AMERICAN POLITICS

Evening Star, Issue 19777, 30 January 1928, Page 8

AMERICAN POLITICS

THE COKING ELECTIONS

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright

NEW YORK, January 29. (Received January 30, at 12.30 p.m.) While avowed and as yet nnavowed aspirants for Presidential honors arc working with might and main through their friends to obtain promises of support by the State delegations to the respective national conventions, interest in the political developments continues unabated. Dr Butler (of Columbia University) has begun a nation-wide speaking campaign, particularly attacking Prohibition. It is known that he desires the Republican nomination. The New York Republicans have apparently joined the movement to nominate President Coolidge. The announcement is being made that the New York State delegation to the Republican National Convention will support Air Hoover only if the efforts to nominate Mr Coolidge fail. The religious issue remains in the forefront. Governor Paulsen, of Kansas, stated that if the Democrats nominate Governor Smith the Ku Klux Klan would be revived in his State, to which Father Duffy (Governor Smith’s religious adviser and a noted war chaplain) replied that the Roman Catholics in the United States would'fight the Pope if he were a civil ruler making war against the United States.