The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-08-24
THE MAIN ISSUES ARE MADE.

While it would be unfair to the critic and to the occasion to attempt to comment conelusiyey upon the acceptance speech of Gov Smith with out complete copy of 1t in hand, the Associated Press summary received by The Empire iustifes the declaration that he made his position very clear upon all the important issues of the cam pagn. He lodged nothing and pussyfooted not at all. He talked straight from the shoulder and less an authority than Dr. Nicholas Mur ray Butler. President of the largest university in the world. declares he talked well and in a statesmanlike manner.
 The speeches of acceptance by both of the candidates fair and frank attempts to place the issues fer which they stand squarely before the people. Neither If the candidates side steppers. Neither of them Is lacking in courage. Both of them clear thinkers and honest enough to want the voters to know what they stand for
 People may now make fairly accurate est- mate of the issues on which the Presidential campaign will be fought. They three: Pro- hibition; State Rights which embraces the former, and the personality of the candidates.
 So far the principle of the thing is con- cerned there is little difference between the promises of the candidats on farm relief. Both for reorganizing the executive machinery of the Government businesslke basis Both in favor of economy and efficiency. Neither is in favor of radical tariff changes though MT. Hoover came nearer endorsing the high tariff idea as a cure-al than has any candidate for President since Mckinley. MT Hoover pledged his support, almost unreservedly, to the Coolidge policies, while Gov. Smith severely criticised some of them.
 However, there is elear-cut division between the candidates Prohibition MT. Hoover while admitting that abuses have risen and that there has been corruption and failures in Prohibition enforcement, believes in continuing the Eighteenth Amendment, though he admitted that there was no reason why pope should not advocate it's amendment. He suggests no amend ment to the Yolstead Act and declares that there should be that could be called null lifcaton of the Prohibition Amendment All things considered. Mr. Hoover indicates fairly clearly that he would have the laws stand as they and would try to enforce them as they On the other hand. Gov Smith believes Prohibition has been tried and proved failure He declares that the definition by Congress of intoxicating liquor to be any having greater than one-half-of-one per cent. of alcoholic con tent to be admittedly inaccurate and unscien- tifc." He believes the separate States ought to have the right to adopt the system that was accepted in most of the Canadian Provinces after the failure of Prohibition in that country and believes pending Constitutional changes, the States ought to have the rght to define the alcoholic content that would be allowed provided that 1t be not higher than an accurate and scientific definition of the maximum by Congress Prac- tcally, therefore MT. Hoover is for Prohibition as we now have it and Gov. Smith is against it.
 The personality of the candidates provides an opportunity for votes to exercise discrimination While both men are able clean, honest and courageous, there is wide difference between them. Gov. Smith is natural leader who has habit of getting legislators, of the opposi- tion party, to follow him He knows and how to get along with them. He is a leader who can consult and agree with other leaders He is mixer who makes friends and holds them On the other hand, MT. Hoover is not marked as leader He is retiring, dffdent and a singe-handed worker. He is much more like Wilson was, in many ways than is Gov Smith He would not be nearly as likely to get. Congress to put his programs through.