Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-16
G. O. P. Nominee to Deliver
Address at Newark Tomor-
row Night.
GOVERNOR TO APPEAR
IN OMAHA TUESDAY
Farmers Await New Yorker's Mes
sage-Jerseyites to Hear
Views on Labor.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

OOOAO AAINNOLNs
The big drive is on. Herbert Hoover,
Republican candidate for President, in
vades the East, which has been held to
be favorable Smith fighting ground.
Gov. Smith, the hope of the Democrats,
goes West to make his bid for the big
agricultural States.
Much hangs in the balance. Mr..
Hoover, who, although national figure,
is known personally to comparatively
few voters of New York, New Jersey and
great industrial States of the Atlantic
seaboard, is to make his appeal to the
| workers and the business men in an ad-
| dress TO be delivered tomorrow night at
Newark, N. j.. The Republican nominee,
who will be accompanied by Mrs. Hoo
yer, will spend the greater part of two
days in northern New Jersey, visiting
Jersey City, Hoboken, Weehawken,
Princeton, Elizabeth and Trenton.
Gov. Smith leaves New York tonight
on tour which will take him as far
West as Denver and as far North as
Butte, Mont, and ST. Paul, MINI. His
first speech to the farmers of the West
will be delivered at Omaha, Nebr., Tues
day. There is the keenest interest II
the message which the New York Gov
ernor will carry to the agriculturists.
He is going into territory which has
been strongly Republican for years.
Bryan Is Recalled.
Thirty-two years ago. another DEM
ocratic leader, the late William Jen-
nings Bryan. champion of the West.
swung through the Eastern States in
an effort to win the popular approval
| of that section in his drive for the
presidency. Today, the East, in the per-
son of Gov. Smith, is invading the
West. Bryan was greeted by enormous
crowds. His reputation as an orator
and as an apostle of free silver drew
many of the curious. Gov. Smith is as
much an object of interest to the people
of the West as was Bryan to the people
Of the East in 1896.
The West IS aroused over the farm
situation. A few weeks ago. thousands
of farmers were reported to be in
frame of mind to bolt the Republican
ticket and cast their votes for Smith,
as a protest, if for no other reason.
against the administrations turn-down
Of the McNary- -Haugen bill and the
equalization fee principle. But In an
interview. Gov. Smith said fatty that
| the equalization fee would not do. A
reaction set in against the Democratic
candidate and more and more Republic
can leaders in the West swung into
| line for Mr.. Hoover. Brookhart in Iowa,
Nye and Erazier in North Dakota, How
| ell in Nebraska and many others, who
l baI kI,A Nov
| Congress have announced their support
| of the Hoover-CurtiS ticket.
| There have been intimations from
Chairman Raskob of the Democratic
| national committee and other party
leaders that Gov. Smith might after all
not be so averse to the equalization
fee, and that he might agree to give
his approval to bill containing that
feature if it should be sent to him by
Congress and he should be in the White
House. Certainly, like the Democratic
platform, Gov. Smith has said that he
approves of the principle of having the
cost Of distributing surplus crops ap-
| portioned to producers of the crops.
And this is what the equalization fee
was designed to do.
Waits for Farm Views.
To the West. Smith is known as a
wet and a Tammany man, and in
neither capacity does he make a hit
in that section of the country. But
the West is waiting to hear more from
| him on the farm problem. The Re-
| publicans are counting upon carrying
practically all of the great States West
of the Mississippi River and the States
| in the Mississippi Valley. Serious op-
position is looked for by Republicans
| in only Missouri and Wisconsin. Smith,
| in his tour of the West, is not scheduled
| to go into Missouri. That, it is be-
lieved, is reserved for a future excur-
| sion. But, in addition to Nebraska, the
Governor win visit on this trip Okla
| honla, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana,
| North Dakota, Minnesota and Wiscon-
sin. He returns to New York in time
| for the Democratic State convention at
Rochester October !.
| The plan Of campaign Of the Demo-
cratic high command calls for many
| speeches and much travelling by the
presidential candidate. That of the
Republican leaders, for only a few
speeches by Mr.. Hoover In carefully
| chosen sections of the country. When
he Is not expected to leave Washington
again for campaign purposes until he
goes to EliZabethton, Tenn, where he
speaks to the border States and the
South october 6. In the past the
transforming candidates for the presi-
dency have not succeeded as well as
have those who have inclined more to
the front porch method of campaign
ing. But Democratic leaders have be-
come convinced that they must "sell"
Gov. Smith and his personality to the
voters OF many States as he has been
sold" to the voters of his own State.
Battle On In South.
While Hoover is invading the East
and Smith the West, the political bat
tie in the South goes merrily on. For
the first time in many years Democrats
are campaigning for their national
ticket IN "the solid South" Smith is
under attack there. Democratic leaders
are charging this up to religious bigotry.
They are loud in denunciation of Prot
estantS who may vote against Smith
because he Is q Catholic and because
he is Tanmany man. Senator
Robinson, Democratic nominee for
Vice President, has been on an extensive
campaign tour throughout the South.
In North Carolina, Virginia, and even
In South Carolina, Georgia and Ala
bama the Democrats are perfecting
organizations In fashion almost un-
known in presidential campaigns n
those States. They are making pleas
to the voters to go to the polls in
great numbers this year, just as the
Republicans are urging the voters to
turn out in New England.
Senator Capper Of Kansas. leader of
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