The Washington times., 1931-10-02
SAILOR REPUDIATES CONFESSION in STRANGLING OF GIRL
GHOSTS Of 1928.
HEAR CALL. Of
DEMOCRATS

6IICIIIy any NoII "SSS
Nor Let Hoover Forget Fruits
Of "Whispering Campaign"
BY WILLIAM c. MURPHY, Jr.
Ghosts of the whispering cam
paign" of 1928 are being sum:
moned by the Democratic Ma
tional Committee to plague the
Republican effort to re-elect
President Hoover in 1892.
Convinced that there has been
a reaction amounting almost to
a revulsion against some of the
t2c.i s employed to defeat former
Governor Al Smith in 1928, the
Democrats are determined that
the country shall not forget how
Mr.. Hoover benefited from those
tactics.
The Democratic publicity head
quarters today put forth state
ment under the name of Senator
Copeland CD of New York, call
ing attention to Mrs. Mabel Wal
kC Willebrandt's success in OBJ
tanning Federal loans for Cal
ifornia grape interests which are
producing a concentrate which,
the vets say, turns into wine
after purchase.
"ObligatiOn" Seen
Senator Copeland accused the
Hoover Administration of "co1-
niving at an evasion Of the
prohibition enactment that
makes mockery of the eternal
exhortation to the people of
America to abstain from law
violation" but the real political
poison is contained in a para
graph reading:
Naturally many opponents
Of prohibition are pleased with
any breach in the dyke, how
ever small. But they fail to
see why an exception has been
made in this case and can
only lay it to a curious cir
cumStance.
"That is that the Admins
tratiOn is under obligation to
the lady formerly known rs
the Prohibition Joan of Arc,
who led the crusade against
the Democratic candidate for
President in 1928, who is .
Californian, that the great I'm.
dustry for which she has OBJ
,tained favor is sponsored by
Mr.. Gregory, q Californian,
and that to the influence OF
MIR. c. c. league. another Cali
fOrnian and close friend of the
President and until recently .
member Of the Farm Board,
is attributed the success Of
Mrs. Withdrawals influence
which produced the $2O,OOO,OOO
that put and kept the industry
on its feet"
Quoting Glass
The Copeland statement is by
no means isolated in its refer
ences to the 1928 campaign.
There was the recent blast from
Senator Carter Glass (D), Of
Virginia., laying responsibility
upon Mr.. Hoover's doorstep for
the anti-Smith activities of Bishop
James Cannon, jr.
Mr.. Glass called attention to re-
cent revelations by the Nye in
vestigating committee linking Can
mons efforts with the names Of
many prominent Republicans, in
cluding the late Secretary Of War
James w. Good, then Western
campaign manager for Mr..
Hoover; c. Bascom Slemp, Repub-
lican national committeeman and
former secretary to President Cool
idge; DR.. Hubert Work, 1928 chair
man Of the Republican national
committee, and former Senator
Joseph s. Frelinghuysen Of New
Jersey.
Hard to Forget
There have been many indica-
tiOns that the Hoover Administra-
ton would like to forget the 1928
campaign. Most Of the prominent
figures in that effort have diSap-
peared from the Washington Off
cial scene, some nursing disap.
pointed ambitions for office.
Democratic strategy appears to
contemplate q continual rafting
of bones in the political closet lest
tho OIlh1ic forget