THE REPUBLICAN VICTORY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 267, 10 November 1928, Page 9

THE REPUBLICAN VICTORY.

"To make the whole world safe for the Democratic Party", is said to have been an American negro's version of President Wilson's famous phrase about war" aims. Since then the Democratic Party has fought three Presidential elections, and suffered three heavy defeats—this last the heaviest of all. Mr. Hoover invaded the "Solid South" so successfully that already there.is talk of a new alignment in politics. The trend of the voting confirms pre-election signs against Mr. Smith. His own party was divided on the liquor question, and the fact that he was & Roman Catholic alienated much Democratic support in the Protestant and largely "fundamentalist" South. Moreover, he stood as a'champion of foreign elements in the population, and this aroused the antagonism of "100 per cent Americans." It was said by a shrewd English observer that in America it used to be considered impossible for a Roman Catholic to be nominated by one of the great parties, or that a candidate could come out of the newer immigrant communities. Mr. Smith challenged both these impossibilities, and perhaps he did surprisingly well in polling fourteen million popular votes. Mr. Hoover is a far more distinguished man than, either of his two immediate predecessors, who were, indeed, mediocrities, and news of his will be.received with much more than usual interest all over the world. ■■■'■' ■-'" ' s •,