The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-09-22
HOOVER URGED
TO EXTEND HIS
/. TOUR TO TEXAS
Declare Solid Gibraltar OF
Democracy Might BE
Shaped
SMITH ALSO GAINS
Much Promising Done During
First Week of Stamping
Tour
SMITH ALSO GAINS
BY BYRON PRICE
(Associatcd Press Staff Writer)


DaRas, Tex, Sept. 22.--(P,-The
political campaign has advanced
from the period Of organization into
the period Of major action, with east
and west echoing to the passing by
of the presidential nominees, and
with the south definitely taking her
place-as many predicted she would
not-in the front line of battle.
While Governor Smith was stump
ing through the farm belt and the
southwest this week, Mr.. Hoover re-
turned from his sally into the east
to find group Of Texans awaiting
him in Washington. Most Of them
were experienced Democratic poll
ticians. They seriously presented to
him the remarkable proposition that
if he would make but a single speech
in Texas, this Gibraltar of the
Democracy might be shaken to its
foundations.
Much Promising Done
A great deal of promising has been
done during the present week in
other quarters, but for the most part
the Republican promises have been
1H0uC Ny AscpuuuSoSiSs oHu Vic DcIu-
ocratic promises by Democrats.
Greeted on tour, each by his own
tremendous outpouring of popular
acclaim, Hoover has been promised
the east, and Smith has been prom
Used both the west and the south.
Many thousands turned out and
cheered the Republican nominee in
his two-day swing into New Jersey,
where he preached Republican pros-
perity and Republican tariff.
Cheering crowds surged about his
Democratic opponent as he opened
his campaign at Omaha with a
pledge Of farm relief, continued it
at Oklahoma City with a denuncia-
ton Of whispering" and religious
intolerance. and moved on toward
Denver. where he speaks tonight.
Some Of the praise that heaped it.
self on the two men came from note
worthy sources. After Smith had
declared at Omaha for the principle
of the McNary- Haugen bill, without
directly accepting the bill itself,
Adam McMullen, the Republican
governor of Nebraska, was moved to
say that the Democratic nominee was
showing an increasing understand
ing Of the farm problem. John L.
Lewis, field marshal Of the United
Nine Workers, pronounced Hoover's
Newark speech an evidence Of keen
understanding Of the problems Of
labor.
Wisconsin Doubtful
Both Smith and Hoover were
ised Wisconsin-positively
claimed heretofore by the Democrats
after the Republican state conven-
ton had voted down the La Toilette
delegates and endorsed Hoover.
Over the radio, south and east and
west have had opportunity during
the week to further glimrsn the per-
sonalities Of the two nominees, and
incidentally to Judge between two
vastly different methods Of presi-
Dental campaigning.
Those who listened to Mr.. Hoo
ver's Newark speech Monday night
heard the rounded ~N-ases Of a stu
diously prepared carr :, utter
ance, mastering statistics and eco
nomlc arguments in neat array. de-
void Of direct reference to the DO
litical opposition. and delivered in
m even vein Of unbroken serious
ness.
Those who tuned in on Governor
Smith at Omaha just twenty-four
hours later listened to an extempor-