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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1928
Page
4
The Evening Star of Winchester Virginia lists daily publication with Sunday excluded and notes consolidation with Morning News Weekly News and Weekly Mirror. Rates shown include Mall for one year three five dollars. six months one seventy five. three months ninety cents. one month thirty cents. Carrier prices per year four fifty six months two twenty five three months one twenty. one month forty. Weekly 10.
The excerpt urges parents to have children memorize daily Bible selections as a priceless heritage. It cites Isaiah 29:13 to condemn hypocrisy and urges earnest worship, then invites a prayer for seeking God with the whole heart and a recognition of upcoming divine works.
The letter denounces campaign slander against Governor Smith and argues issues like prohibition, tariff policy, and party integrity. It criticizes Bishop Cannon and David Hepburn, contrasts Democratic and Republican records, and urges voters to consider real programs and leadership before November 6.
The Literary Digest poll shows Hoover leading in unanalyzed totals but experts question its meaning for electoral votes. Drift patterns from 1924 voters vary by region, with the South favoring Hoover less and the Industrial East and Midwest showing stronger drift to Smith. California also shifts toward Smith on water power issues.
The Richmond News Leader argues the election is a choice between Democrats and Republicans not the Anti-Saloon League. It questions Cannon’s claim to influence only moral legislation and notes League ties to both parties, urging focus on real issues and unity for Virginia’s advancement.
The report notes Nebraska leaning Republican with Norris absent, Rhode Island showing Smith gains and overall election still undecided. It urges Democrats to keep up effort while acknowledging a large pre election poll indicating Republican gains in unlikely states and growing Democratic strength in eastern industries and western farms.
The Saloon League and what is called American legislation fostered by the Ku Klux Klan are said to punish Republicans for the year’s Democratic troubles in Virginia.
John Job of the Democratic National Committee released telegrams from Eugene Mosély of the Kentucky Men's Democratic League challenging the Digest poll. Mosély discounts Hoover’s lead in Kentucky and bets 10,000 to 1 against the Digest’s odds, insisting Kentucky is safe for Smith by at least 30,000.
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