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

Publisher： Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN： 1748-6858|32|3|347-364

ISSN： 0034-6705

Source： Review of Politics, Vol.32, Iss.3, 1970-07, pp. : 347-364

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Abstract

Al Smith, 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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