AMERICAN POLITICS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 140, 15 May 1936, Page 9

AMERICAN POLITICS.

• BORAH RECEIVES SETBACKS. : NEW YORK, May 13. Senator Borah’s presidential aspira- [ tions received new setbacks as the re- . suits of primary elections in Ohio and j West Virginia were compiled. , in Ohio Senator Borah appears to , have won only five of the 52 Republi- , can delegates. The remainder are pledged to Mr Robert Taft, son of a • former President, as a “favourite son” ’ candidate. This means that lie will receive a courtesy vote ill tlie first | ballot, after which delegates will be at . liberty to switch over to other candi- , dates. Mr A. Landon (Governor of [ Kansas) is most likely to receive the i majority of the delegates’ votes. London delegates led 80, ah supporters by , a wide margin in AVest Virginia and , in Vermont, where no Borali candidates were in the contest, and nine delegates favourable to Mr London were elected. According to political observers, Mr Landon’s selection is now all but assured. On the Democratic side President Roosevelt received huge confidence votes in AVest Virginia, North Dakota, Delaware and Ohio against negligible opposition. DIRECT INFLATION. EFFORTS defeated. AVASHINGTON, May 14. AA’liat is interpreted as the end of all efforts to secure direct monetary inflation, at least during the present session of Congress, occurred to-day with the defeat in the House of Representatives by 235 votes to 142 of the so-called Frazier-Lemke Farm Mortgage Refinancing Bill. The measure, which was designed to aid agriculturists w’itli pressing debts, would have been financed by the issue of 3.000,000,000 dollars of “printing press” money.