AMERICAN PRESIDENCY. MR. HOOVER’S “BOOM.” HEARST’S LATEST CANARD.

From Our Own Correspondent. New York, Sunday.

Mr. Hearst’s newspapers have organised a campaign to defeat Mr. Hoover’s boom for the Presidency on the grounds that Mr. Hoover’s backing comes from three quarters only, “Wall Street, Great Britain, and the White House.” As to Great Britain I need not tell you that Mr. Hearst’s allegation is preposterous, but the type of reader to whom he appeals is ready to believe anything and everything if there is a chance of injuring Anglo-american friendship. Mr. Hearst, in an editorial, explains that Americans do not dislike the British, but we do dislike, he says, British “Imperialism” and the British aristocratic caste, who find jobs as the tools of British Imperialism. According to Mr. Hearst’s story, which is submitted to some millions of readers through his chain of newspapers, the boom for Mr. Hoover was launched at a most exclusive luncheon given by Colonel House, friend and confidant of President Wilson. “At the luncheon given by Colonel House there were representatives of the various interests supporting Mr. Hoover, and anxious to secure his election as President. They included Ralph Pulitzer and Frank Cobb, respectively owner and editor of the New York World, Cleveland H. Dodge, the Wall Street financier, Cyrus Curtis, the Philadelphia publisher, and Viscount Grey, the British Ambassador to the United States.” “It is rather unusual,” says Mr. Hearst’s New York American, “to have the British Ambassador present at an occasion at which a boom for American President is launched, but Mr. Hoover is understood to be the candidate of the Democratic administration pledged to perpetuate the Wilson policies, and naturally the British Ambassador is anxious to see the policies continued which have been so advantageous to England.”