U.S. ELECTIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 November 1928, Page 6

U.S. ELECTIONS

SOME DEMOCRAT STATES

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright).

NEW YORK, November 7,

Definite returns now show that Governor Smith has won in the States of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Rhode Island, and South Carolina.

MR HOOVER’S MESSAGE,

NEW YORK November 7

A message from Palo Alto contains the following statement by Mr Hoover: “ There has been a vindication df great issues, and a determination of the true road to progress.” He appealed for the co-operation of the country’s leaders as “ the only way to succeed in that office.” He says: “T can make no adequate expression of my gratitude for the overwhelming confidence of our people. The Republican Party has again been assessed with great responsibility. Tn this hour there can lit' no feeling of victory or exultation. Rather it imposes a test of solemn responsibility and complete dependence upon divine guidance.” The, message states the new President will probably remain in Calitornia Ifor a month resting, and making no public addresses. He said that any report as to the determination ol his Cabinet, personnel at this' time was basdd'on theory rather than fact. WASHINGTON, November 7.

President Coolidge has telegraphed ~ir Hoover expressing satisfaction at liis election and at the endorsement of the President’s administration. 1 ' He says: “With this endorsement f can now repair from office in contentment.”

CHAIRMANSHIP FOR SMITH

NEW YORK. November 8

It is reported in banking circles that within ten days Mr Smith will be offered the Chairmanship of Directors ol a newly projected 55 million dollar Mail Street Bank, which will have the largest capital funds with which any bank has been organised in the l nited States.

Mr. John . Raskob, Smith’s manager, will probably also be connected with the Bank, since he is not returning to General Motors.

A NKGP.O ELECTED. NEW YORK. November 7. The Congressional returns are substantially as indicated yesterday. One Negro member oif the C.S.A. House of Representatives has been returned from Chicago.

LONDON PRESS COALMEN’!’. LONDON, November 7

All of the newspapers publish editorials on the United States Presidential election. Elaborate trans-Atlantic cable and wireless arrangements enabled the results to lie rushed across.

The “ Daily Express ” states: “With a united party behind him, also millions of women who were anxious to register votes, anti-drink, anti-Catho-lic, and anti-Bowery, Air Hoover was ‘on velvet’ from the start. Govern or Smith has made a dramatic and a forceful fight. Governor Smith might have won in a country like England that is tolerant and is distrustful ol extremes, and with few sectarian prejudices. Ilf Governor Smith had won. we could have welcomed him without reservation, but we are equally free to congratulate Mr Hoover, who has a first-hand knowledge of European rtfairs. No previous President Inequalled this. There is some guarantee that lie will approach world polities with at least a semi-international mind.”

V SOUTHERN PAPER’S CO A! At ENT NEW YORK. Novem be 7.

There' is a wealth of nation-wide editorial comment explaining (lovernor smith’s defeat. A leading article: in the Wheeling ''West Virginia) Register is one of-the most interesting, it.says: .Mr Hoover’s smashing victory places the country on record as opposed to a Catholic -.President, amh as favouring Prohibition, as if..no other issues count -d., With a wedge driven deep ini - the heretofore impregnable South, (he future T,if< the Democratic Party is doubtful and dark. The farmers of the West are to be imbued with Republicanism, to give the Democrats hope of igrarian strength. The hast is too self-sufficient to both. W ith the uviiority parties, tlie possibility of 11 R 0" publican Party split, a new party new issues, and new principles, constitutes the outstanding hope o 1! the dissatisfied element of the population.

A “ WET” DEFEAT. NEW YORK, November 7

A despatch from Washington to the New York “Times” states: “ I hi--onc-ensus of opinion here seems to be that Governor Smith’s crushing defeat assures the maintenance of prohibition as a national policy for many years to come; . This at least is the view expressed by leaders of the “Dry’ groups, and it is shared to some extent by gome administration officials in pm rate discussions df lessons taught <by yesterday’s election.”

ELECTION RESULTS

(Received this dav at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, November 0

Tlie Republicans elected twenty-one Senators, the Democrats twelve, and the Farmer-Labourers oue. Two seats dire doubful. The new voting strength of the Senate on the basis, of the'latest returns ; s; 54 Republicans, 40 Democrats, 1 Farmer-Labourer, 1 vacancy. The new Congress is assured of a healthy Republican working majority.

PRESS COAIAIENT,

(Received this day at 9.25. a.m.) NEW YORK, Nov. 8.

The Denver I’ost, whose policies are Independent, has a unique explanation for the election result: “American people have spoken. Prohibition is here, to stay. Woe betide the candidate or party who attempts-to nullify or repeal it. Women and automobiles are the two explanations of crushing defeat administered to Smith. He will go down in history as a man who wrecked the Democratic Party. Never again will any great political party dare try to ride into power on a beetkeg or a whisky bottle.”

The “Arkansas Gazette” says: “The greatest reason for regretting the result of the balloting is that religious freedom has been called into question in a hind founded upon the principle oi.religious freedom.”

WELLINGTON, November 8

Ernest 11. Cherrington, general secretary of the World League Against Alcoholism, cables the Now Zealand Alliance, as follows. “ Smith, America's greatest opponent of prohibition, was defeated, getting fewer electoral votes than any Democratic candidate for 70 years. Prohibition was overwhelmingly sustained.”

N.Z. ALLIANCE

CONCH AT RATIONS TO AIR HOOVER

WELLINGTON, November 9

At it meeting yesterday the Standing Committee of the Now Zealand Alliance resolved to send the following congratulatory cable to Air Herbert Hoover: — “ The New Zealand Alliance sends heartiest congratulations on your election its President. AVe rejoice that the citizens of America have demonstrated their confidence both in yon and in the prohibition policy, which you have determined to sustain and enforce.”

.METHODIST JUBILATION

WANGANUI. November 8

The Wanganui-Taranaki Alethodist: Synod sitting lien*, passed tbo following resolution: —Synod records its deep gratitude for the tremend' victory gained in the United Slat: In Air Hoover’s select ion to tin* Presidency by such an overwhelming majority. Urn Synod sees an iinpreiedented triumph for moral forces, especially for the great cause of Prohibition. It regards the result of .the election as a challenging replv to the iniquitous and false propaganda o’l (be liquor party, and a stirring incentive to the movement in New Zealand.