Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-09-30
WLLEBRANDT
SPEECH Still
IN SPOTLIGHT
Echoes Heard in All
Parts OF Coun v;
Criticism Comes
From All Sides


front trenches Of this presidential
battle to swap shots with the enemy
and TO assume first ~prominence with
Herbert Hoover and Alfred E.
Smith.
She is Mrs. Mabel Walker Willie
brandt. assistant attorney general
and vigorous advocate 81 Hoover
who has SO boldly charged into the
thick Of the fighting that she stances
now a target for random IRE IRON
both sides.
With Governor Smith stumping
back and forth across the farmer
midwest and Hoover going about po-
litical chores at Washington, MRS.
WiIlebrandt wszed a single handed
campaign in Ohio, and she said
something quickly heard all over
the country. She implored q conven-
ton Of Methodist Episcopal pastors
and laymen 20 combat Smith as an
enemy OF prohibition, and before the
church folk adopted q resolution
condemning Smith and praising Hoo
YER an echo arose that still is bat
Ting against sensitive eardrums.
A lot OF republicans and democrats
thought and said that it wasn't the
proper thing for Mrs. W~illebrandt
10 Do. and Governor Smith, in his
Oklahoma speech, assailed her for
her Ohio speech and declared that
the only inference that could be
drawn was that the administration
approved such tactics. Mr.. Hoover
has made no reference to IL.
Mrs. Withdrawals activities in
Ohio stands out in silhouette against
q background Of q busy week for all
particir<.ts, a period that HID
much debate as to whether Hoover
or his running mate, Senator Curtis,
do or did drink whiskey; a contin-
uation Of the fight on Smith from
both camps; an endorsement Of the
governor from foreign but not unex-
pected sources, and q contrast Of
good and bad reports from debated
areas.
Mrs. willebrandt maintained that
she sought the aid Of the preachers
against Smith solely because Of pro-
hibition and that religion had moth
ing TO do with il.
Closing two weeks Of dynamic
campaigning, Smith now returns 70
New York after a series Of speeches
in which he charged the republicans
with lack Of leadership as he set
forth his and his party's pledges
rs to farm relief, water power, i'm
migration and waterways develop
ment, along with considerable dis
cussion Of prohibition.
In support Of his hopes, Smith has
been told by the republican Nom
Partisan League Governor Maddox
Of North Dakota, now up for r~e-elec-
tion as a democrat, that so per cent
Of his states farmers are for Smith.
He has learned also that another
North Dakotan. Senator Frazier, has
reported 10 Mr.. Hoover that all is
not well for the republicans in his
state, and that unrest is general
throughout the region.
The long-debating Senator Blaine
Of Wisconsin added something to
preparations for Smiths Milwaukee
reception tonight by announcing
that he could not vote for Hoover
because they did not think alike.
Another republican independent
Of the Northwest. Senator Norris Of
Nebraska, has taken a definite
stand by twice declaring that Smiths
western speeches on farm relief
seemed to him 10 constitute ali that
could be desired by friends Of the
McNary-Haugen plan, and that his
discussion Of w%aterpower was emf
ncntly satisfactory. The Wisconsin
republican who demanded that Mrs.
Nlllebrandt be kept 81 home also
informed Chicago headquarters that
any impartial observer would now
give Wisconsin 10 Smith.
Republican leaders are aware Of
the disturbed condition Of their
usual s~trongholds but they continue
to express confidence that every
thing will be all right on election
day.
Some Of Smiths questions have
been answered by associates Of Mr..
Hoover but the republican candidate
himself has maintained his custo-
mary silence. Smiths latest de-
mand for a republican reply con-
Germs the Teapot Dome oil scandal,
and he told his audience at Helena.
Mont. that he would not be salts
fled with an answer from any other
than Mr.. Hoover. and that he be-
lieved the American public would
not.
To date Mr.. Hoover has not devil
ated from his accustomed course OF
speaking only for his party and his
own candidacy. When Senator
Bruce or Maryland publicly rec.ted
reports that Hoover II q drinking
man, Mr.. Hoover left the matter OF
a reply TO a secretary. who denied
that the nominee had taken a drink
since he became a government OF
ficer. Much the same charges we're
made against Senator Curtis md
the vice presidential candidate
promptly called the whole business
a falsehood. Democratic headquar-
tiers got into the Hoover-Bruce cpl
sode when Chairman Raskob Of the
national committee voiced his
knowledge that Mr.. Hoover does not
serve liquor in his home. and added
that he admired him for il.
Since his Newark speech Hoover
has worked on the one to be de-
livered at Elizabethton. awaiting its
completion before telling a group
Of first voters from Virginia at his
office that the republican party has
always been one Of progress and
action. More speaking Is in pros
pect for Hoover. however. and ii
appears that he is anxious to begir
earlier than planned on the west
ward and final drive late in Oc-
tober.
Tn the meantime. Curtis. carrying
the hrunt Of the republican cam
paign. has acquired a sore throat
ard a substitute for future outdoor
speaking engagements. The proxv
is Representative Purnell Of Iowa.
Robinson. democratic wise
presidential candidate. now is trek
ing westward. sharing 70 some ex-
tent the itinerary Of Curtis. who II
turn IS cutting across the recent
trail OF Governor Smith.
With all the change from old time
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