New Britain herald., 1928-10-22
CAMPAIGN STARTS
 LAST TWO WEEKS
Prosperity Believed to Be Main
 Issue Now

Washington. Oct. P (UP)-The presidential campaign rushed into the home stretch today. with only a fortnight still to run.
 Indications are that these last two weeks will see the race stripped to essentials with extraneous issues which cluttered the early stretches. dropped. Unless signs fail-and they can in this fast moving struggle prosperity in one form or another and probably prohibition will be the main rallying issues.
 Push Up Forces
 The republicans are pushing up their main forces. Herbert Hoover makes probably the most important speech of his campaign in Madison Square Garden, New York, tonight. Gov. Alfred E. Smith will rest briefly at Albany before smashing into his eastern campaign. The republicans will be aided by Vice President Dawes and former Secre- tary of State Charles Evans Hughes in the closing days. They lay great store by these two prominent fig ures.
 The democrats have no faces in the hole so far as known, but are relying for many voters on the pro- verbal Smith whirlwind finish. The past week was characterized by two distinctly new developments. In the first place, Smith attacked Coolidge economy. and drew admins istration fire here, especially from Secretary of Treasury Mellon, who argued, in effect, that Smith did not know whereof he spoke when he dis cussed federal expenses. The scond break" came in Washington gov- ernment's cancellation of the Sin- clair lease on Salt Creek. oil field a relic of the old oil exposes. Hoov- CT headquarters said it knew nothing of the matter whie Chairman Work of the republican national commit 1 tee, former secretary of interior, dismissed it with the statement that ! people are tired of the oil matter. He claimed tha. as secretary of the I terior, he had the department soli- citor's advice when he renewed the lease which Attorney General Sar- gent now finds objectionable. Seizcs Incident
 Smith seized upon the incident to suggest people are not only tired but ''djsgusted' with the oil develop ments.
 Whispers" cropped up in the pas, week. and Hoover headquarters de. nied story repeated by Gov. Bilbe of Mississippi that Hoover had danced with a negroes while on g flood trip in the south. A postmas' ter and assistant postmaster tr Fennsylvania were suspended due te alleged conspiracy to mail, without propert identifying marks. circu' lar attacking Hoover.
 The swing in issues-eXtraneo and otherwise has been remark able. Religion and liquor were heavily stressed in the early days though many on both sides insisted these questions were not real issues in the general accepted sense of the term. Tammany. farm relief. Tea. pot Dome, waterpower. tariff, i'm migration. economy, all had theil innings. ."Whispers' played role Smith denied some, Hoover deplored | infection of the religious question into the campaign.
 Prosperity Issue
 Now the campaign is heading down the way to election Nov. 6 Prosperity, it is indicated. will bt the candidates main theme. But with the battle laid in the so-callec eastern wet belt, prohibition bids tair to assume new importance After the nominating conventions. il looked as though this might be tho main fighting point. It was trlec out, but seemed for both parties tt carry too much dynamite and Wa! gradually less emphasized. Botf sides found that they could be tot dry for some sections of the coun try and too wet for others. Now however, the issue promises to be re yived ill the closing fortnight.
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