“ENEMY OF SQUARE DEAL”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 397, 4 July 1928, Page 9

“ENEMY OF SQUARE DEAL”

WAIL ABOUT HOOVER FARMERS RAISE COMPLAINT COMING PRESIDENCY FIGHT (United P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyrightj (Australian Press Association.) NEW YORK, Monday. The recent Democrat national convention showed that Tammany not only controls that party, but, through its candidate for the Presidency, Governor Alfred lE. Smith, has hud the courage to declare that it is greater than the party. Mr. Smith has indicated unmistakably that he believes in a modification of the present prohibition system, although he has said he will enforce the existing laws. The issue is plainly joined, and the American people cannot escape the provocative import of Mr. Smith’s attitude. There is nothing non-committal about it. The Republican candidate, Mr. H. C. Hoover, will probably be a very spirited opponent. American politics are intensely practical, and the party with the most money usually wins, all other things being equal. The Republicans, hitherto, have had the fullest coffers —in other words, Wall Street has been behind its nominees. WALL STREET ATTITUDE The attitude of Wall Street in the election campaign will be watched with interest. The combination of a strong political figure plus a noncommittal tariff pronouncement in the platform, and the possibility of plenty of election money, may produce an interesting reversal in the outcome of the election on November 6. Speaking at an agricultural conference at Chicago, Mr. George Peek, chairman of the executive committee of the North and Central States, described Mr. Hoover as the “arch-enemy of a square deal for American agriculture.”