AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 234, 31 August 1935, Page 7

AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.

CHOICE OF CANDIDATES

DEMOCRAT GROUP SPLIT

NEW YORK, Aug. 29.

With the adjournment of Congress, political forces discontented with the Roosevelt Administration are becoming active in jockeying for positions in the Presidential campaign a year hence.

At the present time there are two elements in the Democratic Party opposed to President Roosevelt. Republicans hope that these opponents will put candidates in the field and split the Administration’s strength, thus increasing the Republicans’ chances of victory.

One conservative element is being organised by Mr Bainbridge Colby, Secretary of State in President Wilson’s Administration. They have the tacit support of the powerful llearst Press and are reported to be seeking Mr Alfred Spiitli as a candidate to oppose President Roosevelt. On the other hand, Senator Huey P. Bong, with Governors Talmadge (Georgia)- and Olson (Minnesota), is said to be seeking to form an ultra-radical wing party to advance Senator Long’s candidature.

Meanwhile, however, Republicans are having their own difficulties in attempting to agree on the selection of a candidate. Eastern conservatives, apparently with Mr Herbert Hoover’s support, are attempting to check the growing support for Senator Borah, who, in the. last month, according to all indications, has gained wide popular backing among the rank and file of Republicans as their standard-bearer. The Hoover group, assuming that the former President has definitely determined not to be a candidate, appears to favour Colonel Frank Knox.