Evening star., 1928-10-02
ROBINSON HITS
HOOVER DRY STAND
Tells a Kansas Audience
Neither Platform FavorS
Prohibition.
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ey the Associated Press.
EN- ROUTE WITH SENATOR ROB-
fNSON TO CLAREMORE. Okla. Octo-
ber AFTER running nearly the whole
range of issues In a one-speech INVASION
of Kansas. Senator Joe Robinson was
headed today for Oklahoma, where his
rival for the vice presidency. Senator
Charles Curtis. preached a Republican
doctrine only last week.
Foth parties are making desperate
drives for the 10 electoral votes OF the
State, which In recent years has shown
something of a tickle disposition toward
politics.
Mr.. Robinson proposes to deliver four
prepared addresses in the State. as well
as number Of eXtemporaneous speeches
from the platform of his private car.
He Is expected to center chiefly on re-
ligion and farm relief, which along with
prohibition constituted part Of the
many subjects fired upon by him on
Kansas sell at Wichita last night.
Answers DRY" HeckIer.
The Democratic vice presidential
nominee was winding up his Wichita
speech when somebody in the audience
shouted out: What about prohibition"
snd this started him off all over again
AL right. I'll tell you,' he fired back.
"Neither the Republican nor the Demo-
cratic platform declares in favor OF pro-
hibition. Now, get that and go your
way"
He then said that Gov. Smith had
made clear his position for modification
OF the Volstead act and an amendment
to the eighteenth amendment, but de-
clared that If you know where Mr.. Her.
bert Hoover stands you know more than
he seems to know himself "
Robinson said that to carry out
Smiths proposals. which he described
as the Democratic standard bearers
personal position" both an act of Con-
gress and constitutional amendment
would be necessary.
When a majority of both Houses vote
to modify the prohibition law" he
added. you may know that their con-
stituents want them to vote that way"
Would Enforce Law.
He declared that Smith would enforce
Che dry laws better than had been done
under President Coolidge. or might be
expected under Hoover, if he should be
elected
Again and again Robinson emphasized
his declaration that the platforms of
the two parties did not and never had
come out for prohibition, arguing that
H..
The Senator got a laugh from the
crowd that filled most of the seats of
the City Auditorium when he said that
Senator Curtis and I are dry-nobody
knows how dry We are" He then re-
iterated that Smith had given his posi-
ton. but that Hoover never has de-
clsred where he stands"
Mr.. Robinson again aSSailed those op-
posing Gov. Smith because of his mem
bership in the Catholic Churchs arpued
that the Constitution said a religious
test should never be required for ofice.
and from that turned upon those who.
ne said, were. whispering" that the
Smiths were Of too humble birth to oc-
cupy the White House.
A lot OF women with short skirts
ana long necks have been whispering
about that" he went on. but Mrs.
smith is lady who never has devoted
her attention primarily to social activi-
ties. She has established her record as
mother of five clean children. To us
who consider ourselves the plain people
and who never believed that the high
collared crowd should run the Govern.
msnt she stands pre-eminent."
Scores White.
The Senator opened up on William
Allen White and appealed to the people
Of Kansas ito right the great wrong
which one of your own eminent citizens
had cone to a fellow man." Only a
short time ago. however, he said white
paid Gov. Smith glowing tribute" in
an article in Golfers Weekly under date
of August IS, 1928. ...
At that time, the Senator continued.
White spoke of Smith as a wise, brave
man, whose sincerity has never been
Questioned: whose courage is proverbial.
whose humanity holds friends with steel
rods"
Nov, let me tell you" he added,
what Mr.. White has said of the Repub-
Mean nominees. He has described Her.
bert Hoover as fat, pudgy capon, sit
ting on eggs and he has referred to
Senator Curtis as 'nitwit
Il looked up in the dictionary what a
'nitwit' means and the definition is "a
nut He also has said that Curtis was a
Kansas disgrace and that he was an er-
rand boy Of big business"
Mr.. Robinson added that White had
declared that whenever the railroads
needed vote in the United States Sem
ate Charlie Curtis furnished that vote. ("
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