Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1928-09-14

From the Baltimore Sun. |

thtoh tuc DdltlIllOtc GUN.
Oh all the objections made to the cand.
dacy OF Governor Smith. perhaps the fee
blest and most disingenuOus is the objec-
ton that he is a Tammany man. Ii is
feeble because the notorious fact stands
opposed to its cOsency because the clean
ing up Of Tammany. under his vigorous
and enlightened leadership. is one OF the
maTvels of American politics And it is
dlsineenuous because those who voice il
the ioudest are plainly using IL 10 conceal
their real animus, which is religious preju-
dice. nothing else. and the most Us,,o. a.d
Ignorant ever heard Of
Certainly it 10 not becoming in an Anti
Saloon League politician to pirate virtuously
about Tammany. Nor in a serf and bene-
hciary Of the Ku Kluk Khan. Nor in one
who can swallow the Ware gang. the Ohio
gang. the Indiana gang, the Bill Thompson
gang. and all the other Republican gangs
Nor In one who has followed the political
parsons and their crooked allies in such
States as Texas and Oklahoma. Yet il is
precisely from such highly dubious sources
that the talk about Tammany mainly
comes. and they are the chief proponents
OF the doctrine that Governor Smith is
polluted by the crimes of Tweed and Croker,
many years dead. whereas Mr.. Hoover is
unscathed by the denominations of Ware,
Daueherty and company. still alive and
ardently for him.
When II comes to associations, MI. Hoover
makes sorry showing beside his opponent.
Let his private rectitude be assessed at its
highest the fact remains that he got the
Republican nomination with the aid Of the
worst sort Of political harpies, and that he
continues to seek and accept their support
today. Among his intimate partisans and
advisers are such men as Rush Holland,
the erstwhile assistant to Doueherty Geo.
b, Lockwood, who sent Blair Coan to Mon
tana TO frame Senator Wheeler; and c.
bascom Slemp,who dispatched Holland into
the South to round up Negro delegates
and the odor OF the business still fingers
lockwood became one of the principal
functionaries at his headquarters, and SC
remains. Slemp is high dignitary on his
staff.
One must 60 far back into the history Of
Tammany to find anything approaching the
scandals with which the partisans of Mr.
Hoover now entertain a candid world
North. East, South and West. In New York
the chief woman Republican politician has
just gone to Jail for robbing the public
treasury. In Indiana the Republican Gov
ernor remains untried only because the
statute Of limitations conveniently saved
him. In Pennsylvania there is another
exposure OF complementary the tenth
In the last dozen years. In Illinois, with the
Smith Senatorial debauch barely FORGOTTEN.
the Tribune. which is supporting Mr.. Hoover
protests that his organization is made up
OF men who disgrace the State. To match
all this. there is a sewer scandal in New
York city-and the men who got the loot
turn out TO be violently anti Tammany
men
Mr.. Hoover is not only burdened BY
these frank and incorrieible corruptionis,s.
He 10 also burdened by the whole asere-
cation Of Anti-Saloon League officials
political bishops. jOb-huntins preachers
and Ku klux aoggers. They are all in
favor of him, And it is from them that