COOLIDGE CONFIDENT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 3 November 1924, Page 5

COOLIDGE CONFIDENT.

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT /WASHINGTON, Oct. 31. The British Conservatives’ victory and Labour’s losses are hailed by Republicans as forecasting the results of Tuesday’s voting in the United States. President Coolidge’s leaders hold that the . pendulum is swinging towards Conservatism in the United States, and as in Britain Tuesday will see President Ooolidge sent to office by a large majority. The Democratic candidate for the Presidency Mr. J. W. Davis) has been endorsed by the executive committee of the 'Central Trades and Labour Council of Greater New York, which is hailed by Democratic officials as a revolt -against Senator R. M., La Follette (the Independent candidate) in the American Federation of Labour ranks, which have assured Mr. Davis of the support of approximately 700,000. In a speech at Boston, Senator La Follette assailed the foreign policy of the United States, which has been launched “upon a career of Imperialism, which leads inevitably to war and its decay; and which has destroyed every great Empire in the world’s history. Our Government has adopted the aims and methods of European diplomacy, and has slavishly copied the politics upon which the British Empire is built. We are to-day creating in Central and South America onr Irelands,' Egypts and Inclias:”'