SETBACK FOR BORAH

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 195, 15 May 1936, Page 11

SETBACK FOR BORAH

Preliminaries to American Election ROOSEVELT’S FOLLOWING (Received May 14, 7.30 p.m.) New York, May 13. Senator Borah’s presidential aspirations received new setbacks as the results of primary elections in Ohio and West Virginia were compiled. In Ohio Senator Borah appears to have won only five of the 52 Republican delegates. The remainder are pledged to Mr. Robert Taft, sou of a former President, as a “favourite son" candidate. This means that he will receive a courtesy vote in the first ballot. after which delegates will be at liberty to switch over to other candidates. Mr. Alf Landon, Governor of Kansas, is most likely to receive the majority of the delegates’ votes. Landon delegates led Borah supporters by a wide margin in West Virginia and in Vermont, where no Borah candidates were in the contest, and nine delegates favourable to Mr. Landon were elected. According to political observers, Mr. Landon's selection is now all but assured. On the Democratic side President Roosevelt received huge confidence votes in West Virginia, North Dakota, Delaware and Ohio against negligible opposition. INFLATIONARY BILL Defeat in Lower House (Received May 14, 10.15 p.m.) Washington, May 14. What, is interpreted as the end of all efforts to secure direct monetary inflation, at least during the present session of Congress, occurred to-day with the defeat in the House of Representatives by 235 votes to 142 of the so-called Frazier-Lemke Farm Mortgage Refinancing Bill. The measure, which was designed to aid agriculturists with pressing debts, would have been financed by the issue of .3,000,000.000 dollars of “printingpress” money.