DEMOCRATS: Votes Oct. 15, 1928

Additions to the Smith movement included:

The Merchant Truckmen's Bureau of New York (500 voters), by unanimous vote at a meeting. Reason: as a onetime truckdriver, Nominee Smith has stood against "efforts to tax the motor truck off the highways."

The Chicago Teamsters' Union (28,000 voters), by unanimous vote in a meeting. Reasons: Prohibition; labor injunctions.

State Senator Oscar K. Holladay, author of Tennessee's dry law, Democrat. A reason: "What has Hoover ever done for Prohibition?"

Bishop Thomas Frank Gailor (Episcopal) of Memphis, Tenn. A reason: "I am a white man. . . ."

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