U.S. PRESIDENCY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 6 September 1928, Page 5

U.S. PRESIDENCY.

PLANNING CAMPAIGN.

PROHIBITION AMAIN ISSUE. TWO N FAY FACTORS. ’ ■ ji. (United Press Aseoclatin—By Electric Tt»legr»pl» Oopyight.) (Australian' l J c*a Association.; NEW YORK, Sept. 4. With summer itipidly dra’.ving to a dose ibotii presidatiiaL candidates and the huge eampai;n organisations ol both parties are Completing plans for an intense effort to secure the support of the country ’ s electorate. Both Govemo A. E. smith and Mr H. Cl Hoover will have chartered trains which, interesithgiy enough, will proceed an direotlyopposite directions, the former’s goangtvest for an invasion of the Hoover stongiiolds, possibly including Oalliifcnia, which is avowedly the most Rpubiicau S ! tai:e in the union, and th latter ,s coming east, ostensibly totonn the industrial areas of America ’here Mr Smith’s appeal is distinctly uredominant. The speeches of both i’i'H be broadcast so they will! virtual); reach the whole country every time bey make an address. Mr Smit says lie will speak wholly extemiporapously. Mr Hoover :s pronouticemevs will be prepared and carefully con siiered. The. vicptesidentiial candidates, owin.rr to th deep cross-currents that are 11 ticlerlyii, the presidential contest, are schedule/ to play strategically defensive role Senator Robinson, the. Democratunominee, will tour the southern Sta's which, despite the fact they are traitionaliy Democratic, will this year iquire some attention. Mr Robinsn will act as salesman of Mr Smith.'' good points, particularly entraigin in the interesting venture of reoon dug Mr Smith’s avowed irirention 1 enforcing prohibition with tih© prom© if elected to counsel Congress to pdify the prohibition law. j Charles Curtis will take for his attilefieid the broad, flat acres of agricultural middle west, who the MeNairy-Raugen agricultural unsure is the Bible of farm relief. Mr ff/Ver is against this measure and Mr Q-tis will endea.vour io explain the OiU-whelming superiority of the subjjtutes Mr Hoover has in mind. Since the. new House of Representaves and 34 Senate seats are to he lied this November, campaign strateists are producing plans for the winling of a great congressional, plum. Die hist Senate was Republican by grace only of Senator Sbipsteads- vote. He was a Farmer-Labourite. The ReKubilicans say it is very necessary they ave in mind a possible special session shortly after the election for the revision of the tariff.

PROHIBITION ABSORBS INTEREST

Twenty of the 35 seats of the Senate to be filled are now occupied l>y Democrate, 13 by Republicans and there are two vacancies due to deaths. The issue as its concerns the Senate is no;; joined; it is quite conceivable and wholly possible' that the Republican President may dud himself with a Democratic Senate or vice versa. It has happened before, notably in Woodrow Wiiilson’s second administration. Far and above alii other issues prohibition has progressively assumed tbe largest proportions and. promises to absorb popular interest at a rate which will l make it probably a single issue when the ballots are east. Prohibition has markedly cut across party lines and in many cases will break them. It must lie remembered that although the presidential campaign may be fought exclusively oil this one question it is not the President who can alter the prohibition) law:. That is principally in the hands of Congress and even if Air SmiKb is elected Congress can still 1 remain predominately “dry-” Small, “dry’’ constituencies and" well organised “dry” lobbies can assure a “dry”, majority in Congress even if tho ■presi'clcniti<i.l election silionlu prove a prohibition referendum. It is for that reason that an assault has begun upon candidate® for Congress. The association again, sC prohibition amendment is asking all candidates for Congress to express their stand on prohibition. There is some expectation that because its preeminence the issue may penetrate into every congressional district;. , . . . An important role may be played by two comparatively new elements in American politics, women and negroes.. It is increasingly evident that more women will vote, this year than ever #>efore and party managers are making shrewd bids for this vote. Female members, of tnaditionally ..Republican anti Democratic families will probably vote with their husbands ’but prohibition is aligning the women according to their personal views, as are the personal appeals of the candidates. _ , Mr Hoover’s work as food administrator during the war, when be cooperated with large bodies of women, has given his managers a basic organisation on which to appeal to the female electorate, and this is being done. , , . One of Mr Smith’s closest advisers is a woman and she is conducting a campaign in the female ranks of Mir Smith, Moreover, the nomination of a negro congressman dm St. Xjouis by tne D'ernw)Cats’has led this party to attempt to organise the negro votes in such debatabTe States as Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri and Maryland. This is an effort to Change the negroes’ politics, which if anything have been Republican since Abraham Lincoln’S days.