AMERICAS NEXT PRESIDENT

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 19155, 11 April 1932, Page 7

AMERICAS NEXT PRESIDENT

ANOTHER ROOSEVELT IN THE RUNNING SUCCESS IN DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION United Press Association—By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright WASHINGTON, April 8. The Presidential candidacy of Mr Franklin D. Roosevelt continues to sweep all obstacles aside, with such spectacular regularity that many Democratic leaders now speak of his nomination as an accomplished fact. Some hope for his defeat, but they concede that only an extraordinary reversal of form or a desperate stand in the Convention can stop him. The opposition has been surprised not only at his strength, but by their own weakness. Major alliances of the combination against him are fading one by one. During the past week, in the New York and Wisconsin primaries, Mr Roosevelt has flattened out still further the hopes of those few leaders who felt that Mr Alfred E. Smith might stop the procession. Of the 338 delegates chosen thus far, 174 are counted definitely for Mr Roosevelt, with the majority of the others likely to go with him. Meantime the Republican supporters of Mr Hoover are heartened tremendously by the returns from their party's primary in Wisconsin. There appears no doubt but the Administrations' forces have made considerable gains against La Follett s insurgents. To date the President has 250 or 288 Republican delegates selected, and a renomination is secured.