Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-08

Herbert Hoover's speech at Elizabeth
| ton, Tenn, SmackS of an inaugural adj
dress At least, there's hardly topic
an incoming Chief Executive would
discuss from the east steps Of the Capt.
toll on a quadrennial March that the
Republican nominee didn't touch upon.
1t was altogether in the presidential
manner Hoover'S staff in MaSSachu-
sets avenue headquarters says the Eliz-
abethton speech cost "the chief" more
! intellectual sweat than any of his cam
paign utterances thus far, including the
acceptance address. If the truth were
known. it would probably develop that
Hoover's perturbations were due to the
multitude of counSelS thrust upon him.
There were many wiseacres who thought
he ought to utilize the Tennessee adj
dress as an opportunity to tackle the
whispering campaign in general and the
religious issue in particular. To the ex-
tent of 100 words or Whereabouts, Hoover
was moved to skate across that tender
ice. It was when he declared that in
contest such as this there Is no place
for personal bitterness" and when he
called for a campaign free from abuse,
| free from Misrepresentation and free
from words and acts which carry re-
! greet" Gov. Smiths hope of smoking
Hoover out on Teapot Dome, prohibition
and Mrs. Wilebrandt has again been
dashed.
X Il
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic
nominee for the governorship Of New
York, has been receiving widespread
credit, since his recent nomination, for
coming the happy warrior" as a de-
scription of AL Smith. Roosevelt applied
, the term in the peroration Of his Hous-
| ton nominating speech. A political histo-
rian rises to remark that 1t was Wood
| row Wilson who put 1.-The happy war
rior" in politics. He sprang it for the
first time in the 1912 campaign, when
Wilson quoted from the poem by Words
worth, In which the passage occurs
The Jersey Democrat told the country
on repeated occasions from the stump
that it was his favorite piece Of verse
It concludes as follows:
And while the mortal mist is gather
ing, draws
His breath in confidence Of Heavens
applause
This is the happy warrior, this is he
That every man In arms Should wish
to be.
" ~ X
Cleveland Ohio was the scene the
other night of an old-fashioned, honest
to-goodness 1928 political debate be-
tween a pair of antagonists who would
have eraced any arena in our times
Representative Theodore E. Burton, Re-
publican, who is running for the Sen
ate, was pitted against his fellow
townsman Newton D. Baker, Democrat,
former Secretary of War. Burton OPEN
ed the polemicS with the thrust that
the corruption personifled by Tammany
Hall, of which Gov Smith Is member,
constitutes "a pertinent issue" Boss
Tweed Of Tammany, arch-grafter OF the
nineteenth century, Burton recalled,
| had died In prison. Right" retorted
Baker. But who sent him there? None
other than a great Democratic prose-
cutor. Samuel j. Tilden." To which
adroit parry Baker added that he could
recall no "oil CRATER" of the present
political era who had yet been put
In the penitentiary. Both debaterS
agreed in advance to eliminate the re-
ligious question.
4 X X
This OBSERVE has just tarried in West
Virginia. Leaders of both parties there
agree it is fighting ground. with condi-
tions which make cockSure predictions
either way unwise. There is Hoover
trend" apparently, but Senator Guy D
Golf, Republican, said so many rough
things about his California rival for the
presidential nomination In the West
Virginia primary contest that some OF
them have stuck" Some of his fell
low citizens also remember hearing Goft
lambaste Hoover in Kansas City most un-
mercifully the night before the national
convention opened. The 1924 election
in which West Virginia's distinguished
Democratic son, John W. Davis, failed to
carry his native State, went Republican
by a plurality of $1,000. The Davis
La Toilette vote combined was a ma
jority of $500 more than the Coolidge
] total. The 36,720 votes La Toilette
polled-if they are being held together