Al Smith Response To Charles Marshall in the Atlantic
Al Smith May 1927 Charles Marshall had written a major piece in The Atlantic arguing that Al Smith, the 1928 Democratic nominee, could not be truly independent from the Church. Smith’s response, largely written by his advisor Joseph Proskauer, was a significant explication of how to be a Catholic politician in America. Charles C. Marshall, Esq. DEAR Sir: — In your open letter to me in the April Atlantic Monthly you ‘impute’ to American Catholics views which, if held by them, would leave open…