Word: gov
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gov. Smith cared nothing for Dr. Straton's opinion of his "true political wisdom." Gov. Smith was to debate prohibition throughout the campaign, had no desire to take time out on this subject with just one parson, however dry. But Gov. Smith has waited for a chance to get at and dispose of this matter of VICE. Whisperings throughout the country, and especially in the South, were trying and would try to connect him with VICE. The more the ordinary man got to life him, the more the ordinary woman might be alarmed. In some vague...
...Straton has, especially in the South, great prestige. He is the big-city representative of small-town theology and morality. He would, of course, attack Gov. Smith. But he could not say that Gov. Smith is immoral. Detectives have for a decade, hounded Gov. Smith's present and past. Apparently Gov. Smith has never visited a brothel. Apparently Gov. Smith has never spent so much as an hour in compromising circumstances with any woman. Therefore, Dr. Straton's attack must be "However clean . . . nevertheless...
...Greenwood Lake, N. Y., where he was resting, Dr. Straton received Gov. Smith's letter. He motored to a nearby town in vain search of a stenographer. Returned, he promised reporters his reply at 6 o'clock, went swimming in a red bathing suit, supped, finished his lengthy reply, full of biblical quotations. Excerpts...
...believe, without conceit, that I know more about political history than he will ever know. I do know that I would not be so profoundly interested in Gov. Smith's success if I had not known him intimately 25 years, and if I did not know that he is the cleanest, most loyal man in politics today...
Having surveyed this unhappy scroll, only the most rabid and unfastidious fundamentalists could be proud of Gov. Smith's adversary. Honest churchmen were mortified that such a man should share their feelings, much more that he should have undertaken to voice them. They could not fail to see more evidences of vice in the clergyman's record than in the candidate's and they were forced to acknowledge a characterization of their lamentable spokesman which was offered by the Chicago Tribune ". . . narrow-minded, pompous bigot . . . gluttonous for printer's ink, publicity and the front page. . . . Even...