U.S. PRESIDENCY

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 167, 11 April 1932, Page 9

U.S. PRESIDENCY

Renomination of Hoover is Assured

ROOSEVELT’S STRENGTH

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Washington, April 8.

The candidature of Mr. Franklin Roosevelt for the Presidency continues to sweep all obstacles aside with such Spectacular regularity that many Democratic leaders now speak of his nomination as an accomplished fact. Some still hope for his defeat, but they have conceded that only an extraordinary reversal of form or s desperate stand in the Convention can stop him. The Opposition has been surprised not only by his strength, but by their own weakness. The major reliances of a combination against him are fading one by one. During the past week in the New York and Wisconsin primaries Mr. Roosevelt has flattened out still further the hopes of those few leaders who felt that Mr. Alfred E. Smith might stop the procession. Of the 338 delegates chosen so far, 174 are counted definitely for Roosevelt, with a majority of the others likely to go to him. In the meantime the Republican supporters of President Hoover are heartened tremendously by the returns from their party’s primary in Wisconsin. It appears that there is no doubt that the Administration forces have made considerable gains against Mr. La Follette, the insurgent. To date the President has 250 out of 288 Republican delegates selected, and a renomination Is assured.