at Lincoln because he came
from the people. They sneered, imagine
the Lincolns in the White House. but
the people stood by Abraham Lincoln.
The million who think and speak affec-
| tionately of AL Smith must meet the
same attacks the supporters Of Abe
| Lincoln met so successfully"
Quotations from Charles Evans
Hughes, Owen d. Young and several
magazines, praising Smith also were
carried in the advertisement.
One familiar figure at Democratic
| rallies in Chicago was missing during
the AL Smith visit, the late George
E. Brennan, for many years Democrat
ic national committeeman and boss Of
Cook County His successor as nation
al committeeman for Illinois, Thomas
F. Donovan of Joliet, was on hand,
however, and presided at the meet
| ing last night.
Gov. Smith looked the picture of
health. His campaigning, strenuous as
it has been, apparently has not in
jursd him, and he goes into the final
two weeks drive in the East in first
!, rate fighting trim