Evening star., 1928-11-04
Governor Given
Great Ovation
by Throng.
KLAN AND DRYS
BRANDED TWINS
CriticiZes HOOverfOr
Refusing to Meet
Him in Debate.
~ the Associated Press.

Alfred e. Smith in his final per-
sonal appeal to an audience in
this campaign tonight raked his
Republican opponents from end
to end for their stand on prohibi-
ton. farm relief, water power
and a number of other issues and
had a home crowd cheering,
shouting, yelling and footing
horns from almost the moment
he entered Madison Square
Garden until he left.
Speaking in "ole New York, f" as
he describes Americas largest
and his native city, the Demo-
cratic chieftain accused the Re-
publican party with being under
the powerful and dominating
influence" of the Anti-Saloon
League and then declared he had
been amused watching that party
try ito diSclaim responsibility for
the antics" of the league and the
Ku Klux Klan.
Upon his arrival at the garden,
the governor was cheered for l9
minutes by a crowd which packed
every one of the $4,000 seats in
the building and likewise clogged
up all space in the many alSles.
Crowd Is Boisterous.
Standing at the front of the speakers
platform, the nominee looked out upon
a crowd of brother New Workers Whlch
turned on every notch of vocal power
to welcome back from an 11,OOO-mlle
campaign tour a native son.
From the balconies which surround
the garden storms of paper came float
ing down during the ovation. The
crowd, as it cheered, waved American
flags and. until finally subdued, refused
to cease its racket except upon two oc-
casions when it helped out the band by
singing 1.-The Sidewalks of New York"
The crowd also was noisy during the
address and frequently INDUCED IN
booing when references were made by
the governor to Herbert Hoover, his
rival for the presidency, and to Charles
z. Hughes, Senator Borah of Idaho,
Senator Moses of New Hampshire and
other Republican leaders who have
been working in behalf of the Hoover
Curtis ticket.
Crowds Cheer Norris.
On the other hand, the crowd broke
into applause at the mention of the
name of Senator Norris of Nebraska,
q Progressive Republican, who has de-
clared for Smith, and also to refer
ences to Woodrow Wilson. :,
Before the governor reached the hall
Rhe gathering stopped its racket-mak-
3ng long enough to sing Dixie" and the
sSidewalks," and later in his address
the governor said that while in Ten
nessee and North Carolina he had men
toned that the two tunes blended we'll.
After the governor had ceased his
TRADE against his opponents and mop
ped his brow, he again was called up
10 wave and wave to crowd which
stood in it's seats and yelled for five
minutes more.
The governors speech was a resume
of his previous campaign utteranceS.
He reiterated his belief that a change
should be made in prohibition and de-
clared that regardless of what Mr..
Hughes might think about his ability
to bring about a change, he proposed
to take the issue to the American
people.
The Democratic nominee, in his one
and only speech prepared for delivery
before an audience in his native New
York City, said he was confident that
a "reaWakened sentiment of the Amer
team people will be reflected next Tues
day in a great Democratic victory"
Speaking in Madison Square Garden,
where only a few weeks ago Herbert
Hoover made a personal bid for New
Yorks as electoral votes, Gov. smith
fred back at his rival for the presi-
dency and the party he heads.
Hits Dry League.
He accused the Republican organiza-
ton of accepting support from the
Anti-Saloon League, which organization
he charged with setting at "naught
all great declarations of political talth
and with the sweeping aside OF al
men and measures not in sympathy and
in step with their narrow, bigoted
ideas"
Further, he declared, it would be diff
ficult to speak of the Antl-SalooL
League without saying something abou'
Its twin brother for the destruction Of
American principles and American
ideas. the Ku KluX Kan
THE Republican party has MADE
feeble attempts" he continued, Ito dis
claim responsibility for some of the ac
tivities of the Klan''
He added this had been Laid barr
before the eyes of the American peo
pie Wflen SENATOR MOSES, IIle GdSOClA
manager of the Hoover campaign
mailed scurrilous literature to be pub
lished in the State of Kentucky, max
ing an attack upon me because of m,
religious faith.
The governor, in his sweeping round
up of his position on various issues
reiterated demand for change il
prohibition and again promised to TAX
this issue to the American people
He argued two duties with respect T.
the laws on this subject devolved upol
the President. These he set forth a
follows:
THE first is to enforce them. That
promise to do to the best of my ability
The second duty is to recommend tn
changes deemed advisable. will rec
ommend to Congress the changes
have indicated in accordance with m
speech of acceptance"
At the outset Of his speech the gov
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The full text Of Gov. Smiths
speech will be found on page Ia