The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-28
Bold Stroke Is Taken for
Faction Long Controlled
by La Toilette.
CHEERS IN MINNEAPOLIS
Employs RidiCuIe, Satire in
Attack on G. O. P.
and Hoover.
BY THOMAS L. STOKES
United Press stan Correspondent

| CIIOL AllIGQ T.. OllllJll WILL 1IAONC AAAo
campaign caravan today into the
La Toilette strongholds in Wiscon-
/ sin.
He carried with him a program
similar to that by which the elder
La Toilette retained his power in the
State until his death, and which
sent his son, young Bob" to
Washington to fill his place.
The Democratic candidate, In his
two-day stay in Wisconsin, will
make a bold bid for the La Toilette
support in his presidential race. a
victory there would give him thir-
teen electoral votes.
Smith may confer with the young
Senator while in the State. He Is
scheduled to leave here at IL O'Clock
this morning and arrive in MIL
waukee at $3.50 tonight.
Heard by $4,000 Persons
Tomorrow, the Democratic cam
didate will confer with political
leaders, there, speaking at night in
the city auditorium.
Milwaukee will have to 60 far to
rival the enthusiastic reception
Smith received in Minnesota and in
his speech here last night.
The audience of between $4,000
and $4,000 packed the city
auditorium.
Smith drew shout after shout Of
| applause, as he employed ridicule,
satire and his New York buffoonery
upon Herbert Hoover, DR.. Hubert
| Work, chairman of the Republican
National Committee; Secretary Of
! Agriculture Jardine, and Repub-
licans in genera.
He charged the Republican ADJ
miniStration Of the last seven years
with lack of leadership, and told the
| crowd, to it's amusement, that he
! thought the President ought to give
the people the low-down' on what
transpires in Washington.
He attacked Hoover on farm relief
and inland waterways, challenged
him again to state his position
further on these issues, and defend
ed his own position on immigration,
drawing a thunder of approval when
he praised the Germans and Scan
dinavians who make up large part
Of this States population.
Cheering for Smith before he
spoke was led from the platform by
Louis w. Hill, president OF the Great
Northern Railroad and son of
James j. Hill, known in this section
as the Empire Builder"
In his speech Saturday night in
Milwaukee, which will close his
western speaking tour, the Demo-
cratic candidate will discuss his
prohibition modification views, q
subject popular in Wisconsin.
Smith assigned responsibility for
failure of farm relief and an ade-
quate inland waterway program to
lack of leadership in the last two
administrations.
1T is not sufficient, in my opin~
ion," he said for the President to
state his views on great public ques-
tions in his annual message to the
Congress or in rare formal adj
dresses. I believe that the duty
rests upon him of talking to the
American people and laying before
them the facts, to the end that when
they make their determination on
big problems of the Nation, they
may be in a position to act intel
ligently and to have their repre-
Sentatives in the Senate and in the
House express their reasoned opin.
ion"
Audience Cheers Wildly
The audience cheered wildly when
Smith declared it the duty of the
President to give the people "the
low-down on what is going on"
and, referring to the administration,
said, There seems to be somebody
behind the scenes pulling the
strings
1.-THE whole history of the last
two Republican administrations sug-
geSts that some hidden control,
strongly reactionary in its tenden-
cies toward the great questions of
the Government, has been in a DO
sition to dictate party policy from
behind the scenes and delay the
progress of great public develop
ments which intereferred with its
plans or program. For that reason,
the Governor said, prominent
members of the Republican party
have walked out of its ranks and
openly declared hostility to their
party and disagreement with its
reactionary tendencies"
Smith blamed that hidden re-
dictionary control" for the bolt from
the Republican party of the late
Robert M La Toilette, ST.. of Wis
consin, and of the late Theodore
Roosevelt and proceeded with a dis
cussion of farm relief and inland
waterways after asking what more
glazing exhibition of lack of lead
ership could be found in the Repub-
lican administration than its han
ding of the farm relief problemP"
He reiterated his Omaha declara-
ton for the principle of the Nc
Nary Haugen bill, and did not in
dorse the equalization fee, leaving
the question of the machinery for
carrying out his principle still open.