AMERICAN POLITICS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 24, 30 January 1928, Page 10

AMERICAN POLITICS

PRESIDENTIAL PROSPECTS STRANGE CROSS-CURRENTS (Beceived 30th January, 3 p.m.) NEW YOBK, 29th January. While the avowed and, as yet, unavowed aspirants for Presidential honours are working with might and main through their friends to obtain promises of support of the State delegations to the respective National Conventions, the inter-jjlay of many forces in the American political arena continues unabated. Dr. Murray Butler, of Columbia University, haa begun a nationwide speaking campaign, particularly attacking Prohibition. It is known that he desires Republican nomination. New York Bepublicans have'"apparently joined the movement to draft Coolidge. An announcement is being made that t'io New York State delegation at the National Convention will support Hoover, only if the efforts to nominate Coolidge fail. The religious issue remains irrepressible. Governor Paulsen, of Kansas, stated that if the Democrats nominate "Al" Smith the Ku Klux Klan would be revived in his state, to which Father Duffy, Smith's religious adviser and a noted war cla'plain, has announced that the Catholics of the United States would fight the Pope, if he wer6 a civil ruler making war against the United States.