Evening star., 1928-10-20
WHITE RESUMES
ATTACK ON SMITH
Nominees Explanations for
Saloon Votes Called
SpeCiouS.

Y ne Associated Press.
INDEPENDENCE, Kans.. October 20
Renewing his charges that Gov AL.
red E. Smith was subservient to Tam.
1any Hall while a member of the
lew Yorwk Legislature, William Allen
White, Kansas author and editor. took
he stump here last night and declared
he explanations given by Smith of his
otes on saloon legislation were al
peciouS and all twisted with the Tam
many viewpoint"
In his defense of his record more
han in the record ITSELF" White as
erted. Gov. Smith today by his shift
ng, undemocratic explanation of that
ecord reveals himself the perfect flow-
r of Tammany who does not dare,
because he cannot, appeal to the Amer
can conscience"
Young AL Smith always gave his
aote on the liquor question TO Tam
many" White declared IF Tammany
las a good saloon record, then young
II Smith should have been a Methodist
bishop
Charges Withdrawn.
White. in a statement issued to New
votes as an ASSemblyrnan on various
bills affecting saloons and drew heat
Ell reply from the New York execu-
tive. Charges by White at that time
that Smiths votes in the Legislature
had been cast for the protection of
prostitution and gambling later were
withdrawn by the editor.
In his address last night at a rally
rnder auspices of the Republican State
committee. White declared the Tam
many oligarchy" was the real issue of
tine presidential campaign and he said
the Democratic presidential nominee
typified the 'Tammany mind"
In contrast, White said. Herbert
Hoover, idealist humanitarian, a farm
boy conSecrated to public service. has
he American mind and the American
background"
Record Published.
Gov. Smiths long, unbroken record
IS member of the Legislature voting
r. ith Tammany on the question of liquor
was published several weeks ago." White
said. THAT roll call was read to prove
one thing, that in the New York As
Sambly, young Al Smith put his vote
on the saloon and its interests in es-
crow with Charles Murphy, the boss of
TanInany Hall.
These Tammany votes, which he
does not deny, show him lining up with
Tanirnany on every question affecting
the saloon and its associates. The roll
call shows him voting to allow saloons
to operate near schools and churches.
In vetoing a bill to allow saloons
near schoolhouSeS, Gov. Charles Evans
Hughes revealed the American mind in
sharp contrast to the mind with the
Tammany taint Gov. Hughes evident
ly felt that the American public schools
have rights which Tammany and the
liquor interests are bound to respect.
But Tammany has no use for the pub
lie schools. It has debauched them time
and again for its own grating ends.
Gov. Smith was confronted with his
vote on bills which would make con-
viction easier for violatorS of the old
saloon law. He justified that vote by
saying that majority of the Assembly
men voted against it, not explaining
that to make that majority he was
voted with a solid Tammany block
along with few Republicans brand
ed tiger cub in cage.
Fails to Explain Vote.
"He does not in any of the long roll
tionS of the bills Never once does lle'
explain his vote for the saloon upon the
ground of reason or conscience.
When it was proved that he voted to
keep the saloons open after midnight in
small towns his defense was peculiarly
Tammany defense. Yet it was not
made 20 years ago. but less than 60
days ago, when he declared in voting to
open saloons after night he was repre-
Senting his constituents. He lived in a
part of New York City, then maggot-
eaten with saloons, and because the
liquor interests wanted more profits
from the laboring men, Gov. Smith, not
20 years ago but now, declares that his
vote was good one. A long list of ex-
plantations like this make up his de-
fenSe Of that Tammany record"
White said the discussion of Smiths
legislative record was mot to pretend
that any moral turpitude lurked in
these votes" but to prove how Tam
many contaminateS the minds and
heats of those who serve her"
1T is no attack upon Gov. Smith, no
impltation of his honesty as man or
a statesman, to presume that he would
stand in the White House as he stood
in Albany"
Laugh at Dry Law.
To national prohibition, White said,
''Tammany and all the little Tam
malies of the land pay the tribute of a
horse laugh"
Acknowledging that in our Northern
cities there is Republican corruption
and plenty of it, White said "Repub-
licans are not angels, but they have not
YETI exalted corruption into the holy
ordsr.
"Ehey have set up no Tammanies.
No Republican presidential candidate
kowtows to Bill Thompson and his Chi
cago machine or bows in reverence be-
fore Sinclair filling station as evidence
Of his faith in Sinclair's vice regency in
Republican politics"
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