AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

Otago Witness, Issue 3861, 13 March 1928, Page 28

AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

THE NOMINATION CAMPAIGN. SENATOR BORAH IN LINE. WASHINGTON, March 6. Attempts are being made to suppress issues which might possibly become intense during the Presidential campaigns. Representative Tilson (Republican Whip), in a speech, predicted that both parties would side-step prohibition and avoid splits in their ranks. He added that he did not believe that religious issues would become prominent even if Governor Smith did become the Democratic nominee. THE PROHIBITION ISSUE. NEW YORK, Match 6. Mr F. S. M’Bride, general superintendent of the Anti-Salcon League, who is attending the Prohibition Convention at St. Petersburg (Florida), said that Governor Smith is “ froth,” and that the Democratic Party will blow into nothingness when the Democratic Convention meets. One term at White House by any “ wet ” would set prohibition back a quarter of a century. NEW YORK. March 8. With many discussions on the prohibition question and its place in the policies of the parties for the coming election rendering . predictions at present difficult to accept,. Mr Oswald Villard, Senator Borah’s friend, says in the current issue of the Nation that in the event of the ‘ dry ” factions of both parties standing down, Senator Borah will be their Presidential candidate. He stated: ‘•Should Senator Borah speak out about the Republican Party a§ did Roosevelt in 1912, he would make his nomination on the third ticket inevitable.” THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION. WASHINGTON, March 9. A bitter pre-convention struggle which will probably carry over into the . convention itself seems assured as a result of Mr H. C. Hoover’s entry into the Indiana primaries. It is the field against Mr. Hoover. No doubt appears to remain that there is an understanding between the forces ot Messrs Lowden. Willis, Watson, and Curtis, whereby their strength will be pooled in order to prevent Mr Hoover from obtaining delegates from Onio. Indiana, and other States. Every effort is being made to give Mr Hoover’s aspiration a sufficiently serious setback early in the campaign by combining all his op ponents against him.