U.S.A. PRESIDENCY

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 April 1932, Page 5

U.S.A. PRESIDENCY

HOOVER vi ROOSEVELT

BY CABLE —PBEBS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.]

' WASHINGTON, April 8. The Presidential candidacy of Mr. Franklin D. Roosevelt (Governor of the State of New York) continues to sweep all obstacles aside with such spectacular regularity. that many of the Democratic Party leaders now speak of his nomination as an accomplished fact. Some of them still hope for his defeat, but they concede that only an extraordinary reversal of form, or a desperate stand in the Democratic Convention, can stop / him. The opposition has been surprised, not only at his strength, but by their own weakness. The major reliances of the combination against him are fading one by one. During the past week, in the New York State and Wisconsin State primaries, Mr. Roosevelt has flattened out still further the hopes of those few leaders who felt that''Mr. Alfred E. Smith might stop the procession. Of the .338 delegates chosen thus far, 174 are counted .definitely for Roosevelt, with a majority of the others likely to go with him.

In the meantime the Republican supporters of Mr. Hoover are heartened tremendously by returns from their Party’s primary in Wisconsin State. There appears no doubt that the Hoover Administration’s forces have made considerable gains against Mr. La Follette, the “insurgent." To date the President has got 250 or 288 Republican delegates selected, and a renomination is assured for him.