Monday, Aug. 06, 1928
Vote
Additions to Hooverism included: Robert Latham Owen, oldtime Oklahoma Democrat, onetime (1907-25) U. S.Senator. Reason: Tammany (see p. n). Dr. D. E. Mitchell, Tennessee Democrat, onetime President of Cumberland University. Reason: Prohibition, "economic policies." Francis S. Guthrie, Pittsburgh Democrat. Reasons: foreign and economic policies. Mrs. Gertrude M. Pattangall, Maine Democrat, onetime (1920-28) member of the Democratic National Committee. Reason: Prohibition. Irving H. Mezger, Baltimore Democrat, attorney. Reason: "These [Smith's] are not the tactics of an old-line Democrat." Mr. Mezger promised to form a local anti-Smith organization among "old-line" Democrats. Nathan Newby, James 0. Davis, Mrs. Katherine Braddock and Mrs. James Ellis Tucker, California (McAdoo) Democrats. Reasons: Prohibition, Tammany. Vance McCormick, chairman of the Democratic National Campaign Committee in 1916. Reason, as revealed in the McCormick-owned Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot: "to disregard the Constitution ... is destined to lead to anarchy and chaos."