Evening star., 1928-11-03
Garden Speech
Last Big Talk
of Race.
BROOKLYN GIVES
CREATOVATION
Final Short Appeal
to Be Put on Air
Monday Night.

| BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 81
Having taken the time in the
home stretch of the presidential
campaign to plead with all the
force at his command for election
Of the Democratic State ticket,
headed by Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Gov. Smith winds up in Madison
Square Garden tonight the most
intensive fight of his Is years in
politics.
The Democratic standard bearer
is confident he will be the next
President of the United States,
and tonight he will tell the home
folks the reason why he thinks
so. 1t will be the last audience
he will address in person, and his
managers hope to make it the
largest of his three swings around
the country.
Monday night, after Herbert
Hoover has made his final Is
minute appeal to the American
people from Palo Alto, Calf, to
retain the Republicans in power
at Washington, the Democratic
nominee will address the voters,
but it will be from a radio broad
casting studio.
Asks State Ticket Aid.
In his first speech in his home State
since he addressed the Democratic State
convention at Rochester October /,
Gov. Smith told an audience in the
Brooklyn Academy of Music last night
that 1t was up to the people of New
York to keep the Democrats in power
at Albany If they wanted to see "a
constructive, forward looking, wise and
economical administration" OF their al
fairs continued.
Discussing State issues and their re-
lation to similar questions in the ma
tional compaign, the nominee assailed
| Albert Ottinger. State attorney general
and Republican candidate for governor
on his waterpower, agriculture, educa-
ton and State finance stands before
he struck the question of prohibition.
He described Ottinger as "wet
| dry" and said he had made the "in-
| teresting suggestion that he will wait
until the commission appointed by Mr.
Hoover reports on it,"
WELL" the governor remarked, "thai
is little bit too long to wait. There
isn't going to be any report. because
there isn't going to be any commission
I'll attend to that. AS have promised
| that question to the American people
and lay it before them fairly, clearly
Straightforwardly and intelligently, anc
I shall let them settle it."
Remark Wins Applause.
Loud applause greeted this statement
and then the governor swung into his
own eight years of administration OF
State affairs and challenged his opposi-
ton to find fault If they could.
"At no time In the history Of this
State" he said, "was the government
of this State in as good condition as 1t
is today.
"I am going through national cam
paign. / am fighting some pretty
bright men. They have plenty of brains
and they have a great deal of money
We are within two days of election
Have you heard from the lips of any
mortal man a single criticism about
the government of this State under me?
He can't do it,"
The Democratic office holders at AL
bany, he continued, we're giving to New
York a constructive, a forward-look-
ing. a wise, capable and an econom-
ical administration of their affairs"
"They have paid attention" he said
Ito the humaa side as well as to the
business side--and that human side Is
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