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America as their second emancipation proclamation. The first fr.eed them PROMINENT DEMOCRATIC DELEGATE DEMANDS SMITH AND of manual bondage, the second frees them from political slavery. Colo­ RASKOB RESIGN rado's Negro voters will give to you and Senator Robinson, in our judgment, 80 per cent of their voting strength." Lancaster, Pa., July 19.-Mr. John A. McSparran, Democratic delegate at large to the Houston Convention, and a prominent leader among the agri­ TEXAS NEGROES TRY TO FORCE THEMSELVES INTO culturists, today wrote Governor Alfred E. Smith and John J. Raskob tore­ THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY sign their respective places upon the Democratic tick_et. Mr. McSparran The press reports that R. D. Evans, a negro attorney of Waco, is repre­ wrote: senting two Houston negroes and claims that the action of the judges in re­ "The best thing I can suggest is for both of you, Smith and Raskob, to fusing negroes the right to vote in the primaries nullifies the Fourteenth .resign before you get the darndest licking that any one ever got in a presi­ and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution. He sought an injunction dential election and give the party a chance to take up the real issues with to restrain Guy C. Harris., chairman of the Democratic executive committee men who are willing to stand on a legally drawn platform." of Harris County, and the election judges of that county from preventing negroes voting in the Democratic primary. Rapidly the distinction between Democratic and Republican parties NEGROES TO VOTE FOR AL SMITH among the negroes is breaking down and no longer can it be said that the The wet Democrats, led by Jed Adams, are trying to throw a scare into Republican party is the party of the negroes. the ranks of the Democrats to bluff them off from voting for Hoover, by injecting the negro question. But the worst element of the negroes are CAN AL SMITH TAKE THE OATH OF OFFICE AS PRESIDENT? going to support AI Smith, he being more to their liking. If Al Smith should be elected, the oath of effice he will have to take is as follows: On July 16, Mr. J. M. O'Hara, organization manage( for the Republican "I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution state convention, and W. M. "Gooseneck Bill" Mc:Oonald, political leader of the United States." among the Texas negroes, gave out a statement through the press, stating This oath of office indicates that while a citizen may have the right to advocate the repeal of any part of the constitution, such a privilege does not belang to the ruler of that their faction (the "Black and Tan") of the Republican party would our nation. The man who is placed by our people in the office of president, is put there support AI Smith, and claiming 250,000 votes.. Of course the number to preserve the constitution, and not to repeal it. If any part of it needs repealing, that is the function of the people, not of the president. Otherwise this oath could not be claimed was all out 9f reason, but it will be recalled that that faction of the administered. Republican is largely made up of negroes. As stated in the last issue of the But Al Smith in his telegram of acceptance stated that he would consider that it was his duty as the leader of his people to seek what is in effect to repeal or nullify that Home and State when they first announced they would bolt the Republican part of the constitution. He has said before that there are parts of the constitution party, Mr. Creager claimed that 16 of the 20 leaders were negroes. "Goose­ which he hates. He could not take the oath of office honestly. But such matters as neck Bill'' McDonald is probably the most noted negro leader iu the state. sincerity in taking an oat~ of office does not seem to bother AI Smith. He took an oath as governor to support the constitution of the United States and immediately recom­ On Sunday, July 8, a lot of wet Democratic leaders met in secret caucus mended that the only law upon the statutes 9f his state supporting the Eighteenth Amendment to the constitution be repealed. at Fort Worth. OuJ," intelligence bureau reports that in their caucus the This matter of nullification of the Constitution is a serious matter, to a Southern ~et Democrats from North Texas were very much perturbed over the Democrat. It means breaking faith with our citizenry. The South advocated secession but repudiated nullification. When the Southern leader, Jefferson Davis, on the eve of situation and were fearful lest Texas go for Hoover. To this, wet Demo­ the Civil War spoke upon the floor of the United States Senate, he said, ••1 hope that crats from the Southern part of the state replied in substance, "Oh, don't none who hear me will confound this expression of mine with the advocacy of the right of a state to remain in the Union and disregard its constitutional obligations by the worry. Give us plenty of red liquor and we will corral the Republicans and nullification of law. Such is not my theory. Nullification and secession so ojten con­ negroes in South Texas to the Al Smith camp." founded, m·e indeed antagonistic principles." The South respects the constitution. The South has no patience with nullifi­ There is no question but what the lower element of the negroes will cationists, but certain Democratic leaders of the South, into whom Tammany Hall, New vote for AI Smith, but our information convinces us that the higher class York, has fastened its grappling hooks, laud Al Smith, the nullificationist, and praise his courage. WE CAN NOT! We agree with Senator Borah who, in an address at Augusta, negroes, at least the church element among the negroes, will vote for Georgia, July 18, 1926, said, "Nullification is not revolution. It has none of the open, ~ Hoover. manly qualities of revolution. N-ullification is the slinking, silent, cowardly sapping of the very foundation of all order, all government, the evasive betrayal of a nation, and the TA~riMANY HALL, NEW Y_ORK, LARGELY COMPOSED OF spirit and motive of anarchy, without either its courage or its faith.." NEGROES Mr. Ira Champion, of Washington City, a dry Southern Democrat of SOME CQMPUMENTS (?)FROM THE SMITHYTES nigh integrity, furnished us the following statement from a source which he says is thoroughly reliable and informed. OF THE SOUTHERN CHURCH PEOPLE "Some twenty years ago, Tammany Boss Charles F. Murphy, or­ We hav_e received from Washington City a copy of an editorial on "White Trash" with the notification that it applies to all us Southern Anti-Smith folks. Referring to ganized or had organized a negro branch of Tammany Hall and placed a the Southland this editorial written by a supporter of Al Smith, says: negro in charge. The present Tammany recognized Tammany Hall negro "There is no other section where so large a percentage of the male population will lie to make a dollar. There is no other section where so many men make debts they do boss is Ferdinand Q. Morton, member of the Municipal Civil Service Com­ not try to pay. There is no other section where deadbeats and liars are accepted by Inission and superior officer over one hundred and fifty white men and society as a whole and treated as courteously· as honorable men. There is no other section where so many men make vulgar and insulting remarks about women, delight in women. Negro branch of Tammany Hall is located in Harlem but it has a filthy sex stories and abuse their wives. There is no other section v."here men who thinl-c strong sub-branch on the upper west side of Manhattan between 59th and themselves chivalrous continue to treat women as inferiors who belong in the kitchen. There is no other section where men who boast of being gentlemen are so abysmally 72nd streets. The membership of this recognized negro branch of Tam­ ignorant of the qualities required in tne making of a gentleman. There is no other sec­ many Hall has been variously estimated but a reasonable estimate would tion where church membership and professed Christianity leave men so free to practice the immoralities frowned upon by all churches. There is no other section where church be that it caters to about 100,000 negroes." people, while professing to believe the use of intoxicants sinful, co:nsume so much moonshine whisky. There is no other section where so many people who denounce NEGRO ORGANIZATION IN THE WEST WIRE PLEDGE OF danc:ng and card playing sj;oop to lying, cheating, slandering and stealing, there is no other section where so many church people frown on gambling and yet gain and lose SUPPORT TO AL SMITH money in gambling in cotton futures. There is. in short, no other section of the United The statement below was taken from some letters and telegrams of States where so large a percentage of the population is composed ·of self-righteous hypocrites. What is the explanation? You know these things to be true. Have you congratulation sent to Governor -Alfred E. S~ith upon his nomination as the tried .to d scove.o.: a rea•:;on for them? I hJ.ve thought over the matter for years, trying to Democratic candidate for the presidency. E.vide"'tly it was given out by the discover why any people rr::> fervent in its profession of righteousness should be so wholly lackint:>: in th ~ rudiments of honor, and I think I have found it. governor. "There are in South Carolina many people who have no superiors in uprightness, "COLORADO NEGRO VOTERS' ADVISORY ASSOCIATION, virtue. chivalry and mtcgrity. They are a minority. The majority is dirt-psalm-singing, Jesus-shoutino:r, liquor-guzz!ing, thieving trash, without the slightest conception of the DENVER-The Colorado Negro Advisory Association congratubtes the meanin 7 of honor-constitutionally incapable of decency-inher.:::rntly filthy in mind. soul Democratic party upon your nomination as its standard bearer for tl:e presi­ and bodv. And the reason is not far to seek. Men do not gather figs from thistles."

correctly the history of this legislation. In this article h_e says: "A~othtU" fact_ of significance is that it was well understood because Republicans were m the hab1t of THE LAW AND THE FACTS voti.ng in the primary to nominate state and county officers, wh-J in .:..he national election To Home and State: always voted the Rep1,1blican ticket. The words 'this primary'. were i~serted i_n the pledge Complying with your request I submit the following statement of my views as to the with the deliberate intent to make it easy for them to contmue th1s practice that WaiS law and the facts relative to the action of the County Executive Committee of various freely discussed among the members of the State Senate." He also says that the "ultra­ wet counties in leaving my name o:ff the official ballot for the primary election of July 28: party element" in the Legislature wanted to frame the law so as to exclude from partici­ THOMAS B. LOVE. pation in the primaries those classed as Populists who "were charged with voting in the A sub-committee of the Democratic Executive Committee of Cameron County by a primaries and then bolting the ticket when they pleased" and Senator Senter says: "I vote of 3 to 2 decided to leave my name off the primary ballot for Cameron County on and those who agreed with me insisted that they had a right to follow their conscience the sole ground that I had declared I could not conscientiously support AI Smith for wherever it might take them and that a man who would not do this was a mighty poor president at the November election, although my name had been duly certified to the citizen." Cameron County Committee by the Democratic State Executive Committee which had I remember very well the transactions of the Legislature in 1903 and 1905 when the full knowledge of all the facts. I immediately instituted suit in the District Court of precinct election laws were passed and in 1907 when the precinct state-wide party test Cameron County to compel the printing of my ;name on the primary ballot and this was adopted. Before 1907, each County Executive Committee was allowed to fix its own suit being decided adversely I took an appeal to the San Antonio Court of Civil Appeals, text. All of the arguments contained in the decision of the San Antonio Court of Civil which rendered an opinion affirming the decision of the lower court. This opinion Appeals handed down on yesterday, relative to the immorality and lack of good faith of evinces a total misunderstanding of. the facts in the case and utterly misstates the law. a Democratic voter participating in a primary who would not support all the nominees at I can fairly make this statement for I know all the facts, and I wrote the law governing the general election, and about the duty of one affiliating with a party to support all its the case nearly twenty-five years ago, as was stated in the argument before the court of nominees, were urged upon the Legislature then, and were all rejected by a majority appeals by F. W. Seabury, the opposing counsel who was Speaker of the House, of which vote of both houses. The issue was clearly presented as to whether or not the election I was a member, when the law was passed in 1905. · laws of Texas· should provide for a brass-collar Democratic party in Texas or for a free­ In the first place, it would seem that this whole controversy ought to be disposed dom of conscience Democratic party in Texas, and the Legislature deliberately rejected of by the undeniable statement that the Penal Code of Texas makes it a penitentiary the brass-collar idea, by enacting laws plainly providing for wide-open primary elections, offense for anyone charged with the printing of a primary election ballot to leave off strictly safeguarded and rejected by law. It was provided that eveiy qualified voter who the name of any candidate for a state office duly certified to him. Art. 207 of the penal would take the prescribed pledge might participate in the primaries and that every code 'provides: person who desired might submit his name as a candidate before the people voting in "Any county chairman or member of the County Executive Committee of any the Democratic primaries and that no party committee or party officer, and no other political party so charged with the duty of preparing or having printed the official ballot functionary on earth, should have the power to pass upon the right of any citizen elig:ble to be used at any primary election of such party, who fails or refuses, except in cases to hold office to have his name submitted to the voters on the primary ballot. permitted by law, to have the name of any candidate or candidates whose nominations In order to put the matter beyond all question, as before stated, it was provided that have been certified to him placed or printed on such official ballot, shall be confined in it should be a penitentiary offense for anyone charged with printing a primary election the penitentiary not less than one nor more than five years." ballot to omit the name of any candidate certified to him. The only "cases permitted by law" to be excepted are those where a candidate dies I can prove that this is the law by this self-same San Antonio Court of Civil Appeals, or withdraws. I wrote this law in 1905, as a member of the House at Judge A. W. Ter­ composed of its present judges in the case of Briscoe vs. Boyle, rendered in 1926, before referred to. In this case, (286 S. W. p. 275) this same Court passing on these same rell's request, and it has been on the statute books ever since. election laws said: The court's opinion says by inference that I crossed my fingers. when I took the pledq;c in the precinct presidential primaries "afterwards remarking in an undertone 'I "The Legislature has in minute detail laid out the process by which political parties w:n not vote for Al Smith if nominated,' " and the court continues "by no such quibbling, shall operate the statute-made machinery for making party nominations, and has so mental reservation, or secret evasion can a man absolve himself from a solemn pledge hedged this machinery with statutory regulations and restrictions as to deprive the voluntarily made." parties and their managers of all discretion in the manipulation of that machinery." There is not in the record or out of it a line or syllable of testimony to support this It also sa: d: charge. The pledge prescribed by the Democratic State Executive Committee for the "The ~~gislature has assumed control of that subject to the exclusion of party action, prcsident! al precinct primaries was based upon a law passed by the Fortieth Legislature thus depnvmg the party of any power to alter, restrict or enlarge the test of the right last year. The attorney general of Texas held that this law applied only to the July of the voter to participate in party primaries." primary elections and not to the presidential precinct primaries and that the pledge In my case. before the San Antonio Court of Civil Appeals it was heid that because I prescribed for the presidential primariesf was void. In the argument before the San took the pledge and afterwards declared my purpose not to vote for Al Smith, although Antonio Court of Civil Appeals, F. W. Seabury, the opposing counsel, declared his belief the record shows that I stated when taking such pledge that I would not be bound by it that this statute passed last year applied solely to the July primary elections. I took this beyond the limit1Lthat my conscience would permit, that I came into court with "unclean pledge, as I publicly urged others to do, and as thousands of the best men and women in hands,'' and can not, therefore, maintain my legal rights. Texas d"d, believing that it was an unlawful and void imposition upon Democratic In the case of Briscoe vs. Boyle, above referred to, this same San Antonio Court of voters, as the attorney general held, and that in any event, like all pledges, it could not Civil Appeals, then composed of its present judges, stated that the record showed that and did not bind the voter to violate his conscience, and I declared this purpose at the the plaintiff in that case participated in the Democratic primaries of 1924 and took the precinct' primary and in the County Convention, not in an undertone but as loudly as I statutory pledge to support the nominees, and then at the November election voted ~ou 1. d-c; ertainly loud enough to be heard by every person in the precinct convention and against the Democratic nominee for governor; and that because of this violation of the by every person in the County Convention. I based this declaration upon the decision ple?ge defendant. claimed that plaintiff had not "come into court with clean hands." of this very same San Antonio Court of Civil Appeals, composed of the same judges, in This same court m that case refused to hold that the plaintiff came into court with the c9.c;e Briscoe vs. Boyle, decided in 1926, in which, speaking of the statutory pledge "unclean hands" and gave the plaintiff the injunction which he sought. prescrit.ed in Article 3PO it said that it subjected voters only to a "moral restraint" In ~Y ca~e it i~ well known and admitted in the record, that I stated when taking ... . "and that is a matter of honor and conscience determinable alone by the voters the presidential prrmary pledge, which the attorney general held to be unlawful and themselves." Certainly as a matter of conscience a voter can not bind himself to violate void, that I. would be bound by it only so far as my conscience would permit. Thus it his conscience. In honor a voter can bind himself to do all that he can honorably do seem~ that m a court of conscience I am deU:ed relief because I refused to violate my and no more. In that case, the court cited as authority the case of Westerman vs.· conscience. Mime:;. decided by the Supreme Court of Texas in 1921 in which the Supreme Court said The law_ of this_ case is very s!mple and I think any layman, or laywoman, can easily that b fl. ving taken the primary pledge "the voter's conduct must be determined largely undei:~tand It. A~tlcle 3111 ~rov1des that th~ request of any "person affiliating with any by his own peculiar sense of propriety and of right." The court further said: "We do party to hav_e his name prmted on the pnmary ballot as a candidate later than the not say that circumstances might not arise under which one who has participated in a first Monday 1~ June; and Art~cle 3116 provides that such applicant shall pay $100.00 to primary would be relieved of the moral obligation which is ordinarily incurred not to such state chairman; and Article 3111 further provides that the state chairman shall undertake the nominee's defeat." That was a case in which a defeated candidate in a present all such req~ests to the State Executive Committee at a meeting to be held on primnry sought to run as an independent candidate against the nominee, which it was the se<:ond Mo~day 1_n June and ~hat "such committee" at this meeting by resolution held he> could not do. shall ~Irect the1r chairma~ to certify to each County Chairman the names and counties The San Antonio Court of Civil Appeals holds that I am not affiliating with the of res'dence: of such candid~tes as shown by such requests. Democrtl.tic party because I can not support Al Smith for president. . Th~ record shows that m my case all these statutory requirements were fully com­ Dr. Seabury, the opposing counsel, admitted in the argument on Saturday that every piled With. Democratic voter in Texas who was opposed to Al Smith and determined not to vote for Article 311 ~ provides that the c;'ounty Committees shall meet on the second Monday him. as I am, was nevertheless qualified to vote for state and local officers in the pri­ in .June precedmg. each general pnmary "and determine by lot the order in which the mariPc; of July 28. How can a qualified voter in the Democratic primaries be said not to na_mes of all ca~,d1dates f~r offices requ~sted to be printed on the official ballot shall be be affliating with the Democratic party? The courts have held that the right to vote prmted thereon. A!3 Article 3115 provides for the appointment of a pr;mary committee in :;~, party primary is the highest test of affiliation with the party. The San Antonio of five members V:hlch ~ub-comm1tte~ shall meet on the second Monday in July and Ccn::t of Civil Appeals says that when I entered the Democratic primaries and took the mak_e up the offiCial pnmary ballot m accordance with the certificates of the state p ::. ed'7e I had every reason to believe that AI Smith would be the Democratic nominee for Cham:~an as to state offices, placing the names of candidates thereon in the ord r pflesidcnt, and that, therefore, it was my duty to stay out of the primaries and give him a determmed by the County Executive Committee. e cle3.r fieJd for the nomination. It is respectfully suggested that merely to state this . In my. case the County Committe~ ot Cameron County and of all other counties at propoc:;it'on completely answers !t, both in morals and in law. According to this rule, their ~eetm? on the second Monday m June determined by lot as required by law the when an avowed foe of prohibition announces as a candidate for a Democratic nomina­ order m which ~Y name should be printed on the official ballot but the cameron tion, ?nd makes himself a formidable candiadte, it is the. duty of all conscience followin~ C~unty sub-co~mittee of five m~mbers ref~sed to put my name on the cameron County prohibition:sts to flee the primaries of the party and give such candidate a clear field p~1mary ballot m accordance w1th the actiOn of the County Executive co ·tt d without opposition. I believe such a course is cowardly and that it is the voter's moral w1th the law. mm1 ee an duty to fi~ht s1,1ch a nomination within the party to the last ditch. · The word~ "affiliating with" a party as used in Article 3111 requiring the voters to The San Antonio Court of Civil Appeals holds as a matter of law that if my con­ st~te t:J:lat he,Is a member o.f the yarty and pledges himself "to support the nominee of science demands that I should not vote for AI Smith, as it has and does and will con­ th~s pnmary. It was admitted m the argument before the san Antoni c t d tinue to do, that "in honor and good faith" I should have had my name removed from thiS c- h ·d-,., . .., t~1at ~ de~lared opponent of AI Smith for president can l a~fu?l~r v~~ f~ the Democratic primary ballot and ceased to be a candidate for the Democratic nomina­ the Democratic pnmanes of_ July 28; and ce~tain~y it would seem beyond question that tion. My answer to this is two-fold: one wh_o ?an vote lawfully m the Democratic primaries must be "affiliating with" the First-T here is nothing in the Constitution or in the laws of Texas which gives the Democr atic party, for the courts have held that the right to vote in a p rt • · · San Antonio Court of Civil Appeals or any other tribunal, except the body of Demo­ the highest test of affiliation with a party. a Y s pnmary lS cratic voters voting in the J uly primary, th e right to prescribe we shall or shall not run I a;n su.re that J:?OSt everyone in Texas knows, that whatever may be said of my fo r Democratic nominatio:p.s in this state or the kind or class of candidates that shall co~rse m this ca~pa1gn I ha:ve been guilty .of no sort of deception or evasion or subter­ run, or wl'!ether or not a given candidate may submit his name to the Democratic voters !u"' e or pussyfootmg. Ce:tamly I ha~e tr1ed to leave nothing undone to let everyone "in honor and good faith." - kmteresfted,kfromdthe Pd:decmct con:r~nt10n up to the state convention and back again The election laws of Texas were deliberately designed to prevent any such interfer­ n_ow. ran 1~an <:an I 1 Y ~Y position at all times. I am sure that to call attention to ence by courts or committees, with the exercise in the Democratic primaries by the this recent history IS a sufficient answer to the charge of unfair dealing on t Democratic voters of Texas, of the privilege of free suffrage guaranteed them by the I have voted tne Democrat~c t ~ cket con~inuously for forty years and ha~% ~o~~ci for · Constitut:on. eve.ry name on every J:?emocratlc ticket dunng t~at period with one single exception. I Second--The election laws of Texas plainly and unequivocally provide that any bell~ve that I_ am wor_king to pre~ent the demoralization and disintegration of the Demo­ Democrat can be a candidate for a nomination for a state office without any sort of cratiC party, m workmg to prevent the election of AI Smith :as President of the United moral or legal obligation to support the Democratic presidential nominees. The test sta:tes. Hundreds o! thousands ?f Texas Democrats agrpa ~t. lJ. me in the conscientious belief that the electiOn of Al Sm1th woukl forerun the pP.rmanent d" · · d d t for participation in the July primary elections is prescribed in Art. 3110 and is specifically tion of the Democratic party. · lVISlOn an es rue- limited to pledging the voters to support the nominees of "this primary"-thus plainly excepting all nominees not nominated in this primary. This law was written by Senator - ki~he fSanthAD;~donio Co ~rtt.of ~ivil A~peals holds that in taking this position I am E. G. Senter" in 1907. while I was Speaker of the House, and I helped to pass it. In an .wor ng or e emora1 lZa 1on 1f not wsintegration of the party." ;t re~pectfully sub- p.rticle published in the Dallas News of Friday, October 31, 1924, Senator Senter gave (Continued on Page 7) -

/ Pa~ge Three OF PEOPLE Cannon, Jr., Dr. A. J. Barton, followed by NATION INSURED W. VA. ANT:I-SMITH flve-minute speeches from dey delegatles. On June 5, every AI Smith Houston dele­ OBVIOUS DRY SIGNS E i f e Insurance Companies Pay DEMOCRATS MEET gate was defeated by more than 4 to 1. Policy Claims in 1927 Amount­ . The Anti-Smith Democrats met It was pointed out at this conference that The following letter addressed to su­ in conference in Charleston, W. it those who voted against the Smith dele­ perintendent Homer W. Tope, of the ing to $1,74o,,105,557 Va., August 2, to plan their cam­ gates to Houston will vote the same way Anti-Saloon League of Pennsylvania, is paign against the candidacy of in November, Florida will go against AI convincing evidence of the effectiveness or' According to a report in the Ohle» Gov. Smith. A similar conference Smith for president. At the same time prohibition. While friends of prohibition State Journal of July 7, $1,746,105,557 was will be held in each southern state the conference urged the election of the on the one hand and its enemies on the paid by Life Insurance Companies on as agreed upon in the Asheville whole County, State and National Demo­ other are tabulating statistics, delving into policy claims during the year 1927 in the conference which was held shortly crate ticket but the defeat of the "Un­ police courts records and revenue bureau United States and Canada. Eighty­ after the Houston convention. The Democratic Tammany Smith.'~ figures to sustain their position for or eight cities of the country received in ex­ Charleston meeting was called and against prohibitipn, it is well occasionally cess of $1,000,000 each, the report shows, invitations were authorized by to call attention to the fact that one of while there were 210 individual claims Mrs. Frank N. Mann, of Charles­ WOULD DRY UP DRUGSTORES the strongest arguments to be found for for $100,000 or more. ton, former Democratic National prohibition is "the obvous results." Just The largest insurance contract ever Committeewoman from West Vir­ Liggett Points Out Dangers in stop and think. How many drunken men signed was that consummated the last ginia. do you see these days-how many hip­ week in July when Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.. Druggists Holding License to pocket flasks do you observ~as compared president of the General Motors, signed a Sell Alcoolhic Liquor with t~e old days when 177,000 saloons contract for $400,000,000 of group life in­ were dispensing liquor indiscriminately? surance for the benefit of the General The truth is, the government is meet­ Motors' employees. Each individual em­ ing with no greater difficulty in enforcing Louis K. Liggett President of the Seattle, U. S. A. ployee of the corporation will have $2,000 prohibition than it met in enforcing the United Drug Compa'ny and head of the July 16, 1928. in life insurance, and accident and sick­ license laws, not so great, in fact, because Liggett organization of s'tores in the My Dear Dr. Tope: ness benefits of $15 a week, at a cost of the traffic is now completely outlawed, United States, Canada and England, de­ We arrived here at 6 p. m., on our tour whereas in the old days the liquor law clared in an address to a National Con­ of National Parks and cities in the $1.50 a month to each. "States" and Alaska. Will take boat via The American people are an "insuring" violator was protected to ~ certain degree vention in Boston of 4,000 of the stock­ people. At the end of 1927 there were by his license. holder-dealers of the company, that the "inside passage" and the Yukon to Arctic 102,000,000 policies being carried by 60,· Volstead act ought to be extended to pro­ Crcle (Port Yukon) and then on to the hibit instead 6f licensing the sale of al­ T-anana River and via that river to Fair­ 000,000 people of the United States, total­ banks. Then via National Railway to the ing $87,000,000,000. Life insurance is be­ SETBACK TO ENFORCEMENT WORK coholic liquor by drug stores. ing placed now at the rate of more than Asserting that from a beginning of Gulf cities and glaciers and back via boat $1,000,000,000 a month. No other nation selling liquor under license from the gov­ across the Gulf of Alaska to this point, approaches this in volume. Supreme Court in Bermuda Hands ernment, some unscrupulous doctors and and then a further tour of National Parks Who will deny that much of this in­ Down Decision in Case of One druggists "are making a mockery of the on way east. surance is made possible by the fact that legitimate drug business." Mr. Liggett We are "sight-seeing" and ever alert saloons and licensed liquor traffic have Captain Watt said that outside the effect on the indi­ for the ordinary· and unusual. We been abolished? vidual this practice "certainly is bad for "stretch our limbs" at "stops" along the A large amount of this insurance is Enforcement of American prohibition the business." route and size up the individuals travel­ represented by industrial insurance, in­ received an indirect setback in Hamilton He continues: "Druggists desiring to ing and those at work. We have motored surance carried by wage earners. No Bermuda, says a special cable to the Cin~ sell more than they can sell under their through the Glacer National Park and doubt many thousands of dollars that cinnati Enquirer, when Captain Wm. licenses, or on prescription, have delib­ spent two nights at the Glacier Hotel, formerly went to saloon-keepers is now Watt, Brooklyn, New York, was acquitted erately given up their licenses because by and one night at the Many Glacier Hotel. going into life insurance policies. by a jury in the Supreme Court of a so doing they save being checked up by Have used the steamboat on the St. Mary's The United States has only 7 per cent charge of having made a false and fraud­ the Federal authorities. River and Lake to the Many Glacier ulent declaration in obtaining his clear­ "If there ever is a real effort made to Chalets, and have observed the gangs of of the world's population and more than workmen building and repairing roads, '11 per cent of the life insurance in force. ance papers at the Port of St. George. enforce the Eighteenth Amendment, the Eighty-three per cent of the autos of the The decision of the court upholds the first place to begin it is by an amendment have met Indians in the cities and park world are in this country and, in spite of right of a master electing not to proceed to the Volstead act prohibiting the sale lands, and have not seen one intoxicated the fact that one of the high officials of to the destination for which he had of liquor in drug stores." person. the General Motors Corporation is work- cleared when circumstances made such This statement was taken to have in­ In the days before prohibition we would . ing for the return of the liquor traffic, a action desirable. creased significance in view of the fact have seen intoxicating drinks served in the considerable portion of the money in­ The Crown showed that Captain Watt, that Mr. Liggett has recently been made dining car~ and in the Pulmans, and "pri­ vested in autos is undoubtedly money May 21, had obtained clearance papers the Republican National Committeeman vate flasks" would have been in evidence. that would have gone to the saloon i! for the Port of St. Pierre, Miquelon, and for Massachusetts. · And, of course, the "old-time" results­ prohibition had not interfered. had sailed with a cargo of 153 bags, each He said with satisfaction that ever silly drunks and brutal drunks would have \ bag containing 12 bottles of Scotch since the Liggett name had been used been in the picture. whisky, nearly 2,000 quart bottles of over a drug store no liquor had been sold No honest man will say that there is liquor. June 1, the Crown showed, Cap­ in any of the chain, and recounted that more drinking now and more drunkenness UNTERMEYER TO SUPPORT SMITH tain Watt had re-entered the Port of St. years before the Eighteenth Amendment than before prohibition went into effect. George's without cargo, as having come he threw out liquor, because he did not Men who assert or repeat this hlsehood Would Repeal Volstead Act; Calls "from the high seas," without ever going believe the drug store was a proper place are not worthy of being styled "honest." to St. Pierre. to sell liquor Yours for a still dryer people-dryer in Eighteenth Amendment "Iri­ In 1921 the Berumda governmuent thought, speech and practice. descent" Dream had an act passed in Colonial Parlia­ Cordially yours, ment, making it an offense to carry liquor INTEREST RUNS HIGH (Signed) J. H. BRANDT, Samuel Untermyer in a recent inter­ on board· any vessel bound from Bermuda to an American port. To circumvent this New South Wal.es to · Hold Prohibi­ WOMEN SHOW INTEREST view to the New ,york Times pledges his law, the masters of liquor-running support to Governor Smith and Smith's schooners would clear for a Canadian tion Referendum in September; A special dispatch of the New York program for state option on the question port and then discharge their cargo "at Drys Expect Hard Fight Times, carrying a Washington dat.e line of prohibition. of July 29, says that Mrs. Mabel Walker Mr. Untermyer calls the Eighteenth sea." It was to have this practice declared to Willebrandt, Assista'.:lt Attorney General Amendment a "beautiful iridescent A special dispatch in the Christian in charge of Prohibition Enforcement, is be illegal by the Supreme Court, and so Science Monitor carrying a Sydney, N. s. dream." He says: "I favor the retention check the flow of alcoholic beverages receiving many letters from women askin"' of the Eighteenth Amendment but the W., date line says that interest is increas­ for Herbert Hoover's position on law en': from Bermuda to the United States, that ing in the prohibition referendum to be repeal of the Volstead act. In its place I the Bermuda Government directed the forcement. They have no doubt as to would like to see the enforcement of the held on September 1, in New South Wales. Smith's attitude. They are hoping, these attorney-general to prosecute Captain A similar vote will be taken at the same amendment delegated by Congress to the Watt, in a test case. correspondents of Mrs. Willebrandt, that states, which should have the right to, time in regard to the Federal Capitol at Mr. Hoover will make a more specific pass laws fixing the alcoholic content Canberra. This was carved out of the statement relative to the Volstead act. state of New South Wales and is dry. within certain defined limits, provided al­ FLORIDA DRY DEMOCRATS The Times correspondent says that the ways that no state should have the right There has been agitation to make it wet, many letters received from the women is to pass any law that would permit the and the fact that a new New South Wales interpreted by political leaders as a sign return of the saloon or the sale of any Anti-Smith Democrats of Florida town-Queanbeyan-is within five miles of that women will vote in larger numbers the federal capital and has unlimited sort of liquor for consumption on the Launch Campaign to Defeat than ever before in the coming presiden­ premises." liquor is a leading feature in the dis­ tial election. Mr. Untermyer, like all other modifi­ Al Smith cussions. cationists, proposes a plan which neces­ Prohibitionists realize that the fight will DRY WORK AUGMENTED sarily involves certain prohibitions. In be severe. The money is mainly on the An Anti-Smith Democratic conference A new offensive a!!ainst rum runners on one breath they tell us that prohibition was held at the First Methodist Church, wet side. The financial resources of the can not be eP...forced, those with an al­ prohibitionists are small, though the wets Lake Erie will be opened in a few days Jacksonville, Florida, August 8. by the border patrol of the United States coholic thirst will not obey any law in­ The conference met for a one-day ses­ assert that America is supplying amnle fringing upon their "personal liberty." funds in order to destroy the liquor trade. Customs Department, which will put one sion for the purpose of adopting the Ashe~ of the fa,test boats on the Great Lakes They tell us that it is impossible to en­ ville conference principles, purposes and The wets are organized under what is force a law attempting to regulate a known as the Citizens Rights Association into operation to guard the Cleveland platform with the ultimate aim of the shore. man's habits and thirst. How does Mr. election iii November of the June 5, Demo­ and are advocating "temperance" rather Untermyer and his collegaues expect to than prohibition. This is a camouflage A seedboat said to be capable of sixty cratic nominees in Florida for United miles an hour will be launched within a enforce a law, a modified prohibition law, states Senator and Congressmen and familiar to the drys of the United States that would prohibit the sale of any sort and Canada. There as elsewhere, the wets' week, says a Cleveland Plain Dealer dis­ Governor of Florida and other state and patch of July 25. of liquor for consumption on the premises, county offices and to defeat Governor idea of temperance is a license law per­ or a law that would fix any limit on al­ mitting beer, wine and spirits under so­ Three other speedboats to au!!ment the Smith for the presidency. Such a con­ called control. border patrol cruisers in the new drive coholic percentages? What right have vention is being called in every southern are already at work. these advocates of modification to believe ·state. that those who are defying th.e prohibi­ The keynote address was made by Hon. . LABOR NON-PARTISAN tion law will not defy their modified pro­ D. C. McMullen, of Tampa, followed by an Organized labor was advised to con­ EDISON FOR HOOVER hibition law? The whole history of the address by Mrs. Clarence M. Busch, of tinue to adhere to a non-partisan political Thomas Edison is of the opinion Her­ liquor traffic reveals defiance of all law Miami, Miss Minnie E. Neal, and Mrs. policy during the present presidential bert Hoover will be the next presient ot by those engaged in the manufacture and Walter Jones. of Jacksonville and Dr. J. D. campaign in a statement issued August the Urited States. Mr. Edison said, sale of liquor if it interfered with their Adcock, of Orlando. 7 by the Executive Committee of the Fed­ "Smith is too much loaded with a s:-,:)cia~ business. .Addresses we 1·e made by Bishop James eration of· Labor tions which people do not like." Page Four HOME AND STATE enforcement work, thereby leaving the Eighteenth \Vhere England's Liquor Revenue Goes I-IOME AND STATE Amendment a mere scrap of paper, 1s not nullification, (Established 1903) what is it? Or, if amending the Volstead act so as to The Illinois Association Opposed to Prohibition has Official Organ Anti-Saloon Leae;ue of Texa! permit state local option on the question of what consti­ just circularized the state with a document w:~h!b among other things says: Published tnontbly, except August and September, by tutes intoxicating liquor while the Eighteenth Amend­ Great Britain, with one-third of our population, THE AMb.RICAN ISSUE PUBLISHING CO. ment is still a part of the constitution, which amend­ ment specifically prohibits intoxicating liquor, is not collects annually $750,000,000 in beer, wine and liquor laO South State Street, Westerville, Ohio taxes. One brewery (Guiness) paid $67,000,000 in FO!'t THE ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE OF TEXAS nullification what is it? EDITORIAL OJo'FJCE-311-13 Slaughter Bldg., Dallas, Texas The Post continues: one year. Whenever an Englishman pays sixp•nce Nevertheless, the defection of McCormick is a blow for a glass of beer, he contributes threepen<>:e to the ERNi;;ST H. CHERRINGTON, Editor treasury of his country. With a beverage tax much R!i.V. ATTlCUS W.~.!.BB, State Editor to Governor Smith. He stands before the state and the country as a man of high character. He is just lighter than that imposed by Great B-e,;_tain, this Entered a,; second-class matter at the postoflice at Westerville, the sort of man Smith needs to back his appeal to nation can easily collect between $1,000,000,000 and Ohio, under Act of March 3, 1879 succesful Republican business men. $2,000,000,000 annually. f'.·tbscription Price--$1.C'J a Year in the Uni•ed States He surely is! Men of the McCormick type are needed But what about the other side of this p:cture? All letters should be addressed to HOME AND STATE, Dallas, Texas The Alliance Year Book, edited by the well-known OFF! CERS OF THE ANTI-SALOON LEAG l E OF TEXAS in the Smith camp as an antidote to Smith-Tammany followers and henchmen, and indeed it must be galling statistician and writer, Mr. George B. Wilson, includes Pre!'ident-DR. J. C. HARDY • Belton some interesting statistics on the present situation o! Vice Presitient-J. L. SMITH • . • Amarillo to Smith's leaders to discover that there are Democratic Second Vice President-OR. L. D. GR,UTON Austin leaders of such high character they are unwilling to Great Britain from the point of view of alcoholism. Of Recording Secretary-JUDGE Gr:oRGE SERGEANT Dallas a total of 67,126 convictions for drunkenness, 11,290 are 1 Dallas sacrifice principle to so-called party loyalty. Superintendent-REV. ATTICUS "\\ 1

allow white children to attend schools where there were no negroes. Tammany must \VHICH WAY, PAR1Y LEADERS? pay the price of its negro help. [Th~ national campaign this year is going to prove disastrous to hundreds of po­ Tammany has appointed hundreds of negroes on the New York police force, and in Jitical futures in the South. Hundreds o:f Southern Democratic leaders have for a some parts of the city most of the policemen are negroes. Tammany must pay the generation been training with a great army of Christian voters and led the fight against price of its negro help. - , the curse of the saloon. Now these party leaders are being called upon to abandon the A negro, named Morton, is today the Civil Service Commissioner of New York crowd with whom they have trained and "save" the Democratic party. The following City, and passes upon civil service positions filled in the City. He is also the President letter was written to one of our finest Democratic leaders, dry personally and politically. ef the "United Colored Democracy," an Al Smith Club. Tamma:ny must pay the price We quote it, omitting the name to whom it was written, not to embarrass him but to of its negro help. wa.rn those Democratic leaders who have always trained with the moral forces. The In the Democratic National Convention held in Madison Square Garden ip 1924 a letter was written by a distinguished lawyer of West Texas.] negro sat throughout as a New York AI Smith delegate, being an ele~ted alternate and the delegate being absent; and I have seen it stated and not denied that a negro is a "As a friend that I am confident you have no retl.son to mistrust, I submit this letter. duly elected Tammany member of the New York Legislature and another negro is a "I am a Democrat; but I am not a political serf. I refuse to take orders from the duly elected Tammany member of the New York City Board of Aldermen. Both of most disloyal crowd that ever brought to defeat the Democratic party. In 1924, Harlem these negroes were elected by Tammany Hall on the Democratic ticket. Tammany (the black box of New York), gave Coolidge 51,365 votes and John W. Davis, 11,314; it must pay the price of its negro help. gave Alfred E. Smith 48,308 votes, and Roosevelt 12,766. How did the negro vote in the The laws of the State of New York permit negroes and white people to intermarry. ~overnor's rac.e in New Yor~? How did the big Tammany wards vote the same year, and And in the Harlem District of New York City there are numerous families ~aving white m 1920, and m 1912, and m 1908, and in 1904, and in 1900, and in 1896, and in 1888? wives and negro husbands and white husbands and negro wives, and they have You had better consult a directory of the presidential elections in New York before you numerous clubs and cabarets where whites and blacks dance and drink together. undertake to rebuke your fellow citizens for refusing to bow to the vilest combination The intermarriage of whites with negroes ought to be prohibited by law in New that has ever attempted to fetter our party. As a prohibitionist leader you had better York and in every state of the union; but no one has heard of any m~ve or suggestion not presume too mucJ;l on the ignorance of your constituency. I was in New York once of Governor AI Smith or of any Tammany Legislator looking to that end. Tammany UJ?On a time wh~n beloved AI was governor. I saw whisky openly sold by the bottle on must pay the price of its negro help. Fifth Avenue With officers looking on. You can't smother some facts by fulsome The newspapers have reported great negro Democratic meetings in New York eulogies to Al Smith. You can't erase the mad career of Tammany Hall-more vicious City addressed by Governor AI Smith and Mayor Jimmy Walker and others appealirtg and corrupt thRn ever the Klan has been charged with being---by a recital of Republican for their votes and one New York Democrat writes me that he witnessed a negro po­ corruption: You can't obliterate the memory of Tweed and Crocker by deriding Fall and litical parade in Harlem which was headed by Governor Smith and Mayor Walker. Doheny, VIle as they are. You are too well informed to plead. ignorance to some ·well Tammany must pay the price of its negro help. known facts of history, and I am regretfully forced to place another construction upon I would not vote to turn the government of the United States over to Tammany the reason for your conclusions. Hall and to Wall Street by electing Al Smith President of the United States for all the "And as to bolters-surely you haven't forgot that Jeff Davis and William Lowndes offices the people love to bestow. THos. B. LovE .. Yancy led a bolt from the Charleston Convention in 1860! Surely you are not un­ familiar with Cleveland's outright bolt in 1896, nor Wilson's curt refusal to follow Bryan the same year! And I am confident that you have not forgotten that the Tammany crowd openly fought Wilson in 1912, not only before his nomination but atter it! That CAMPAIGN LIES his vote in New York in 1912 was 20,000 less than Bryan had received in 1908, due solely I.,et the readers of HoME AND STATE be on the lookout for falsehoods concerning Her• to the refusal of the Tammany ring to back him. bert Hoover. The forces who are fighting him are largely made up of men who have "There are many things I do not know, but I have given some study to the history no conscience in what they state. of the Democratic party and there are certain facts connected therewith that it is not -In a neighboring state we recently met a good lady who was thoroughly convinced necessary for me to learn from earnest campaigners. These facts lead me to conclude that Hoov~r is a booze-head. Some :wet had told her that he was with Hoover on a big that your effort to ram Smith and his wet program down the throats of good Southern drunk. Not knowing politics as we do, this good woman fell for the story. We doubt if Democrats under the lame appeal of honesty and loyalty is the merest gabble. If Hoover ever tasted liquor in his life, certainly he does not drink. you feel impelled to vote for Smith, do so and I won't fall out with you about it; but A fihe young man who was his private secretary for 18 months, traveled with him don't attempt to read me out of the party because I refuse to join, you. Self respect is all over the country, stopped at the htoels with him, packed and unpacked his grips, tells nothing else will cause me to resent it." us that he has never in all that time seen a drop of liquor about his grips or about the hotel rooms or about Hoover, nor any indication that he ever tasted a drop. We notice that former State Senator, J. D. Parnell, is reported in the press to have stated in a speech at San Antonio that Herbert Hoover is "a large stockholder in THE ISSUES IN RUN-OFF ·PRIMARY AUGUST 25 Canadian distilleries." We deny the correctness of this statement and challenge Senator I am asked to state the issues between my opponent, Hon. Barry Miller, an

Smith's Record Gives Smith's Idea of a ''Good'' Saloon When He Was an ssemblyman; Does He Still Say He Has Not Changed ·His View-s ·

When Wm. Allen White, editor Em­ on May 24, 1910, pages 3317-9 of the poria (Kansas) Gazette, first assailed record show AI Smith voting to allow Governor Smith's Assembly record as saloons to open at 5 o'clock in the morn­ REPORT SHOWS ANOTHER UQUOR CONTROL PLAN FAILED wholly wet and charged Smith with being ing so· that the workman could get a drink an obeditent servant of Tammany, the before he goes to work. Not only did he New York Governor made a feeble reply. so vote. but on May 3 and 24, 1911, on British Columbia Liquor-Control Party Swept From Power in Recen~ He did not attempt to deny his record, he pages 1697 and 2614 of the record he merely talked about it and devoted most voted to repeal the law which prevented Provincial Election Marks Step Toward Prohibition of his reply to abusing a New York min­ the sale of liquor before 6 a. m., and per­ ister whom he blamed for giving Mr. mitted saloons to open at 5. Failure of the British Columbia Liquor cities which are to form Greater Van• White information on which the charges DOES HE WANT HIS "GOOD" SALOON Control plan is indicated in a report just couver. were based. Mr. White replied by saying NEAR SCHOOLS? received from the British Columbia Pro­ IJ;! the last referendum, 1924, Vancouver that he did not know the minister. But "Does he want this model saloon of his hibition Association. This report has to city had a wet majority of 64 in favor ot in order to be sure of his ground, the within 200 feet of schools and churches? do with the recent election in that beer by the glass; South Vancouver had a. Kansas editor made a careful survey of Let the record answer that: He does if province in which the liquor control party majority of SOO against that proposition, the New York Assembly Journal and for­ the saloon is in a hotel that has 200 was swept from power. and Richmond-Point Grey gave a rna· tified with the facts he found in this rooms, for ne so voted May 3, 1905, jour­ This selection, the report continues, is jority of 1,700 against the proposition. Journal, he once more presented the pub­ nal page 3489; he does if they are run as the beginning of the end for the provin­ Thus, in the amalgamation of these three lic this record of Governor Smith which social clubs already organized; see vote cial liquor control plan and a step toward cities the drys apparently have a rna· shows that throughout his career in the March 26 1907, journal page 1292; he prohibition. A considerable number of the jority of more than 1,900. General Assembly he was an ever ready does of the church rents any of its prop­ members elected will support temperance It is expected that under the new gov· and eager champion of the saloon and 'its erty for business purposes, see vote April legislation and the granting of a referen­ ernment a referendum taken within two allied evils. 23 1907 and June 6, 1911, page 2977, dum on prohibition within two years. years will abolish the system of govern­ WHITE PRESENTS JOURNAL jo~rnal page 2397; he does if the "hooch" The prohibition association sent a ques­ ment sale. The system in British Colum· RECORD dispenser gets there first, see vote _April tionnaire to all candidates. The first bia, according to best information, has 23, 1908, journal pages 2371-2, Apnl 26, question requested ·a "beer parlor" refer­ turned the automobile, the rooming house Mr. White cites pages and paragraphs 1911, page 1457, and May 3 and June 28, endum in Greater Vancouver within six and the private residences into drinking of the Journal on which each vote is re­ 1911, pages 1724 and 3483; he d?es if. the months of the amalgamation of the three places, with terrible results to family life. corded. He declared that the record as bar is in a hotel south of Fifty-nmth found in this Journal constitutes evi­ street in New York City-anywhere in the dence of what Tammany requires of one Tammany home lot; if it has sevent~­ Here again, Governor Smith's Assembly does he have such confidence in its high of its members and to portend what five rooms in first class, fifty rooms m record shows clearly how he felt about purpose that he would leave it free and might be expected from Smith in the second class, twenty-five rooms in t~ird the problem, how liberal he was with unfettered? He says he has not changed White House. Mr. White admitted that class cities (here again White cites these ancient friends of Tammany. On his mind on the liquor question, and so he based his charges that Governor pages showing his record as voti:r;.g on the April 23, 1908, page 2546-7 of the records, his record may reveal, whether he would Smith had protected prostitution largely question) and adds, 'he does with o~he~ we find Smith voting against forbidding restrict the saloon or not. In 1910 some on the latter's votes on proposed amend­ exceptions too numerous to specify. physical connections between the saloon folks thought that there were abuses con­ ments to the excise law which affected (Again cites pages quoting his record.) and the house of prostitution and the nected with the saloon and that it needed the old Raines law hotel, and that the ALWAYS LOOKING OUT FOR gambling h o us e s. And as for the restriction, so they introduced a Bill to charge that the governor's votes as an gamblers, in 1910 on April 13, and May do away with these abuses. The Bill has assemblyman did in fact protect prosti­ SALOON-KEEPERS' PROPERTY "He voted against a law requiring a 27, pages 1509 and 3639 we find Smith many sections. But typical of the re­ tutio\1 was based on information that the voting against a bill which would have strictions were the ones which provided proposed amendments were intended to saloon-keeper to have his bond secured by unincumbered realty, on May 15, 1907, punished the owner of premises where that there should be only one license to check opportunities for prostitution in gambling was carried on with his knowl­ each 750 in population; that all names on these hotels. pages 3152-3 and again he introduced an amendment to save saloons until their edge. hotel registers should be true names and TAMMANY INFLUENCE leases had expired, when they were put RAINES LAW HOTEL ASSIGNATION not fictitious; that no prostitution should In his statement, White says in part, out of business, by a popular vote May 2, HOUSES be permitted on the premises; that no ''The record is set down not to prove that 1906, pages 3034-41. Always he was con­ "And quite aside from the question of hotel rooms should be rented more than Governor Smith is 'wringing wet' but to sidering the property of the saloon-keeper the ladies of the most ancient trade in once between 9 p. m., and 6 a. m. Mr. prove how Tammany Hall, which con­ rather than the morals of the children or connection with the saloon, let us con­ Smith apparently did not believe that trolled young Alfred E. Smith in those the convenience of people in churches. sider how Smith's vote protected them these measures were properly designed to days, pushes young men into a tragic and WHAT ABOUT RESTRICTIONS? when he was in the Legislature. We find remedy any abuses connected with the disastrous position; also it is submitted to "Now, what about restrictions and him on April 26, and May 3, 1905 (citing saloon, the Raines Law hotel, and its in­ prove that as a young man Alfred E. regulations that were put upon the saloon? Journal pages), voting against a bill separable attendant-prostitution; for on smith was always amenable to Tammany We find him voting to require that a which would permit local police officers May 24, 1910, he voted for a limiting influence. violation must occur twice in one year in­ to enter any questionable Raines Law amendment and then voted against the "I do not believe in eternal damnation. stead of two years for the saloon keeper Hotel at any hour it was open for busi­ Bill, which was lost; Assembly Journal A man may repent and be regenerated. to be a second offender, and that is if he ness and which would have required fire 3317-9. Mr. Smith seemed confirmed in But this record stands as an evidence of only breaks the law once a year he should or building inspection for the abodes of his opinion because on May 25 the Bill what Tammany required of one honest, be permitted to get away with it. (Date .these places. On all restrictive measures came up for re-consideration and he courageous, aspiring young man. and Journal pages cited.) Smith's record is against restriction. voted against re-consideration, and voted SMITH'S IDEA OF A "GOOD" SALOON "If a Tammany Judge suspended sen­ WOULD HE RESTRICT THE SALOON? against passing it, pages 3389-90 .. So, jour "Governor Smith's record on the saloon tence for a Tammany saloon keeper, Gov. "There is the record of the kind of times in two days Assemblyman Smith a dozen or twenty years ago is chiefly Smith would not count that as a con­ saloon Governor Smith voted for in the voted against restricting the number of important today in view of the fact that viction. Such a man would keep his good days of his youth and strength. Here is licenses, voted against stipulating that he defied the platform of the Democratic standing as a model saloon keeper. the kind of saloon that Tammany wanted prostitution be prohibited, voted against true-name registration in hotels, voted in party and promised to introduce a liquor HERE THEN IS HIS MODEL SALOON and with AI Smith, Tammany in those plan of his own. His record shows what "So; then, we may assume that this days wanted little that he did not grant. favor of permitting rooms to be rented his idea was of a good saloon when he model saloon which Al, if he has not The pressure of Tammany, of course, repeatedly to different persons the same was a Tammany Assemblyman. Clearly, changed his mind since 1903, the saloon made this young man make this record. night. His record answers the question his conception of a good saloon, whether he would restore to the American people "Does Governor Smith believe that the as to his attitude as an Assemblyman to- it is called that or something else, may would be open from 5 o'clock in the liquor business ought to be restricted, or (Continued on Page 7) be gained from his record. For when morning till far into the night, could be he was asked just before the Democratic within 200 feet of schools and churches; convention assembled in June, 1928, if he and could be operated by a man who had changed his mind about prohibition could not be ousted for violating the law and the liquor question, he said, 'I have if· he could control the judge before whom BANK RESOURCES BREAK RECORD not.' Therefore, his record is of vital he was tried and get a suspension of the importance. And the detailed roll-call Total resources of all national and state banks in the United States are ap­ sentence and go back in business. And proximately $70,000,000,000. The figures are disclosed in the annual report of R. of that record covering nearly a dozen we find finally, in this matter, on April years shows what might be expected of N. Sims, secretary- treasurer of the National Association of Supervisors of State 13, 1905 (citing Journal pages), a record Banks. The report was submitted for a convention today at Coney Island, New Governor Smith if he should become to prevent the people in the neighbor­ President Smith. York. hood from voting to oust the saloon even On February 28 last there were 26,669 banks, of which 18,965 were state and THE SELLING HOURS OF SMITH'S though 40 per cent of the neighbors peti­ 7,734: national. Total deposits were $56,714,516,861; total capital, surplus and un­ MODEL SALOON tion for an election. Here is the wide­ divided profits, $8,165,241,004; total resources, $69,439,471,224. "We can let the record tell the Smith open, untrammelled, unregulated saloon Since 1919 when Mr. Sims made his first complete report, deposits showed an nethod of handling the liquor business of the good old days. Here, indeed, might increase of 51 per cent, resources 48 per cent, capital, surplus and undivided profits and the kind of saloon he wanted then. Governor Smith put his toot on the bar 55 per cent. In the nine-year period, however, the total number of banks had de­ It is, of course, unfair to judge Smith to­ and blow off the troth as he publicly creased 2,114, of which 2,063 were state banks and fifty-one national. day by the records of twenty years ago; yearned to do in an interview with the National prohibition went into effect January 15, 1920, and these remarkable but still something of his viewpoint may New York Times in 1923. increases in deposits, resources and undivided profits during this prohibition era, be found in that record. Let us first ask THE GAMBLER'S AND PROSTITUTE'S to say the least, indicates that prohibition has not brought the financial disaster his record how long this model saloon of RELATION TO THE SALOON to the United States that the wets predicted it would. It rather indicates that his should remain open. Read the "Now what about the relations of that prohibition has proved to be an economic blessing. answer: As a member of the Assembly, saloon to the gambler and the p!·ostitute? HOME AND STATE Page Seven THE LAW AND THE FACTS MINISTER OBJECTS TO NAMES OF AL'S POUTICAL HELPERS (Continued from r:age 2) Is there any political significance in names? The writer is a Democrat, has been a mit that the court is wrong in this opinion and I thank God that the question is one Democrat since a boy and will hold to the principles of democracy as long as he lives. for the people and not for the courts to pass upon. But there are some f~nny names coming into prominence in the Democratic· party at The San Antonio Court of Civil Appeals speaks of the power of oommittees to pro­ this time. tect the Democratic party "against any fraud admitted to be perpetrated on the loyal For instance, the closest political and financial advisers of Governor Alfred Smith. members of the party." I assert that it is not a fraud upon she Democratic party for the nom!nee of the Democratic party for president, have some odd names. Here are a loyal Democrat whose conscience compels him to oppose AI Smith to run for the nomi­ some of them: R.askob, Lehman, Riordan and Moskowitz. Such names do not sound nation for a state office when as in this case the candidate l~ves nothing undone to in­ like Jefferson, Jackson, Cleveland, and Wilson. form the Democratic voters and committees and the world, freely and fully, of his As a Democrat, I am wondering if we are coming to a time when Czarwitz, Schuber­ opposition to AI Smith for president. Whatever may be said, certainly it is neither a itch, Tokioloskosi, Mussoliniatchy are to be the controlling characters in democracy? I fraud nor a crime for a Texas Democrat who has been ·a hewer of wood and a drawer of only ask these questions as an humble Democrat who was born and reared in the south, water for the Democratic party all his life to follow his conscience and vote against AI and has glorified in the Democratic party for 40 years. And if the Czarwitzes and Smith for president. . Schuberitches are to take over the Democratic party I am wondering if they will do as The court says that if I had taken my name off the Democratic ballot as soon as well as the Jeffersons and Jacksons and Wilsons have done?-REV. E. A. MANEss. AI Smith's nomination was assured, that that action would have met the demands of my conscience and removed me from a position subjecting me to criticism. I welcome all the criticism that can come to me ftom the performance of my duty as a citizen and a SMITH SAYS DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS ASALOON PARTY Democrat. The man who runs from criticism is a coward and must be of little value to his party and to his state. But, I have believed that it was my duty to continue as a Rev. 0. R. Miller, a Methodist preacher and state· superintendent of the New York Civic League, who has lived at Albany for 20 years and has long known AI Smith per­ candidate in order to give the hundreds of thousands of anti-Al Smith voters in the sonally and intimately is giving some valuable information concerning this candidate. primaries the right to vote for one of their own faith for the important office of He has kept the record of AI Smith and from time to time has given that record out to :Pieutenant-governor. To have withdrawn at the last moment would have deprived them the public. Naturally, Smith and his friends do not enjoy it and they are endeavoring of that opportunity and would have violated my conscience and my sense of duty. to discredit Mr. Miller but he stands endorsed by his church and by the moral forces. It seems clear to me that if a majority of the Democrats of Texas, having all the We quote as follows from the Civic Forum, June, 1928: rights before them, wa-nt a nominee for lieutenant-governor who is opposed tq ~I Smith for president, they are eJ1titled to have him. If a majGrity -do not want such a "At a Democratic dinner held in Hotel Vanderbilt, New York City, April 24, 1922, to candidate for lieutenant-governor, I can not be elected, and in that case certainly no discuss campaign issues and ways of raising campaign money, some advocated that the harm can be done. Democratic party should declare itself in opposition to the Volstead law; others opposed · The issue in this campaign is, as it ·has been for thirty-five years past, between so doing. Governor Smith arose and among other things said: 'I don't believe the the brass-collar Democrats and the freedom of conscience Democrats, between those Democratic party should camouflage on this subject. The Democratic party is a saloon who want a brass-collar Democratic party and those who want a freedom of conscience party and everybody knows it is a saloon party, and it ought to come out and say so.' Democratic party, such as is provided for by the election laws of this state. "This was first printed in The Reform Bulletin, of October, 1922, but not until re­ The brass-collar Democrats believe that it is immoral for a Democratic voter to fol­ cently has he denied the same. One of the persons present at that dinner gave to a personal. low his conscience if it violates his pledg~. while the freedom of conscience Democrats friend of the editor of The Civic Forum, immediately after that occasion a typewritten re­ believe it is immoral for a Democratic voter to follow any pledge if it violates his con- port of several pages of practically everything said that night by different ones with science reference to the temperance question, with the names of every person present. Our THOMAS B. LOVE. frind gave us that typewritten statement at that time, which we still have in a safe deposit vault here at Albany. At the close of Governor Smith's address one well known Tammany politician jumped to his feet and excitedly said: 'Governor Smith doesn't AMESSAGE FROM THOS. B. LOVE mean that. He doesn't mean that.' "Another one arose and said: 'That' is just exactly the thing that the Democratic I note in the press that the New York Times in reviewing the result or July 28 pri­ party doesn't want the people to believe, that it is the-saloon party. If you attack the mary election in Texas, says that my vote for lieutenant-governor indicates th~ election Volstead lCLw in the way th~t you propose, the Democratic party will be thought by a of Governor AI Smith in November. This is prophecy based on poor mathematics. Few large percentage of the people to be the saloon party, and that is just what it ought not things can be more certain than that if all the Democrats who voted for me i_n Satur­ to let itself be tagged with ejther by its indirect course of action, or by the open declara­ day's primary vote against AI Smith in November he will lose the electoral vote m Texas. tion which Governor Smith stands tor: A notable feature of 'the returns from this primary election is that there were about "The written report which we have of that gathering ends thus: 'There had been no 100 000 fewer votes cast in the state than in the primary election. The shortage was liquor served at the dinner and Governor Smith was sober when he made his state­ ab~ut 18 per cent and a large number of these stay-at-home voters resided in anti-Al ment.'." Smith strongholds. There were over 6,000 fewer votes cast in Dallas, County, and scm~ 13.000 fewer in Harris County than in 1926 and a proportionate number in other large dry counties over the state. It is safe to say that substantially every Al Smith supporter rei!istered his vote on Saturday, and that most of these voters who stayed away from the WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE ON AL SMITH'S RECORD polls are determined to vote against AI Smith at the November election and were fearful (Continued from Page 6) record stands. His answer to it should of obligating themselves to vote for him by participating in the primaries. not be an alibi, and lacking repudiation But of the 700,000 votes actually cast in the Democratic primaries, over 203,000 were wards restricting the liquor traffic. CAN the record stands as a foreshadowing por­ cast for me for lieutenant-governor with the distinct knowledge and understanding HE NOW STILL HOLD THAT HE HAS tent of what may be expected from Gov­ amonP' all voters that I am opposed to Governor AI Smith's election and will vote against NOT CHANGED HIS MIND SINCE THE ernor Smith in the White House. A word him i~ November. I received this vote, notwithstanding my name was taken off the RECORD WAS MADE? from him, now that he has the nomina­ ballot in a number of counties with the result that I received few, if any votes in these TAMMANY'S BIDDING tion of a major party, would seem to be counties. The largest Democratic vote and also the largest Democratic majority ev~r "Tammany expects its workers to de­ necessary at the outset in this cam­ received in Texas by and Democratic candidate for president was that of John W. Dav1s liver. Tammany expected Assemblyman paign. in 1924 In that year Mr. Davis received 484,605 votes against 130,023 votes for Mr. Smith to deliver, and he did. Tammany "I have tried to be exact and careful Coolidg~. If 203,000 of the Democrats who voted for Davis in 1924 had vo~ed for requires its workers to do positive things in setting down the record, but if errors coolidge, he, Calvin Coolidge, would have received the el~ctoral. vote. of Tex::s m ~924 for Tammany and its friends, as well as typographical, or factual have been made by a majority of more than 50,000. And every Democratic presidential nommee smce to destroy things or measures which hurt inadvertently, I shall be the first to Texas has been a state would have lost the state, if he had lost 203,000 Democratic votes Tammany and its allies. acknowledge them.'' to his Republican opponent. · "When Tammany got control of the As­ BUT THE RECORD STANDS If the AI Smith newspapers are correct that my vote in Saturday's primary is a fair sembly in 1911, it made Mr. Smith its On being informed that Grivernor test of the anti-Smith vote among Texas Democrats, then it must also be a fair test of legislative leader. Tammany and its al­ Smith was aggrieved because of Mr. the anti-Smith votes among Democrats througho~t the United Sta~es; for t~e. Texas lies-the prostitute, the gambler, and the White's comments on his voting against democracy is a fair cross-section .of the Democratic vote of the natiOn, contammg all saloon-placed a tremendous burden on bills designed to abolish prostitution in classes and races rand creeds in about the average proporti~m. . . young Smith, but he did not fail them. connection with Raines Law Hotels and I received substantially 30 per cent of the votes cast m the Democratic prrmary on The liquor legislation which they had in­ designed to remove all physical connec­ saturday. John W. Davis received in 1924 in the United States 8,386,503 votes aJ?-d Cal­ troduced that year was about three times tions between gambling houses and houses vin Coolidge 15,725,016. If AI Smith shou1~ lose 30 per cent o.f the vot~s received by as much in volume as legislation concern­ of ill repute, Mr. White mollified his com­ Davis in 1924 to his Republican opponent m November and his. Republican opponent ing similar subject matter in any previous ments somewhat by issuing the following should receive these votes in addition to the Republican vote received two year~ ago the year. It was their field day. They piled statement: Republican electors would receive 18,230,376 against 5,887,253 votes for AI Smith-or a in bills, not only positively to further their "I learned that Governor Smith was Republican plurality of 12.343,123 votes, altogether the laT?e~t presidential plurality. in interests, but almost the first thing they deeply aggrieved that I should charge American history· and if in such case, for good measure, It IS conceded that AI Sm1th did was to move for the repeal of bills him with protecting gambling and prosti­ will also receive ~ll of th~ 4,822,856 votes cast for La :r:ol~ette in 1~24, still ?e would ~e which previous legislatures had passed re­ tution in his assembly record. I can un­ beaten by a majority of 7,520,267 votes, the largest ma]onty ever given agamst a presi- stricting their activities. Mr. Smith as derstand that the governor in casting dential candidaae. . legislative leader took the initative in those votes against those reform bills A change of 30 per cent of the Democratic votes cast iJ?- 1924 throw:;hout the. Un~~d their behalf and, invariably, voted with might honestly have felt that the bills states to the Republican column would not only result m a Republican preside~vial them." (Here Mr. White cites numerous were unconstitutional, or were not en­ majority of at least seven and one half million V?tes but would elect the Republican dates and journal pages.) In concluding, forceable, or infringed upon personal lib­ presidential electors in 42 of the 48 states of the Un:on. . Mr. White says: erty or encouraged police blackmail. But Lieutenant-Governor Miller received ~ f~w more than 100_.000 ~ore v~tes than I ~Id, HAS HE CHANGED HIS MIND? Governor .Smith certainly is entitled to but he lacked nearly 60,000 votes of a ma:Jonty. Goverl?-o~ Miller IS runnmg for a third fair treatment. I always have tried to term and the Democrats in Saturday's pnmary by a ma]onty of near!~ 60,000 voted fo! a "It is inconceivable that he has not fight fair. I desire to withdraw the change in that office. Notwithstanding my universally known oppositiOn to the electiOn . changed his mind since he left the As­ charges formally insofar as they affect of Al Smith for president in November, I vv'as chosen by the Democrats of Texas under sembly. But the record is the record built his votes on gambling and prostitution, our election laws, with my name off the ballot in a nu_mber of counties .. to be one of the in the days of his youth. It is no new but not his position as to the saloon. . two contenders for the office of lieutenant-governor m the run-off pnmary of August thing in this state. His votes on these "On the question of the menace of Tam­ 25. I have received assurances of support from a number o! Democrats who voted for measures have been printed time and many and of Governor Smith's Tammany Lieutenant-Governor Miller on last Saturday and from a shll large~ number w~o sup­ again in various New York elections and record for the open saloon, the whole is­ ported other candidates last Saturday. I am going to present the Issues of this can:­ outside of the City of New York, gen­ sue of the campaign is coming." New York State people have voted paign as fairly and fully as I can to the voters during the nex~ three weeks, and the•mam erally, Newspaper headlines interpreteti this overwhelmingly against Governor Smith issue is whether or not we shall have Tammany government m Te~as. +' statement of Mr. White as a retraction of and that Tecord. I deny that Tammany Hall whici: ?ontrolled th~ Hous.ton Nat1~nal ?onven ~ I_?n f~om He has lost on that his words so far a sthey referred to these its beginning to its end, with the precision of a Corliss em;me, has either ti:e lawrul n~ht record outside of the Metropolitan area two allied vices of the saloon. Mr. White or power to drive out of the De!llocrati.c party in !ex~s and off our pnma~y electiOn time and again. No one believes-least of shows a fine spirit in conceding that the ballot any Democrat whose conscience Will not permit hun to vote for Its nommee, Gov­ a'l do I beiieve-that Governor Smith to­ New York Governor's motives in opposing ernor AI Smith for president of the United States. dav is the kind of man that made that these bills were prompted by belief that The Times editorial says that in my campaign I did not hesitate to call to my stan­ Assembly record. BuT TAMMANY they would be unconstitutional if passed dard "the opponents of Governor Smith on secret as well as open grounds." !t is utterly WOULD REMAKE THAT RECORD AND and that he was not prompted by desire baseless to say that my campaign from beginning to end was not altogether m the open MAKE SUITII RE1V!AKE IT IF IT to protect these twin evils. COULD. and above board or that I Irade any s~ret or sinister appeal far votes whatsoever, as Governor Smith has done many Anyway, the record stands, Mr. White everyone in Texas knows. SJiOMAS B. LoVE. splendid things since then. He has can't withdraw that and Governo'r Smith JIOWn in power and grace. But the can't change it. CAMPAIGN FUND NEEDED HOOVER OWNS NO CANADIAN DISTILLERY STOCK The contest in the national campaign this year is not a contest between the Demo· Readers of Home and State doubtless saw the newspaper report that J~ cratic and the Republican parties. AI Smith bolted his party platform, has substituted his own personal platform, has appointed a Republican campaign manager, J. J. Raskob, D. Parnell has stated in a speech boosting for AI Smith that Herbert Hoover who has circularized the delegates to the National Democratic Convention, asking them was a large stockholder in a Canadian distillery. The Anti-Saloon League to suggest a scheme for supplying liquor for beverage purposes to the homes. This is clearly in defiance of the Eighteenth Amendment. For these reasons AI Smith is no is in possession of the following letter which is a reply to that charge. The longer the Democratic nominee but the liquor nominee, sponsored by Tammany Hall. letter was sent to ·us by Mr. H . .Q. Fraser, Halletsville, Texas. In addition to this, 18 of the 48 national committeemen and 25 of the 48 national committee women have been either kicked out or else resigned in disgust. These include Stanford University, California, July 25, 1928 such men as Cordell Hull, of Tennessee, Carter Glass, of Virginia, and such women as Mrs. Emily Newell Blair, of Missouri, and Mrs .Genevieve Clark Thompson, daughter of Mr. H. G. Fraser, Hallettsville, Texas, the late Champ Clark. The readers of the HoME AND STATE will readily understand from My Dear Mr. Fraser: This is in reply to your letter of July 20 ad­ the above that the old line Democrats have been kicked out and Tammany has "cab­ baged" onto the name "democrat" in the effort of the outlawed liquor traffic to capture dressed to Secretary Hoover. the White House, the citadel of the American government. The statement that Mr. Hoover is a stockholder in a Canadian distillery Hoover, the nominee of the Republican party was the friend of Woodrow Wilson, and has proved himself a friend of humanity from the time that he entered Belgium is just an unvarnished lie. and began with money out of his own pocket to feed the starving war orphans until the Mr. Hoover has no business interests anywhere outside of the United day that he gave of his great talent in organization and engineerin_g work to save count­ less thousands of the Southland during the floods of the Mississippi. States, and he has no interest in any distillery whatsoever and never had. Herbert Hoover represents the ideals, policies and purposes of the great body of true Yours sincerely, Americans who acknowledge God in their lives and want to acknowledge Him in their nation. George Akerson, Assistant to Mr. Hoover. The fight is on between the law abiding and the lawless, between the patriotic and the· alien, between temperance and intemperance, between sobriety and prohibition. NOTE: The reader will also note that 'Mr. Hoover, contrary to the The issue is, "Shall the American saloon return, or not?" wet propaganda, owns no property outside of the United States. The wets The Anti-Saloon League of Texas can not use the regular funds of the League in a fight to defeat any candidate for national office. It could use the funds in a contest to are circulating all kinds cl stories concerning Hoover, but let the readers prevent the nomination, iJut can not use the funds in a contest to defeat the nominee. understand that he is dry personally, politically and commercially. In the fight to prevent the nomination of Al Smith the Anti-Saloon League during the month of June spent $1,245.95 more than it received. It is endeavoring to liquidate \".his by collections on its old pledges. A CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE ORGANIZED LADIES ·PREFER GENTLEMEN The first of July the Executive Committee of the Anti-Saloon League of Texas met By Mrs. Clarence M. Busch, "Bonnie Busch," President of the National and authorized the. formation of a special committee to conduct. the fight against the League of American Pen Women, and State Chairman for Florida of the election of Al Smith for the Anti-Saloon League. The committee has been called "The Non-Partisan Hoover League of Texas.'' National Women's Democratic Law Enforcement League. This committee is soliciting funds for · continuing the campaign against AI Smith. All funds spent for that purpose must be specially donated for that purpose and must We, the Democratic women of the South, consider loyalty to principle be spent for that purpose. It can in no way be mixed with the Anti-Saloon League above loyalty to party. funds. This committee bore all the expense incident to the call for the state mass meeting We prefer a man who .knows how to conserve food to one who knows held in the City Hall of Dallas, July 17, in numerous telegrams, special delivery letters, bow to dispense liquor. office headquarters, rent, and a lot of correspondence detailing considerable expense, and must be met by this committee. We feel that we can trust our Ship of State to a man who has oharted In addition to this the committee is asking for $14,450.00 to be used for the following the waters of the Eastern and Western Hemisphere-all around the worid, purposes: rather than to one who has navigated the wet streets of "East Side, West THE NON-PARTISAN HOOVER LEAGUE OF TEXAS PURPOSE: Defeat AI Smith by electing Hoover solely in the interests of prohibition Side-all around the town." and good government. We would rather have for the President of our United States, a good The Non-Partisan Hoover League of Texas will prepare and distribute: · man of the world than a good fellow of the town. (1) 500,000 copies "How Can A Wet President Affect Prohibition?" 4 pages, 7x9, AI Smith for the White Lights, Mr. Hoover for the White House. 3,000 words, $3.50 per 1,000, $1,750. (2) 500,000 copies "AI Smith's Official Record," 4 pages, 7x9, 3,000 words, $3.50 per -LADIES PREFER GENTLEMEN. 1,000, $1,750. (3) 500,000 copies "Al Smith's Platform," 4 pages, 7x9, 3,000 words, $3.50 per 1,000, $1,750. • (4) 500,000 copies "The True Tammany," 4 pages, 7x9, 3,000 words, $3.50 per 1,000, ATTEMPTING TO MUZZLE THE LEAGUE $1,750. Readers of HoME AND STATE have doubtless noted much in the public press concern­ (5) 2,000,000 one page tracts on various phases of the campaign as they arise, $1.00 ing the effort to muzzle the Anti-Saloon League. This is one organization whose lead­ per 1,000, $2,000.00. ership has never been bought by the corrupt forces. They have marshalled their (6) Four five reel moving pictures, $300.00 each, $1,200. strength to intimidate her leaders. As soon as any leaders indicated a fear of the liquor (7) Four projecting machines for same. We think we «_an get second hand rna .. forces the temp3rance forces have withdrawn him from the front line trenches and given chines at about $125.00 each, $500. him ~vacation with his wife and kids and put a man in his stead who could look the These pictures will be used in open air meetings in cities and in rural disbicts. rum brigade in the face and fight on without fear. (8) We have available about 250 speakers who will give their services free, and who, · While the League has never boasted that it has all the brains, yet the liquor forces generally, will pay their expenses. We should have, however, an expense fund have found it difficult to throw confusion into the·ranks of her leaders. We think this is • available to offer, especially where distance is long. not so much the result of the wisdom of these leaders as it has been their adherence (9) We have various women's organizations, for example we have an organization unselfishly to the right. When one is right he can "chase a thousand and put ten of the Methodist women embracing a superintendent of Temperance and Social thousand to flight." service in practically every Methodist church in the state and they have officially declared that they will make our program theirs. We are effecting or­ RESORT TO THE COURTS TO HUSH THE LEADERS ganizations in a number of other women's organizations through which we will Having failed everywhere else, there has been for several years a growing and de­ work. In order to get the results from these organizations, correspondence and termined policy of the outlawed liquor traffic to resort to the courts. All our readers will literature should embrace an expense of about $1,500.00. recall how they railroa'ded through an unfriendly court to the penitentiary Dr. Anderson, (10) We find that our speakers are clamoring for a hand book of facts to be used of the New York League. While they could not hush him, they did cripple him seri­ by speakers and workers. We think this is a splendid idea and if funds per .. ously. mitted, a supply of them could be printed at a cost of $500. Many of our readers will recall the effort to hush Dr. E. S. Shumaker, of Indiana. Note: Very lQ,rgely these speakers will reach the rural sections with their messages Through an unfriendly court they were able to clamp down charges of contempt and rtnd literature, just where the usual campaign will fail to reach. give him a sentence to prison. The high crime of which he was convicted was giving in print the political ac­ We must maintain our office force to direct the speakers, including stenographers, tivities of members of the court, but it is reported that this was not the moving cause posta~e. et. cet. About $2,000.00. for his troubles. The attorney general of the State of Indiana had sought the backing Total asked for, $14,450.00. of the Anti-Saloon League in his race for attorney general, but Dr. Shumaker, even In order to raise the above funds the committee is asking for 1,000 men and women though the candidate professed to be a dry, did not have confidence in him as such and to send at once either a check or a promise to pay $10.00 each, and 1,000 men and women refused to endorse him. It is reported that he appealed to Dr. Wayne B. Wheeler at to send in either a check or a promise to pay $5.000 each, the promises to be due by Washington to force an endorsement of the League for him. Failing here, naturally he October 1. was aggrieved. Make checks payable to Non-Partisan Hoover League and send it to the committee's He is the attorney general who testified that he violated the prohibition laws to get headquarters at 318 Slaughter Building, Dallas, Texas, or clip and fill out the following some liquor for medicinal purposes. The state laws refuse to recognize the wet claim blank. that liquor is a medicine. REV. GEORGE W. McCALL, D. D., TREASURER, This attorney general has filed charges against Dr. Shumaker again this year, be­ 318 Slaughter Building, Dallas, Texas cause Dr. Shumaker published that the attorney general was "wet of record." The courts are shying from entertaining the charges, but the attorney general is still trying I hereby pledge $ ...... to aid in carrying on the work of the ..••••••••...... ••• to find a court that will entertain them. It seems that it is the Republican machine in said subscription to be paid em or before ...... •...... 1928. Indiana that is giving Dr. Shumaker this trouble. The Democrats of Indiana seem to be dry. Their delegation to the Houston convention, though instructed by the voters (Signed) ...... ••••••••••••.•...... •..•.....•••••• to vote for Woolen, 25 of the 28 cast their vote for Smith on the first ballot.The result (P. 0. Box or Street Address) ••••••••••••••••...... , .••••• is that they have jeopardized the entire Democratic ticket in Indiana. Over in New Jersey they have attempted to muzzle the superintendent of the Anti­ (To\vn or City) ...... ••• Saloon Leawe because he sent an article to the paper that the courts held was a viola­ (State) ...... tion of the libel law. The paper which published this article was as much involved as Make all chocks payable to The Non-Partisan Hoover League, Dr. Poulson, but they did not proceed against the paper. or to George W. McCall. The readers of HoME AND STATE will recall the libel suit brougl1t two or three years ago against tA.e Texas sup~rintendent, but it has never been allowed to come to trial. REv. ATTicus WEBB, Chairman, Throughout the entire nation the outlawed liquor traffic is watching every word and DEAN E. D ..JENNINGs, s. M. U. Secretary. act of the Anti-Saloon League leaders with a view of geitin'5 some ground of action E.EV. GEORGE W. McCALL, Treasurer. Gpinst them. o·t'· r~aders will be able to understand what is behind the movement.