The Washington times., 1928-10-25


| his own position, then read an ex-
tract from a Hoover speech and say:
What does that mean? Where
does he stand
On water power and farm relief
| the Democratic candidate burlesqued
| b "roll cali, of Republicans, who,
| he commended, stood for the policies
which he has been advocating.
He reiterated his own stand I'm
favor OF Government ownership and
control of water-power development,
and then read extracts from the
writings and speeches of such dis
tinguished Republicans as Theodore
Roosevelt the elder, Charles Evans
Hughes, and ex-Gov. Nathan l..
Miller, advocating similar owner
ship and control.
IF / am Socialist" !" he said. sar-
castically. then so was Theodore
Roosevelt"
IF ] am a Socialist, so is Charles
e. Hughes. How about Gwen d.
Young, chairman of the board Of
the General Electric Company? In
1925, he wrote me at Albany put.
ting his stamp OF approval upon
my theory of setting up water
power authority. II / am a Socialist,
SO is Owen ID. Young"
Curtis Half Socialist"
Similarly with the farm relief.
There, too, he called the rolf
while his appreciative and boisterous
audience roared in approval.
Let's see, he said. who are
some OF the Socialists on farm re.
lief:
"No. /. the Republican candidate
fnF he
Curtis. But he is only so per cent
Socialist because he voted for il
the first time 1t came before the
Senate, and when it was vetoed by
the President he did not vote for IT.
He was either right or wrong the
first time. He cannot have it both
ways.
And what about all the mem
bers OF Congress who voted for farm
relief? They must all be relegated
to their proper places in the social
istic party.
What about Governor Lowden of
Illinois? According to MIR. Hoover he
Is a socialist. And what about the
| Nice-president, Mr.. Dawes. who
spoke only the other night for Mr..
| Hoover, never realizing that by the
action of his own candidate in Madi-
son Square Garden he was put into
the socialist group?"
Farmers All Tagged
| As for the farmers of the corn
| wheat country who have advocated
| the McNary- Haugen bill and normal
| ly supported the Republican party,
| Governor Smith said Mr. Hoover put
them all in the socialist class"
| Then turning from the sarcastic
TO the serious, the Democratic NOM
| inee declared that Hoover's charge
OF Socialism" was merely "subter-
| fuge and smoke screen" to cover up
his opponents own reactionary ten
| dencies. He said Mr.. Hoover had
! been sold" the socialism charge by
| Edmund MacHold. chairman OF the
Republican state Committee OF New
York, who. he charged is one of the
| leading spirits Of the Power Trust.
Following his usual custom of Sc
| lecting a single sentence from one
OF Mr.. Hoover's speeches and making
! II the subject of his speech, Cover.
nor Smith choose for his text last
| night this line from the Hoover
speench Of acceptance.
1--WE shall use words that convey
our meaning, not to hide it"
"These words" he said. held out
to the American people the high hope
that this campaign would be con-
Quoted in such way as to let the
people make an intelligent decision
on the sixth of November.
But the pledge has not been kept,
he said. and in his keenest satirical
vein he proceeded to regale his
audience with extracts from MIR.
| Hoovers speeches, covering water
| power. farm relief and prohibition.
He quoted Hoover as warning
against deadly and destructive doc
| trines' with regard to water power
| and farm relief, and mockinsly de-
! manded.
What does that mean
He quoted his Republican oppon-
ent as saying that prohibition was
"a noble experiment which must he
worked out constructiVely, and
again demanded:
What does all that meanl'
what is the matter with the
noble experiment? Isn't it working?
| What does he intend to do about
| it? He admits grave abuses have
occurred. What does he intend
| to do about them?"
| His audience rocked the building
| with cheers when he referred to his
own solution for the prohibition
| problem-amendment of the Eigh-
| teenth Amendment and the Volstead
/ Act to allow each State. upon a
| referendum vote to disnense Guuors