HOOVER FOR CERTAIN

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 353, 14 May 1928, Page 9

HOOVER FOR CERTAIN

REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT MORE SUPPORT FOR SMITH ( Un »: cd P. A. — By Telegraph—Copgrh') (Australian P-A. —United Service) NEW YORK. Saturday Further support for Governor Al. Smith has come from Senator B. K. Wheeler, Democrat member for Montana. In 1924 Mr. Wheeler broke a wav from his party after Mr. Davis am! Mr. Bryan had been nominated, and stood for the Vice-Presidency on the third party ticket, led by the late Mr. R. M. La Foilette. Mr. Wheeler has now published a letter urging the nation to nominate Mr. Smith for the Presidency by acclamation. A feature of the letter is a reference to prohibition. The writer says the policy of the Republicans in this respect is theoretical enforcement of the law, but actually, its nullification. With Governor Smith in favour of the enforcement of the law he says there would be an improvement in that direction if he were elected President. MR. MELLON’S ADVICE The Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. A. W. Mellon, to-day approved the candidature of Mr. Hoover, in a statement at Philadelphia, before the Pennsylvania delegates to the coming Republican convention He said Mr. Hoover seemed to come most close to the standard they had set for this high office. However, between now and the convention he recommended that the republicans should hold i-hein-selves unpledged and not committed to any particular candidate, so that when they met at Kansas City before the convention they would have the fullest liberty of choice to do as was best for the nation. IMPORTANT STATEMENT This statement is taken by Mr. Hoover’s friends as virtually naming Mr. Hoover as the logical successor to Mr. Coolidge, and that Mr. Mellon. who has vast political influence.

is now convinced that neither Mr. Coolidge nor the ex-Secretary o f State, Mr. C. K. Hughes, is in the race for nomination. The claim is even made that this assures Mr. Hoover's nomination on the first Mr. C. E. Hughes b , al ,| ot - However. although it is a distinct gain for Mr. Hoover, the Indiana primaries have apparently lessened the possibility of his choice bv acclaim at Kansas City. Mr. E. Celler, Democrat member <>t the House of Representatives for Brooklyn, has introduced a motion in

the House declaring against a third term for any President. Mr. Celler said the failure of the present incumbent at White House to state unequivocally his position was an occasion which compelled the passage of the motion.

HEAVY SPENDING

MR. HOOVER’S CAMPAIGN CONTESTING RUMOURS (Australian P.A.—United Service) WASHINGTON, Saturday. It was originally understood that the whole of *he expenditure on behalf of Mr. H. C. Hoover amounted to £8.40'!, but further questioning of Mr. Good by the Senate Committee elicited the fact that this sum represented the expenditure in Ohio alone. The total outlay at present yrould be more than £50,000, said Mr. Qood. The amount named is considerably more than twice the expenditure on behalf of the leading Democratic candidate. Governor A. Smith' Mr. Good said a large proportion of the money had been spent in refuting untrue and unwarranted statements about Mr. Hoover’s career, which had been circulated by partisans of other candidates. These included the allegations that Mr. Hoover was not an American citizen. that he was not a Republican, that he had defrauded the Chinese in that he had made a fortune out of the Boxer rising, that he had fixed the price of wheat during the Great War, and that he had not accounted for large amounts of money entrusted to him in his capacity as administrator of great relief undertakings in the United States and in other countries.