AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19939, 7 May 1928, Page 9

AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.

MOVEMENT BY NEGROES.

INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES, COMBINATION SELECTED. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. (Received May 6, 5.5 p.m.) * WASHINGTON. May 5. Tho representatives of various negro organisations have started a movement to enter an independent combination " white and negro" ticket for il.e Presidency and Vice-Presidency, at t'ae approaching elections. They held a mass meeting and endorsed a white candidate, "General" Jacob Coxcy, a onetime leader of an army of unemployed, for the Presidential nomination, and Dr. Simon Drew, a negro minister, for the Vice-Presidential nomination. The negroes have also called a national convention to be held at Washington on June 4. "General" C. J. Coxey was some years ago the head of the "Army of Christ," which marched on Washington. He is by profession a horse dealer. He lives at Massillon, Ohio, and formerly represented his native State in Congress. His idea was that the unemployed should march from all parts of the country to Washington and refuse to leave until Congress had issued a huge loan for relief works. There was a suspicion that the scheme was worked by the Populist Party, which in Kansas and some other States had at the time acquired great power through the disgust of the voters with the corruptions and jobbery of the two great political parties. Certain it is that in some districts the army was hospitably received, provided by the inhabitants with food and lodging, and sent on by train free of expense. Other bodies of the army, however, attempting to seize trains, were fired on by troops or played on with a fire hose. One of "General" Coxey's marshals was called "the Great Unknown," but it transpired that he was Mr. A. P. Bozzaroo, a Chicago patent medicine vendor, who was known as "The Fakir" and "the Wizard of the Plains." The Coxey procession to Washington consisted- of only four hundred persons. Banners were borne with the inscription, "Peace on earth and goodwill to man, but death to interest on bonds." The police barred the way to the east front of the Capitol, but Coxey jumped the wall of the grounds, and afterward rushed up the steps of the Capitol. He attempted to read his protest, but was hustled away. Later he and some of his leaders were arrested.

REPUBLICAN VOTES. MR. HOOVER'S PROSPECTS. INQ|ANA PRIMARY TO-MORROW. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. (Received May 6. 5.50 p.m.) NEW YORK. May 5. The Republican electors of Indiana at next Tuesday's primary at- Indianapolis will givu their decision as between Mr. H. C. Hoover and Senator J. E. Watson after one of the most vigorous campaigns known lor years. It will then be seen whether the Ohio results are to have any influence upon Mr. Hoover's aspirations, as it was freely predicted that Indiana would be the second "hurdle" which the latter must negotiate before seeing his way clear to Presidential nomination.

DEMOCRAT CAMPAIGN. MR. T. J. WALSH RETIRES. AN ATTACK ON MR. SMITH. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. (Received May' 5, 5.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, May 4. One of the Democrat candidates for the Presidential nomination, Mr. T. J. Walsh, member of the Senate for Montana, announces that he is impelled by tho logic of events to request that no further effort shall be made in Montana or elsewhere to promote his nomination. In a letter to Mr, W. W. McDowell, of Montana, a Democrat leader, Mr. Walsh stated that tho result of the Californian primary had quite clearly indicated that the Democrats desired Mr. A. Smith, Governor of New York, as their candidate. In view of the retirement of Mr. Walsh the Montana delegates to the Democrat Convention will probably be instructed to vote for Mr. Smith. Sir. J. T. Heflin, Democrat member of the State for Alabama, has made a characteristic attack upon Mr. Smith. He said: Ho has not been nominated yet. The people are determined not to Jhave Tammany. It is not a case of religion with me, but I object to being told by the Pope that I must practice his religion. If Mr. Smith is nominated I will take a steamer to Europe.