PARTY NOMINEES

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 227, 23 August 1928, Page 7

PARTY NOMINEES

AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.

ELECTION ADDRESSES,

DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS.

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) Received August 23, 11.30 a.m. NEW YORK, Aug. 22. In an address at Albany to-day, Mr A. L. Smith (Governor of New- York State), the Democratic nominee for the American Presidency, declared that the Republican Party's claim regarding the country’s prosperity was unfounded, there being tour million unemployed and a considerable percentage of business cox-porations actually losing money. Mr Smith also pointed to the increased Federal appropriations and the increased Federal taxes, and advocated taking the tariff question out of the realm of politics and treating it on a strictly business basis. The Democratic party, added Mr Smith, did not, and under his leadership would not, advocate any sudden, or drastic, revolution of the country’s economic system which w'ould cause business upheaval, or popular distress.

LIQUOR QUESTION.

NICARAGUAN ADMINISTRATION,

(Australian Press Association—United Service). Received August 23, 8.50 a.m. NEW YORK, Aug. 22.

“I never will advocate, or approve of, any law directly or indirectly permitting the return of the saloon,” Mr A. L. Smith, declared to-day in a speech expressing his acceptance of the Democratic nomination.

The sale of intoxicants by State agencies along similar lines to those in force in Canada he proposed as an alternative.

Mr Smith stated that he would make an honest endeavour to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment and all tho other provisions of the Federal Constitution and all the laws enacted pursuant thereto. He advocated the amendment of the Volstead Act to permit the States to fix their own standard of alcoholic content, subject always to the proviso that the standard did not exceed the maximum fixed by Congress. Mr Smith declared that the Democratic Party did not contemplate sudden or drastic changes in the tariff schedules, and he reiterated that it would give the problem of controlling the crop surpluses immediate attention. He assailed the administration of the Nicaraguan and Mexican policies, and declared that the usefulness of arbitration treaties as deterrents of war had been materially impaired by reservations by the various nations of the right to wage defensive wars. Mr Smith pledged himself to a resumption of a real endeavour to make the Outlawry of War Treaty effective.

PLEDGE TO FARMERS.

(Australian Press Association—United Sendee.) NEW YORK, Aug. 22. In his second address of the Presidential election campaign, Mr Hoover, the Republican candidate, made a pledge to the farmers of the country. He told them that if he were elected he would call upon the leaders of agricultural thought to join in the search for common ground upon which to act in solving, what he regarded as, the greatest economic problem in America.

Mr Hoover omitted reference to increased tariffs on farm products, hut he elaborated upon Federal financial aid to farmer-owned corporations, the disposal of crop surpluses and the development of waterways.