Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-10-07

course. the national committee de-
nicd that she was authorized 10
make speeches for the national COM
mittee and she was called in at
once, but by the time she rot through
dressing out that committee, they
were ready 10 apologize to her and
say GO 10 1T. sister but "Move
your little machine gun down south"
It seems that the republican ma
tioral committee does not realize
that lay members. both men and
m of the great Protestant
churches OF the South are intelli-I
gent reading men and women and
That they are capable Of knowing
what is best for the interests Of
uur people. and a great country; ard
we have the greatest confidence in
ou southern political leaders, men
wHn nave made n lifetime study or
statecraft and national affairs, and
when men like Carter Glass. Joe
Robinson, Josephus Daniels, Morris
Sheppard ard hundreds M others
VINO have the nerve and the back
bone 10 face the powerful Protestant
church Of the South and tell the
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politics. fraud and corruption that
nave been carried out in our ma
tional government at Washington ~
the past eight wears. knowing they
are giving MS the historical facts.
We are bound to agree with them.
tp ~ eight years ago. when any
one man or woman violated a federal
law he know that punishment would
le melted out IN him or her. How diff
f.rcrt now. WHOM the millionaire oiI
crooks would snap their fingers w
justice. treat the courts with con-
tempt, and walk out NJ the court
houses a. free men. which caused A
very prominent republican senator
from the west to remark some time
ago that n lokcd as If IL were inn
possible 20 convict a man who was
worth q million dollars. Some Of the
greatest land frauds this country has
ever heard OF have been pulled off in
the last decade in Florida. in the Rio
Grande Valley and elsewhere. One
famous crook brought hundreds OF
Old men and women from the north
here % our Valley and robbed them
of the savings Of n lifetime and by
employing attorneys who had po-
lItical pull with the powers III Wash
ington, they walked out az the fed
cral court houses free mer.
iS that democratic government? ~
that government Of the people, for
the people and by the people.
But, 10 this time, DR.. Work has
found out that they have got 10 make
another change in their plan Of
campaign. They have discovered
that there is nothing coming TO them
here in the south and that now they
have got 20 throw their smoke
screen out ~ the wet east and the
big wet cities OF the middle west and
he German states. The Progressive
Magazine Is being mailed out to every
German voter in the west attacking
Al Smith because he il in sympathy
with Woodrow Wilson's program. and
that IN will be impossible 10 get any
change or modification of the Vol
stead Act through AL Smith with the
dry south behind him and the only
hopes 70 get q change is 20 elect
Hoover who a control the repub-
Leans IN the house and senate; while
William Randolph Hearst, the great
New York editor. and one Of the
leading thinkers Of the country, came
out in an article published in all his
daily papers last Sunday stating
that while he admired Al Smith and
recognized his ability and knew of
the constructive legislation that he
had instigsted willie governor Of
the state of New York. he. Hearst,
was al anti-prohibitionist and that
the only hope that he could see to
get any change or amendments to the
Nolstead law was through the cleo
tion Of Herbert Hoover. for Hoover
could control the republicans in the
house and senate, while AL Smith
would never be able 70 do anything
with the dry south, so that leaves the
protestant ministers of the south on
the stump bigotry, nothing else to
stand on.
It is well known that the repub-
Leans on two different occasions
have introduced bills in both houses
for the modification of the Volstead
Act me have been defeated by the
solid vote of the dry south. ] don't
believe that five per cent of the
people Of the union ever want to see
the old pre-Vclstead saloons with al
their r~ottenness, corruption and evil
political influence back in our coun-
try again; but this question Of state
rights and modification with federal
control, we can sec from this presi-
Dental campaign, the people are
pretty much equally divided on 1t;