The Washington times., 1928-10-17

rural Missouri today for Illinois
from State leaders that II tn
about Missouri s Is electoral v
Governor Smith is political real,
ast. He was reared in the school or
practical politics. Consequently ne
does not take every report turned
In by exuberant and enthusiastic
local chairrnen at face value, But
he sincerely believes he has won
the border country. He has been
told so by the leaders in every state
he has been in on the present tour,
and, rightly or wrongly, he believes
those reports.
Now to Conquer East
Ahead of the New York governor
as he faced Eastward today Is IL
linois and his own Atlantic seaooafo
where he feels at home. The west.
with its unfamiliar territory, ana
the border country, with its Noa1IhnS
cross currents of religious and pro-
hibition completes, is behind MIN.
From now on it is Eastward no,
so far as the Smith campaign Is
concerned.
Governor Smith is going to make
\ real bid for Illinois and its ~
GlGCI0IAl
have been cast for a Democratic
candidate for the presidency. That
was in 1912 when woodrow wilson
realized upon the Republican sui
eide of that year.
Swept BY Coolidge
In other years Illinois has been
overwhelmingly Republican. Cool
jdgs carried it by nearly 100000
over Davis, and Harding won 1t
by approximately the same figure
in 1920. That does not feaze the
Hannv Warrior" of 1928. His
answer TO that is that he ran
approximately million votes ahead
of his ticket in the only year ne
was ever beaten for the governor
ship of New York.
Tonight he will reach Chicago.
He will stay there tomorrow ana
Friday. and on Friday night VIII
sneak at the One Hundred ana
Thirty-first Regiment Armory IN
what promises to be, memoranle
political meeting. Democratic can
didates for the presidency do not
usually spend three days in Illinois. |
Governor Smith is doing so De-
Gauss he believes they VIII De
profitably spent.
En- route to Chicago today. the
New York Governor will make a
number of stops in Illinois. notably
At Springfield and Bloomington, |
down.state cities. His candidacy
must catch on down-state il 1t Is
to be successful in Illinois. He
visited southern Illinois, en- route
- CadoIio Monday
Charges Record Faxed
Governor Smith closed his cam
naign west of the Mississippi here
in SedaIia last night with a slash |
ing attack on the Republican fiscal
record of the past eight years. HE
raid his respects particularly toi
"reoIidge economy" and in the
process he accused his Republican
orponent, Herbert Hoover. of being
partv TO the deliberate misrep-
Esssntation of the Republican
record.
Governor Smith ripped into the |
record aggressively. The Repub' |
licans. he said. have deliberately /
tried to give the country "a false |
picture" of the nations financial |
history for the last eight years. |
Republican economy. he said was a |
myth. and to suhstantiate his |
charges he cited budget figures
showing that the cost of govern |
ment has increased steadily every
year under the Harding-Coolid2e
Administration. il allowance is made
for the natural reduction of war
time features.
False statements. misrcpresenta-
tion. concea lment of the truth, all
OF these things have meant moth
ing" he said so long as the
mythical picture could be sustal1od
IN all its falsity in the mind and
the vision of the American people.
Flags Hoover Figures
He ridiculed some of the money
saving devices put in under the
budget direction of Gen. Herbert
NJ. Lord. such as using paper en-
both sides" and Searching waste
baskets for discarded paper-clips
and pencil stubs"
"I am not decrying these econo-
mics" he said. Il am as strong
az a man can he for economical and
efficient government. but what e.
am finding fault with Is the urging
of this as a basis for the false
claim that. because OF this kind Of
GSOIIOItS. AiiC pcoDic III the NOh"Ai
through the instrumentality OF the
Republican party. have been saved
billions of dollars. That is not
true"
Governor Smith quoted Hoover
az saving that "hy rigorous economy
Federal expenses have been re-
duced by two billions of dollars per
ennum."
mo more misleading statement
could be made than that" he said,
0ard for a man who uses figures
chs way Mr.. Hoover does / am sur
nrised he would make that kind of
4 abatement to the American peo-
rIe. He knows just as well as
40 that the difference between the
1921 expenditures of the Govern
noent and the 1927 expenditures are
+ha difference between operating
tbe Government in time of war
end time Of peace. Not by any
stretch of human Imagination can
+bat be credited TO Republican
economy. That statement is not so.
end challenged the Republican
20 ndidate TO make il good
n was field day for the Demo
ais of central and rural Missouri.
Tbs1 drove into Sedslis by thou
sands. During the afternoon they