U.S.A. PRESIDENCY.

Grey River Argus, 25 September 1928, Page 3

U.S.A. PRESIDENCY.

CAREER OF MR. SMITH. CONTROL OF TAMMANY. NEW YORK, August 8. Mr Alfred Ema.nuei /Smith,, the Democratic nominee •for the Prrsidcn cy, was born in New York in 1873. His parents were also New York i»:.tives. His whole life ha-s. been in New York. Mr Smith’s father was a true--, driver. When he died th e boy, who wa.-i only 12, went to work for years in the fish market. Then he got a job as a clerk in one of Tammyny’s departments, t.he jury commission. From his ean.il/ -st years he studied the institutions and ideafs of Tammany to such success that, when he was thirty, Tainmaniy .sent him to the State Legislature at Albany as Assemblyman. For som e years Mr Smith remained a staunch Tammany man. He bceumc in turn minority and majority door leader, and latterly Governor for f<»ui terms. He wasi defeated in I In* year of th© Harding “landslide,” but he was the only Democrat on the htale ticket elect! d in the. Coolidge year ft 1924.

The time came when Mr Smith, feu so strong in his position that, instead of taking orders from Tammany, he defied Tammany and 4 ‘got away with it.” There had been a bitter iued between him and Mr Hearst, the publisher, owing to the latter’s charge that the Governor killed New York babies, with the high cost of mill-', despite the fact that the Governor ha* no- powers in controlling prices? Tammany’s ticket in 1922 was Hearst and Smith .but Smith refused to take orders, with the result that Tammany backed down and Hearst withdrew. Sine'.?- then” Governor Smith has bi-cn controlling Tammany. It waa he win brought about the dropping of Mayoi TTylan in 1925, and the rise to powe: of “Jimmy” Walker, America’s be-t--d