New Britain herald., 1928-09-25

"Is the record. the real record of the past seven and 2 half years known to the republican candidate for president" he asked. and then continued:
 "Why. there is not single man in this country that knows it better than he does He sat in the cabi- net of the president while all of this was going on. and you can search that record from one end to the other. you can examine it Tn the minutest details. and you will,fai to find a single word of condemnation on his part"
 Raps Mellon
 Governor Smith also trained his guns on the secretary of the treas Sc; whom he charged with "conceal ing knowledge" from the senate committee that traced s:S0.0O0 in liberty bonds, profit from the Con- tinental Trading company oil trans action. to republican campaign cof- fers to help cover a deficit hanging tver from that partys 1920 presi- dsntial campaign.
 "He was unwilling to become a party to that deal. he got the stench of oil, and he gave his check for S50,000. but declined to take the bonda" the governor said. Honor able enough" he added, but this must be said: During all the period that the senate committee was en- deavoring to unfold this crooked deal before the people of the United States, he had the knowledge and could have given it. He chose 10 conceal it."
 The democratic nominee was re- ferring to what he termed unique way of transforming oil into money. and making the money look clean. getting the benzine smell off it."
 The chairman of the republican national committee had the Sc60.- 900 in liberty bonds he said. He offered them to prominent republi- cans in assorted lots. in accordance with the ability of the victim to meet the demand. And the promi- nent republicans got present of sc5.oo0 to S50.oO0 as the case may be. and in return performed the pa triotic service of voluntarily giving checks to liquidate the indebted ness"
 Strange to say" Governor Smith asserted. 'the names of the men approached were spied out by the committee from the handwriting of a dead man."
 Challenges Party If there was anybody in the coun- try who was ready to say that the republican party should bear no responsibility for this, the nominee declared. "they must be prepared to say aside from the guilt of indi- viduals or persons it IS all right for a political party to fill it's depleted treasury with the proceeds of of- ficial corruption and crime" Declaring that the republican party "Was able to convince the electorate four years ago that all of this guilt was personal, and that it did not run 10 the party as a party" the speaker declared there could be no excuse now, because since then We have some new disclosure l He then related the Continental Oil deal revelations and a little fur ther on declared. amid applause, that the people would never have heard the end of it" if in 1920 the republican party could have 'un. folded record of that kind against the Wilson administration"
 Would there be in any charity in their heart toward the democratic party" he asked-and a voice in the gallery came back mot bit"
 'Oh, I can imagine how the re- publican orators would rear against democratic corruption" Smith con- tinued as laughter and appla use swept the auditorium. "The demo- cratic misuse Of the public money. Democratic neglect of the moral duty toward the soldier" he con tinued, why they would be all