1 SEPTEMBER 1928, Page 2

That former pillar of the Republican Party, often men- tioned

as a possible candidate for the Vice-Presidency, Dr. Murray Butler of Columbia University, has cast a stone at Mr. Hoover with some violence. He said nothing about supporting Governor Smith, but in a letter to the Press he has condemned very forcibly the policy stated in Mr. Hoover's speech on these two points, armaments, where he sees utter inconsistency with the Kellogg Treaty, and secondly, Prohibition, in which he sees the violation of every principle of sound law-making and its enforcement. The letter certainly adds to the gaiety of the election for the unconcerned outsider.

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