U.S. PRESIDENCY

Hokitika Guardian, 9 November 1932, Page 5

U.S. PRESIDENCY

CAMPAIGN ENDS DEMOCRAT WIN ANTICIPATED. ir ■ > ■ (United Press Association—-By Electric 'leiegraph—Copyright; r NEW YORK, November 7. The United States’ presidential campaign, regarded by many as tne most important since the Oivil "War, t, ended to-night. .;!w To-monrow an army of voters,, expected to foball forty-seven ; .millions; will- troop to the poUS to choose either Mr Hoover and Mr Roosevelt, for, the task the candidates themselves have styled!, as leading the national put of the worst depression. . iln addition, the word-weary electorate must decide scores of referenda, and fill the posts of Vice-Presid-ency, the Federal Senalorshi.ps in thirty-three ’ States, and Members from every State (except (Maine, which elected on September ,12Ji to the Federal House of Representatives), Governoffihips in thirty-four States, and lesser officials in thirty-nine States. ' .. , , The cablpalgft turbulence drew Its final brdathj 'to the accompaniment of victory claims 'by either side., Most •estimates, outside poffblos, forecast Mr Hoover’s defeat. , One of thbse political upheavals that have visited America at irregular periods is now generally predicted' for to-morrow. President Hoover is balled a “gallant soldier” by the less embittered) section of the opposition for his stirring final effort to ' stem the J Democratic wave, but, hs asks one leader-writer,' ; “of ’ what avail are his long speeches and against the more eloquent oratory of the farm prices, which are at the lowest ever known, and the ten millidn people who are unemployed.” ' The complex particulars of probable Teturns, which ■, is the usual stuff of political experts’ estimate, fades before the sweeping significance of the foregoing. ■' ; ' V America, as never before, is "being actuated by mass sentiment. Certainly it is not reasoned or well articulated, but it is immensely direct. Thirty-five to forty-five million persons will go to the polls to-morrow. They may, or may not, give Governor . Franklin Roosevelt a popular plurality of six millions, such as Hoover b-jd over Governor Alfred Smith in the 1928 election, but, due to the character of the Electoral College machinery, it seems unquestioned 1 that he will give the Democratic Party a decisive mandate. . The “New- at« - the dose of ia. .survey of 48 States, assigns thirty witn an electoral : vote of 300 Antes ris being likely to be for Roosevelt, It selects,three, with,44 electoral votes as being certainty; for Hoover and nine more, with 138 electoral « apparently certain for Roosevelt, d six with 49 electoral votes as being likely to be for Hoover. A total of 266 electoral votes are necessary for the choice ,of President. Wall 'Street’s attitude on.the election is interesting. Wall street has reacted unfavourably to a Jmpf/, all of Mr Hoover’s speeches. r v That Wall Street will not he disturbed by the outcome of this election v is indicated by the fact of prices having held a twenty point gain over the July price. Industry and business generally, which also usually. suffer recessions and show uncertainty during a period cf .a Presidential campaign, have this time given no evidence of any setbacks or trepidations. BEER THE DOMINANT ISSUE. HOOVER’S FOREIGN POLICY. . NEW YORK, ‘November 7. As expected, beer has remained the dominant issue throughout th e election vu&ampaign. Such an important matter as the foreign debts has received only passing references. Beer, and the whole question of Prohibition, in the minds of the American people are more important than the foreign debts or for that matter other items of foreign policy, which have remained virtually untouched by the candidates to the end. Eleven of the .States to-morrow will vote on Various phases of prohibition, from the initiative or a repeal of the State Prohibition Law, in Arizona, to the question" of whether Congress should be memorialized to repeal the Eighteenth Amendment and the Vol- / istead Act in Connecticut. ' In ia campaign address here, to-day Hoover made a brief refer- ‘ ence to international affairs. He declared against the imposition of any military or economic sanction to preserve peace. He reiterated the desirability instead, of mobilising public opinion against any infraction of peace pacts; but he added: “We will join no movement that proposes to use military or economic force in its attempts to prevent war.” During the campaign, Mr Hoover has been condemning the Democratic Party’s intimation that a remission of ’•War debts should be granted for trade ELECTION OF STATE GOVERNORS. NEW YORK, November 7. Thirty-four of the States are. holding their elections for Governor. In these (States there are eighteen Democratic and fifteen Republicans at v present;

VOTERS KEEN TO POLL. . fEecwived tb's lay at 10.25 n.rrO NEW YORK, November 8. Flood tide ballotting, threatening to override even the high total of four years ago, inundated the United States polling places to-day, as the tortuous political currents of 1932 converged at the general elections.

At the opening of the first ballot booths, la the east,, rain, and even snow failed to slacken the determination of voters to exercise tlieid fouryearly privilege.