U.S. PRESIDENCY

Hokitika Guardian, 4 July 1932, Page 5

U.S. PRESIDENCY

ROOSEVELT CHOSEN r?;AS THE DEMOCRAT NOMINEE. (United Press Association—By Electric Teiegraph—Copyright.) CHJCAGO, July 2.- , With the force of a real stampede, | Mr Franklin D. Roosevelt, Governor oi New York State, was formally chosen overwhelmingly as the Democratic nominee for the United States Presidency, as other candidates withdrew from the race and turned their votes into swelling the Roosevelt column. He secured 945 votes on the fourth ballot. The others then were: Ex-Governor A 3 Smith 190, Mr Baker 5, Mr Ritchie. 3, Mr White 3, Mr Dox 1. The Demrocrats will go to the country with the first “out and out’’’ wet platform of any Party in the past dozen- years under the Eighteenth Amendment! It will he, in effect, iir line with G over non- Roosevelt’s personal staild that the repeal of PfhHi-/ bitioil should he made a pledge - of the Party as hgailist the Republicanplatform promising the submission r>f nit alternative amendment, and retain-/ ihg the Federal policy power oVei' the, States for the control of liqlioir, . - .In addition the Democrats’ platform, calls for the immediate modification Gt-. the Volstead Act to allow the saJft of beer and wines. = ~ ' v. T

The platfo-m. opposes the . cancella?r tion'of war debts. i:

The Party advocates a “conjpqtjtive tariff for revenue,” alsojsoymj, currency and a balanced budget.

The Democratic Party, in policy/ahcL in intent, becomes now' a party. .dominated by the primary-nroducing States of rural South and Western America, as contrasted to the control that was exercised in 1928 by the financial, industrial and urban East and Middle West States. Mv Roosevelt made bis appearance for the delivery of an hour’s address in which lie announced that their policy and their faith marked the close of one of the most significant American political conventions in the twentieth century.