Interior of Sam Houston Hall. H ouston. Texas. where Smith was
nominated by the Democratic Party on tin first ballot. The convention
was marked l?\ wild enthusiasm and spontaneuos parades and outbursts
of song. Sam Houston Hall was built tor th?* occasion in (>4 days.
FIGHTS I' ART OF COLORFUL
LIFE OF GOIERXOR SMITH
(Continued from ;>.'!?:* 1)
in pushing through many important
legislative measures.
He has had many fights with \\ il
liam Randolph Hearst, the publish
er. and had a few tilts with the late
William Jennings Bryan. His last
important fight with Hearst, when
he stubbornly declined to run on a
ticket with the publisher, marked the
decline of the latter's influence
with the state Democratic party.
Smith's own attitude regarding
fighting is shown in his speeches. In
the 1926 gubernatorial campaign,
when he defeated Ogden L. Mills,
later under-secretarv of the treasury,
the Republicans asserted that Mr.
Mills would "get along with the leg
islature like a cooing dove." The
governor said in reply:
"It is known to everybody in the
state of New York from Montauk
Point to Niagara Falls that I am no
cooing dove and what is more I
never will be. Everything I ever got
in this world 1 had to fight for. 1
did not have it handed to me on a
gold platter."
Of Old Fashioned Stock
On another occasion, replying to
criticism concerning his exercise of
\ -cutive clemency, he said: was
born on the lower end of the island
and I come from the old fashioned
kind of stock that never lets any
body put anything over on him."*
Smith wa> born on Dec. 30. 1873.
in the shadow of old Brooklwi
bridge of Irish- American parentage.
His father, who was in the trucking
business, died when he was 15 vears
old. and he ha<: to leave parochial
school. He sold newspapers in Park
Row*, was an office boy in an oil
factory, clerked in a fish market.
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MURPHY, N. C. I
| joined a Tammany Hall social club
and soon came under the eye of the
late Tom Foley, an old time Tam
manv leader. He pot his political
start when he was named a clerk in
the office of commissioner of jurors.
In 1903 he was elected to the lower
house of the legislature and was re
elected again and againu. becoming
floor leader and then speaker of the
House.
As speaker he was a leading fig
ure in the constitutional convention
(presided over by Elihu Root and
'first began to be mentioned as a
! gubernatorial candidate. For a
brief interval he left Albany, was
I elected sheriff of New ^ork City
and later president of the board of
aldermen.
Governor First in 1988
He was first elected governor in
1918 when he defeated the incum
bent. Charles S. Vi hitman, by 12,000
vote*. Two years later Nathan 1..
Miller defeated him for re-election.
! He became president of a trucking
| corporation and apparently was
through with public life, although
Gov. Miller named him a meml?er
of the Port of New York Authority.
He was practically drafted as a
candidate for governor again and
defeated Miller for re-election. In
I I *)2 !? and 1920 he defeated Theodore
I Roosevelt and Ogden L. Mills re
| specti\ely.
J As governor he sponsored manv
| welfare measures, such as widow's
pensions and child labor laws. He
also championed legislation favor
table to organized labor. He holds
honorary union cards as a press
man. bricklayer, stone mason and
'team shovel operator.
His most important work, as view
ed by his friends, was the reorgani
zation of the state government. Af
jter years of effort he was successful
in abolishing more than 100 com
missions ami hoard*, ami the vast
work ol the state i- now clone bv a
lew departments and the governor's
??net.
Storm Ccnt-'r Of Prohibition
>mith lias been a storm center on
'he prohibition question. He has
? reijucntl\ said he favored modifi
!i ?I1 of the Volstead \ct. but lhat
he was opposed to the return of the
-*al<H?n.
W hen the legislature decided to
i repeal the special state enforcement
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law known as the Mullan-Gage act
he declined to veto it and was se
verely criticized in many sections of
the country.
"I believe in enforcing the law,"
he said, "and 1 believe in personal
liberty. I could have made a better
looking case by vetoing this repeal
and talking about enforcement, but
in my heart I believe the degree to
which personal liberty is being in
terfered with in this matter is un
wise. and I am going to take a posi
tion consistent with what I believe
in my heart."
In a letter to Senator Fess of Ohio
he said: "I have had enough com
mon sense and experience in life to
understand that the saloon is and
ought to be a defunct institution in
this country
Favors Modification
In 1926 he said: "It goes without
saying that the modification of the
Volstead Act is an issue," and he ad
vised the electorate to vote "yes" on
a referendum, indicating that it fa
vored modification. The referen
dum was carried by a great major
ity.
On another occasion he said: "I
am not discussing the wisdom or un
wisdom of prohibition. The ques
tion is whether all vistage of the
! rights of states guaranteed bv
federal constitution is to be <W
from our political theory of g01?
ment. * * The federal govern*
ihas no right to impose up0"
state any obligation to P555 '
statute affirmatively embody?? *
| federal statute."
In 1900, when he was earni"?
i a month, Alfred E. Smith
ried to Catherine Dunn, a
hood belle. They have fi"
dren : Emily, now Mrs. J0?1 .
Warner: Alfred E. Jr.; Catwf
who was married this J unf 1
cis J. Quillinan; Arthur ??
Walter J.