PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 133, 7 May 1932, Page 7

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.

WASHINGTON, May 6. With a clear-cut victory in California’s Presidential primary perched on his standard, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr J. N. Garner, of Texas, is counted back among the Democratic nomination possibilities. The assured 46 Convention votes of Texas, plus California’s 44, gave him second place in the running behind Mr Franklin Roosevelt’s 318. Behind him comes Mr W. Hamilton Lewis, with 58; Mr Alfred Smith, with 40; Mr Janies A. Reed, 36; and Mr Wil-liams-Murray, 23. Mr Smith may pass the Garner mark. I However, every prospect is for the nomination to depend upon the contest in the National Convention at Chicago, though Roosevelt supporters angling for “favourite son” votes of Illinois, Ohio, Virginia, and others, insist that all the California defeat means is probably a failure to wm the nomination on the first ballot. In California on Tuesday Mr Garner polled 214,647 votes, with Mr Roosevelt 45.000 behind, and Mr Smith 20,000 further back. President Hoover the sole Republican preference candidate in ( the California primaries, received a larger vote than nil the Democrats combined, namely, 630,488.