Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-02

Republicans Democrats and inde-
pendents of the press vie with one an
other in roundly denouncing the cam
paign activities of Mrs. Mabel Walker
Willebrandt, Assistant United States
Attorney General. whose addresses to
religious organizations and attacks on
the Democratic nominee have made
! her a storm center in the presidential
campaign.
Mrs Willebrandt is not wholly without
champions. For instance, the Rochester
| Democrat and Chronicle Republican,
| takes the position: Gov. Smith de-
liberately chose to fiout that portion
| of the electorate that regards pro-
hibition as it's special trust He did
| this on the obvious gamble OF winning
another portion of the electorate that
wants to see prohibition destroyed. His
action. now. in denouncing friends OF
prohibition for speaking their MINDS
suggests that he realizes he has made
a wrong gamble and Is unwilling to
accept the responsibility for the con-
sequences" Similarly the MorgantoWn
New Dominion independently says.
1--WE resent the unfairness and injus-
tice of the attack on this noble, con-
scientious, law-enforcing officer OF our
Government, not only by Gov. Smith
cratic and Republican, just as much as
we do those directed against Gov.
Smith"
Most OF those who comment are by
no means so sympathetic, however.
Such a stanch Republican spokesman
as the Cincinnati Times-Star speaks OF
the Assistant Attorney General as 1.-The
apparently irrepressible Mabel Walker
Willebrandt" while the Columbus Ohio
State Journal (Republican) declares
"she is most certainly injuring the
political cause she is trying to pro-
mote" and suggests that "a word from
President Coolidge or Mr. Hoover would
settle her." Should Mrs. Willebrandt
be called out of the campaign against
the Democratic nominee by the Repub-
lican national committee" remarks the
Memphis Commercial Appeal Demo-
cratic), friends of those nominees VIII
be sorely disappointed. For Mrs. Willie
brandt Is doing anything else than
harm to the Democratic candidates
| The Syracuse Herald independently OBJ
| serves that 1.-The peculiar and UNI
! precedented character of her present
! campaign is an enterprise which the
Republican national committee runs
desperate risks in approving and shoul-
dering."
The campaign committee will have
difficulty in escaping the harm!ul e.
fccts of Mrs. Withdrawals unwise ut
/ taranccs." in the judgment of the
Herald of Washington Courthouse (in-
dependcnt), while the Cleveland Plain
Dealer independent Democratic) says
as to a speech in Ohio: ITO climax her
Misrepresentation, she said that Mr..
| Smith as Governor Of New York has
, four times taken an oath to support
| the Constitution of the United states
, and he has four times diSregarded that
! OATH Do Candidate Hoover and CHAIR
man Work sanction this reckless ma
ranguing on the part OF member Oh
| the Coolidge administration?
The Republican national committee
! has assumed heavy responsibility.
| states the Springfield Union tRepubh-
| cam with. however, the contention
| that "she will BE- rejected as spokes-
nan of the party by thousands through
out the country" The South Bend
Tribune independent Republican, ad-
vises that, 'in the long run. Hoover
will suffer more than Smith II Mrs.
Willebrsndt continues to act without
! discretion" The Portsmouth Daily
Times tDemocratic) satiricall1 IcmsrSs,
Mr. Hoover, of course, knows nothing
about her at ALL
Her plea on moral grounds stirs other
cri les Prohibition Is, of course, not
the whole OF morality" suggests the
Dayton Daily News independent Demo-
crst'o). None of the Tn Conorlo MI
n'ents, as We remember, r7f-rs to pro-
h'bition. But there Is commandm ent
which says. Thou shalt not steal "