The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-10-30
SMITH CHARGES
KHAN AND DRYS
ARE COP TOOLS
Contends Republican Leaders
'Wiggle and W0bble' on
Prohibition
SPEAKS ON INTOLERANCE
Says Democrats Stand for
Progressive Treatment of
Questions
SPEAKS ON INTOLERANCE

Governor Smiths Train en- Route
to New York, Oct. 3O.-(P)-Home-
ward bound after flying campaign
visit to Maryland, Governor Smith
was on record today with the blunt
charge that the Anti-Saloon league
and the Ku Klux Klan were forces
working hand-in-hand with the Re-
publican party to bring about his
defeat.
Addressing one Of the most de-
monstrative and colorful audiences
Of his presidential drive in the Fifth
regiment armory in Baltimore last
night, the Democratic presidential
nominee vigorously assailed the
league and the khan and contended
that Republican leaders, including
Herbert Hoover, were "wiggling and
wobbling" on the question Of pro-
hibition because their party was
"held right down to earth by the
power and the influences OF the
forces Of intolerance"
Speaking in the same building
where Woodrow Wilson was NOM
mated Is years ago, and with the
war presidents widow on the plat
form, the governor devoted large
part of his speech to the argument
that the Republican party stood for
"the old order of things" and stand
patism, as opposed to the Democratic
stand for progressive" treatment
of the big questions facing the
country. Foreign policy, waterpower,
the tariff, government reorganiza-
tion-all were dealt with in detail
before prohibition and intolerance
were reached.
Hits Anti-SalOon League
The Anti-Saloon league, the nom-
inee charged, had flooded the country
with propaganda "in an effort to
make God-fearing men and women
believe that the eighteenth amend
ment and the Volstead act are
dogmas of religion"
mo church that l ever heard Of,
no church that you ever heard Of, !"
the governor asserted amid loud ap-
plause, Attempted to make the
eighteenth amendment or the Vol
stead act an act of faith"
"What is TT" he continued. 1T
is nothing more or less than legis-
lation passed in the stress Of war
and lobpied through the congress by
the browbeating methods of the
Anti-Saloon league"
Says Norris Attacked
Senator Norris, Republican inde-
pendent Of Nebraska, who, in q
speech Saturday night announced
his support of Governor Smith, was
said by the nominee to have received
= "cold-blooded threat" from the
Anti-Saloon league, declaring it
would withdraw its support Of the
Nebraskan if he made that speech.
Referring to that gallant band
Of patriots known as the Ku Klux
klan," the governor said: II never
hear the words without having the
thought flashed across my mind,
what must the American people
think after the countless billions Of
dollars they have poured into the
cost Of education, to see reared up
in q country like ours an organiza-
tion calling itself 100 per cent Amer
lean without the slightest notion Of
American ideals or American prin-
ciples?"
A roar of applause swept the
flag-waving, paper-throwing thou
sands that jammed into the armory,
rs the governor said there is abun-
dant evidence that the klan is re-
ceiving 70 good deal of encourage
ment from some Republican leaders" {"
Alleges Khan Approved
Reading from q Long Branch, N.
j., newspaper, which he said ad-
vertised klan meeting "in conjunc-
tion with the Republican national
committee, the nominee said = Re-
publican leader of that state was
questioned about it in an effort to
determine whether committee plans
were submitted to him for approval
when they concerned New Jersey.
The local leaders reply, the gov
ernor added, was: "They are sup
posed to be, but they have gotten US
in trouble before. Once or twice
they have gone over our heads on
this religious question. l know
nothing about this (klan) meeting" /"
The nominee brought applause
when he said he would "sooner 60
down to ignominious defeat than
to be elected to any office in this
country, il to accomplish it had to
have the support Of any group with
such perverted ideas Of American
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