Presidency Election Signs Point to Hoover Success

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 485, 15 October 1928, Page 9

Presidency Election Signs Point to Hoover Success

“Shouting” Campaign Against Smith

Australian and A Z Press .Issociuft

Reed. 7.5 S a.m. XEW YORK, Sunday. With the Presidential election less than four weeks off, the campaign, with often tortuous and sometimes tragicomic trends, has become indicative of the forces that make for Mr. H. C. Hoover’s success and Governor Al. Smith’s failure. Mr. Smith has fought a rousing battle; Mr. Hover has displayed au appealing poise, and a calm detachment from Picayune, political manoeuvring. The so-called whispering campaign against Mr. Smith, because of his Catholicism has aow become a shouting campaign, costing him many votes in many States where his views on Prohibition, farm-relief and water-

| help of the churches to defeat him. I this resulting in much bitter feeling. I The prosperity issue bus been a I priceless jewel in the crown of the ReI Publican ambitions. Republican orators from Mr. -Hoover down say that : Mr. Harding and Mr. Coolidge brought 'prosperity, and Mr. Hoover will conj tinue |. I They indict the Democrats upon I two grounds—first, that the latter j finally admit the advantages of pro (lection; and secondly, that it would he folly to permit the Democrats to tinker with the protection system which has been created and maintained by the Republicans. AL. SMITH IN ACTION ADDRESS IN KENTUCKY (Australian and iV.Z. Press Association i Reed. 10.0 a.m. LOUISVILLE, Sunday. The Presidential candidate. Mr. Al. Smith, in an address on Saturday night, accused the Republicans of misrepresenting the Democratic attitude towards the tariff issue. Mr. Smith said that the tariff question should be taken out of politics. He favQjired a non-partisan, full-time tariff commission. He considered the Democrats were entitled to credit for the prosperity resulting from the Wilson policies which protected American labour from the ruinous competition of foreign goods produced under conditions below the American standard. He condemned the Republicans for leaving the farmers outside the protective walls and opposed the General Tariff Bill pledging that the only changes that would be considered would be revisions of specific schedules after investigation.

power would otherwise attract support Mrs. Mabel Willebrandt, easily the most important woman now engaged in politics, has led the movement against Mr. Smith. She is asking the