The Indianapolis times., 1928-11-03
Prepares to Sum Up Case
at Madison Square
Garden Rally.
SPEAKS IN BROOKLYN
Takes Fling at G. o. P. in
Talk Boosting State
Ticket.
BY PAUL q. NIALLON
United Press stan Correspondent

NEW YORK, Nov. 3-Gov. Al
fred E. Smith sat down today tc
write his final campaign speech. He
will deliver it tonight in Madison
Square Garden at a rally which his
friends expect will rock the rafters
The speech i st ODE a final sum-
nation of his case before the Ameri-
can jury goes out to bring in the
verdict.
Monday night he will broadcast
the usual appeal to get out the vote
but he does not intend to bring ur
the campaign unless some develop
ment makes it necessary.
"OId Familiar" AL
In his Brooklyn speech Friday
night Smith unburdened himself
of some of the restrictions wh,<iI
have been noticeable in some o1
his earlier addresses, and talked
like the "Al Smith that New York
knows"
While the address was based
upon an appeal for the Democratic
state ticket, the Governor did not
overlook his presidential opponent
Herbert Hoover, and the national
campaign. He drew the biggest
applause when he said there would
be no chance for Hoover to appoint
a prohibition commission because
he intended to be elected and
handle that problem himself by
carrying it to the people.
Contending that "the Egyptian
sphinx is a talking machine COM
pared ito the Republican state
plank on prohibition and pointing
out that Albert Ottinger. Repub-
lican gubernatorial candidate, has
announced he will wait until the
promised Hoover commission is ap-
pointed, Smith said:
Scores G. o. p. Record
"Well, that is a little bit too long
to wait. There amt going to be
any report, because there amt 60
ing to be any commission. I'll at
tend to that.
"As 1 promised throughout the
country I shall take that question
to the American people and lay il
before them fairly, clearly, straight
forwardly and intelligently, and ]
shall let them settle it,
The Governor argued that the
Republican party had cringed from
progressive solutions Of the farm
relief, prohibition, water power and
governmental economy issues.
When you come along with a
modern advanced, up-to-date, pro-
greSsive method of handling some
thing, Mr.. Hughes will say you are
putting the government in business,
and Mr.. Hoover will say, state
socialism," Smith added.
Nov let's stop this humbug talk
just before election" he lid at an
other point, arguing that govern
ment costs are bound to increase
because of increased government
activities.
'Smithian' as Ever
The speech had many choice
Smithian Morsels such as the fol-
lowing:
with all due respect to the comp
troller-I love him-but all our
comptrollers give you reports that
nobody in the world can read. II
is just the habit of accounting. You
can do better with a doctors pre-
scription. How about that ?" (turn-
ing around to Senator Copeland
Democrat, New York, physician),
The Governor closed with a
dramatic appeal for the state ticket
in the following words:
Il am going through a national
campaign. am fighting some pretty
bright men. They have plenty OF
brains and they have a great deal
of money. We are within a few
days of election. Have you ever
heard from the lips of any mortal
man a single suggestion about the
government OF this state under me
He can't do it.
- Promises to Keep Human
"The Democratic Office holders II
Albany are giving to the people o,
this state a constructive, forward.
looking, a wise, a capable and al
economical administration of thei
affairs. They have paid attention
to the human side as we'll as to tn,
business side-and that human sidI
is the great side of government
When leave Albany, no mattel
what happens to me, I want to Sc,
that preserved as 1 worked day ant
night to build it up"
The heads of the state Demo
cratic ticket, including Franklin D
Roosevelt. gubernatorial candidate
spoke for two hours about Smiths
stewardship in Albany before HI
went to the rostrum to talk abou
them.