CAMPAIGN OPENED

Taranaki Daily News, 31 August 1935, Page 7

CAMPAIGN OPENED

AMERICAN PRESIDENCY DIVISIONS OF PARTIES ROOSEVELT OPPOSITION CANDIDATES IN THE FIELD By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 10.35 p.m. New York, Aug. 29. With the adjournment of Congress political forces discontented with the Roosevelt Administration are becoming active, jockeying for positions in the Presidential campaign a year hence. At the present time there are two elements in the Democratic Party opposed to Mr. Roosevelt, and the Republicans hope these opponents will put candidates in the field and split the Admmisttation’s strength, thus increasing the Republicans’ chances of victory. . . One Conservative element is being organised by Mr. Bainbridge Colby, who was Secretary of State in Mr Woodrow Wilson’s Administration. It has the tacit support of the powerful Hearst Press and is reported to be seeking Mr. Alfred Smith as a candidate to oppose Mr. Roosevelt. On the other hand Mr. Huey Long, with Governors Talmadge (Georgia) and Olson (Minnesota), is said to be seeking to form an ultra radical wing party to advance Mr. Long’s candidature. Meanwhile, however, the Republicans are having their own difficulties in attempting to agree on the selection of a candidate. Eastern Conservatives, apparently with Mr. Herbert Hoover s support, are attempting to check the growing support for Senator W. E. Borah, who in the last month, according to all indications, has gained wide popular- backing among the. rank and file of Republicans as their standard bearer. Hoover group, assuming that the former President is definitely determined not to be a candidate, appears to favour Colonel Frank Knox.