Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-15
SMITH TO REACH
SEDAL|A TONIGHT
Sunday Spent by Democratic
Candidate at Birthplace
of Lincoln.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, October 15.-The spe-
cial train Of Gov. Alfred E. Smith.
Democratic presidential nominee, ar
rived at the Tower Grove Station of
the Missouri Pacific Railroad here at
II :03 am. today
GOV. SMITHS TRAIN EN- ROUTE
TO SEDALIA, MO-, October 15.-After
a Sabbath day visit to Lincolns birth
place near Hodgenville, KY, Gov. Smith
was bound today for Sedalia, Mo-, where
tomorrow night he will deliver the first
of two campaign speeches before re-
turning to New York State next Sum-
day to lay the groundwork for his
final two weeks drive for the presi
dency.
An address at Chicago Friday night
will close this weeks speech making
for the Democratic presidential candi-
date. After two-day lay-over in AL
bany he will get under way again for
perhaps one campaign address before
starting on his six-speech dash down
the Atlantic Seaboard. ending at New
York City the Saturnay night before
election.
En- route to Sedalia, due to be reached
at o'clock this evening. the governor
had planned a 21&-hour visit to St.
Louis, home Of Senator Harry B. HaweS,
Democratic regional campaign man
ager, between IL am. and 1870 pm.
for a big parade and reception in his
honor. A flve-minute stop at Belleville,
in Southern Illinois. for rear plat
form appearance was scheduled before
reaching st. Louis.
In coming to the border State of
Missouri, the Democratic nominee also
visits the home State of Senator James
A. Reed, one of his opponents for the
Houston nomination, and region that,
as a rule, fairly boils in political de-
bate in presidential years. This year
is no exception.
To Have SeclusiOn Period.
Arriving in Sedslia, Gov. Smith will
go into SecluSion to work on his ad-
dress, to be delivered tomorrow night
in huge closed-in live stock pavilion.
Special trains are expected to bring
thousands from all over the State tc
hear the speech.
The nominee will leave Sedalia We'd
nesday morning for Chicago, stopping
to greet well WiSherS at Springfield and
Bloomington, Ill. Before reaching Chi
cago at GAS pm. he will make another
pause at Joliet, home of the late George
Brennan, Democratic national COM
mitteeman from that State, whose fu-
neral Gov. Smith attended shortly after
he was nominated
Three nights will be spent in the
Lake Michigan city and Thursday and
Friday are expected to be devoted to
preparation OF his second address of
the week and conferences with party
leaders. Leaving Chicago Saturday
morning the Democratic special will
head across Indiana and Ohio for the
New York State capital. A tentative
schedule calls for a visit Of probably An
hour in indianapolis
It is not known definitely what Gov
Smiths plans are for next week In
some quarters it Is believed he may go
into Ohio for a speech, probably at
Cleveland the latter part of the week,
but the nominee has not indicated
what he will do.
AS his train cut across Kentucky last
night for the Mississippi River Gov.
OLlAClI Carried WIN MIN inspiring rec
election of his trip yesterday to the
Lincoln shrine on top of little knoll
two miles south of Hodgenville.
Visits Lincoln Cabin.
Going by special train to the Ken
lucky town, so miles southwest of
Louisville, the governor and his party
were driven by automobile to the log
cabin birthplace of the Great Emanci-
pator, stopping en- route at the town
square, where stands a huge bronze
statue of Lincoln. He was escorted up
the steps to the granite memorial now
inclosing the we'll preserved log cabin.
Several thousand persons were grouped
about the little knoll and surrounding
hillsides
The scene OF the man who rose from
the New York East Side to lead the
fight of his party to place him in the
White House gazing in reverent awe
at the crude little rural structure that
gave to the Nation one of its greatest
Presidents evoked low-voiced comment
frene rn"nF of these whe licked en-,