Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-26
SMITHS NEW BLOW
AT C. 0. ?. ISSECRET
Labor or Foreign Affairs May
Be Philadelphia Topic
Tomorrow Night.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, October 26.-Gov. Al
fred E. Smith set today aside to confer
with party chieftains and to collect new
ammunition to be hurled verbally at
his Republican foes.
The Democratic nominee also ar
ranged to give lost look to the speech
he has prepared for delivery tomorrow
night in Philadelphia. the home city of
William S. Ware, who started a swing
to Herbert Hoover among Pennsylvania
delegates to the Kansas City convention.
The governor has not disclosed the
subject of this address, but it may be
upon either labor or foreign relations,
as he has announced that both of these
questions will be touched upon between
now and election day.
Bid for SS Electoral Votes.
The nominees drive into Pennsyl-
vania, normally one of the citadelS OF
Republican strength, will be one of the
few times in recent national campaigns
that the Democrats have made deter
mined bid for the 38 electoral votes OF
the Keystone State-a political plum
coveted by both parties.
In 1912 the State veered somewhlt
from it's usual political afdliation oy
casting its vote for Theodore Roosevelt,
but in 1916 it returned to the Republi-
can fold, where it has remained with
out a waver ever since. The Demo-
Gratis this year, however, have started
a drive in an attempt to shake the
State from its Republican moorlngs.
Thew contend that Gov. Smiths stand
on prohibition has a wide appeal to the
voters of that commonwealth, partlc-
ularly in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
The swing into Pennsylvania Will
start the nominee off on the second
stage of his final presidential drive. The
first lap of this concluding effort was
finished late last night when he arrived
here tired but happy from responding
to the welcomes of cheering crowds VINO
greeted and delayed his journey from
Boston.
Crowds Yell Greetings.
On his trip through Rhode Island and
Connecticut, the nominee was the CEN
ter of a yelling throng in every city,
town and hamlet through which ne
passed, either on board his special train
or in an automobile parade.
The tumult and the shouting began
on his way to the train in Boston. Here
the streets were lined with thousands
who yelled farewell and engines in the
railroad yards footed out a parting as
his train passed on toward the open
country.
An hour out Of that city he detrained
at Blackstone, Mass, and Travelled by
motor through one crowd after an
other until Providence was reached. On
the way to that city an airplane with
the words "Al Smith" marked on the
bottom of its wings scared overhead.
Parade in Hartford.
Once through the jam in Providence,
where he passed through storm clouds
of fiuttering paper, the nominee greeted
audiences from the rear Of the train
until Hartford was reached. Here there
was another parade. another paper
storm, more cheering people, and a
throng so thick at the station that a
dozen or SO newspaper correspondents
were left behind. The nominees train,
however, backed back and picked them
up.
Darkness by this time had fallen and
from. Hartford into New York the sta
ton platforms were Illuminated by the
sputtering light of red, green and white
flares. At all stations there were
crowds. even at those points where the
train went whizZing by without stop
ping.
New Britain and Waterbury roared
out their welcomes and then Derby
Shelton was reached Here many in
the gathering carried signs. each bear
ing some Inscription. Two of the
placards read: IF you're a Socialist, so
are We" and Norris is with you, so
are we."
Brown Derby Seized.
At Derby some one snatched the gov
ernor's brown derby from his hand.
1T was the third casualty in his stock
OF the famous headgear and when he
went to the back platform at New Haven
he waved felt hat to the thousands
that packed, damned and pushed
around his car.
Moving on to Bridgeport, the nominee
looked down into a sea of faces that
filled three streets from curb to curb.
The tracks here were elevated and
the crowd roared up Hello, AL" and
the governor waved back
Other cities on the way into New
York also turned out welcoming crowds
and upon reaching here he found an
other group to greet him back to the
city in which his name first rose to
prominence.