Votes

Additions to the Smith movement included:

Arthur Curtiss James, Manhattan Republican, potent financier ("largest U. S. rail stock holder"). Reason: Prohibition. He telegraphed: "Hearty congratulations on your great acceptance speech . . . my hearty support." He explained: "I do not believe that Mr. Smith's election will settle the [Prohibition] question, but at least it will give me a chance to stand up and be counted."

August Heckscher, Manhattan Republican, octogenarian philanthropist. Reason: "Prohibition is an outrage."

Colonel Edward Codrington Carrington, Maryland Republican, chairman of the Hudson River Navigating Corp. Reason: Waterway policy.

Oswald Garrison Villard and his Nation (liberal weekly). Reason: Waterpower policy (see col. 3).

Richard R. Quay, Pittsburgh Republican, son-of-a-Senator (see "In Pennsylvania").

Major Henry Hastings Curran, Manhattan Republican, president of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment.

*#182; Senator Furnifold McLendel Simmons, resigned leader of the North Carolina Democracy, announced that he would not vote for Nominee Smith --nor for Nominee Hoover.

P: In Baltimore, a Brown Derby campaigner announced by State headquarters was the late President Cleveland's son, Richard F. Cleveland, able young lawyer.