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line with few private polls we have
taken ourselves"
Smiths Defeat Seen.
Mr.. Dodd himself discounted the
newspaper poll in a statement pre-
dieting Mr.. Smiths defeat.
"As Howard Smith slips toward the
chasm Of oblivion. his frantic last
minute efforts to find some basis for
attack on me are like a drowning
man grasping desperately at a straw.
In his attempts to keep me from
making known to every registered
voter in the district his reactionary
Republican record, he has charged me
with all the alien beliefs Of govern
nent known to man. These are the
tactics of Bob Reynolds in North
Carolina, but they will not work in
Virginia. In rapid-fire succession I
have been called Fascist, Nazi, and
a Communist; and while Mr.. Smith
disclaims any financial interest in
the county newspapers, the presses at
Manassas continue to grind out more
copies of a Smith newspaper which
labels me as everything but a canni-
bal. More copies of this newspaper |
were printed in one day than are
ordinarily printed in whole year. I
have no doubt Howard Smith has
temporarily lost his interest in con-
trolling newspapers. His unsuccess-
full effort to buy the news columns of
his cousins newspaper in Arlington
constituted new low in the annals of
Virginia politics.
Scores Attack on Coffee.
His latest attack is on Represent
alive John NJ Coffee of Washington,
whose great sin was that he thought
speech of mine might be of interest
to the people Of my State. Howard
Smith has never hesitated in using |
Government stationery in writing to
the voters during this campaign. From
some of the other methods of attack |
of the Smith forces, am inclined to
believe that what really angered Mr.. |
Smith was that in his eight years in |.
Congress he had never made a speech |
which he even considered worth frank
ing"
In connection with Mr.. Smiths at
tack on Representative Coffee, Robert
N. Anderson, the Dodd campaign |
manager, made public telegram he
received from Mr. Coffee. 1t read:
Howard Smith is an enemy of the |
New Deal. He has fought President |
Roosevelt on essential features of |
the Presidents program. The peo-
pie Of the Old Dominion now have
chance to replace an irreconcilable
conservative who has fought the Pres
ident with a fine, young. clean. true
Democrat OF whom am confident
Jefferson, were he alive, would heartily
approve"
Mrs. Richard Strong, president Of
the Northern Virginia League of
Women Democratic Voters, in a speech
over WMAL this morning, attacked
Mr.. Smiths record on the power
question, and made particular refer
ence to his opposition to the death
sentence of the holding company
clause. Tonight at 7 o'clock, En-
NETT c. Davidson, prominent labor
leader and former Mayor of Alex
andria, will discuss labor's stand in
the campaign.
Mr. Dodd's father, William E. Dodd,
former Ambassador to Germany, also
came to his sons aid by breaking the
silence he has maintained during the
The real issue in this campaign
which my son is waging," said the for
mer Ambassador, lis whether democ-
racy shall succeed or whether a re-
dictionary political policy shall sue
ceed. It is an issue which was fought
out in the Baltimore national conven-
ton when Woodrow Wilson was nomi-
mated for President in 1912 1t is the
issue which Is being fought out
the world: Shall democ-
racy prevail, or shall Nazism, Com
or some other form of gov
ernment be substituted for it?
Il would have made some speeches
in the interest Of my sons candidacy
Il I had not thought it might do him
more harm than good. This is the
'ole reason for my silence in the cam.
'aign. But am Tremendously inter-
,sted IA tho dSht b u making"