The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-27
Democratic Nominee viii
Speak on Waterways in
st. Paul Tonight.
HOPES TO WIN DAKOTA
Strong Evidence OF Swing
From G. 0. P. Seen in
Trip Across State.
BY THOMAS L. STOKES
United Press staff Correspondent

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 27.-Gover-
nor Alfred E. Smith brought his
brown derby campaign to the Twin
Cities today and they shared in Civ
ing him. welcome.
The Democratic candidates train
arrived here at $50 a. m. and was
met by another OF the large crowds
which have greeted him since he
left Albany on his Western cam
paign tour Minneapolis will see
the New York Governor on parade
this afternoon and then he will &c
to st. Paul for dinner and his only
Minnesota speech.
The Democratic candidate an
nounced he would speak i'll st.
Paul on inland waterways and the
st. Lawrence Great Lakes waterway
project. vital issue in the whole
Central West.
Will Canvass Situation
After luncheon, Smith went in
to conference with State Demo-
cratic leaders to canvass the stu
alton. He has received reports that
unusual sentiment for him has
manifested itself in Minnesota.
The State never has gone Demo-
cratic in a preside ,ial election.
Roosevelt carried it in the 1912 split,
and Wilson lost it by a very slight
margin in 1916 The State 6has
twelve electoral votes.
The New York Governor came
out of the Northwest today with as
surances from State leaders that
the State he rode through all day
yesterday, North Dakota, will give
him it's five electoral votes.
Additional encouragement came
in the expressions of favor toward
the Democratic presidential candi-
date by Governor Walter Maddox,
who was regarded as giving Smith
q tacit Endorsement.
Maddox welcomed the Governor
at his State capital office in Bis
marck and joined the campaign
train for the trip to Jamestown,
along with the entire executive COM
mittee of the State committee.
Governor for Smith
Maddox, elected Lieutenant Gov
ernor as a Republican on the ticket
with the late Governor Sprlie, be-
came Governor upon the death OF
the latter few weeks ago. He is
running for reelection as Demo-
crat.
Maddox said later that his sup
port of Smith is as representative
Of the farm interests and on that
policy, he has the Endorsement as
candidate for Governor Of the DEM
ocratic organizations and the Non
Partisan League, the latter having
refused Endorsement of Herbert
Hoover.
Maddocks political vagaries are
indicative of the political cross cur
rents in North Dakota. Smith
found the situation confusing, with
Democrats, Republicans and Nom
Partisan LeaguerS split over both
State and national tickets. This
signifies an independence in voting,
upon which Democrats are counting.
Count on Wet Support
Democrats are counting also upon
support of the "wets." Their
strength is shown in the huge vote
polled in June for repeal of the dry
clause in the Constitution, which
was defeated, 100000 to $4,000, on
The other hand the religious issue is
D factor in North Dakota.
The special train stopped at Bis
mark for an hour, and Governor
Smith rode up to the State capitol
under a banner across Main St
which read: Hello, Al, North Da-
&ota is for you"
There he visited the Dakota Gov
ernor in his unimposing office on
the second floor of the small wooden
capitol building.