The Washington times., 1932-10-25
SMITH ASSA|LS
HOOVER ASDRY
COMMANDER
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prosperity will be delayed. / deny
that and / state to you from
this platform that the best way
to get our big public questions
settled, the best way to bring
back prosperity is the election
Of the Democratic ticket, the
election of Roosevelt and Gar
ner."
Smith referred caustically tt
"those rosy promises" Of the Re
publican party in 1928 tina
there was to be a chicken in every
pot. that every workingman woult
have two automobiles, and tina
he would go from the mill to hi
home with his silk socks on.
Claims Credit for Plank
Former Governor Smith claimed
credit for writing the plank II
the Democratic platform Whlct
called for repeal of the Eighteentt
Amendment and modification o.
the Volstead act. He said:
"The Democratic platform
plank has put the Democratic
party in the bright light OF
intelligent understanding on
the part of intelligent people
throughout the United States,
and it leaves the Republican
party today where it was in
1928, the party Of bigOtry, Of
deceit, and of hypocrisy"
Regarding the Republican
olatform, Smith said:
'The Republican convention
at Chicago, with characteristic
hypocrisy, attempted to face
both ways on the prohibition
question. Had it not been for
the Office-hOlders that were
amenabIe to the influence Of
the White House that were
delegates to that Republican
convention at Chicago, that
convention would have handed
the United States Of America
as cIear-cut q wet platform as
did the Democratic national
convention.
CALLS HOOVER DRY LEADER
"But what did they run up
against? They ran up against
Hoover, who is himself the
leader of the dry forces today
in the United States"
Smith further charged that
President Hoover pigeon-holed q
wet report of the WickerSham
Commission.
Smith reviewed his fight against
prohibition, dating back to 1928
and said that economic conditions
had crystalized sentiment against
the eighteenth amendment. He
said: !.
"The American people have
walked up to find out that our
first families, our society people,
our speakeasies of high and
low character are dealing with
bOOtleggerS.
"The bOOtIegger is waxing
fat, and no revenue is coming
into the Government. The sale
of this stuff is going on all
over the country. The bootleg
leger is cheating his Uncle Sam.
He pays no income tax. He
does a cash business. There is
no way of checking him up,
and meanwhile the wise sOlOnS
of the Government in Wash
ington are tossing out of the
window a billion dollars that
could be legitimateIy taken from
this traffic, and they are root
ing around the family cupboard
and in the small business stores
and trying to find enough
money in taxation to keep the
Government going"
ASSAILS MRS. WILLEBRANDT
The former governor assailed
Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt,
former U. S. Assistant Attorney
General. He said she had resign
ed to become counsel for Cali
9ornia fruit growers who had de-
veloped a brick of concentrated
grapes. He added:
"She convinced the Depart
ment of Justice this IL per
cent wine was not intoxicating.
That is some stunt when you
figure that old Uncle Andy
VOlStead fixed it at One-haIf of
one per cent.
"But she did something else
for them that was equally as
important. She got the Farm
Board to lend them $40, O,OOO, ,OOO."
On the platform with Smith
were prominent New Jersey
political figures. Mayor Frank
Hague, of Jersey City, said:
II worked hard to defeat the
present candidate for Alfred E,
Smith but we must realize that
the convention is over. We
must go to the polls and sup