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Governor Smith last week followed Mr. Hoover to the stage

in the Presidential election known as " making his acceptance speech." We have dealt with this in a leading article. We admire the courage with which he declared his desire to see amendments to the XVIIIth Amendment to the Constitution_ and to the Volstead Act. His words, " I believe in reverence for the Law," sound to us as a platitude : to his fellow citizens they will sound either as an encouragement to right thinking or as a threat to the wrong-doer, and to all as ad intimation that he wishes to see harmony between Law and public opinion. He steered skilfully between the rocks of condemning the Monroe Doctrine and approving the Republican interpretation of it in Mexico and Nicaragua.

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