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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-09
Liberal Myth; Al Is Member of Corrupt
Machine; Financiers' Ideal Candidate

portant members of the Power
Trust together with Owen Young,
and heavy contributors to the Smith
campaign. There is Herbert Leh-
man, chairman of the Finance Com
mittee of the democratic party and
candidate for Acknowledgements of
New York State, a member of Leh-
man Bros, bankers, who have very
large interests in traction and gas
companies, controls the American
Light and Traction Co., Consoli-
dated Gas Co. of New Jersey, En-
pire Gas and Fuel Co., Power and
Mining Machinery Co., Southern
Light and Traction Co. and count
less others. Hardness of the Stand
ard Oil; S. Rea, former president
of the Pennsylvania Railroad; Will
liam Woodin, of the American Steel
Car and Foundry Co.; and Bernard
Baruch, the famous Wall Street
broker, have all come out openly
for Smith.
Smith and Wall Street.
Furthermore, the personal inter-
ests of Smith lie with the capitalist
system, and workers can expect him
to be a faithful servant of Wall
Street, in the White House, just as
he has been a faithful servant of
Wall Street, as governor of New
York. He is director of the Elec-
trio Transport Co., which is tied up
through interlocking directorates
with the l. R. T., the New York
Central, Vanderbilt and the House
of Morgan. Smith is also chief
stakeholder in the U. S. Trucking
Corporation. He is something of a
big capitalist himself, and his inter-
ests are directly tied up with big
financial interests. Smith, who
poses as a peoples candidate, is
directly tied up with power and trac-
ton interests which have been fleec-
ing the population of New York for
many years.
Wall Street and big business have
nothing to fear from the democratic
party, led by Alfred Smith-on the
contrary, they have an able and will
ing tool in the democratic party.
Wall Street is well aware of this
fact. Olvany, after the appoint
ment of Raskob, said in the press
that big business has nothing to
fear from the democratic party. All
Smith stands for Legitimate bust
ness as promoting the public well
fare" Hoover stands for "sound
business" There is absolutely no
difference. Smith "does not advo
cate any sudden or drastic change
in our economic system. Stands
squarely for the maintenance of
legitimate business" Note how
Wall Street views the present cleo
ton campaign.
Magazine of Wall Street, July Ia,
1928: "The plain fact is that our two
great parties are both conservative
IN general tendency and present con-
troll. Business need fear neither as
party and may consider them
merely as necessary parts of the me-
chanics of election, representative
government and the profession of
politics"
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By EVE DORF.

L HdI AL OInlUn is llDerdly d
good man." interested in the well
fare of the masses, is a myth. This
myth is easily exposed in the rec
ord, program, and connections of
Smith and the democratic party.
Smith is and has always been a
machine man, good Tammany
man, and clever Tammany politi-
clan. Smith was brought up in or
ganized district and ward politics
in New York City. He got his
start in Tammany ward politics at
a very early age. He has never
once swerved from Tammany pol
icy and platform. He has never
once criticized or repudiated Tam
many. He has only the highest
praise for Tammany and is proud
to be associated with it. In a speech
made on the fourth of July, 1926
Al Smith called Tammany "the
greatest welfare and humanitarian
organization in the world"
Smith has had the closest rela-
tons with the leaders of Tammany
personal and political. Murphy was
an intimate personal and political
pal" of his. In the state assembly
Smith, as speaker, was Murphy's
main lieutenant in the impeachment
and BUSTING of Governor Sulzer
when the latter had, for reasons of
personal ambition, fallen out with
Tammany.
Machine Man.
In 1915, the Citizens Union of
New York, summarizing the activ-
tiles of Smith as governor, said
that "he was an experienced and
resourceful leader who seldom ex-
erted his influence in behalf Of de-
sirable legislation and could always
be relied upon as a machine man. u
When it is remembered that the Gil
tizens' Union is dominated by Judge
Proskaure, who together with Mrs,
Henry Moskowitz, are Smiths main
advisers, his Kitchen cabinet" to-
day, the quotation becomes more
significant. Al and his pals have
always been proud of his being a
machine man-they boast of il
openly.
Smith is the real leader of Tam
many today. He is the "man be-
hind" Olvany and the rest. What
he says goes, and nothing is ever
done without his opinion. Smith is
responsible for Tammany as its lead
er; everything Tammany has done
everything Tammany stands for, is
also Smiths record and program.
Tammany is trying to tell the
workers of this country that it is no
longer the old, corrupt Tammany-
that it is new Tammany, a clean
Tammany led by new leaders of the
type of Smith. 1t is true that we
have a new Tammany. but the
change in Tammany is of an entire
ly different character than the Tam
many propagandists say. What is
this new Tammany?
The new Tammany is direct
champion of Wall Street, frankly
and openly. The monopoly of fl
nance capital in industry and gov
eminent, the Capitalization of pow
err during the imperialist period in
the hands of a small group of fl
nance capitalists and the increasing
suppression of the petty bourgeoisie
by big business, has given rise to
the new Tammany. The old Tam
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Al Smith and New Tammanv
By Fred Ellis

Bulletin of National City Bank of
New York: "There is no issue be-
tween the candidates that is likely
to make a disturbance in business
circles. Almost as much may be
said of the platforms.
Smith Ideal Wall st. Candidate.
Al Smith is an ideal candidate for
finance capital in the United States.
He stands for the new Tammany
Hall ideal of subservience to Wall
Street interests, and yet he can COW
er this with a pretense at interest
in the masses and appeals to labor
vote by demagogy and some re-
formist gestures. Under "liberap
guise, Smith put over for Wall
Street the complete Capitalization of
New York State government in their
hands. Moreover, and very impor-
tant, is the fact that Smith has
built up machine in the trade
unions in alliance with the right
wing labor takers which is an ex-
ceedingly valuable aid to finance
capitals program. The religious
objections to Smith are overruled
by these very essential assets and
by the fact that the Catholic Church
itself performs a valuable service
for capitalist imperialism by con-
trolling the workers minds, and
making them tools for capitalism.
All the liberal" Technology o.
the Tammany machine, and of
Smith, is wool to cover the eyes of
the workers. All the reforms for
which they claim credit are sops
thrown to labor when labor pres
sure is great. The aim is to cap
ture labor votes and petty bour-
geols votes away from the dominant
republican party and to build up
progressive" reputation for Smith
to permit the democrat party to
enter the White House and thus cap
ture the juicy jobs in Washington.
The weaker party in the two par
ty system must become reform
list" in words. The party out of
power must create more or less
liberal issues in words, in order to
appeal to the masses to change the
ruling machine. But it never for
gets to make guarantees to the CAPT
talist class. All welfare" legisla-
ton that Smith talks about, besides
the fact that they have been forced
by the struggle of the workers, also
is such that they help along the
smooth running of the capitalist
machine and try to allay too active
discomfort among the masses.
Big business can never suffer
from Smithism. Smith and the new
Tammany represent Wall Street. No
matter which of the two major poll
teal parties come into power, the
republican or democratic, American
capitalism wins. There is only one
way out for the workers of this
country If they are to improve their
conditions and abolish this system
OF poverty, unemployment, wage
slavery and imperialist wars-and
that is the path of the class strug-
gle. All workers should support the
party of the working class, the par
ty that fights against the bosses.
the party of the class struggle-the
Workers (Communist) Party of
America.
Vote Communist. Vote for Will
liam q. Foster for president and
Benjamin Gitlow for vice president.
Join the Workers (Communist)
Party of America.
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many represented the petty bour-
geoisie to great extent, and when
the petty bourgeoisie fought the
power of the trust in industry and
government at times, the democratic
Party usually stood with the petty
bourgeoisie. But today the petty
bourgeois Tammany with its anti
tariff, antitrust program is dead.
The new Tammany defends Wall
Street directly and openly.
This fact is recognized by the
democrats themselves. The New
York TimeA in its issue July Is,
1928, says mat the democratic par
ty has changed. ga party which
since 1894 has chosen the radical
phase of economics, the bureau
cratic phase of law and regulations,
and the paternalistic view of nation
al morals, had its mind changed in
two days. The head of the largest
corporations in the world, one of the
richest men in America, and a mem
Der of Citadel Clubs of the republi-
can party, was put in as national
chairman; the party is considering
Owen D. Young for governor of
New York. Big business steps in
and runs the affairs of government
itself"
Wall Street Backs New Tammany.
Smith has played leading role
in this change. He is the leader of
the new Tammany. The advisers
of Smith and the new Tammany are
the Wall Street interests, particu-
larly the power interests, the tran
sit trust, and other union smash
ing big employers. Important capt.
talist interests are supporting the
democratic party. They are no lon
ger even little afraid that the
democratic party may not do the
bidding of big business. For the
democratic party has completely
sold itself to Wall Street.
The national chairman of the
democratic party, running the Glib
eral" All Smith for president is ].
Raskob, head of the most notorious
open shop, anti-labor corporation in
the country. This is big business
with vengeance; the General Mo-
tors is the largest corporation in
the world and one of the richest.
also one of the most anti-labor. Cen
eral Motors and Raskob are con-
nected with the Morgan bank in
terests, which are connected with
the powerful Dupont interests and
the Aluminium Trust (the Mellon in
terests).
Another powerful Wall st. leader
of the Smith campaign is Owen D.
Young, of the General Electric Co.,
which controls the most powerful
power company in New York State,
the Frontier Power Co. Owen d.
Young is the real author of the
Dawes plan which has enslaved the
German workers. One could make
a very long list of the Wall Street
financial interests who are backing
Smith. | will mention just very
few. There is Dupont. famous am
munition and power king; William
Kenny, big traction millionaire;
Nicholas Brady and T. F. Ryan, i'm
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much as he aided us expose such traitors to
and assassns of the working class as the
labor party swindlers in Great Britain and
the radical socialist servants of imperialism
in France.
All such utterances help us convince the
masses that between the two old parties and
the Communists there is no middle ground
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that the socialist parties of the second inter
national, in countries where they are influ-
entail are trusted agents of imperialism and
that in this country the socialist party is
really very insignificant though poisonous
third party of capitalism; that the one Party
of the masses is the Workers (Communist)
Party.
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OVERLAPPING LEGAL"
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (UP)

WASHINGTON, Oct. s (UP).-
The famous overlapping case, in
which the United States supreme
court decided last spring that wire
tapping by federal prohibition
agents was legal, was ended today
with a ruling by the court refusing
to grant a rehearing.
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so supreme, so beautiful an emo
ton. A suicide of the spirit.
do whatever you are com.
pletely wanting to do. Know your
self-then be it to the thousandth
degree, blazingly, daringly, every
moment of your existencew
Marza's way and the right way!
''Oh, why didn't /! Why didn't
II she now thought darby, fran
tically. Il wish I had!'
Fervid images made her heart
flush. Oh, once when he held
her, the light, thrilling eyes
laughing into hers; held her and
whispered: You would have come
across the seas to me? You
meant that, Jerry?"
Il would fling all to the winds
for you-aII"' And she had added
that thrilled, blasphemous line
from KipIing: Il bear witness-I
bear witness-there is no God,
but YOU"
She recalled this with a still
panic.
"why didn't 7? I wasn't
afraid
Scenes from the night flashed
upon her; Nellie Spears hidden In
the arms of Bert Rogers; that
couple dancing with fearful slow
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ERR :: Story of Wild By ELENORE MEHERIN

ness in the unlighted alcove;
other couples merging in the
shadows of the grove-they
weren't afraid.
She hid her face in her arms.
Not that-not that travesty of all
that is sweet and fine and up.
lifting. Not that shoddy, ephemeral
throb of the senses that any
butchers boy can feel.
No! All or nothing! A love high
as mountains; enduring as the
stars. This was her dream. This
only she wanted. Not his hands
and his lips. But the fidelity OF
the spirit-the communion of
minds and thoughts and hearts.
All and always.
This he had promised. And this
was now lost.
But this was incredible and she
murmured excitedly: ITS not lost.
It can't be lost! Cling on--wait-
hope"'
She was wandering about the
room now. Suddenly she came to
a violent stop: "If / don't make
the break today, he will make it
tomorrow. Inevitable as the sun
coming, this is coming
At IL o'clock Sunday morning
Jerry came with a trap to MarZa's
bed. She always sat here on the
edge and they had their chummy,
delightful coffee together.
Wake up ole thing" she now
called in a forced, blithe tone.
What the heck
Nara laughed and pulled a
bandage from her chin. She said
with shrug: "One Of these is
srough-and at Al, you know,
ehins sometimes double up on
pretty ladies'"
why, I didn't think you could
he that silly, mother-a thin wisp
like you"
"A beautiful woman" said
Maria carelessly and now fluffing
the dark hair about her temples,
should die at the age of 38. 1t is
dismal to outlive ones usefulness
but tragic to outIiVe beauty.
I've often envied homely women.
THY never know the defeat and
ignominy it is to live on while
ones radiance dies upon them"
"MarZa!" said Jerry, STOPPING
down and looking into her moth
er's eyes. She saw a fear in
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I didn't like you so much
wouldn't dream of saying it."
please" said Eileen.
"Well--it's this. I'm going to
sound like snob. and I'm not
really. I'm not. It's just that
perhaps / know q little more
about certain things than you do,
because I've had more experience.
you will understand that, won't
your"
"Of coursev'
"Weli. what / mean is. I do
think you and your husband were
i'll advised to buy the Van Mary
ken house-or, rather, to move
in as you're doing. You see
you're coming into a terribly
conservative, ridiculously clannish,
crowd. It's no better than any
other. Some of us are just as
wild. we have just as many scan
dals, as any crowd anywhere
but we do flock together. And
it's terribly hard for newcomers"
"That-that isn't exactly news
to me-" said Eileen. She lifted
her troubled eyes to meet Helen's.
sI-you see-I didn't mean"
She was torn. What she wanted
to tell Helen 1t was hard for her
to say without seeming disloyal
to John.
II think I understand" said
Helen. you mean buying the
house wasn't your idea, don't
your"
Eileen nodded grateful and re-
lieved.
II thought So said Helen.
'Now-this is what It's 30 hard
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that was pushing so forbiddingly
between them. aside.
She ran back TO her room and
stood there summoning her
strength. She thought, shaking:
Whatever he says will be right!
Whatever he says now will be
right. 1 can't do it-Oh. God,
i can'tw
She sat on the bed and folded
her arms against the thunder of
her heart. She said, choking:
'Ive got to-if I don't today
oh. sure as the sun-he will to-
morrow"
CHAPTER 50
She went over to the mirror and
adjusted her hat. Then rubbed a
faint tinge of color TO the creamy
olive skin. She was terribly
shaken and leaned on the bureau,
daubing powder on her nose, twist
ing the hair into jetty curls about
her face: why am doing this?"
Ah--in the wild hope OF holding
him: drawing him back to the
flame.sweet eyes whose soul and
heart were his. Let him look in
them and yearn for them!
She went with humping, over
charger heart to the living room
where he waited.
"Oh. we're going out" said he
springing hastily to his feet,
scarcely looking at Jerry.
Yes. Nara will soon return"
She stood hesitant, her head low
cred, half expecting him to kiss
her.
He didn't. The despair in her
spirit grew.
Let's go over to the park"
said he in a quiet, casual tone.
"Oh no-not there"
A dark flush spread over his
cheeks. "As bad as all that, is
it,"
She shut her eyes, following
him mutely. They walked down
the steep Hyde Street hills to the
water.
There's the Yale going out.
Graceful. isn't it?"
She nodded, watching the rip
ping white trail the boat left on
the waters.
why 40 yOu WdHL 10 HldhS q
tragedy OF it?'' he asked abruptly.
She gave a faint smile. This
was like him-putting her on the
defensive. He always did when
they disagreed. She lacked a
sense OF humor when she grew
weary OF incessant risque stories:
she was a prude if she saw harm
in a near.amour with someone
else's wife, or danger in drunken
youth driving an automobile.
Usually she won these verbal
tiffs. For she could outboob him
Out-grin and out.ridicule him.
But now she looked across to
the sun cleaning through mists
on the Sausalito hills. And with
. each moment felt more crushed
and more suhdued.
This wasn't love sitting beside
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her In the golden autumn twilight:
not love so busily seeking Its own
defense and wanting to put her in
the wrong. 1t was loves anti
thesis-self.
And now In the broodingS quiet
a sense of fatality crept up and
sat between them
"Have you nothing to say?" he
asked accusingly.
oh millions of words. But
words won't alter facts
What facts! Unless you're
jumping to conclusions because of
Saturday night. don't know
why you're making an issue OF
the whole thing. After all it was
pretty crude the way you all
bolted after coming for the week
end. This time was no worse
than others.
John had an order to get
through. He couldn't afford to
stay up all night. There were no
beds for all of us. We didn't
leave because we weren't pleased.
Phil was perfectly satisfied
about it."
'You weren't helping John put
through that order, were you?
1 got drunk for the space of half
an hour. The first time you ever,
saw me drunk. SO you run off
and ditch me.''
mo! ! didn't rum out on you.
I came back and searched all
averages. Then | saw you 60
ing through the garden. ran
after you. called and called.
But you got into the car. You
drove off with her. didn't
know where. There seemed moth
ing for me to do. After all, you're
a man and free"
What do you mean by that?"
She said, white and quiet: Not
what you're thinking! I'm not
telling you that I'm through he
cause you chose to go off with
Ora Pringle. / could forgive q
physical infidelity"
There's none to forgive"
II wish there were and that 1t
were all! For that's such a venial
offense compared to other things.
The thing that is deadly: that
makes it impossible for two per-
sons to go on is the infidelity of
the spirit. And this is between
us"
TO Be Continued Tomorrow
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'l Nou Go On With The Story.

And, oh, IL it isn't, nothing mat
ters-nothing on eafth--''
1T probably. isn't as bad as il
seems now" said Helen, cheer.
fully. Things very seldom are.
All. here's the soup. Now, you
start in - and, lets see - I'm
starved, myself think Ill have
q vol-au.vent of lobster and some
Iettuce-you know the dressing !
like, Jules-Eileen, dear" n
Whatever you take" Eileen's
head went up.
Now deliberately she looked
across the room. Katherine Eos.
ter and the others were rising,
gatherings bags and other belong
ings. She bowed to them in
differently.
This place is dreadfully mixed.
of course-but they all are" said
= Helen. And they do have mar
Velous food"
Courage and strength were flow
ing back into Eileen moment by
moment. But they couldn't mend
the wound in her heart, the wound
that would never, she thought, be
wholly healed.
CHAPTER IS
"I have to fly" said Helen
Bishop. The others had gone;
she and Eileen had finished their
lunch, drunk their coffee, smoked
their cigarettes i've 4 fitting
and I've got TO pick up the kids
q stupid afternoon, or I'd ask you
to come along. When do you think
you'll go down to your house to
stay?"
II don't quite know" said
Eileen. IT may think / may go
down at once. New York's little
oppressive to- me when 1t begins
to.get warm"
I'm going down next week my
SELF said Helen. II hope you'lI
be there" She hesitated. MY
dear-I'm going to be extremely
frank with you. ! hope YOU won't
mind, .
Eileen summoned a smile from
some reserve of an almost forgot
ten happiness, deep in her being.
I'm very sure I won't ever
mind anything you say to me-"
she answered.
Don't be too certain Till you
hear. This is pretty dreadful--if
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80 to John with a demand that his
cards be thrown face down upon
the table.
Eileen was not, like some people.
appeased once she had made
decision. There are those who,
once their minds have been made
UP to do something, are almost
a. well pleased as II they had
already done it. She was not
made that way. And now, once
Helen's car was out of sight, she
turned and began to walk, DELHI
erately. without haste, but filled
with purpose, toward the great
building that housed Johns office.
1t was easy to enter the build
ing. II was easy to step into m
elevator, get out at the proper
floor, enter the door of the large
and elaborate quarters maintained
by the syndicate. But there she
met an obstacle.
II am Mrs. MacYeagh. +" she
said pleasantly to the girl who
came to meet her. II should like
to see Mr.. MacVeagh."
The girl went to the telephone.
In a moment she came back.
I'm so sorry" she said. But
they say Mr.. MacVeagh is in a
conference.
Then I'll wait" said Eileen.
She sat down. In few minutes
another girl came out and crossed
to where Eileen sat. As Eileen
looked mp she met hostile eyes,
dark, sullen eyes. full Of 4 smol-