American Politics
With the party conventions less than three months' distant interest in the approaching Presidential election in the United States is increasing. Two main points arise, the choice of candidates and the formulation of pro- grammes. As to the former, it concerns only the Demo- cratic camp, for President Hoover is the certain Republican nominee. Among the Democrats Governor Franklin Roosevelt, of New York State, remains favourite, and his position has been strengthened in the past week by the result of the Democratic primary (the vote for the selection of the party candidate) in North Dakota, which has given him a comfortable majority oyes, an opponent whom that agricultural State might well have preferred. The appearance of another New York aspirant, Mr. Al Smith, Democratic candidate at the last election, in the field is a point against Mr. Roosevelt, and the possibilities of men like Mr. Newton Baker of Ohio and Governor Ritchie of Maryland thus remain inter- esting. The main issue, next to the record of the administration, which should be the Democrats' chief asset, will be prohibition once more, with the Democrats running on a definitely wet ticket and the country tending to be at any rate increasingly damp. Debt cancellation will inevitably be repudiated by both parties.
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