AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19947, 16 May 1928, Page 11

AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

DEMOCRATS AT ODDS. HOOVER GAINING GROUND. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. (Received May 15, 5.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON. May 14

Mr. T. J. Heflin, Democrat Senator for Alabama, announces that lie will make, daily speeches from now until the adjournment of Congress on Mr. A. Smith' 3 campaign for the Democrat Presidential nomination. He says: " I will do what I can to expose the tactics of this Tammany machine, and I hope the campaign expenditure committee will make a thorough investigation." Mr. William Butler, chairman of the National Republican Committee, announces that he will support Mr. H. C. Hoover for the Republican nomination for the Presidency. Mr. Hoover's opposition is now practically broken. Mr. Charles Hilles, of New York, is the only important eastern leader who remains against his candidature.

EXPENDITURE BY CANDIDATES EVIDENCE OF MR. F. O. LOWDEN. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. WASHINGTON. May 14.

The former Governor of Illinois, Mr. Fra«k O. Lowden, one of the Republican candidates for the Presidential nomination, gave evidence to-day before the committee of the Senate which is investigating the question of campaign expenditure. He said his Chicago headquarters collected £12,940 and had spent £12,000 up to May 11. He said his personal books indicated that he himself had advanced £2500, although his campaign manager's books showed £3OOO.

Mr. Lowden pounded the committee table at one period of the hearing and declared that ho had entered the Presidential contest because ho believed the Republican Party should re-establish the alliance between agriculture and industry.