AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21333, 7 November 1932, Page 9

AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

EVE OF THE ELECTION MR. HOOVER'S CAMPAIGN " DANGERS AVERTED " EMPLOYMENT GROWING EARM RELIEF MEASURES By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received November 6, 6.35 p.m.) NEW YORK, Nov. 5 The President, Mr. Hoover, to-day carried his campaign for re-election at the polls to be taken on Tuesday into the heart of Wisconsin—the home of the progressive Republicans. Mr. Hoover told the huge audience in the arena at Madison that with the economic advances now in evidence there should be no interruption in the policies that had brought this about. Describing world conditions the President said his Administration's measures had averted dangers which would have meant tragedy for generations. The records showed that men were returning to work at a rate of 500,000 a month. He asserted that the Republicans' measures were "winning out." On board the Presidential special train en route to the West, Mr. Hoover previously had renewed his pledge to keep farm products out of the United States. In a speech prepared for delivery at Springfield, Illinois, and made public on the train as he continued his campaign through Indiana and Illinois, Mr. Hoover said: " Already foreign farm products, such as butter, pork products, cattle and competitive oils, have begun to flow over our borders in competition with our American farmers and have contributed largely to the depreciation of prices. Particularly is this so from Canada, New Zealand, the Orient and certain European countries.

" This is the effect of the depreciation of foreign currencies on the ability of our competitors in agricultural products to ship into our markets when their currencies are depreciated and their prices and wages decreased in comparison with ours. This enables them to penetrate the tariff wall.

" Fortunately the Republican party has secured the establishment of authority in the Tariff Commission by which tariffs can be re-examined in just such an event. I have lately given instructions to the commission to re-examine certain of the agricultural tariffs with a view to presenting to me the actual facts of the difference in cost of production at home and abroad. Certainly, if the facts are developed as they appear, I shall promptly act for relief of the farmers."

DEMOCRAT PARTY APPEAL TO ELECTORS CONFIDENCE OF CANDIDATE (Received November 6, 8.45 p.m.) NEW YORK, Nov. 5 With a joint call for the election of the Democrat "ticket" the Governor of New York, Mr. Franklin Roosevelt, and Mr. Alfred Smith, formally closed the Democrats' campaign this evening. Mr. Roosevelt said he believed the best interests of the country required a change in the Administration. He said the programme he had laid down was the programme of a party which realised that "every one of our people is entitled to an opportunity to earn a living. This evening we set our seal upon that programme. " After Tuesday," said Mr. Roosevelt, " we shall go forward to the great task of its accomplishment, and, we trust, of its fulfilment." Mr. Smith said the record of the Republican Party failed to show that it would be able to give an account of its stewardship for the last four years.

" STRAW " POLL RESULT MR. ROOSEVELT'S LEAD ANALYSIS OF VOTING NEW YORK, Nov. 4 The Literary Digest's " straw " poll discloses that with 3,000,000 votes cast, Mr. F. Roosevelt (Democrat), leads in 41 States with 56 per cent of the total vote, 37 per cent is for Mr. Hoover and 5 per cent for Mr. Thomas, the Socialist candidate. It appears that nothing bnt a miracle can save Mr. Hoover. The chief candidates for the Presidential election to be held in tho United States to-morrow are Air. Herbert Hoover (Republican) and Mr. Franklin Roosevelt (Democrat). For the Vice-Presidency the Republican candidate is Mr. Charles Curtis and the Democrat candidate Mr. John D. Garner, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Mr. Hoover fought the last election against Mr. Alfred Smith, then Democrat Governor yf New York, and carried the country—as represented by electoral votes —by 444 against 87 cast for Mr. Smith. Forty of the 48 States were carried by the Republicans. However, the popular vote was much closer, Mr. Hoover receiving 21,429,109, against Mr. Smith's 15,005,497.