BITTER PERSONAL ATTACK ON SMITH

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 41, 26 September 1928, Page 6

BITTER PERSONAL ATTACK ON SMITH

TAMMANY AW THt UNDERWORLD. RETREAT ON PROHIBITION. NEW YORK, Sept. 24. - The roost' bitter" personal attack thus far riiado upoliii' Ml*. 'A. E; Smith, Demdciiiitic hdminee' for the Presidency, by important. Republican offic.lils was to-night launched at Warren, Ohio, by Mrs. Willebrahdt, assistant Federal iAttorney-General^. and one of Mr. Herbert Hoover s closest advisers, in an address before a group of Presbyterians, She declared Mr. Smith’s policy oi “retrdxt” on prohibition was in lino vWth bis “years of Tammany training'.” She alleged that Tammany had always protected saloons and Mr. Spiith’s Tammany connection wag /a serious reason for opposition to him, "Mr. Smith has'not enlarged' the horizon of his early life,” she said, "arid has used tho force of Tammany in the underworld as stepping-stones, with’ the inevitable Apolitical obligatibii’s" thereby, imposed;” Mrs. Willebrahdt quoted from tbe Encyclopem Brittanica to back her stiatbriieut that Tatmnafny was" “ah organisation of corruption, blackmail arid vice!”