The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-25
SMITH INSISTS
stain OF OIL
is ON HOOVER
Calls on G. O. P. Candidate
to Repudiate Acts of
Harding Regime.
SCANDAL STALKS AGAIN
New Yorker ASSaiIS Party
in Power in Helena
Address.
SCANDAL STALKS AGAIN
BY THOMAS L. STOKES
United Press staff CorrespOndent

Duiteu IIeSS SIau correspondent
HELENA, Mont, Sept. 25.-Gov-
ernor Alfred E. Smith will turn
back toward the East today, leav-
ing State political leaders to follow
up the missionary work of his per-
sonal appearances extending from
Oklahoma northward through the
western corn and wheat belt.
He closed this phase of his cam
paign with a revival of Teapot Dome
oil lease scandal upon which John
w. Davis built his campaign in 1924,
by vigorously denouncing the Re
publican Administration in his
speech here last night. He chal-
lenged Herbert Hoover to repudiate
this and other transactions, which
he called "aS cold-blooded and as
deliberate fraud against the peo-
pie Of the United States as could
possibly be recorded in history"
The Democratic candidate leaves
Helena at IL o'clock today on a two
day journey across Montana and
North Dakota to st. Paul and Min
neapolis.
Speaks at st. Paul
He is expected to devote his
speech at st. Paul Thursday night
to a discussion of inland waterways
and the st. Lawrence Great Lakes
waterway.
The New York Governor has Wis
tied this territory for the last time
in this campaign. His chief memory
as he leaves is series of enthus-
iastic receptions, some closed with
the old-tirne political atmosphere of
red fire. He has met the issues here,
openly-farm relief, water power
and the whispering campaign"
against him on account of his re.
Egion.
Smith has revealed the tactics of
his campaign. He will turn his fire
upon Hoover repeatedly from now
till November, in an effort to draw
out the Republican candidate.
There was evidence of Ku-KlGx
Klan hostility here last night, when
a fiery cross was burned on Mount
Helena, overlooking the city
Smith made the greatest hit il
his speech last night when he closed
his recital of the Teapot Dome case
and a denunciation or the Republi-
can administration of the last seven
years with reference to the Repub-
lican' vice presidential candidate,
Senator Curtis.
RapS at Curtis
According to the papers this
morning" he said, "the vice presi-
dental candidate lost his voice yes
terday. If he was talking against
the Democratic party with that
kind of a record he would have lost
1t a week ago"
Smith turned his fire upon Her
bert Hoover for failing to condemn,
as a. member of the cabinet, the
scandals" of the Harding admins
tration.
Calling upon the Republican pres
idential candidate to repudiate the
scandals" now, the Democratic
candidate said Hoover can not pass
this challenge to the Republican ma
tional committee, but must meet it
himself.
The Republican administration,
of which Hoover was a member,
must bear responsibility for the
Teapot Dome and Elk Hills naval
oil reserve transactions, the admin
istration of the veterans bureau by
Charles r. Forbes and of the alien
property custodians Office by
Thomas w. Miller as we'll as the re-
gime of Harry M. Daugherty as at
n torney general, Smith declared.
AssaiIs Hoover Stand
He took for his subject party
responsibility" and took "text," in
his campaign manner long known
to New York. from Hoover's recent
speech to a delegation of Maryland
Young men, in which the Repub-
lican candidate said new genera
ton must begin to take over party
responsibility.
Hoover also lauded in this speech
the Republican party as being al
party"
"Nobody will deny that Mr.. Hoo
yer sat in the Cabinet for seven
and a half years, yet search In
vain for any word from him OF pro-
test, of condemnation or Of repudi-
alton of this black chapter in his
'a arty's history" said Smith. "On
the contrary, in the face OF that
record, in his speech of acceptance
he said:
"'The record of these seven and
a half years constitutes a period
of rare courage and leadership and
constructive action. Never has a
political party been able to look
back upon similar period with
more satisfaction