Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-02

Win or lose on November 6, Alfred
Emanuel Smith is a Democrat Win
whom the Nation undoubtedly Will
have to reckon in 1882. II ne is elected
President, he will, Of course, be canoi-
date for a second term. II Smltn -
defeated his friends are determined 10
renominate him. That much. they say,
is already settled. One contingency
would interfere with the program
Smiths defeat at Hoover'S nanoS py
an overwhelming majority OF lanosnoe
proportions. If. the Republicans cap
ture the presidency by reasonable
noarpin-sav 80 or 40 electoral votes
Smiths admirers are prepared to dag.
nose such O result as a moral victory
which can be beaten into a genuine
triumph for the New Yorker four years
hence. This long-distance reasoning Is
based on the theory that smith De.
came in 1928 nationally advertised
product" which can be successfully
marketed in 1882.
weather will play an important, and
uerhaps even q decisive, role In many
States on election day. New York ana
Massachusetts are the regions IN Wnicn
the Republicans particularly hope lor
fair and balmy November 8. In DON
of those commemorative the G. Q. r.
is dependent upon a heavy rural vote,
which customarily is light when the
weather is bad City folks are usually
mindless of rain or cold, but small
towners, villagers and farmers nave
been known to abstain in droves wnen
snow or other causes make roads I'M
navigable or long journeys 10 the poiis
uncomfortable. The meteorological olVl-
sion of the Republican national COM
mittee asserts that nothing but the
weather can prevent Hoover from carry
ing both New York and Massachusetts.
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Volumes are going to be written some
day on the effect radio has had upon
the fortunes Of the political parties TINS
year That the broadcaSting OF speeches
has revolutionized campaigning Is now
| a settled fact. The speakers bureaus
of the Hoover and Smith camps soon
| found out that the microphone is
| far greater magnet for the Spellblnding
| politician-even the biggest guns-tnan
| the promise of q vast visible audience:
| The popular orators are very "choosey
| persons nowadays. One OF them not
| long ago became as temperamental as
| a prima donna when he was told tnat
| his radio hook-up included only II STA
lions. He'd heard that Senator -, a
| few nights before, had had chain OF
% stations, and, until assured he would
crate over just as wide a network, the
gentleman from firmly declined 10
hold forth. 1t was arranged TO appeaSe
him.
Robert Lansing, former Secretary OF
| State, who had Just passed away, Is
credited by his friends with the author.
| ship of the celebrated notes dispatched
by Woodrow Wilson to the warning
powers prior to our becoming belllger-
ent in 1917. In particular, the Lusitania
note to Germany in May. 1915-thougn
Wilson is Its generally accepted writer
Is attributed to Lansing. Even the Euro"
pean governments which made Wry
faces over Americas attitude between
1914 and 1917 considered our diplomatic
communications models OF terseneSS and
logic. Bob" Lansing's admirers say ne
was content, because of his profound
admiration for Wilson, to permit ms
chief to monopolize the glory. Lansing
was in lively demand, after his retire
ment from the State Department, as
counsel at Washington for foreign gov
ernments. Half-a-dozen European and
South American countries are under
stood to have paid him handsome an
nual retainers. Lansing and Coolidge
were fellow alumni of Amherst, though
the former took his A. B. nine years
before the President was graduated.
II u
Charles g. Abbot, secretary Of the
Smithsonian Institution, recalls an In
| cidant at tho ink OheerVaf0rV In Calf