The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-21
DEFENDS VOTES
ON LIQUOR And
VICE MEASURES
DenounCeS Kansas Editor
and G. o. p. Chiefs for
Slap at Record.
SPEAKS WEDNESDAY
Democrat Nominee Will Be
Notified Before Huge
Crowd at Albany.
BY THOMAS L. STOKES
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
ALBANY, N. Y. Aug. 21.-Gov
Alfred E. Smith turned his atten-
ton today to the campaign which
will open formally with his notfca-
ton address Tuesday tight, having
closed his controversy with William
Allen White, Emporia KanD, ed
5tor, and others, over his legislative
record. A crowd of 100000 is ex-
pected to attend the notification
ceremony Wednesday night.
He will confer tonight with John
j. Rascob, chairman of the national
committee; Senator Robinson, Ar
kansas, vice presidential candidate,
and other party leaders who arrive
here today, regarding developments
to date in the campaign and the
scope of his speaking tour, which
has not yet been settled.
Previously the Democratic NOM
jnee will mount the stand from
which he will make his notification
address at 1870 this morning, try
out the broadcaSting network which
has been installed, and leave imme-
diately afterward for an afternoon
of golf at the home of Norman H.
Davis, assistant secretary of state
in the Wilson administration, at
Stockbridge CMass0. He will motor
there and return late this afternoon
to the mansion.
Replies to White
The Governors answer to White,
In which he denounced the Kansas
editor, former Governor Henry j
Allen, Kansas, now publicity direc-
tor of the Republican campaign, and
the Republican national committee,
was also an answer to the Rev. John
Roach Straton, Calvary Baptist
Church minister of New York, for
:ner Senator Robert L. owen OF Ok
lahoma, and others who have at
tackled his record in the New York
Assembly twenty years ago.
One by one the Governor defended
his various votes on liquor law leg
islation, upon race track gambling
and prostitution and then added
that he would define in no uncer-
tain terms" his attitude on the
"public saloon" in his acceptance
speech Tuesday.
THE appearance of the Repub-
3ican national committee in the
controversy indicates that it was a
political attack, probably inspired by
that committee, because the Repub-
3ican national committee this week
issued IN official release to the news
papers in which Mr.. White retracts
his retraction. Here we have I'M
Snistakable evidence of the Repub-
5ican national committee openly as
Ecciating itself with this personal at
back. Lacking the courage to stand
by its own completely in the attack,
the Republican director of publicity
the next day states that he with
draws his issuance of Mr.. Whites
Withdrawal of his withdrawal.
Out of Whispering Stage
IT am glad to have this matter
taken out of the whispering stage
and put into the open; once and for
all 1 shall meet it now. My record
as an opponent of immortality is
fixed and secure. No one in all
of the twenty-five years of my pub
JIG life ever has dared to make the
vile suggestion which emanated
from Mr. White, with the approval
of Henry j. Allen, publicity director
of The Republican national commit
tee What a Cowardly course the
Republican national committee pur-
sued It issued a Slanderous state
anent through its official publicity
bureau and then, after it's general
publication in the press, attempted
TO evade responsibility by the child
dsh claim that it had been given out
by accident. That is not fair play"
The Governor divided the liquor
law votes into groups. The first was
the one to grant a license to the
Gotham Hotel of New York to sell
tluuOl VllS DCCOAl0 6AOhH w WA wv
a mistake in the language of the
excise law and the third for votes on
local option.
OF the former he said he voted to
send the hypocrisy" by which the
hotel-within 200 feet OF a church
had no liquor permit but obtained
liquor from a house several feet away
and carried it into the building.
Vote On Race Tracks
In the second instance he said he
voted with the majority to uphold
the State Supreme Court In the
third he said he voted against many
of the local option measures because
they were all Implications.
He said he voted with Governor
Hughes on race track gambling at
a regular session of the Legislature,
but voted with the opposition at a
special session as a protest against
calling off the special session.
He said he voted against assembly
bill 1927 in 1910-a measure seeking
to regulate renting of rooms in no.
tels-he said he voted with the ma
jority because the measure was un-
questionably unconstitutional. The
assembly at that time was Repub-
.1ican. Smith said, and on recall
the measure was passed, but he die
not reconsider his vote.