U.S.A PRESIDENCY

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 October 1928, Page 3

U.S.A PRESIDENCY

HOOVER’S SUCCESS CERTAIN?

(Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn—Copyright.)

(Recd. October 15, 10.30 a.m.)

NEW YORK, October 13.

With the election less than four weeks off, the Presidential campaign, with often tortuous and sometimes tragic comic trends, has become indicative of forces that make for Mr Hoover’s success and Smith’s failure. Smith has fought a rousing battle. Hoover has displayed appealing poise, calm and detachment from ulterior political manoeuvring. The so-called whispering campaign against Smith, because of his Catholicism, has now became a shouting campaign, costing him many votes in many States, where his views on prohibition, farm . relief and water power would otherwise attract support. Mrs Willie Brandt, easily the most important woman now engaged in politics, has led the movement against Smith, and is asking the help of churches to defeat him, resulting in much bitter feeling. o The prosperity issue has been a priceless jewel in the crown of Republican ambitions. Republican orators from Hoover down say that Harding and Coolidge brought prosperity and Hoover will continue it. They indict the Democrats upon two grounds; first, that the latter finally admit the advantages of protection, and secondly that it would be folly to permit the democrats to tinker with the protection system, created and maintained by the Republicans. GOVERNOR SMITH ON TARIFFS. LOUISVILLE (Kentucky), Oct. 14. Governor Smith, in an address on Saturday night, accused the Republicans of misrepresenting the Democratic attitude on the tariff. He said that the tariff should be taken out of politics. He favoured a non-partisan full-time Tariff Commission. He considered that the Democrats were committed to maintain the prosperity resulting from the Wilson policies, and to such schedules as protected legitimate business and American Labour from ruinous competition of foreign goods, produced under conditions below the American standard. He condemned the Republicans for leaving the farmers outside protective walls, and opposed a general tariff Bill, pledging that the only changes considered, would be the revisings of specific schedules after investigation.