Evening star., 1932-10-25
SMITH SAYS G. O.P.
STRADDLED ON RUM
Urqes Vote for Democrats
if Reforms Are to Be
Put in Effect.
Continued From First Page.)

ton of the Democratic ticket is the best
way to solve these problems and the
best way to bring back prosperity-the
election Of Roosevelt and Garner"
Like Hero's Homecoming.
His return to the armory where he
made q prohibition speech in 1928 bore
the aspects Of the homecoming OF a
hero. The crowd that jammed the
cavernous drill shed, with its bunting
draped rafters and its criss-cross Of
brilliant spotlights. cheered wildly.
On his way from the Holland Tunnel,
in Jersey City. thousands jammed the
streets. welcoming Smith with horns
and fireworks.
In the foggy stretch through the dark
Passaic and Hackensack meadows, there
was q reception for him In Harrison,
fire apparatus parked along the curb
opened sirens to whip the cheers into
cresendo.
Then Newark, and the progress up
Sussex avenue, which had been trans
formed for blocks with tunneled arches
Of electric lights flashing, welcome
Happy Warrior" Aerial bombs ex-
ploded salvos, and red, blue and green
flares splotched the sky. Mayor Frank
Hague of Jersey City. who fought for
Smith at Chicago and who introduced
him last night estimated that 200,-
600 people lined his path from the
Holland tunnel.
Reviews 1928 Campaign.
Outside the armory the pressure Of
the crowds listening to amplfiers broke
a 30-foot steel fence at the front en-
trance to the armory. Police barri-
caded the doors with heavy joists.
The first thing I want to call to
your mind. is the flight of time" Smith
said. Just think, it Is four years
since stood on this platform
we are four years older, but We are
certainly, at least, 40 years wiser. In
1928. as We realized only partly at the
time. but thoroughly realized after
ward, we were waging an important
fight. Not the least element that op-
Grated against us to the last degree
was the Great Republican boast that
that particular party had a patent on
business prosperity. that they were re-
sponsible for its production. and that
they alone could continue it. When my
| mind goes back and I think of the
rosy promises, can imagine how easy
it was for a great public to fall for it,
that there would be . chicken In every
pot
But, it goes without saying
that the people in all walks of life in
1928 were not thinking very much
about this country They were
not thinking Of any progressive meas
| ures for improving the Government of
the country or, incidentally, any service
that it could give to its people. They
were interested in themselves: they
fpf in boft nm he Z.
their vote was a selfish vote.
Should End Economic Claims.
"And If the fire that was gone
! through, the Christening fire that fol-
lowed the paralysis of business and in
| dustry, with unemployment close in its
| wake-if it taught us one thing, 1t has
taught us that in the future end for
| many years to come no candidate for
public Office will dare to stand on the
platform any place in the United States
| and claim the credit for any, political
party for the cycles, the economic cycles
Of business depression and business
rally" he continued.
I'm 1928 both parties-both parties,
ducked the prohibition issue.
| Let us 60 back and see what hap
pened. Do you remember my telegram
my attitude? I was advised to hold
that telegram back, not to send 1t until
the convention was adjourned. I in
| sisted that that telegram be read to
the convention before its adjournment
! so that II the convention was not salts
fled with my attitude on prohibition
| they could reconsider the vote by which
| they nominated me, and to nominate
somebody else. think that the record
! pretty clearly indicates that did not
dodge 1t, did not duck 1t; went into
1t head on. As q result of that, after
| the convention was over there sprang
| up all over the country q widespread
| opposition to me because of that tele-
gram, which we all found out after
ward was nothing more or less than
| q cloak for bigotry."
Continuing his review Of the 1926
campaign. Gov. Smith said: II desire to
have q little something to say about thu
career of Mabel Walker Willebrandt
Do you remember the time that she ap.
peared before the Methodist Conference
in Ohio and urged the Methodist min.
isters to 60 out and preach to their peo.
pie to bring about my defeat? That
was on the theory that had Spoken
| against the eighteenth amendment W.
know why It was. That speech die
not sit 20 we'll on Mabel,s conscience
But she found 1t necessary after thu
campaign was over and the election VA
won to explain that she was not ther,
in her personal capacity. but she wa
there speaking for the Republican Ma
tional Committee. She further sait
that every single line-every line-wa!
edited by the Republican National Com
mittee before she made the speech. -
Let it be read into the political his
tory Of this country that what she die