Reasons

Various voters gave various reasons.

Pro-Smith reasons given last week included the following:

"Splendid courage and rugged honesty in his stand on the prohibition question." --Edward S. Harkness, Manhattan financier, longtime Republican. Similarly, de Lancey Kountz, Manhattan banker, board chairman of Devoe & Raynolds Co. (paints).

"I am against hypocrisy."--James F. Lucas, Philadelphia paint-and-brush maker, longtime Republican. Similarly, Rudolph Spreckels, San Francisco banker, irregular Republican.

"Constructive policies . . . splendid executive ability . . . Herbert Hoover never stands on two feet at the same time on anything."--William B. Hibbs, Washington broker, longtime Republican.

"Best interests of labor."--The New Jersey State Federation of Labor, by resolution in convention at Atlantic City.

"More of Lincoln's human understanding and more love for the common people than any man who has been a Presidential candidate since Lincoln's time."--Edwin J. Gross, oldtime friend and supporter of Wisconsin's late Robert Marion La Follette, Sr.

Resentment and alarm at undercover anti-Catholic tactics--William B. Tubby of Greenwich, Conn., Quaker and longtime Republican. Similarly, President H. R. Fitzgerald of the American Cotton Manufacturers' Association, Dry Democrat, longtime friend of Nominee Hoover.

"Disgust" with the G. O. P.'s "lack of honor" in "repudiating" its pledges to the U. S. farmer--John Napier Dyer, Indiana fruitgrower, longtime Republican. Similarly, Magnus Johnson, onetime (1923-25) U. S. Senator from Minnesota, Farmer-Laborite.

"Look, I used to cut that boy's hair when he was just a young feller."--Joseph Pietrozziello, Manhattan (east side) barber, longtime Republican.

The elimination of Negroes from the Republican Party throughout the South to please Dry and anti-Catholic Democrats--R. T. Timothy, Negro Republican, and Major E. E. Winters, White Republican, both of Montgomery, Ala. Said Major Winters: "I cast my first vote for Abraham Lincoln 64 years ago and have been voting the Republican ticket early and often ever since, but this is more than even a 'hardened sinner' like me can stand."*

"See by the press that you are going to vote for Hoover. I'se gwine to kill your vote." So telegraphed Jim Noble, oldtime Oklahoma Negro, longtime messenger to Oklahoma's Governors, to Robert Latham Owen, onetime (1907-25) Oklahoma Senator and "bolting" Democrat.

"The courage to talk as he thinks and to do what he says."--Mrs. Harry Harvey Thomas, president of the New York City Federation of Women's Clubs, registered Republican.

Farm relief (in general)--President (resigned) James F. Reed of the Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation.

"Smith's conciliation policy will restore the United States to the good graces of foreign powers--long lost through Republican assininity."--Haley Fiske, president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.

"I claim that a vote against Hoover is a vote for a 50 dollars [per acre] average increase in the price of his [the farmers] land"--F. G. Snow, banker-farmer of Kankakee, Illinois, in full page advertisements in midwestern newspapers.

Prefers modification to nullification of Prohibition--Mrs. Lucy Reed of Tennessee, longtime member of the W. C. T. U.

"This poor head has no politics. It's just all for Al Smith"--Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink./-

Tammany Hall was "our friend in our hour of need when we had mighty few friends north of the Mason and Dixon line" --John Sharp Williams, Mississippi's patriarch, oldtime (1911-23) U. S. Senator.

*The G. O. P., to make its tickets attractive to disgruntled Dry Democrats throughout the South, has taken care that no Negro is named as a Presidential elector in any Southern State this year. Many a Negro Republican resents this "lily white" movement.

/-She helped open the Republican convention by singing the Star Spangled Banner.