AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19860, 2 February 1928, Page 11

AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.

POSSIBLE CANDIDATES. "PRESIDENT HOOVER'S" PLAN } - STATEMENT BY MR. COOLIDGE.. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright; I Received February 1. 7.25 p.m.) A. and N.SJ. WASHINGTON. .Tan. 31. Much amusement was caused at. Washington to-day when Mr. Coolidge was asked by journalists whether Mr. H. C. Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, had indicated any intention of resigning from Cabinet olliee in order actively to begin his campaign for the Republican nomination for tho Presidency. Mr. Coolidge replied that "President Hoover" had made no mention of such plans. This slip of the tongue is held in some quarters to be prophetic. General C. G. Dawes, Vice-President, was brought into the limelight to-day as a possible Presidential candidate when a delegation from the Women's Christian Temperance Union asked him to exprass, as a Pi evidential aspirant, his views on prohibiten. Mr. F. 0. Lowden, fcrmer Governor of Illinois, vt'ill shortly announce that he is a candidate for the Republican nomination, as the avowed leader of the agricultural sections of the country. His open advent in the arena will mark strong emphasis on the agricultural factor in Presidential politics. THIHt)-TEBM DANGEE. FUTURE OF MR. COOLIDGE. MR. FOLLETTE CONCERNED. A. and N.Z. WASHINGTON,- Oar.. SI. Mr. R. M. La Follctte, Republican member for Wisconsin, introduced a resolution in the Senate condemning the idea of a President filling office for three terms as being "unwise, unpatriotic, and fraught with perils to our free institutions." He said he had been informed that a new movement was afoot to nominate Mr. Coolidge for re-election. He asserted that Mr. Charles Hilles, vice-chairman of the Republican Committee, and Mr. A. W. Mellon, Secretary to the Treasury, were working in close co-operation in an endeavour to obtain uninstructed delegations from many States to this end.