Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-18
BY a STAFF Correspondent Of The Star.

BY STAFF Correspondent of The star.
LEESBURG, Va. September 10
Before a respectful but not over
enthusiastic throng of home folk packed
into the historic Courthouse Square
at this one-time capital of the country,
Lewis Nixon, former sachem of Tam
many Hall, came home last night to
SELL Tammany and Gov. Smith to
Old Virginia.
If the size of the crowd, which came
by automobile, buggy and horseback
to the venerable courthouse, may be
taken as an indication of mission
successfully performed, then former
Sachem Nixon eminently succeeded
If the quietude which marked deliv-
cry of his lengthy message in behalf
of Gov. Smith and against Herbert
Hoover is a criterion by which to
measure the receptive mood of the audi
ence, then the Democrats in this arid
section of the Old Dominion were not
very receptive last night.
Swanson Arouses Enthusiasm.
There was display of old-time po-
litical enthusiasm, all right, but it was
ELECTED not by the reading by Mr.. Nixon
of his prepared address, but by the
fervent, forensic efforts of Virginia's
senior representative in the United
States Senate, Claude A. Swanson. The
latter'S high-poWered appeal to his fell
low citizens to stand by the ranks of
Democracy to the last ditch evoked a
concerted shout of acclaim that ruffied
the leaves on the giant oaks and elms
that overSpread those seated on the
courthouse lawn.
1t was evident that what the Loudoun
County folks wanted last night was lots
N Ill far
Swanson, veteran political campaign
er. produced the goods, but the former
big chief of Tammany, not claiming to
be spell-binder in the campaign sense
of the term, didn't even pause long
enough in his reading to let the citizens
applaud, if they had wanted to.
Real Home coming Event.
AS a result, it was apparent that some
Of his auditors were restless, and groups
of them left for home before the ad-
dress was completed. All in all, how
ever, the home coming of Lewis Nixon,
shipbuilder and Tammany chieftain, to
his birthplace and boyhood haunts was
an occasion long to be remembered in
these parts.
There was the unusual spectacle of
Staid Democrats of the Old Dominion
rising to their feet as boys band from
Washington struck up East Side, West
Side" just as they had done to the
rousing strains of their beloved South
ern anthem, Dixie" And scores Of
those in the audience, as we'll as the
guests on the improvised platform on
the courthouse steps, wore from their
lapels celluloid buttons bearing the
likeness of AL Smith and from which
dangled miniature brown derbies.
Nixon characterized Tammany as
''the South's proven friend and always
constant ally" against which the
charges of vast corruption are UNI
proven and untrue.
Condemns G. o. p. Dry Rule.
Condemning prohibition enforcement
under Republican rule, Nixon spoke of
the widespread corruption and law
f1outing. He criticized Mrs. Mabel
Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney
General, for her night-club raids In
New York City and added:
Perhaps before she is muzzled she
will be placed in the class with Senator
Hef1in, Bishop Cannon, Mr.. william
Allen White, the Rev. Mr.. Straton and