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. REGISTERED POLAND ?. Hl\ \ BO \ll Scrvice > . 00 or i pin. EKNEH \I)\MS Murpliv. N. L. ? l(?- 1 1 -pel. ) DR. E. L. HOLT DENTIST X-KW >:-KCIAI.TIST ItKITTA I N A \ I.I A ltCII. PINO Office ri?om? 111 lies. IMhuip 10G j 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 ? 9APE- POQ. - . ^TEMOCBMV/ miCTDM -rr*. JWgpfRl; 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