Sifting Through the Sands of Time from the Courier Archives

Some Dutchess Democrats Think So, and Say So.

The Evening Star suggests Governor Smith as the presidential candidate for the democratic party for 1920. Is Governor Alfred E. Smith, of New York a possibility for the Democratic presidential donmination in 1920?

New York state is important to the Democratic party if it hopes to elect a president to succeed Woodrow Wilson, local Democrats point out.

No New York candidate can carry New York State for the Democratic party without the support of Tammany, and the Tammany cote in Greter Nw York. Governor “Al” Smith is a Tammany man, selected for governor by Charles F. Murphy, Tammany chieftan. But he was accepted by all factions of the party, was elected by 1,009,986 votes to 994,828 for Governor Whitman, and carried Greater New York by upward of 270,000, the largest plurality ever accorded any candidate.

Should be be selected as Democratic standard bearer in 1920 it will be very largely because of his spectacular fight with William Randolph Hearst.

Naming of Smith for the governorship by the Democrats smashed the ambitions of Hearst, who had built up a state-wide organization and was prepared to run, anti-Hearst men say.

In spite of this, during the gubernatorial campaign, the Hearst papers editorially supported Smith but the governor early in his administrated forfeited Hearst’s support by his independent course in making appointments and by failure to support Mayor Hylan in the latter’s moves against the traction interests in New York city.

Verses to Send with Presents

With Embroidery or Any

Needlework:

May still your years be glad and

bright, Deep filled with pleasant days And all your hours know sweet

delight Of Love that lives and stays! With some such wishes true and

kind, Each Christmas should begin, While some of these must surely

bind Because they’ve been sewed in!

With a Gift to a Smoker:

When clouds of smoke around

you float Think upon this loving note. When pictures in the smoke you

see Waft now and then a thought to

me Though you newer joys evoke Don’t let our friendship ‘end in

smoke’!