Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-03

Tomorrow comes the thunder Of
the guns" said The Democratic vice
presidential "notifi9r" Claude Bowers
n Nominee Joe Robinson at Hot
Springs. meaning thereby that the
battle Of 1929 is now on Labor dav
marks It's real opening All that has
gone before. in both th" Republican and
Democratic camps. ives preliminary and
preparatory. The issue at last Is
Joined and the fighting can begin. 1t
will be a fast and furious II weeks.
Orders have gone forth from IN"
Hoover and Smith high commanos
alike that ii must be clean campaign
Yet il will be a miracle II contest IN
volving so vivid personalities and 50
controversial questions can be fought
10 It's finish without black eyes, broken
noses and harsh words. It's an open
secret that Mr.. HooverS captains 90
most feryently and devoutly pray 10 %
SHARED from any more Jealous friendS
like William Allen White and DR. John
Roach Straton On their own part,
Gov. Smiths managers are as ardentlv
anxious that no mudsltngerS VIII
emerge on their side Of the fence,
.,riohtinc Joe" Robinson to Judge by
the hammer blows in his acceptance
sneech, is to carry the burden OF the
rIemocratic attack on Hoover, Repuoil-
can corruption" and other poihlS
which the Democrats consider Vu'neF :
able spots in the c.. O. +. arnlol
Hoover's responsibility for farm reiei
failure. the Harding Coolidge admins
the oil ana HiIlfQ
scandals and Republican primary ms
dcede are going to be pounded merci~
iessly BIZ the hard-hitting ArEanSan
Most Democratic leaders welcome TINS
sird Of shIrt-sleeVcs t1ght ON y"
common enemy They think tha' u
John w. Davis had adopted such tact'cS
ia 1904 when the public mlno was
freshly shocked by Teapot Dome et ~
his defeat might at least have been less
overwhelming. Robnsons stenVotlai'
voice 2nd trlp-hammer gestures 'e'1 T,
themselves ideally to the SORT ol
strategy he will apparently employ "''
the stump.
II would he worth knowing 10 mo
out INST what Herbert Hoover thlhNH
Of modern political methods, sitet W. W.
ina ntisn1al months as candluatf ~
national Office Many OF them must y.
di8tastefuI 10 him In high degree I'sc
the stunt the news camera hlti' IT.
him 20 through out in Iowa the oln,i
dsy. when they posed him IN corht,e'u
and had him toy with an ear WIl'le tl, ., >
snapped him The news reel now oC 49,
shown all over the country PLAINLY a..
closes that Hoover was ABOUT rs hnp pS
amid the cornf1eld ordeal as c'lt ,'
with the whoOpin2 cough. Inc nrpu 9..
lican nominee Is al his campaigning
hest under the circumstances when
now surround him at Washington ~
can do what he peaSes, see "hom ~
chooses GO and come as he n&eS' h'1o
more or less be himself hooVc'
achievements as an engineer sno ~,
administrator have been accomplished
In the ouetude Of council and COME.
ence and not In the din OF crowds. w
doubtediv he'd like 10 win the pfesi~
dency by the same methods.
CORPORATIONS and families alike are
houses divided against themselves N
this year OF political grace. The spl'
in the du Pont dynasty, which nndS TWO
hrothers Pierre and iamm0t. on difief-
ent sides. resembles In way the dl'ei z.
oence In the Radio Corporation o.
America. The president Of the corpora
tton Gen. James q. Hartford, has Just
become Greater New York finance
chairman of the Republican party,
while owen y. Young chairman of tn
CORPORATIONS board Is an outstanding
Democrat and enthusiastic supporter ot
Gov, Smith, Mrs. Charles II, Sahin Is
Republican national committeewoman
from New York, and her husband, the
chairman OF the Guaranty Trust Co
board, Is an ardent AL Smthite Two
Younger scions OF the mercantile house
of Straus~~Percy and Jesse--are re-
spectiveiy, Republican and Democrat [.
and both are active In the New YORK
campaign, Or. Nicholas Murray hnt~
Ter refuses In go along" with Hoover
on prohibition and International policy,
while his daughter Sarah Is wheel