Insulting the Catholics.

POLITICAL campaigns; CATHOLICS; PROPAGANDA; HOOVER, Herbert, 1874-1964; ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945; ANTI-Catholicism

Herbert Clark Hoover's campaign strategy would include a whispering campaign design to persuade Catholic voters in the East that Al Smith was the victim of anti-Catholic propaganda disseminated by Franklin Delano Roosevelt workers in the South and East prior to the Chicago convention. That plan has now been set in operation. An insinuating letter, apparently the first of a series, has been sent to a list of "key Catholics" in various States. Washington is no place for a fat man during these blistering days, and the Great Coordinator and Readjuster has more than prickly heat to worry him. For example, there was the base and treacherous act of old Charley Curtis in coming out against repeal just when Herbert Clark Hoover thought he had the wets pacified.