The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-05
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M A Last Minute Campaign Debate -
BY JOHN J. RASkOH
Chairman Democratic NatiOnaI Committee

Chairman Democratic National Committee
Alfred E. Smith should be elected president of the
United States
There man whose training so cminently
fitted him for this position The history of our coun
try has proven concusvey that its presidents such
Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt William Mckin-
ley, Woodrow Wilson and Calvin Coolidge, who have
have been infinitely greater presidents than the Others
No president ever enjoyed training equal to that Of
Governor Smith comprising eight years governor Of
the largest state in the Union.
With Governor Smith president can look to the
same revamping and coordinating of the various de-
partments at Washington as occurred under his ad-
mnisration of the state of New York. which from
one of low efficiency to the proud position of model
for all other states.
This record has achieved the highest praise from
Democrats Is we'll from Republicans like Elihu
Root, Charles Evans Hughes, Governor Frank @. Low
den of Illinois. Nicholas Murray Butler president of
Columbia University. and numerous others. In the ac
complishment of these results Governor Smith has
shown great leadership in his ability every
situation through bringing the people to his support
thus enabling and compelling his Republican legislature
to support his progressive policies.
That Cry Of Socialism
When Mr. Hoover, at last goaded into saying some
thing drags out the dead old cry of socialism, the peo
pie of New York state who know Governor Smith just
laugh because Hoover is only doing what the govern
ors opponents in New York state have done in despera
ton in every campaign in which Smith has been elected
as governor. Desperate is quite proper word to de-
scribe the attitude of party which resorts to charging
man with being socialist because of his desire to
provide reasonably prudent protection OF public interest
in the handling of great national resources which
heritage Of the people Of all time and only of
those Of this generation
When Owen D. Young. head of the foremost electric
business in the nation says II shall for Governor
Smith the man with the greatest demonstrated ca
pacity for political leadership of any l have ever
known" he means just what was meant by John w.
Davis. expert foreign affairs and legal representa-
tive Of many of Americas biggest financial interests
when he said that of all the he has known the gov
ernor is best equipped deal with the multitude of
problems. domestic and foreign, that crowd upon the
president.
No Mention Of Federal Reserve
10 cover up the fact that the worst depression we
have had in recent times in the early part of the
Harding administration when Mr. Hoover was urging
everybody to buy sugar and banks failing through
the west the old tariff talk is dragged out There no
mention Of President Wilson's Federal Reserve Act
without which we never could have gone through war
changes without panic.
Nor do the Republicans trouble to advise the nation
that panic times have occurred quite often by
OF Republican administrations by reason Of Demo-
cratic administrations.
Governor Smith and the Democratic party are COM
mitted to an immigration policy and to tariff policy
that leaves neither Of these questions an issue in this
campaign. and big business men appreciate that the
election OF Governor Smith provides for
sation Of prosperity
1t easy to hand out favors lines of business that
are already prosperous. What we need in Washington
man capable of constructive thinking about those
lines that actually do need assistance such textiles
coal and agriculture. We need what Mr. Hughes called
Governor Smith, "a master in the science of politics."