AMERICAN POLITICS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 303, 16 September 1920, Page 5

AMERICAN POLITICS

THE CALIFORNIAN PROBLEM

SPEECH BY SENATOR HARDING

By TelesTaDh-Press issoolatlon-OopyrlgM (Reo. September 15, 5.5 p.m.) Marion, Ohio, September 14. Senator Harding (Republican candidate for the United States Presidency), in a speech to a Californian delegation, 6aid lie believed v that Oriental racial questions on the Pacific coast had created friction, and it must bo recognised thqt the nation owed it to the Pacific Coast States to stand behind them in necessary measures consistent with national honour and relieve the difficulty. He said that Canada, Australia, New- Zealand, South Africa, the Argentine and Siberia might menace Amoricnn agricultural producers with cheaper wheat, com and meats, and a full protective tariff for those industries was essential.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.

MAINE STATE ELECTIONS A REPUBLICAN MAJORITY. New York, September 13. The State elections in Maine show a Republican, majority of approximately 10,000. The Republican leaders claim that Maine has repudiated the Wilson administration and the League of Nations. Maine is tho only State in the Union whoso olectibns occur in. September instead of November, and it has become an axiom that the nation's vote is always tho reverse of that of Maine. In Ml 2 and 1916 the State voted Republican. Republican leaders attach great importance to tho Maine results. It is said that the greater number of the women, who voted for tho first time, were Renublilcan.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.