Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-09
SMITH CONFERS
WITH ADVISERS
Maps Campaign Strategy
With Four ConfidanteS
Over Week End.
By the Associated Press.


ALBANY, N. Y, September B.
Three of Gov. Smiths close friends, on
whom he depends for political counsel,
are at the executive mansion for the
week end. and another was expected to-
might, to aid in the mapping out OF
campaign strategy prior to the; de-
parture OF the Democratic presidential
q nominee a week hence on his first
stumping tour.
The group is made up of Joseph M
Proskauer. former justice OF the Ne"
York State Supreme Court; Mrs Belie
Nsoskowitz in charge of Democratic
campaign publicity; her HUSBAND LII.
Henry NJ Moskowitz. a biographer OF
the governor. and Herbert H. Lehman
the Democratic campaign director 2l
finance. who sent word today that ne
would be in Albany tonight.
Important Decisions Expected.
Decisions Of importance are expected
IN no reached at the series OF informal
conferences which were to get unoer
fwav in earnest with Lehman's arriFal;
70 managed one of the presloelltlal
nominees cubefnatorial campaigns.
Although he planned to devote con-
siderable time over the week eno 10
the s11an;nq I'D of his fight for the
nvosid9ncv. Gov. Smith was in the mooo
aiso for some rest and relaXatlon.
when he met newspaper men at the
executive mansion at noon today LOT
his daily press conference ne Was ~
golf tcgs, prepared to get out III Iis
sunshine during the afternoon LOT d
round or two of exercise.
At the outset of the press lnteIvlsw s
the governor made public an eXcnaIise
ri letters between Clarence A. Barnes
Renuhlican candidate for attorney gen
eral of Massachusetts and himself over
fhe s"Albany base ball pool which the
FEDERAL authorities are attempting TO
break IN. Barnes charged that the
MOL was taking over million oohdfs
from railroad and industrial workers ,oI
Massachusetts, every year and asked the
presidential nominee:
will YOU please tell me. as prcspec-
tive attorney general of MASSACHUSETTS,
what new method of law enforcement
Won intend to use as President, when as
Governor of New York such notorious
Rambling establishment as the Albany
mol f1ourished in defiance of law IN the
very shadow of the capitol at Albany
after the matter has been Speclhcally
called to YOUR official attention ano
after YOU have stated that you would
put stop to it?"
Asks Information.
In reply Gov. Smith called on Barnes
20 come to Albany and point out the
pools headquarters to him or give him
information leading to his statement
that it operates in the shadow OF the
capitol. 80 ~
During the press conference, the
nominee declined to comment on the
statement of Herbert Hoover that the
signing, during the Harding and Cool
idge administrations of the washington
arms treaties, the Dawes reparation
plan and the Kellogg remuneration OF
war pacts constituted the greatest con-
tribution toward world peace of any
nation since the signing OF. the Yer
eailles treaty. :.
An INQUIRY prompted by a press dis
patch that Mayor Walker of New York
was seeking to arrange a meeting pc
tween the governor and Senator Norris
Of Nebraska. the Republican Tndepend-
ent. who has not declared. himself as
hesween Hoover and ,Smltn, oIougnI
from the Democratic standard bearer
the statement that he knew Of no such
move. o ~4-- t<..
Talks on Wildcsrandt Attack. -'
The Democratic nominee said he had
not read press accounts of the attack
made on him in an address to Method
isf Episcopal ministers and laymen IN
ohio bv Mrs. Mabel Walker Wilde@
brandt, an assistant attorney general,
who mas been active in the Hoover
campaign.
what did she sayP" he inquired.
"SF.c said YOU were Tammany reared
and a nullifer." he was told.
1--WE heard that before" A
And she urged the ministers to speak
against you from their pulpits," another
reporter advised him.
That's the first time knew they
needed an invitation" the governor
came back. as he dropped the subject.