PRESIDENCY OF AMERICA,

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17171, 15 October 1923, Page 10

PRESIDENCY OF AMERICA,

WILL MR FORD STAND? By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. NEW YORK, October 13 The Washington correspondent of the “New York Times” says that what are considered undoubted signs that Mr Henry Ford intends to make a serious contest for the Presidency have just appeared “It is reported from Detroit that Mr Ford will return to the Government many millions of dollars, representing profits made during the war on the construction of submarine chasers, arms and other things manufactured in various Ford plants. “Mr Ford also has launched an attack upon Mr J. W. Weeks, Secretary of War, in connection with a vast water-power project which the manufacturer wished to purchase from the Government and which Mr Weeks opposed. The correspondent says that the late President liarding had assurances that Mr Ford would not aspire to the Presidency against him, but, it is understood, Mr Ford is not on very friendly terms with President Coolidge. “There can be no question,” he adds, “that Mr Ford would command a vast amount of popular support, the public believing that he possesses an acute business sense which, if applied to the government of the country, would solve many problems.”