Evening star., 1928-11-04
Near End of Hot Campaign
Great Crowds Cheer Contestants.


uOIS OOeuVIe. I'll ASaVAAS MoudO0h
Square Garden he had with him q
single document: THE Worlds Greatest
Detective Stories"
Normally the candidate retireS. early
or 10 o'clock. About 2 O'Clock In
the morning he arises, drinks lemon
ade, eats fruit and reads biographies.
In his recent utterances the Repub-
lican gladiator has made public some
PHILOSOPHERS that shape his life. He
II don't drink, I don't overeat. j
don't waste my energies running around
in circles-I go fishing.
There were lots of people who COM
mitted crimes during the year who
would not have done SO if they had
been fishing. = The increase of
crime is due to lack of those quail
tiles which impregnate every fisherman
except those who get no bites.
"The Declaration Of Independence is
frm that all men are endowed with
certain inalienable rights. Mil
lions of autos overwork the fishing
holes. We must conclude that the dis
tance between bites has increased be-
cause of the rising ratio of water to
fish"
Concluding, the Republicans brief
experience at Stumping has been a
valuable addition to his dramatic
career. But it will take this campaign
and probably another before he is a
bred-in-the-bone Stumper. In New
York, the nominee preferred to stick
in his Waldorf-AStoria apartment for
% hours before he tasted the side
walks of New York. Delegations came
to visit him there, and he is alleged
to have shaken hands with no less than
$4,000 people in that time, held con-
ferenceS with three college presidents
and discussed campaign plans with half
. hundred Republican leutenantS.
A word about the nominees wife.
She is a silent, benign companion on
his Stumping tours, reserved in her
attire and speech. "T have a rule
about talking to newspaper folk" she
says. And that rule is silence. But"
she conf1des, perhaps, some day may
vary It," She wears long black vel
vet scarf and black satin slippers; poses
for photographers, but asks them on
their honor not to print results until
she has sanctioned the release.
A ND now, having discussed the candi-
date for Republicanism, turn to
the champion of Democracy.
The Happy Warrior must be ciassed
M.
really wears brown derbies. Al calls
them "bronzers." He carries three or
four on every tour, and when disposed.
tosseS one out to the crowd. When the
last "bronzer" is tossed overheard he
wears his gray fedora.
Both AL and Herbert are 81, and they
look the same age, too. AL plays golf,
not because he likes it, but because he
needs the exercise. Parades In his
honor have been the ruination of more
telephone directories than will be print
ed in the next edition. The Happy
Warrior has stumped in New York State
Tor a quarter OF century, was never
west OF the Mississippi River before he
began the present campaign. The pre-
vailing vogue for '75ronzers" is sup
porting the employees of several hat fac
tories
The governor is the only presidential
candidate in history who is not known
generally by his last name It's either
ar or "Al Smith" rarely smith
The Happy Warrior is now campaign
ing for State rights. etc, in the sea-
board States. His tours, North, West
and East, have been whirlwind cam
paignS that would surely disable any
man who was not hardened to the
grave rigorS of stumping. On the
march, he leads violent, strenuous
campaign. All his neutenants and
chamberlains suffer from the physical
and nervous ordeal but Articlllate AL
seems as fresh as ever.
The governor has made famous his
stump apothegms, among them, "Now,
where did I hear that before? I
am not simple-minded about this.
What do you say if we call the roll?
/. :. It's alll-l-ln in the record. !.
1 VIII use words to convey my mean
ing"
While in the last stages of the sea-
board campaign the governor broke a
score of crowd records. They called his
invasion of Boston repetition of the
tea party" In Philadelphia he turned
the City of Brotherly Love into a mad
Dediam. Broad street reSembled q foot
pau stadium. with people kicking each
other around.
The Happy Warrior believes firmly in
talking. He loves debate. He learned
1t all In the Assembly chamber. It was
MS school, his college--in fact the
foundation of everything he attained
was laid there. He says:
Gentlemen, come out from behind
the screen and do your work in the
open. In the first place am not
an orator. II never knew that we
as Americans had any devotion to silent
people. Washington was not silent
Lincoln was not quiet and the Lord
knows Roosevelt was not a silent man
Permit me with characteristic
modesty to say that am not very silent
myself. What is the State? Green
fields and rivers, lakes and mountains?
Why. not at all. It is the people.
1 know who Thomas Jefferson Is and
l may oe supposed to know who Benja-
min Franklin is, but if I quote De
Tocqueville, everybody will say, al
smith never wrote that. He never
neard Of De TocQueville' / believe
Ia equality. but I can't nurse a baby"
His stump speeches are prepared in
advance, but he never adaeres to their
letter. Extemporaneity is the right he
insists on exercising from the public
platform. His first shot in the CAM
palgn was read speech, but it failed
10 satisfy him. Freedom of the stump
TO Al Smith means freedom of hand
swings and large stage of operation.
MS love Tor oratory is expressed also in
MS deep interest in printed orations, in
plilS, reports, public documents. He
says. says there is enough sadness in life
WITHOUT reSorttng to the tragedies of
novels and plays. He likes the light,
Wlnsome touch in literature.
Inc governor reads newspapers most
omnivorously. He tries to sense the
thought trend and feel the public pulse.
But talking is his forte. Al is one of
Inc pest story tellers in the country.
a Joke is favored and seasoned when
told by him.
The governor will defend his words
on the ground Shakespeare the great
split his inflnitives. Ergo. the Hannv
Warrior makes no bones about splitttng
couple himself.
X * X X
The Happy Warriors farewell to AL
eany on October "a, when he embarked
on his last tour. was a dramatic leave
taxing. Al appeared just a few min
uteS before his trains departure escort
ed by q captain Of the New York State
Troopers.