U.S. ELECTIONS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18194, 3 October 1924, Page 9

U.S. ELECTIONS.

. + INTENSIVE CAMPAIGNING. CANDIDATES GETTING INTO GRIPS. (By CABLE PiIESS (VJSTEAIIAX AND . CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received October 2nd 9.55 p.m.) NEW YORK, October 1. The various candidates in the Presidential campaign have uow r uume to closer grips. With the nearing election day—November 4th—all concerned, from the candidates themselves to the aspirants for the various State Governorships and prominent partisans generally, have begun to launch attacks at eiich other. The vituperative stage has not yet been reached. Mud-slinging, malicious rumours, and bittor innuendoes usually are reserved for the last week of the campaign. Senator Brookhart, ostensibly a Republican, has culled upon Mr Dawes to resign, declaring that he is unfit for a Vice-Presidential candidate, as being a reactionary. Mr Davis has begnn a polite but cutting offensive against Mr A. W. Mellon (Secretary of the Treasury), who is a prominent banker, declaring thnt the latter favours big business and the tariff that robs the people. Senator La Polleite is demanding public ownership of utilities and national resources. He is answered by Mr Herbert Hoover (Secretary of Commerce), who insists that the Government cannot go into business. President Coolidge, answering Sonator La Fpllette's pleas for curbing the power of the Courts to declare Acts of Congress unconstitutional, has broadcast pleas by radio, asking the peppig to "safeguard our institutions." Meanwhile the authorities and Court? in Louisiana and California have for. bidden the placing of Scnair.r La Fob lette's party upon the ballots, owing to various election law technicalities, This has raised a storm of protest, even President Coolidge publicly expressing' dissatisfaction that this had been done. Senator La- Follette's strength is notably increasing each day, and candidates for the various offices are undertaking terrific speaking campaigns. Mr Theodore Roosevelt, candidate for the New York Governorship, will ma'jw 180 speeches in 18 days. Mr Davis, Mr Dawes, and Senator Wheeler flit over the country in special railroad cars, 'speaking tfO-day in 6au Pranoisco, to-morrow in Omaha, and next day in Chicago, strenuously endeavouring to mend the political fences, Women have injected the unpalatable issue that, "We are being ignored." They declare that only 10 women are Standing f° r Cpngreas, and in doubtful districts where their election is unlikely, The circus flavour and band-waggon tactics of American polities also are not lacking. President Coolidge personally welcomed to Washington a successful baseball team, whieh won bun, ours during the summer season, his remarts being' made known throughout the nation. Colonel Harvey, former Ambassador to Britain, has been commissioned to write an article for a prominent Republican newspaper »m Washington describing this team's games with another prominent team. To sum up, speed and earnestness and naivete characterise the campaign.