AMERICA’S PRESIDENT

Evening Star, Issue 19778, 31 January 1928, Page 3

AMERICA’S PRESIDENT

CAMPAIGN UNDERCURRENTS

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright,

WASHINGTON, January JO-

The concern that Prohibition leaders of the country feel over the possible nomination of Governor Smith as the Democratic candidate for the Presidency is sharply emphasised by the publication, on behalf of the Methodist Church Board Conference, of a statement that all the large Prohibition organisations would combine against him. The statement added: “The Prohibitionists will demand that only a ‘dry’ candidate shall be selected by cither of the great political parties.” Representative Tilsoii, the official Republican loader in the House, has issued a. statement opposing tariff revision prior to the Presidential election, but suggesting that it would be welcome later, as “changes in tho conditions of production her© and abroad have occurred since tho last revision in 1022 which doubtless call for readjustment.”