Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-28
SMITH HURLS Def
At FARM CRITICS
AND WH|SPERERS
Flags G. 0. p. lnaction on
Agriculture and Inland
Waterways.
REITERATES HIS SUPPORT
OF IMMIGRATION LAWS
Nominee Makes Last Address of
Western Tour in Milwaukee
Tomorrow Night.
BY the Associated Pres.

Leaving behind another attack on the
Republican party and administration.
, this time a riple-barreled assault for
alleged inaction on the questions of
farm relief and inland waterways and
for Whispering" Gov. Smith takes to
the road again today for the last speech
Of his Western drive for the presi-
dency.
r Tomorrow night at Milwaukee, the
Democratic presidential candidate will
wind up his two-week Stumping of the
Middle and Far West with an address,
probably on prohibition. The Demo-
cratic State convention at Rochester
Monday, which he also plans to adj
dress, then will be his only engage
menC before returning to Albany for
rest.
Hits Lack of leadership.
Ripping into his Republican opposi-
ton, Gov. Smith told a crowd that
last night that there was an absolute
lack of vigorous leadership at Wash
ington and had been for the last seven
and a half years. AS result, he as
serted, Republican platform declara-
tons on farm relief and inland water
ways have amounted to nothing more
than glowing promises"
On the other hand, he declared. the
Democratic platform hits the nail
squarely on the head" on these SUBJ
jects, and it is from this party that
real relief must come.
The nominee charged into Chair
man Work of the Republican nation
al committee, Secretary Jardine and
Senator Nye, Republican. North Da-
kota, on the farm relief score. and
quoted statement by Senator Norris,
Republican, Nebraska. issued after his
Omaha farm speech, as furnishing his
best defense from criticism of that
address
Tackling this question first, after de-
claring that lack of leadership at WASH
ington had led such Western Senators
as ShipStead. Farmer-Labor, MinneSo-
ia, and the. late Senator La Toilette
to bolt" the Republican party, Gov.
Smith repeated that he stood for the
principle embodied in the McNary Haul
gen bill for handling surplus crops.
Then he tackled Work.
Called "the Doctor"
He referred to him as 1.-The doctor"
and said he did not know whether he
spoke for himself. for the national
committee or for the Republican pres
idential nominee, when, in commenting
on the Omaha speech, he said the gov
ernor had ''enunciated a principle which
he says he finds in the McNary- Haugen
bill but which is not the one over
which the battle has been fought for
the last four years"
whats the matter with the doctor?"
Smith asked. III tell you. The doc
tor is unable to distinguish between the
principle and machinery for making
the principle operate: He has tried to
put two principles into one thing"
Turning to a speech by Mr.. Jardine
at Riverhead. NJ Y, last week, the
governor seized on the Secretary's re-
mark that for several years we have
managed to get the farmers pretty
good price for wheat and potatoes"
"A good price for wheat" Smith ex-
postulated. The Secretary is doing
a little Moran and Mack stuff. A good
price for wheat-a price less than the
cost of production"
Takes Rap at Nye.
The nominee took rap at Nye for
lining up with Hoover on farm relief
while at the same time favoring the
McNary- Haugen bill, and declared his
argument and that of Chairman Work
is completely annihilated" by the Nor
ris comment on the Omaha speech
that Gov. Smith proposes to take care
of the surplus and charge it to the
producer"
"All three gentlemen that have
quoted" the governor said. ARE men,
bers of the Republican party. The diff
ference is that Senator Norris looks at
it through the big, broad, liberal pro-
gressiye way: the other two men look
at it through the crude and narrow
little peephole of stand-patism
AS for inland waterway legislation,
the nominee said Republican effort
along that line runs parallel with the
farm problem, and it could be offered
tonight as another exhibition or an
other example of the glaring need of
vigorous leadership in Washington"
Taking up the 1920 Republican plat
form, the governor said it mentioned
broad and comprehensive plan of in
land waterway development, but moth
ing happened. The same inaction, die
said, followed 1924 declarations for 1.-The
most feasible waterways from the Great
Lakes to the Atlantic Seaboard and the
Gulf of Mexico" and now in 1928 he
quoted the Republicans as favoring, rs
measure of relief to agriculture the
continued development of inland water
ways. There was laughter when he
added:
II think what they meant to say was
continuance of the amount of develop
ment you have already got"
Belittles Flood Aid.
Challenging another Republican con-
tention that the Washington admins
tration during the last four years in
itiated a systematic development of the
Mississippi the nominee read the title
Of an act for the control of floods OH
the Mississippi and its tributaries. and
for other purposes" and said this was
the only legislation he could find III
Connection with inland waterways as hav-
ing been enacted.
THE other purpose" he continued
with reference to the title, lis direc-
ton to the engineers TO prepare plan.
so while there's life there's hope"
he added, amid applause that fairly
rocked the auditorium.
He said the flood control bill, while
authorizing an appropriation OF 1925
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The text of Gov. Smiths speech
l will he found on pages 10 and II. |