Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-25
Challenges Hoover State.
ment in Address Before
MontananS.
TURNS GUNS ON MELLON
FOR LIBERTY BOND DEAL
Charges Opponent With Remaining
Silent in Face of
Corruption.
Ely the Associated Press.

by tiiS ASSOCldLeu FTeSS.
HELENA, Mont, September Is. -
Gov Smith turned eastward today after
having thrown vigorous challenge t.
his Republican opponent, Herbert
Hoover, to prove in the face of cor
ruption and crime" in high Govern
ment circles the assertion in his speech
of acceptance that the Republican
party's record during the last seven and
half years constitutes period of
rare courage and leadership and con-
structive action"
With party responsibilities as his text
and a State next door to Teapot Dome
as his battle-ground, the Democratic
nominee in his fourth speech of the
campaign in this valley capital of Mon
tana, last night traced the history OF
the oil, Veterans Bureau and alien
property custodian disclosures, and di-
rected plea to the Republican NOM
inee, whom he charged with sitting
silently by during the enactment Of
this STORY of intrigue and corruption"
to show how he can look back with any
degree of satisfaction on that record.
Gov. Smith delivered his speech be-
fore a crowd that taxed the capacity OF
the Shrine temple, and applauded him
at frequent intervals, especially When
he concluded by saying that it would
be exceedingly harmful If the Amer
lean people were willing to look back
complacently over that past and call 1t
n rornrd If eyroof ACCOMPLISHMENTS ~
Walsh and Wheeler Present.
Senator Walsh, who prosecuted the
oil inquiries. and Senator Wheeler, who
had a leading part in the Daugherty
investigation during the Harding Cool
idge regime, both Montanans, sat on
the platform and both joined in the
handclapping at important junctures of
the speech.
Gov. John Erickson of Montana. also
sat near the candidate, who today starts
the long Jump back to his native State
of New York, with two more speeches
on his schedule st. Paul, Thursday
night. and at Milwaukee, Saturday
night. s
After attending the New York state
Convention at Rochester next Monday,
he will return to Albany and rest the
remainder of the week before taking
the stump again.
Gov. Smith opened his address last
night with a reference to a dispatch
quoting Mr. Hoover as telling a group
of young students from Maryland that
the new generation must begin now
to take over the responsibility of the
party and to carry 1t out" He then
recited the long history of the oil and
other Investigations, declaring the
sworn testimony that came out of the
investigation of the leasing of the oil
reserves was STORY of intrigue, of
corruption, of trickery, and of chicanery
that has never been equaled in all the
history of the Nation"
"Disgraces Party leadership"
''Not only did the evil influence of
this whole deal contaminate the admin
istration, but it disgraces party leader
ship" he asserted, adding that nobody
in the United States can say there is
no party responsibility for that. That's
right on the doorstep. 1t couldn't get
away If it tried.
us the record, the real record of the
past seven and half years, known to
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