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Al Smith and the Republican Party at Prayer: The Lutheran Vote — 1928

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Douglas C. Stange
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AlSmith, so the story goes, was in the midst of his camaign for president in 1928 when a newspaper friend remarked, that the Lutherans would not vote for him because of a grievance, one or two hundred years old, that they had against the Roman Catholic Church. “Well, holy smokes,” the Happy Warrior retorted (“holy smokes”being a journalistic substitution for a somewhat more profane utterance), “they are going back pretty far to get an issue against me.”

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Research Article
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The Review of Politics , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , July 1970 , pp. 347 - 364
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1970

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1 Washington Post, September 23, 1928.

2 United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of Census, Religious Bodies: 1926, Vol. II (Washington, 1929), 705Google Scholar.

3 The God of Luther alone knows specifically where this statement originated and to whom it can be attributed.

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41 Cf. Minutes, Kansas Synod, 1928, 46; Minutes, Susquehanna Synod of Central Pennsylvania, 1928, 70; and Minutes, Synod of West Virginia, 1928, 8. All these bodies were constituent synods of the U.L.C.A.

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54 Ibid., November 5, 1928. The paper printed in this issue complete instructions as to how one could vote for Hoover and Curtis and at the same time vote for the rest of the Democratic ticket. This information had been requested by “many readers” of the newspaper.

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56 Washington Post, September 26, 1928.

57 Brooklyn Daily Eagle, November 4, 1928.

58 Ibid.

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61 Ibid., October 2, 1928.

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64 Ibid.

65 Ibid., October 28, 1928.

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