Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-29
WHITE RESUMES
ATTACK ON SMITH
Kansas Editor Seen ChaIIeng-
ing Governor to Debate
on His Wet Record.

! BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 2S.--ReSuming his
attack on Gov. Alfred Z. Smith today
william Allen White, editor of the En-
poria, Kansas, Gazette. said two weeks
investigation into New York State rec
ords had substantiated his previous
statement that Gov. Smith had sup
ported the liquor interests while q
member in the New York Assembly.
Mr.. White said he had employed two
experts to delve into the journal of the
! Assembly for Gov. Smiths record. and
he now was prepared Ito face the gov
ernor with his own votes on questions
affecting the saloon. and its two para
site, the gambler and the prostitute" !"
Says He Obeyed Tammany.
II am not trained debater," Mr..
| White said, Il am country editor,
from little country town in Kansas,
but one might take that record and a
photostat copy of the Assembly journal
and show Gov. Smith that his record
in the Assembly. 50 far as II affected
the saloon, the gambling and the pros
titute was Tammany record. More
| over. this detailed record vote viii show
that he voted, or is so recorded, these
nearly dozen years on the big contro-
verSial measures with the most no
torious saloon men IN the Tammany
delegation.
.Goy. Smith has been a busy man.
a fine useful American citizen since he
| left the New York Assembly. but in his
| many activities he has forgotten much
| of his Assembly record. Two weeks ago
| he did me the honor to wallop me over
! a preachers shoulders, calling the
| preacher OF whom / never heard a liar
! and l8-carat faker in the matter Of
| Gov. Smiths Assembly record.
Challenge Is Seen.
Coy. Smith, with all his intelligence,
| with all his honesty, with all his tour-
age-which no one questions--seenls TO
| have left his high qualities In escrow
with Charles Murphy when he went TO
| Albany as an asSemblyman."
Some saw in Mr.. Whites statement
| a challenge TO Gov. Smith TO debate
his legislative record when the editor
! said, The real point OF interest in that
1 1QI tli6 fAAAiEktLAAl R@9kAG AtpWs -
/ Gov. Smith will defend 1t, Is the picture
of Tammany putting the pressure on
five aspiring young men like Al Smith
forcing them to use. their courage, not
| upon the evils Of Tammany but in be-
half Of the friends of Tammany."
The rest Of the statement said:
Charge OF Subserviency.
mo KIansman in boob Legislature
cringing before a kleagle or wizard
was more subservient TO the crack OF
the whip than was Al Smith-ambi-
tious and effective and smart as chain
lightning-in the Legislature when II
came 10 a vote to protect the saloon,
TO shield the tout and TO help the scar
let woman of Babylon, whose tolls In
those years always clinked regularly In
the Tammany till.
Il have assembled this detailed rec
ord, giving the page and the paragraph
Of the journal and the photograph OF
those pages. not to prove that Gov
Smith Is as wet as a collie dog coming
out Of water with stick in his mouth
but 10 prove that in the Legislative
! pool Al Smith was in fact retrieving
for Tammany. 1t is not the humidity
Of his votes, but the subserviency OF
them that should interest the Ameri-
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