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FRIDAY, OCT. 19, 1928.
TWINKLES
i Alfred E. Smith’s speech in Missouri was one of the best
in the campaign, and in all campaigns, as we see it. The man
iner in which that man brushes away minor sentiments and
|y-play on the emotion as he gets down to the real facts is
-painful—to the Republican party.
v As you prepare for the election, remember that at 6
Vclock Tuesday evening, November 6, a telegraph instrument
'fyill begin clicking in The Star office as it brings in the elec
tion returns from all sections of the state and nation. Be on
{land for The Star’s election party.
It is to be hoped that fake letters scattered about the
textile plants of Shelby will have its effects counteracted as
the truth is known—that there is no such person in Lexing
tbn as signed the letter which was another one of those cam
ouflaged attacks on Smith. However, the truth seldom gets
around as far as a lie or a dirty attack once the lie gets a step
ahead.
HARROWING MEMORIES
p EADERS OF THE STAR, in our opinion, will pass up some
^ o£ the most interesting items in the paper today if they
do not read the "Five and Ten Years Ago” column. Ten
years ago the “flu” struck. Doctors, nurses were overworked
and it was one of the most trying times through which this
country ever passed. Those days will bring harrowing mem
ories to the mind every time they are recalled so long as
-this generation lives. Futhermore, the World War was on
then.
BE FAIR ABOUT IT
WEDNESDAY THE STAR published several political news
W stories on the front page. As it happened a headline over
one of these items read “Hoover Favorite in Election Bet
ting:* Another read “Jonas To Speak in County Twice”;
and still another was “Antis to Meet.”
Inoffensive, and ordinary news items of an election year,
we would say. Yet on the street yesterday a Democrat bustl
ed up and remarked: "Looks like The Star is getting Repub
lican; carrying all those news stories about Hoover leading
in the betting, about Jonas speaking and about the anti
Smitji Treating.”
What do. you know about that ?
-Debating a subject with such a person is only wasting
time., Still we wonder if he thinks' we should publish only
Democratic news? Do such people not realize that Repub
licans as well as Democrats read The Star and that news is
news regardless of the party or candidate it is about?
The Star is Democratic but our expressions’ of loyalty
to our party are to be found in these columns—the editorials,
lihe new* columns are for news and there is just as much
hews to one side of the campaign as there is' to the other.
No creditable newspaper today publishes the news of one
Side only no matter how strong that paper may be for one
pafty^on its editorial pages. In Cleveland county there are
many fine citizens who vote the Republican ticket. They
Subscribe to The Star to get the news events of the county.
Have they not the right to see the announcements, of their
campaign speeches in the paper just as much as the Demo
crats ?*Pity one so narrow-minded! The day is gone when
newspapers devoted every column to criticising the other
side and boosting their own. That day passed because news
paper readers demanded news in their newspapers.
• Our questioner, who didn’t want anything Republican in
the paper, perhaps might tell us Why we shouldn’t publish a
news article saying that Hoover is a favorite in the election
betting. The information assembled showing that he is was
assembled by America’s' largest Democratic paper, the New
York World. Very few people in the near 5,000 homes where
The Star goes failed to read that story—because it was inter
esting news. Mr. Jonas will speak in the county and the
anti-Smiths are to hold a meeting. Republicans and anti
Smiths have just as much right to have their meetings and
their speakings announced as do Democrats. We make that
Statement as a loyal Democratic paper and we know that all
fair-minded Democrats will agree. We write our own edi
torials. They express our opinion, which is a Democratic
opinion, but events as they happen, so to speak, write the
news stories.
If the man who was troubled about the Republican an
nouncements does not care to read such he may overlook
them, or he might do without the paper. By working on
©ur credit a bit at the bank we might be able to do without
him. Democrats who hold such views should be particular
about calling members of the other party and their own
party “narrow-minded.”
We hope we have made ourselves plain. We remain, as
we have always been, Democratic on the eidtorial page, and
^newspaper on the other pages. Which is to say if other
Republican speakings and meetings are held in the county,
they will be published in this paper if we hear about them.
|| we have done anything it has been to publish more Smith
hews in the news columns than about any other. One reason
A1 Smith is without doubt the most colorful figure
of the type that makes news. Again space has
been given to speakers who defend him because he has been
lied about and slandered more than any man in public life.
If Mr. Hoover were being painted as' to dirty to be in a clean
jail we would feel from a sense of fair-mindedness that he.
too. should deserve more space for defense against h as
saults.
TAMMANY HALL AND BAPTISTS
CUPPOSE SOME] disturbed Democrat would rise up and sav
■ “I will not vote for O. Max Gardner because he is a mem
ber of the Baptist church, and this fellow Carnes, treasurer
of the Baptist church missions, stole one million dollars,
therefore the whole business is corrupt”? Wouldn’t there be
a furore?
Well, it seems to us as we borrow the thought, that a
Democrat has just as much right to sav that as he does'
to say that “I will not vote for A1 Smith because he is a mem
ber of Tammany Hall and years ago Boss Tweed, the cor
rupt, left a trail of corruption in Tammany Hall by his thiev
ery.” Are we not right?
Speaking in Danville, Va.. recently Judge Turner Clem
ent declared: “If Tweed contaminated Tammany Hall back
in 1872 {Before A1 Smith was born) has not Treasurer Carnes
contaminated the whole Baptist church"? Think it over.
Of course, and be sure to get us straight, no right-think
ing, fair-minded person would for a moment condemn the
Baptist church because a crook like Carnes' misappropiated
church money. Under no process could the Baptist church be
held at fault. The most narrow-minded, evil-thinking man
in the world could not have the heart to declare that Dr. Zeno
Wall, Rev. John Suttle, or any other Baptists were not fine
men just because one man in the Baptist church turned thief.
You know that. Well, is there any more reason for calling
A1 Smith a crook and a scoundrel and being scared of him
because more than a half century ago there was a crook in
the organization to which he belongs today ? Be fair. Think
! it over.
One of the greatest cries rased against the Democratic
nominee for President of these United States is that he came
from “that corrupt Tammany Hall.” The Republicans throw
up their hands in horror, and some Democrats, never ques
tioning what is behind the smoke screen, join in.
No one has any criticism of the Baptist church because
of a thief found in official church circles, yet there are those,
and many of them we believe, who hold it against A1 Smith
because Tweed marched into Tammany and began stealing
long before A1 Smith ever started out.
What a cry the Republicans raise about Tammany Hall!
Tweed did his dirt about the time some Republican corrup
tion -was going on in Washington, yet we hear nothing about
that. Why go back to Tweed to damn A1 Smith? Why not
bring the charges up to the present day? If At Smith is re
sponsible for what Tweed did before Smith knew what Tam
many Hall was, is Herbert Hoover not responsible, or not to
be criticised because he sat in the same cabinet that made
the Teapot Dome oil-land stealing the talk of the wrorld.’
That is a more recent event.
Use your own head: If A1 Smith is responsible for the
black deeds in Tammany’s past, then any member of the
Baptist church would likewise be responsible for the stealing
of Treasurer Carnes, and Mr. Hoover, the engineer, should
not be able to engineer himself out of all the responsibility
of being in Harding’s cabinet when Secretary Fall carried
his little, black burglar’s kit about.
Democrats, do not be misled so readily by !’ ' '"can
propaganda!
SMITH’S WINNING “HUNCH”
\WHEN GOV. AI SMITH and his brown derby made their
famous tour through North Carolina members of the
nominee’s party on the train and newspapermen accompany
ing him told of Gov. Smith’s “hunch” that he would carry
Republican Pennsylvania. Fuithermore, the newspapermen
declared Smth had similar “hunches” about other states list
ed in the Hoover column.
Added to that information was a little observation on the
part of the newspapermen themselves, newspapermen who
were selected for their star tasks because of their ability to
see and write the news without showing favoritism to either
candidate.
“We’ve followed Smith around considerably in cam
paigns.” they said, “and never yet as we recall has he felt
that famous winning ‘hunch’ and lost.”
In other words, if Al’s “hunch” is working this time he
will be elected, and the odd part about this' “hunch” busi
ness is that scores and scores of his' supporters can be heard
saying the same thing. Any where about Shelby and North
Carolina one frequently bears a Smith supporter say: “Never
before, not even when Wilson ran, did I think we Democrats
had a chance to elect a President. Of course, I kept hoping
something would happen. You know Wall Street laid big
odds against Wilson and yet Wilson won, but I felt much
like Wall Street—that he didn’t have a chance. But, this
year it’s different. Way back at the beginning of the cam
paign I had a ‘hunch’ that Gov. Smi*>. would win. I don’t
know what caused it, but I had the ‘hunch,’ so watch out
for a surprise.”
Dozen and dozens of Smith supporters are saying (hat,.
We do not know the philosophy of the mental working
or the psychology behind a hunch, but since querying Web
ster’s New International Dictionary as to the meaning of the
word and not altogether pool-room slang, and at the same
word and not altogether pool room-slang, and at the same
time aver that probably 75 percent of the people believe in
hunches to a certain extent. Some deride a hunch as super
stition, but old and young ofttimes fall back upon a. hunch
concerning an anticipated event or something wherein there
is chance. -
The dictionary defines “hunch,” the noun, as follows:
“A strong, intuitive impression that something will happen;
—from the gambler’s superstition that it brings luck to touch
the hump of a hunchback.”
There are numerous types of hunches, some that dis
tract, disconcert and worry the hunched person, while there
are others that bring on enthusiasm. There is the death
watch hunch, perhaps better known than any other. Just
recall, if you will, the times you have heard people tell of
death hunches, an inutuition that deat was preparing to lay
cold hands upon a relative or a friend. Even shrewd, cal
culating business men occasionally play hunches; gamblers
follow their hunches regularly; and one of the major assets
of woman's wisdom is her power of intuition. / r
Ami A! Smith has a hunch,ca strong one, that he will
carry Pennsylvania and other normal Republican states.
Meantime his supporters have a hunch that he will be the
next President. And we have a hunch practically all those
who read this. Smith or anti-Smith in view, have hunches
themselves. I he hunch usually builds itself about the un
expected. For that reason, perchance, Smith supporters are
feeling the intuitive jostle in their mentality more than are
the Smith enemies. y
All of which, incidentally, means very little, but we say
again that it every person who has at some time in the past
followed a hunch were to vote for the man who believes in
hunches, then his hunch would undoubtedly be correct.
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