U.S.A. PRESIDENCY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 June 1924, Page 3

U.S.A. PRESIDENCY.

-A DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. NEW YORK, June 22. The Democratic Convention opens tomorrow, The alignment of forces has already clearly been indicated. The Smith proponents have enlisted all factions designed to defeat Mr, MeAiloo. The test of strength appears’ to centre on the anti-Ku Klux Klan plank, Mr. Smith being a Roman Catholic, and thus he is unlikely to obtain nomination, as he is striving to secure unmistakably the repudiation of the Klaipand is being especially supported by Mr. Underwood. In that is the crystallisation of the anti-McAduo sentiment, wlhc.ll. is also due to his connections- wit-Uthe oil scandals. Mr. McAdoo, in order to secure an adequate majority of (delegates, is endeavouring to get the platform filled with innocuous pronouncements on every so-called personal liberty issue. Presidential aspirants meanwhile are increasing. Senator Robinson, exSenator Pomerene, Governor Ritchie of Maryland, Governor Davis of Kansas, Mr. Baker (ex-Secretary of War), Air! Houston (ex-Secretary of Agriculture), Governor Bryan of Nebraska and his brother Air. 'William J. Bryan, who has been an aspirant since 1896,’ have entered the race, the- last-named advancing a plank asking for a popular referendum, if possible, before a declaration of war. Senator Glass advocates in. his plank that the United' States join the League of Nations, but the. various leaders do not favour rehabilitation of the mainspring of the 1920 debacle. It was. this which revived the rumour of the so-called Dr. Wilson’s political will, which is without foundation. 'Various groups', seeking the inclusion of special p'lank s in the platform, have left Cleveland for New York to present the same pleas to the Democratic Committee on Resolutions. The leaders declare that the women are perfectly synchronised noth the party organisation, and are supporting no special although many women’s organisations will appear independently before the Resolutions Committee. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.