Show W for Politicians of both acknowledge acknowledge ac- ac knowledge mostly reluctance I that William Allen hites latest attack on Governor Smiths Smith's pre pre- gubernatorial and Tammany record has probably taken the lid off the 1928 campaign mud barrel They will be surprised surprise if sooner or later slinging mud does not set In all along the line is little expectation ex- ex that either Governor Smith or Secretary Hoover will on their own respective accounts engage engage en- en gage in the bombardment But just as the Kansas editor has taken the warpath on behalf of oC the Republican Re- Re publican ticket the prospect is that some Democratic Bill White will emerge on behalf of tile the Democratic Demo cratIc ticket Recrimination and accusation as they always do do will lead to recrimination Counter and counter accusation and then the mud battle will be on with a yen yen- S S Technically WillIam Allen White has not broken the no mudslinging truce Into which the Republicans and the Democrats entered by tacitly tacit tacit- ly by mutual consent after the Ken Ken- sag sas City and Houston conventions It can be stated on authority that White did not speak for or even with the knowledge of the Republican Republican Re- Re publican national committee though It happens that former governor Henry J J. J Allen of Kansas tor of tile the G. G O. O P. P pub pub- campaign Is one of the Em- Em closest friends Whites White's pUb pUb-I War book The Martial Adventures Adventures tures of oC Henry And Me is a narrative narrative nar- nar ct cf their joint Red Cross service service ser ser- vice In France In 1917 and 1918 It also happens that tile the Republican publicity chIefs recently decided to feature Governor Smiths Smith's Tammany Tammany- Ism as o one e of the principal objects of their attack To that end they arran arranged ed to draft the services of one of the most famous political writers in America whose intimate acquaIntance with New York City politics fits him to assail Tammany Tammany Tam Tam- many with inside knowledge Apart from the Purely personal controversy between William Allen White and Governor Smith politicians clans are noW convinced that Tam Tam- will be hit hard and persistently persistently per per- b by all Republican spokesmen spokes spokes- men in print on the stump and before before be- be fore the microphone as soon as tile the campaign several weeks hence is really on Dr Hubert Work had something of that sort at the back backof of his head when on July 6 6 he made his surprise announcement that the G. G O. O P. P would lay layoff off fighting Smith and concentrate Its fire on him as a Democrat Tammany Tammany Tam Tam- many hall wasn't mentioned by bythe bythe the Republican chairman but subsequent subsequent sub sub- sequent events have amply indicated indi- indi it was in his mind The Tammany issue has of course always figured In Al Smiths Smith's varIous gubernatorial campaigns in New York state but no one has ever pinned It so personally and Inas in inas as stinging terms upon the present Democratic presidential nominee It may be that Young Teddy Roosevelt inspired William Allen Whites White's Tammany thrusts at Smith DurIng DurIng- the spring Republican pre pre- convention campaign this year Roosevelt was on the stump for Hoover in Kansas and talked a a good deal about the shadow of Tammany that would lay athwart tile the White louse House under an Al Smith administration In the 1926 New York state campaign Colonel Roosevelt assailed the which ho alleged polluted Albany right up to the steps of tile the state statehouse house or words to that effect Youn Young r r R n. came in for a good of criticism of those spell spell- linding tactics and they were were not thought to have done Ogden L. L Mills lins Smiths Smith's Republican oppOnent opponent nent much good Governor Smith has always struck back vigorously at political foes who dragged personalities into their campaigns against him It was in the 1926 gubernatorial that r. Mr l Im WM was quoted M as having said things which h Smith reg regarded all as aspersions aspersions' on on his character and private life The present undersecretary undersecretary under under- secretary of tile the treasury denied any such intention but before that was done Smith came caine back militantly with tile the assertion that if H his rival wanted a mt mi slinging l-slinging scrap l could have it it and the ammunItion ammunition am- am for the purpose was in hand HostilitIes did not break breakout breakout out Mills Mills' explanation apparently having smoothed matters over But the episode what proved all politicians politicians poli- poli since time immemorial have that known campaign personalities are a game at two can play Herbert Hoovers Hoover's antagonists as far as the public knows e exhausted hausted the arsenal of personalities of detriment to the British Californian his alleged his ruin of oC the farm farm- ers ills his record as a young oung mining min mm- ing engineer in China etc etc If I Ithe the Hoover anti allies aUles of tile the late sprIng and early summer had ony- ony thing else on Hoover it is not likely they would have blare failed to spring it But it if quarter no-quarter is to be bethe tile the watchword In the 1928 campaign campaign cam cam- from now on on theres there's no telling tell teU- ing what the future may bring forth I |