The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1928-09-28
For President
Herbert Hoover
For Vice President
Charles Curtis
SMITH AND HOOVER
Samuel G. Blythe in the Satur-
day Evening Post)

QdJ ANN'9
All intelligent voting in tn
coming election will be based ne
on partisan reactions and record
hut on the abilities, experience
education and fitness of these tw
men for the great task of pr
serving our property, advancln
it, and thus holding this countr
in it's present world supremacy.
Therefore, let us regard thes
men in that light. Let us Loo
them over and examine into then
with a view to setting forth thei1
abilities and capabilities, and es
pecially their education and ex
perience along the lines thai
should be considered-must be
considerably the average Amer.
lean voter if he is to vote for
what is most important to him
his country's prosperity and his
own.
First, what about Smith? What
is his experience and his educa-
ton in affairs such as must be
dealt with by a President who
needs business and economic
equipment in order to do his great
share in maintaining this country
at its present high point of pros
perity and to assure the continu-
ance of this prosperity. Alfred r
Smith was born in New York, was
a poor boy in New York and has
been elected governor of New
York four times. He was educat
ed in a parochial school; and, afte'
various jobs in various capacitie
in and about New York, went mai
urally and efficiently into tn
Democratic politics of that cit
and presently became a clerk
the office of the commissioner {
jurors. This was when he was i
his twenties.
He was a member of the Assem-
bly, Of New York from 1903 t
1915, became Democratic leade
there in 1911 and was speaker
1913. He was a delegate to tn
New York State Constitutions
convention in 1915 and was cleo
ed sheriff of New York in tina
year until 1917, when he becam
president of the Board of Aldel
men of Greater New York. H
was first elected governor in 1911!
and with the exception of tw
years when he was defeated b.
Miller, has been governor sine
that time. During the two year.
Governor Smith was out of offic'
as governor he was in the truck
ing business in New York City.
Those two years of trucking
business comprise the entire bust
ness experience of Governo
Smith, except that attained in hi
casual jobs as a boy and younI
man before he went into politics
He is an able political admins
traitor and has made an excellen
record as governor of New YORK
He is a man of courage, attractive
personality and large political at
tainments. He is an active men
Der of Tammany Hall. His ris'
from a poor boy on the East Sid
of New York is remarkable evel
in this country, where so man.
poor boys have progressed to hig-
place. He has a large and loya
following in New York where hi
life has been lived. He has no
travelled much, either at home o
abroad.
Smiths competitor, Herber
Hoover, is a graduate of Stanfor
University, of California, and ha
honorary degrees from twenty
nine other universities, includin
five degrees from European un
versities. His training and lif
work have been along bushes
lines rather than in politics. H
is a mining engineer and has Ell
gagged in professional work i
mines. railways and metallurgi
works in the United States, Mex
leo. Canada, Australia, Italy, Grea
Britain, South Africa, India, Chin'
and Russia. He first stepped GU
of his profession and became {
world figure when, at the begin
ming Of the war in 1914, he be