HOOVER A STRONG MAN.

Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17554, 8 November 1928, Page 8

HOOVER A STRONG MAN.

CONGRATULATED BY fVIR SMITH. PRESS COMMENT. Early this morning Mr Al. Smith telegraphed to Mr Hoover at the tatter's home in Paloallo, California, saying: '" i sincerely and heartily congratulate you upon your victory and extend to you my sincere good wishes for your health and happiness and i'or the success of your administration." The New York Times says: " intangible forces of various kinds were too powerful for Mr Smith. The larger enrolment of voters meant a lurch of the country to the Republican side. Mr Hoover's success fully justifies the claims made for him, that he is the strongest man whom the Republicans could have put up. " No other man could have repulsed the formidable attack made upon his parly, especially could no other man have snatched New York State away from Mr Smith. Mr Hoover lias scored an electoral victory commensurate wilii bis previous great reputation." FEELING IN CANADA. PROFOUND EFFECT ON TRADE. NEW YORK, Nov. 7. The result of the American Presidential election has bad a profound effect, on Canadian affairs. Dominion observers say that the possibility of a reciprocal tariff, particularly in wheat and other primary products, between the two countries, which Canadian politicians have always held out as a possibility to the Canadian farmer, can never again become an issue in Canadian affairs. Canada will now move toward a policy of greater economic independence, with the development of higher tariffs, to protect her own producers, and will attempt to open up the European, South American and Oriental markets. HOOVER ON PROHIBITION. PROBLEM CAN BE SOLVED. Mr Hoover in his campaign declared that, prohibition is a great national problem that he believed could be solved. A 'fundamental law of the nation, he wished to see if made a lie extolled the Eighteenth Amendment as the protection of l.he American home. Honest enforcement of it was the sacred obligation of the President of the United States. The abuses that had grown up around it must be eliminated. While he did not, in so many words, proclaim himself a bone dry, it was the interpretation of thousands who heard him that such was the meaning of iiis words.

BRITISH CITIZENSHIP. NOT WANTED BY MR HOOVER. A speaker during the campaign dealt with a story that be said had been circulated that Ibe candidate had applied for British citizenship. Reading from what he said was an official document, the speaker said that citizenship had been offered Hoover, but that he had told officials of the English Government that while he would be glad to serve them in any way possible, "I will have rny head chopped off or be cremated alive before I would eive up my American citizencViifii." ._