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THE MICHIGAN DAILY MAGAZINE

Sunday, March 30. 1953

YOung Sencdor John Kennedy,
Memories of Al Smith Return, as Catholic

By THOMAS TURNER candidacy of Senator John Ken-
Daily staff writer nedy of Massachusetts are dif-
..."the future would see Pres- ferent from those Smith encount-
idents who are Catholics as ered. Others, however, are similar
well as Presidents who are and there is at least a suspicion
Protestants; if we live long the prejudice which helped elect
enough, Presidents who are Hoover lies dormant and would
Jews as well as Presidents who work to the advantage of a Ken-
are Gentiles." nedy opponent.
-Pres. Theodore Roosevelt Alfred E. Smith, a hard-work-
ing one-time Tammany politician
TODAY, thirty years after Her- from New York's East Side, was
bert Hoover trounced Al Smith elected governor of New York in
in the last pre-Eisenhower Repub- 1918. He was essentially progres-
lican victory, another Catholic sive and made a fine governor.
Democrat looms a strong contend- Though defeated in the 1920's
er for the presidential nomination sharp swing away from Wilson-
of his party. Many of the circum- ism, he was re-elected in 1922,
stances surrounding the potential and a g a i n in 1924. As the
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POLITICAL CARTOON-In the 1924-28 presidential races, Al Smith was subjected to a whispering
campaign centering on his religion and the issue of Prohibition of the 18th Amendment.
1924 Democratic convention ap- the major problems Al Smith was which nominated colorless John
proached, a Catholic was not only to face, one of the handicaps from William Davis. Insult was added
a serious candidate, he had de- which Kennedy is less but not en- to injury by the fact that this was
termined support. tirely free, the first convention to be broad-
And despite then current opin- cast, and "apathy and Lafollette"
ion that the prosperous twenties FOR entering the 1924 conven- combined to elect Republican Cal-
belonged to the Republicans, a tion Smith had vocal support, vin Coolidge, as Edmund A. Moore
good race seemed to be shaping but only from one wing of the describes it in A Catholic Runs
up. Fresh scandals in the admin- party. William G. McAdoo had the for President, a Campaign in 1924.
istration provided the opposition delegates from the dry, rural,
with plenty of ammunition. But Protestant Midwest and South i SMITH'S popularity in the East
viewed in retrospect, the conven- his pocket. The result was the remained intact between 1924
tion in 1924 shows clearly one of farcical 103 ballot convention and 1928, while McAdoo collapsed.
Smith became a sure nominee for
president but a certain loser. He
needed, Author Moore points out,
the crash which hit Hoover 15
months later.
"Had Smith been an Episco-
palian rather than a Catholic and
a product of Hyde Park rather
than of New York City ..:. he still
would have remained vulnerable
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