Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-29
Governors Firm Belief in
Fast Finishes Expressed
in Weeks Schedule.
SUBJECT IN MARYLAND
is STILL UNANN0UNCED
May Touch Upon Prohibition.
Big Reception Is Planned for
Nominees Arrival.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
WILMINGTON, Del, October 90
With four speeches ahead of him in the
last week before election Gov. Smith
today reached that stage of the presi-
DENTAL race which he predicted soon
after his notification would be the turn
ing point of the campaign.
The Democratic presidential nominee
Is firm believer in strong campaign
finishes, having practiced it in his elI-
bernatorial battles on the theory that
thousands wait until the final week to
make up their minds which way to
vote.
So tonight In Baltimore he will start
down the home stretch of his Atlantic
Seaboard offensive confident that his
last four efforts to present the issues
IN plain, everyday" language will swing
to the Democratic party the voters nee
essary to place him in the White House.
Parade in Baltimore.
Rested after week end stay at the
nearby home of John j. Raskob, chair
man of the Democratic national COM
mittee, at Claymont, the governor
planned to motor to Wilmington %
board his special train at $50 pm. His
arrival at the Mount Royal Station in
Baltimore was set for O'Clock. and a
parade of an hour through the indus
trial and business centers was to fol-
low, terminating at the Hotel Belvedere.
A more strenuous program was I'M
oerStood to have been mapped out by a
Baltimore committee for the nominees
reception, but this was curtailed by the
candidate In order that he might have
more time for dinner and last minute
preparations for his speech.
The speech tonight to be delivered in
the 9TH Regiment Armory, where Wood
row wilson was nominated in 1912, will
pc broadcast over the Nation beginning
at o'clock Eastern time. AS in the
case OF his more recent addresses. the
nominee viii withhold the subject of his
Maryland appeal until he goes on the
air.
Mrs. Wilson on Platform.
Introduced in Boston by one of Wood
row Wilson's daughters, Mrs. Frances B.
Sayre, Gov. Smith was notified that
Mrs. woodrow Wilson would be on the
platform in Baltimore tonight. Other
guests will be Senators Tydings and
Sruce. Howard Bruce, Democratic ma
t1onal committeeman, planned to board
the nominees train at Aberdeen to ac-
company him to Baltimore. A separate
reception for Mrs. Smith was on the
program.
In view of the nominees statement
that he intended to employ the final
WeeS OF the campaign in summing I'D
OF tne questions he believes are at issue,
several OF those in his party were of
the opinion today that he would de-
vote at least part of his single Mary
land speech to prohibition as he did in
the big ballot center of Philadelphia.
Others thought he would take an
other oral fling at Herbert Hoover,
probably in connection with his extra
session statement on farm relief.
In Newark Wednesday.
After an overnight stay in Baltimore,
Gov Smith will return to New York
to prepare for his second speech of the
week, at Newark, N. j., wednesday
night. On Friday, in the Academy of
Music at Brooklyn, he viii deliver an
address on State issues, and on Sat-
urday night wind up his speaking cam
paign with general appeal to the
national electorate from Madison
Square Garden.
With his Saturday night address he
will have delivered II formal campaign
speeches in is States extending from
Massachusetts to Montana and Okla
homa to Maryland. Three will have
been made in his native State of New
York, counting his address to the
Democratic State convention in Roches-
ter october l.
Rask0b Sees Victory.
Scores of kilograms had reached the
governor today praiSing his Philadel-
p1la speech. Chairman Raskob had
something to say about it himself in
statement issued at Claymont.
AT Philadelphia Saturday night"
the statement said, IT witnessed
demonstration for the Democratic presi-
Dental nominee, which, I am informed
by members of the party who have
travelled throughout the country with
him, was similar in comparison with
the size OF the other cities visited for
It's enthusiasm and spontaneity. 1t can
mean nothing but victory
1T Is easy to appreciate the enthu-
siasm OF the independent citizens
committee of Philadelphia. and the
Pennsylvania Democratic organization
in their firm belief of carrying that
rock-ribbed Republican city after last
nights demonstration"