The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-10-04
LAUDS
HOOVER; BAKER
PRAISES SMITH
Noted 0hiOanS Debate on
Candidates Before 5000
in Cleveland.
RAPS TAMMANY HALL
Congressman ASSailS AIS
Connections; Corruption
in G. O. P. Hit.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 4.-The
respective merits of Governor AL.
fred E. Smith and Herbert Hoover,
the Democratic and Republican
presidential candidates, were de-
bated before 5000 persons here last
night by former Secretary of War
Newton D. Baker, ardent Smith
supporter, and Congressman Theo-
dore E. Burton, who was partly re-
sponsible for Hoover's candidacy.
Il do not like Governor Smiths
connection with Tammany Hail."
Congressman Burton said in OPEN
ing. He then told of the trial of
BOSS" Tweed of Tammany Hall,
whom he characterized as "the
greatest political thief of all time,
who finally was convicted and died
in prison"
"Tammany Hall may have gone
through some kind of evolution
since then" Burton said, but down
to this day Tammany Hall is an
organization which I cannot COM
mend to the people. Under success
sive bosses there has been the same
regime, if not of open corruption,
Of secret graft"
Baker Hits Back
Burton spoke for forty minutes
and Baker, who was secretary of
war during the Woodrow Wilson adj
ministration, began:
i had not intended to refer to So
called corruption" he said, yet
am sure my good friend Burton
Will pardon me if point to the fact
that he goes back into history sixty
years when he discusses Boss
Tweed.
Tweed died in Jail, where he was
sent by Democratic lawyer, sixty
years ago..
when you call the roll of my
brethren you do not go back sixty
years. Onl eight years ago, and
on have not merely Albert B. Fall.
Harry Sinclair( and Doheny, some
one in the audience shouted) and
Edwin DENLY and Harry Daugherty
and Forbes, but pass out of the ma
tional sphere.
Really, at one time, it scarcely
looked as though it was safe to be
a Republican Governor, for fear of
being found on the way to Jail or on
the way back by nightfall.
Indiana Corruption Raped
talk about Tammany," Baker
continued, Indiana is a great State
"a Governor who was in the peni-
Tertiary, another saved from prison
by the statute of limitations; Illi-
noiS, a Governor on trial, a Senator
rejected from the United States
Senate, sent there by the State of
Illinois because of corruption: a
Senator rejected from PENNSYLVANIA
after corruption so staggering that
it is doubtful whether the Repub-
leans can carry Pennsylvania. The
party into its own treasury took the
fruits of fraud and corruption"
Both speakers refrained from dis
cussing religion as a campaign is
rue. They agreed that religion
should play no part and that Smith
and Hoover are men of exceptional
ability. Both agreed that prohibi-
ton enforcement is not effective.
but they disagreed on everything
else.
"a great, vibrant personality, a
great human soul, a man with a
feeling for humanity, man with
idealism-Go1ernor Smith," said
Baker.
THE man who was sevior of
stranded Americans in the war zone.
head of the Belgian relief and food
administration, guide of business at
home, and foreign trade, man in
charge of Mississippi and Vermont
flood control-Herbert Hoover" said
Burton