Senators

The quickest, sharpest G. 0. P. answer to Nominee Smith's farmstorming tour was emitted by Senator George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire, official Hooverizer of the East. Quoth he: "The ploughboy of the Eastern world goes West in a $1,000,000 special train to carry relief to the harassed farmers of that section. His remedy consists of a plea to give him a chance. His promise consists in a pledge to appoint a commission to tell him what to do. ...

"He is playing both ends against the middle in farm relief just exactly as he is in Prohibition."

In retort to the Denver Smith speech, Senator Moses said: "Mr. Facing-Both-Ways has again descended from his eleven-car million-dollar special train to spread light and learning in those sections of the country which are unaccustomed to the effulgence of the Brown Derby. ... He misrepresents, distorts, bisects sentences and employs periphrastic phrases to make his points. . . . The candidate neglects to say that three of his own chief financial backers in this campaign--Messrs. Young, Brady and Ryan--are also leaders of the power trust. . . ."

Senator Moses went into New Jersey and had a shot at Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, Vice Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. "You people," he said at Bayonne, "are in the centre of a community dominated by an understudy of Tammany Hall. I cannot understand how you can submit to the domination of a machine that is corrupt, rapacious, unrelenting and unforgiving."

In Cleveland, Senator Capper of Kansas said: "In the West, Al Smith is considered a professional politician whose main interest is in the game itself. Hoover ... is thought of as a man . . . whose chief interest has been in humanitarian movements and the economic situation of the nation."

In Washington, Senator Nye of North Dakota asked the following question: "Shall we as progressive people give our support to the candidate of Tammany, that institution which bitterly fought and assailed Lincoln; which left no stone unturned to defeat that great progressive leader, William Jennings Bryan; which is wide open to the charge of having traded its strength in 1924 against the interests of the candidacy of Robert M. LaFollette, the greatest of all leaders of progressive thought?"

In Detroit, Senator Borah of Idaho spoke in Orchestra Hall. Said he: "... A government which does not look forward will not long have a chance to look backward.

". . . The Republican Party has nominated a candidate whose intellectual and moral equipment . . . especially fit him

"Three Presidents have called him to great undertakings. Three Presidents have assigned him to extraordinary tasks. He did not fail them."

In Cincinnati, Senator Borah pointed to Democratic Chairman Raskob, multimillionaire, and to the Smith campaign train, as evidences of that Prosperity, the existence of which some Democrats have disputed.

At Nashville, Tenn., Senator Borah was asked again about the G. O. P. Sinclair money. He retorted: "We need all the money we can get in view of the fact that the Raskobs and the du Fonts have taken possession of the Democratic party. I would as soon have Sinclair's money as du Font's. Both made it by exploiting the American people."

In Atlanta, Robert Latham Owen, Hoover Democrat, onetime (1907-25) Senator from Oklahoma, retorted to Nominee Smith's references to him in Oklahoma City (see p. 10). Said he: "I am an American before I am a Democrat."