New Britain herald., 1928-08-28
oM|7H LEAVES FOR
 SYRACUSE TONIGHT
Will Speak At State Fair There
 Tomorrow

New York. Aug os Rl-Wrth a brief speech of thanks to the people of New Jersey who hailed him so uproariously during his four days there, Governor Smith has fired the
 first shot in his fight for the presi- S dency since he was formally pro- claimed the democratic standard T bearer.
 While impromptu and not on the
 issues of the day, the address was
 delivered amid atmosphere so un-
 mistakably political that it was gen. orally accepted as having put the
 nominee up to the front line trench for the battles to come. Plans for
 his speaking itinerary were down
 for discussion at conferences here
 today, and the governor will leave tomorrow morning for Syracuse to attend a dinner there tomorrow night and the state fair the next
 day.
 Governor Smiths first speech, made shortly before midnight from a small decorated platform on the city hall steps in Newark, surround ed by 8 bowling. torch bearing crowd that flooded into the streets, surprised everyone in his party, as he had passed the word that he 1n- tended to make no open air speeches unless forced to do so. This evidently was a case where he was forced. for the throngs that greeted him during the late after noon and night as he made his way by automobile up to New York from Spring Lake, N. J., gave him an ovation as tumultuous as that of last Friday when he was en route to the big democratic rally at Sea Girt.
 With difficulty the nominee el- bowed his way through the crowd to the steps then, with hat off and his hands on the railing in front of him, he expressed his sorrow at having to leave New Jersey and de- clared he had never seen a greater display of enthusiasm for cause than that shown for him in his neighbor state.
 II left New York city at p. m. Friday" he began. i've never thought New Jersey had so great a population. At Sea Girt, the whole population of the eastern part of ! United States seemed to be assembl- ed
 "I will be sorry to leave New Jer- sey," he continued. "I have never sen so much devotion. I may say affection, as the people of New Jer- sey have shown me. 1 have been called AT more often during the four days I spent here than l have in my whole official life in New York"
 Gets Great Ovation Just before leaving the stand to fight his way back to his car, the governor was greeted by another tremendous shout, led by Charles P. Gillian, d Newark city commissioner who had introduced him, proposing three cheers for the next president of the United States" Coming slowly on through Jersey City to the tune of freight trains, drawbridgc and small boat whistles, the democratic nominee was given touch of local enthusiasm when
 reached the New York end of the vehicular tunnel.
 "Hurrah for AL" shouted a group Of several hundred residents of the old fifth ward who came to well come him back to his native city.
 Turning to the nine New Jersey state police who accompanied his party on motorcycles all the way up from Spring Lake, the governor voiced his thanks to which they joined in reply:
 Pleased to have met you" Mir. President"
 New York police then took over the escort job to the Hotel Bilt-