U.S. PRESIDENCY

Hokitika Guardian, 16 October 1928, Page 5

U.S. PRESIDENCY

ELECTION CAMPAIGN IN ' PROGRESS. (United Press Association—By Electric . Telegraph—Copyright). NEW YORK, Oct. 13. With the election less than tour weeks off, the Presidential campaign with often tortuous and sometimes tragicomic trends ,lias become indicative of the forces that make for Mr, Hoover’s, success and Mr Smith’s failure.

Smith has fought a rousing battle and Hoover has displayed appealing poise, calm and detached from ulterior po liti ea 1 m a noe vu r mg. The so-called whispering campaign against Smith, because of his Catholicism, has now become a shouting campaign costing him many votes in many .States, where his views on prohibition, farm relief and water power would otherwise attract support. Mrs Willis Brandt easily the most important woman now engaged in politics ha s led the movements against Smith and is asking the help of churches to defeat him,' resulting in much bitter feeling.

The prosperity issue ' has been a priceless jewel ,in the crown of Republican ambitions. Republican orators from Mr Hoover down say Mr Harding and Mr Coolidge brought prosperity and Mr Hoover will continue it. They indicted the Democrats upon two grounds, first, that the latter finally admitted the advantages of protection and secondly, that it would be folly to permit Democrats to tinker with the protection system created and maintained by the Republicans.

DEMOCRATIC COMPLAINT. VANCOUVER, Oct. 13. Louisville and Kentucky Presidential candidate, Smith, in addresses on Saturday night accused the Republicans of misrepresenting the Democratic attitude on the tariff. Smith said the tariff, should be taken out of politics. He favoured' a non-partisan full-time tariff commission. He considered Democrats had caused the result of prosperity resulting from W ilson .policies to shell schedules as product, to limit legitimate business and common labour from ruinous competition of foreign goods, produced under conditions below they American standard. He condemned the Republicans leaving ‘farmers outside tlie protective walls and was opposed to the general tariff bill, pledging that the pnly changes considered would be revisings of specific schedules after investigation.