Evening star., 1928-10-18
SMITH FORTH Y|NG
ILLINOIS POSITION
Spends Day Seeing Leaders
After Big Welcome; Speaks
Tomorrow Night.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, october 1S.-Spurred by
the arrival Of the party standard
bearer in their midst for a 60-hour
visit, Illinois Democracy was rallying
around the banner of Gov. Smith today
awaiting the word he brings to this
normally Republican State In the
seventh and last campaign speech of
his present stumping tour.
Tomorrow night in the 131st Regi-
ment Armory the Democratic presiden-
tial nominee will deliver his Chicago
address, and Saturday morning will find
him trailing homeward to muster his
reserve strength for the final weke-and-
a-half drive of the campaign.
Arriving in Chicago at 10 o'clock last
night after an all-day ride from Sedalia
Mo-, Gov. Smith was given a noisy
ovation by throng that crammed every
available space in the Union Station
train shed and waiting room.
Crowd Separates Party.
HeIlO, DOVS, now dIe yOu: WdS IlIS
greeting. and as flashlights doomed and
tremendous cheer went up from the
we'll -wishers he doffed his brown derby
and smiled his best campaign smile.
So dense was the crowd that several
members of the governors immediate
party were separated from the nominee
and Mrs Smith.
Once in their automobiles, the gov
ernor and his party were whiSked down
Michigan Boulevard to the Congress
Hotel through another great crowd of
cheering welcomers.
Upon reaching the hotel the nominee
was treated to another big demonstra-
ton, and when he finally reached his
suite on the fifteenth floor the shouting
outside was so intense that he came to
window thre times to acknowledge
the cheers.
Hearty Greetings on Trip.
| Chicagos welcome to the New York
executive climaXed a series of greetings
on a smaller scale encountered in
"downstate" Illinois, where the Demo-
Gratis are making their hardest drive
/ for votes, during the trip up to Lake
Michigan from st. Louis. At Alton
! Springfield. Bloomington and Joliet
! la-~e crowds turned out to cheer the
nominee when he appeared on the train
! platform. At the Illinois capital he
! made the first rear platform speech OF
his campaign. He urged the crowd to
| listen in on his Chicago speech, for he
would have something of much in
! terest" to all Illinois
Asked at press conference on board
| his train what he thought Of his
| chances in the five Southern and border
States he had visited the governor said
/ he believed they were AL right"
! The governor had no comment 10
make on the Attorney Generals de-
cision holding invalid the Salt Greek
/ oil lease by the Government to the Sim
clair Crude Oil Purchasing Co. He in
dicated, however, he might have some
thing to say about it after he had had
/ time TO study the opinion.
His Tariff View Restated.
| Pressed for his reaction to Mr.
Hoover's tariff speech. the governor
picked up a clipping which quoted the
Republican presidential candidate as
saying the American people would
never consent to delegating authority
over the tariff to any commission
whether non-partisan or bipartisan,
and declared:
L SdlO HOJIlIlR dOUuJ n ucItSdIIoIl vi
power to tariff commission. He seems
to think, or he must have thought, that
l was going to say that l believed that
the fixation of schedules ought to be
taken from the Congress of the United
States and lodged with the tariff com
mission, but no such thing was said
No such position was taken by me.
distinctly said that the tarin commits
sion was To provide the information
and the basis tor scientific tariff =
making"
A large delegation Of Illinois Demo
Gratis boarded the Smith train al
Springfield TO accompany him to Chi
cago.
Senator Wagner OF New York also
boarded the train Al Springfield. as die
George N. Peek. Midwest farm relief
leader