MORE PARTY TROUBLE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 28 January 1928, Page 7

MORE PARTY TROUBLE.

AMERICAN PRESIDENCY. AN ASPIRANT’S MARRIAGE) BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT NE WYORK, Jan. 26. Probably one of the most unusual and important aspects of the Presidential campaign has just been disclosed in a San Francisco despatch to the New York Sun, stating that Mr Hoover and Mrs. Hoover were married at Monterey, California, by a Catholic priest after receiving special permission from the bishop of that diocese. The disclosure, in view of tlie_ intense feeling over Governor Smith’s Catholicism, and the fact that Mr. Hoover has become the most prominent aspirant for political honours, promises to make both Republican and 1 Democratic conventions next June centres of most intense dispute. Moreover, for several months now there has been an understanding current within Republican circles themselves against Mr. Hoover’s eanlidacy. Governor Smith and Mr. Hoover are unquestionably the strongest figures in both parties, but by that very reason they may well be eliminated, at the conventions, because it is an inherent tendency for American partisan politics' 4ways to choose a nuetral figure for the president, but above all it is now verv clear that the religious issue wiF be the dominant and possibly a very disturbing factor in the ensuing campaign. Mr. Hoover is a Quaker and Mrs. Hoover was an Episcopalian, but she is now of the same faith as her husband. One report states that the priest was a close personal friend of Mrs. Hoover, ‘while another has it that Mr. Hoover was on the point of sailing for China and that the only official in the neighbourhood capable of performing the marriage ceremony was a Roman Catholic Priest, who officiated in a manner similar to that of a justice of peace.