New Britain herald., 1928-10-20
NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD SATURDAY, OCTOBER a. ls2a
WHITE AGAIN HITS
 AT AL ON LIQUOR
Says His Vote MTiys Xis
 Given to TammlnJ

Independence. Kas.. Oct. 20 @+- Renewing his charges that Governor Alfred E. Smith was subservient to Tammany Hall while q member of the New York legislature. William Allen White. Kansas author and edi- tor. took the stump here last night and declared the explanations given by Smith of his votes on saloon leg islation were "all spacious, and all twisted with the Tammany view point"
 l Tn his defense of his record more than in the record itself." White as serted, Governor Smith today by his shifting. undemocratic explana- tion Of that record reveals himself the perfect flower of Tammany who does not dare. because be cannot. appeal to the American conscience" i Young Al Smith always gave his vote on the liquor question to Tam many" White declared. If Tam many has a good saloon record then young Al Smith should have been a Methodist bishop"
 White in a statement issued in New York some weeks ago detailed smiths votes as an assemblyman on various bills affecting saloons and drew a heated reply from the New York executive. Charges by White at that time that Smiths votes in the legislature had been cast for the protection of prostitution and gamb- ling later were withdrawn by the editor.
 Tammany Is Real Issue 1 Tn his address at rally under the auspices of the republican state cen- tral committee. White declared that the "Tammany oligarchy" was the real issue of the presidential cam- paign and he said the democratic presidential nominee typifed the "Tammany mind"
 ] In contrast. White said. Herbert Hoover. idealist. humanitarian, 8 farm boy consecrated to public serv- <: ice, has the American mind and the American background"
 Governor Smiths long unbroken record as a member of the legisla- ture voting with Tammany on the question or liquor was published several weeks ago." White said. That roll call was read to prove one thing, that in the New York assem- /, bly young Al Smith put his vote on the saloon and its interests in Escrow with Charles Murphy. the boss of Tammany hall.
 "These Tammany votes which he does not deny show him lining up with Tammany on every question af- fecting the saloon and its associates. The roll call shows him voting to d. low saloons to operate near schools and churches.
 Cites Hughes Stand "In vetoing bill to allow saloons near schoolhouses. Governor Charles Evans Hughes revealed the Amert- can mind in sharp contrast to the mind with the Tammany taint. Gov ernor Hughes evidently felt that the American public schools have rights which Tammany and the liquor in- terests are bound to respect. But Tammany has no use for the public schools. It has debauched them time and again for its own grating ends.
 Governor Smith was confronted with his vote on bills which would make conviction easier for violators of the old saloon law. He justined that vote by saying that majority | of the assemblymen voted against 1t, not explaining that to make that majority he was voted with Q solid Tammany block along with few re- publicans-a branded Tiger cub in a cage.
 "He does not in any of the long roll call lists discuss the moral im- plications of the bills. Never once does he explain his vote for the sa- loon upon the ground of reason or concience.
 When it was proved that he voted to keep the saloons open after midnight in small towns. his defense was peculiarly a Tammany defense. Yet 1t was not made twenty years ago, but less than sixty days ago when he declared in voting to open saloons after night, he was repre- . senting his constituents. He lived in a part of New York city, then mag got-eaten with saloons. and because tho liquor interests wanted more ] profits from the laboring men, Gov ernor Smith, not twenty years ago but now, declares that his vote was a good one. A long list of explain ations like this make up his defense of that Tammany record" ] No Moral Turpitudc l White said the discussion Of Smiths legislative record was mot to pretend that any moral turpitude lurked in these votes." but to prove "how Tammany contaminates the