ALL THE WAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 266, 9 November 1932, Page 7

ALL THE WAY.

"GONE ROOSEVELT."

Republican Strongholds Swing Completely Over. NOTED HOOVERITES BEATEN. (United P.A.-Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 2 p.m.) NEW YORK, November 8. All the early indications in the slowly accumulating Presidential election are, that the returns have swung towards the Democrats and Governor Franklin D. Boosevelt. Mr. Roosevelt is apparently carrying New York State's 47 electoral votes by a popular majority in excess of 500,000; He is not only carrying New York City by an excess of 800,000, but some Republican districts up-State are giving him support, which few Democratic Presidential candidates have received in half a century.

The State has elected a Democratic Governor, Mr. Lehman, who was Mr. Roosevelt's Lieutenant-Governor during two terme. It has also re-elected another Democrat, Senator Wagner, whose unemployment relief measures have been consistently opposed by President Hoover. Senator Wagner's majority may exceed 700,000. Connecticut, which was one of the few doubtful States, early appeared to have "gone Roosevelt." The State elected a Democratic Governor. Senator Bingham, one of the most noted Republican members of the present Senate, has apparently been defeated. Texas, which ih 1928 gave Mr. Hoover a email majority, to-day returned to its traditional Democratic allegiance, giving Mr. Roosevelt a majority in excess of 100,000. This State has elected eighteen Democratic members to the House of Representatives, including the Speaker, Mr. J. N. Garner, who, however, will resign his seat for the assumption of the Vice-Presidency. . - .

Mr. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was Governor of New York State, and was born in New York in 1882, the son of Mr. James Roosevelt. He is a nephew of the late President ' Roosevelt. After graduating at Harvard he spent three yeare at the Columbia Law School, and in 1907 was admitted to the New York Bar. He wae in practice until 1910, when he .was elected to the New York Senate. Resigning in 1913, he became Assistant Secretary to the Navy, and remained ra that office throughout the war. After being in charge of the inspection of the United States naval forces in European waters from July to September, 1918, he supervised the American demobilisation in Europe in January <and February, 1919. A year later he was the Democratic nominee for the Vice-Presidency. Distinguished by a national reputation for honesty and efficiency in office, he was in 1928 elected Governor of New York State, iind was then hailed as the future Democratic President. In July, 1929, he attracted much attention by asserting that the great industrial combines were 6uch a menace to the country that there was a danger of their becoming stronger than the Government. He feared a development of "economic feudalism," and said that a new Declaration of Independence might become necessary to_ fight the huge trusts. In regard to-prohibition he had until recently said very little, but in September, 1930, he declared in favour of repealing the existing law and leaving each State to decide the liquor question for itself.