Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-07
tennessee, Kentucky and
Virginia Citizens Give
Nominee RouSing Welcome
at EIizabethton.
SPEECH is DELIVERED
IN INSPIRING SETTING
Declares Presidential Contest Has
No Place for Personal Bitterness.
"Alf" Taylor, Famous Former
Governor, 80, Introduces Can
didate.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

ELIzABETHTON, Tenn, October 6.
Herbert Hoover bit into the Demo-
cratic South today with an appeal that
the Republican party and its principles
of government be given support.
Before crowd $4,000 strong, gathered
from Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia,
the Republican nominee for President
sounded the Republican slogan of pros
perity and better business, of ever
higher standards of living and better
homes.
No candidate for President ever had
o more beautiful and inspiring setting
for an address. In natural amphithea-
ter, carved out of the hills themselves,
Mr.. Hoover stood with the crowd massed
all about him and far back up the steep
mountain side. The Smoky Mountains
thrust their peaks into the clouds. The
sun shown brightly, although there had
been showers earlier in the day. 1t was
not only a beautiful, but an historic set
ting. for it was in these mountains that
the battle of Kings Mountain was fought
14s years ago and the British turned
back. It was in these mountains that
Andrew johnson, Vice President, and
President after Lincoln's assassination,
was reared.
Appeal Wen Reeeived.
The Republican appeal was well re-
ceived. Time and again the crowd
burst into cheers as the candidate drove
home his arguments. His declarations
for prohibition, for restriction of immi-
grafton and for the protective tariff all
reused the crowd to enthusiasm. De-
spite predictions that he might make
further statement for religious tolerance
and attacking bigotry in the campaign
Mr.. Hoover did not mention the re-
ligious issue. He did, however, MAKE an
appeal for fair play in the campaign
and declared there was no place III IL
for personal bitterness. :.
"Our national officials are chosen,
said Mr.. Hoover "in order that tney
NAV protect the political and economic
health of the American people.
NIn a contest such as this there Is
no place for personal bitterness. a
great attribute of our political life has
been the spirit of fair play with which
our presidential contests have been
waaed In former years and the sports
Ynanlike spirit in which we have
accepted the result. We prove our
selves worthy of self-government and
worthy of confidence as officials In
proportion as we keep these contests
free from abuse, free from misrepresen-
tation and free from words and acts
which carry regret Wheatever the re-
suit, we remain fellow countrymen."
introduced by "AIf' Taylor.
Mr., Hoover was introduced to his
audience by former Gov. "Alfo Taylor,
now 90 years old but hale and hearty
and with voice that rang out as
vigorously as though he had been hall
that age "Old Timber" as the gover-
nor is affectionately known throughout
Tennessee, also took a fling at the un-
fair tactics which have been adopted
by some of Mr.. Hoover's opponents,
the whispering campaign which has
classed Mr. Hoover as more European
In sympathy than American. He pre-
dicted that whispering campaign OF
that character could not in the end
prevent the election of Mr.. Hoover and
the crowd howled its applause.
Hon went even farther than his pre-
Vious speeches.
81 wish it to succeed" he said
enuhatically: ''the purpose of the
eighteenth amendment is to protect
the American home A sacred obliga-
ton is imposed on the President TO
secure its honest enforcement and TO
eliminate the abuses which have grown
up around it."
Mr.. Hoover's statement that he wish
ed the prohibition amendment to sue
ceed was taken as direct slap at his
Democratic opponent, Gov. Smith, VINO
frankly admits that he wishes to amend
the amendment so as to make it pos
sible for those States which desire to
do so to go wet" Here in these Ten
nessee mountains, where moonshine
whisky has been made for genera
tons. long before prohibition came into
favor, Mr.. Hoover's declaration for the
dry amendment was heartily applauded
ano cheered.
Preparations Well Made.
Mr.. Hoover met the people of Ten
nessee, of Virginia, of North Carolina
and of Kentucky today at every turn.
They had their first opportunity to see
and to hear the presidential nominee.
They streamed into this little progress
slVe CITY OF lZ,ODO people by every ROAD
and railway. Half hundred thousand
visitors squeezed themselves in, without
disorder and without hardship. The
preparations for handling the crowds
had been well made.
And when Mr.. Hoover smiled at these
mountain people, they smiled back at
him. They are not a demonstrative lot.
They watched his entry into Elizabeth
ton quietly and with comparatively
little applause. But he made a good
impression on these Yankees of the
South whose ancestry In this country
runs back to re-Revolutionary days.
And his declaration against increased
immigration and in favor of the present
laws was loudly acclaimed
Before entering Tennessee, Mr.
Hoover's special train was halted for a
few minutes at Bristol on the State
line between Virginia and Tennessee
From the rear of his train Mr.. Hoover
spoke to a crowd of 5000 people, briefly