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Last week, two men prepared to debate. One was Alfred Emanuel Smith. The other was John Roach Straton, Manhattan pulpiteer, parson of Calvary Baptist Church. Why had the debate been arranged...
...fortnight ago, Dr. Straton, in his evening sermon used the word vice. His point: "However clean, personally, the Democratic candidate may be, and however innocent he may have been of any deliberate intention to give aid and comfort to the forces of vice, lawlessness, and drunkenness, nevertheless, because he is the type of politician he happens to be and because his sympathies and the judgments of his heart are with the liquor crowd and the hangers-on of the liquor crowd, the forces of prostitution and gambling have, for the sake of truth, to be included with them, therefore...
...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...
...Dear Dr. Straton...