AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22546, 13 April 1935, Page 14

AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

"*"" POSSIBLE CANDIDATES CRITICS OF MR ROOSEVELT WASHINGTON, April 1. Dr Townsend, the sponsor of the plan under which every person, on reaching the age of 60, would be entitled to a pension of £4O a month—which must be spent during that month—to-day announced that he would be a candidate for the Presidency at the next election. At the same time he invited Mr W. E. Borah, the former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to join with him in forming a third party and to run for the Vice-Presidency. "I know I have 25,000,000 followers who will support me on election day," said the would-be reformer, who threatens to lead an army of aged people to overwhelm Washington if Congress does not soon treat them seriously. Following Dr Townsend's announcement, the Louisville senator, Mr Huey Long, who declares that he, too, will oppose Mr Roosevelt, claimed that 25,000,000 voters had pledged themselves to support him.