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OHIO AWAITS HUGE VOTE;
STATE RACES ARE CLOSE
Vic Donahey Due to Defeat Senator Fess, But Rest
of Democratic Ticket May En
counter Difficulty.
BY J. H. GALBRAITH.
Bpeclil Dispttch to The 8tar.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, November
3.—Deeper end more general
interest is being taken in the
Ohio lections on next Tues
day than in any election in
years not involving the presidency.
For that reason a large vote is ex
pected. It may reach 2.800,000.
The issue of the New Deal is partly
responsible, but that is not all. A
contest that has been vigorous—almost
bitter—is being waged by Clarence J.
Brown. Republican, and Martin L. Da
vey, Democrat, for the governorship.
The fight on State matters has turned
on these two candidates and a few
thousand votes might decide it.
This contest has drawn some at
tention from the race for United
States Senator. From the beginning
It has been generally regarded as cer
tain that Senator Simeon D. Fess
would be defeated, but as the cam
paign draws to a closc thete has been
a closing up of the ranks of the Re
publicans and a firmer line of de
fense formed as the Senator waged
a vigorous fight against the recovery
methods of the Federal administra
tion. It still seems, however, that this
can only tend to reduce the plurality
by which his opponent, the former
Democratic three-term Governor, Vic
Donahey, will be elected.
Donahey Far in Front.
In fairness to Senator Fess, it
should be said that this is not due
to his weakness as a candidate, nor
to the kind of a campaign he has
been making, but to the remarkable
personality of his opponent and his
popularity with the voters. Both
Senator Fess and Gov. Donahey have
been complimentary and maintained a
dignified bearing toward each other.
Gov. Donahey's friends are claiming
he will have a plurality of between
500,000 and 700.000. A more conserv
ative estimate would place it at about
300.000.
The Republicans have not criticized
Davey, the Democratic candidate for
Governor, as lined up with the New
Deal. In fact, he has never before
been able to see eye to eye with
Franklin D. Roosevelt in a political
way, though he has claimed in this
campaign to be in sympathy with the
recovery plans. Early in the cam
paign Davey declared himself in
favor of a two-year moratorium on
principal and interest on local gov
ernment bonds, and through his col
leagues on the State ticket never
agreed with him. he has continued to
advocate It.
Teachers Back Brown.
This turned the teachers of the
State, whose pension funds are in
vested in such securities, in a body
to the support of his Republican op
ponent, C. J. Brown. This movement
to Brown was further aided by
Brown's declaration that if elected
Governor he would resist the propo
sition to aid the parochial schools
with money from the public school
lund. The proposal was twice de
feated in the present Legislature, but
it is known that it will be renewed
in the next. This has injected a re
ligious issue into the campaign and
intensified the fight between Brown
and Davey. Davey has made no
statement as to his views on this
matter, though repeatedly asked to
do so.
Except in Hamilton and Cuyahoga
Counties political sentiment seems
pretty evenly divided between the two
candidates for Governor. In Hamil
ton, Brown is far in the lead, due to
the fact that by a remark in the
primary campaign Davey alienated
W. J. Leonard, the Democratic organi
zation head at Cincinnati. Cuyahoga
County in all probability will be car
ried by Davey, though the best indi
cations there are that the Davey plu
rality will not be sufficient to wipe
out the Brown lead downstate and
in Hamilton County.
There is some ill-feeling in Cleve
land toward Brown, due to the fact
that when he was secretary of State
and ex-officio State supervisor of
elections, he removed the Cuyahoga
County Board of Elections because of
complaints against the members, the
board being a part of the set-up of
the local Republican organization, at
whose head was former National
Committeeman Maurice Maschke.
Unless the New Deal influence has a
pulling power In the election greater
than is shown by the head of the
ticket, the balance of the Republican
State ticket probably will go through
with Brown at Its head.
Roosevelt Less Popular,
There are so many cross tides and
eddies in the political current in the
State that no reliable indication can
be secured as to how the personality
of President Roosevelt will affect the
congressional elections.
SILENT VOIE ED
WASHINGTON KEY
300,000 Unclassified Bal
lots May Decide Races.
Odlin Gains.
BY JAMES DE Κ. BROWN.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
SEATTLE, Wash., November 3.—
As the 1934 campaign draws toward
the end there are approximately
300.000 unclassified voters in the
State in the hands of whom rests the
success or failure of the various
United States senatorial and congres
sional district fights.
The Democrats polled 60 per cent
of the primary vote, and Republicans
40 per cent, but less than 45 per cent
of the qualified vote balloted. No one
at this time cares to predict just
where this silent vote will go. The
Democrats claim their candidate for
the Senate, Lewis B. Schwellenbach,
will hold a plurality over the Repub
lican nominee, Reno Odlin, of be
tween 50,000 to 100,000.
The Republicans, while not making
any claims as to the plurality, as
sert Odlin will have a plurality over
Schwellenbach. As the campaign
j ends, there is no question that the
picture has shifted considerably.
Schwellenbach Swings Left.
Schwellenbach in both his primary
and his general campaign swung com
; pletely "left wing." Until 10 days ago,
: he not only went completely to the
I "left wing," but asserted that he had
been the originator of the Sinclair
Ε. P. I. C. program, and did act as
one of the organizers of a similar
movement—End Poverty in Washing
ton—modeled upon the California
scheme, now active here.
However, the results of the recent
polls showing Sinclair falling behind
in California, coupled with what is
considered a repudiation of the Sin
clair movement by the White House,
plus the refusal of Chairman James
Farley to ••yes" or "110" requests as
to his attitude, has strengthened
Odlin's chances at the expense of
Schwellenbach. Conservative, care
ful Democrats are fighting the
Schwellenbach "left wing" program,
and the more conservative rural vot
ers are following. There is a rather
steady but certain drift toward Odlin.
Whether between today and next j
Tuesday this will*be heavy enough to
elect tthe Republican is most doubtful.
Eastern Washington, a grain and j
orchard district, is slowly shifting |
from the radical elements on the ;
west side. Odlin is as steadily gain
ing strength.
On the west side, where Schwellen
bach expects to draw his heaviest
vote, there is a movement against !
him.
Incidentally the legislative district
battles and the county ticket fights
are tending to switch voters from the
"vote 'er straight" idea which swept
Washington two years ago. There will
be more split-ticket voting this year
than ever before and when this
character of balloting takes place the
outcome is difficult to estimate. Per
sonal campaigns in the counties are
splitting tickets. In fact, in King
County there is a slogan, "Rip the
ticket wide open," to be heard on all
sides. Both Republicans and Demo
! crate are now fighting to carry
through their strongest possibilities,
and this is hurting the national
' (Continued on Page 9, Column 5.)
50,000 Tennessee
Majority Is Seen
In Late Survey
New Deal Candidates to
Make Clean Sweep on
Τ uesday.
ipeclal Dispatch to The Star.
MEMPHIS, Tenn., November 3.—
With the Democrats aiming at a ma
jority of between 50,000 and 75,000,
a somewhat dull and listless campaign
comes to a close in Tennessee with
every prospect of a general sweep by
the New Deal candidates, including
the return of two Democratic Senators,
a Democratic Governor and seven of
the nine Tennessee Representatives.
In spite of the persistent campaign
waged by former Gov. Ben W. Hooper,
Republican nominee, against Senator
MrKellar for the long-term senator
ship, McKellar's popularity appears
undlmmed. The chances are that
the tremendous majorities with which
he has been favored since 1916, both
In primaries and general elections, will
not be materially cut.
Mr. Hooper's running mate, Lewis
6. Pope, independent Democratic can
didate for Governor, will get fewer
votes than Hooper. They are the
front and in fact the whole of the
so-called Fusion movement which was
revived last Summer after Mr. Pope's
third defeat for the Democratic nomi
nation for Governor. Mr. Hooper
gained the governorship 25 years ago
through a Fusion movement which
followed the killing of Senator Car
mack and the adoption of a State
wide prohibition law, but conditions
have changed since then, and the
movement now is received with scant
enthusiasm.
Senators McKellar and Bachman
and Gov. McAlister have made a joint
campaign, something unique in party
annals of Tennessee. They are all
personal and political friends. Vir
tually all of the paity leaders have
resisted Fusion, wth the result that
the Democrats are united. The Re
publicans have no organization and
are depending largely on the speaking
abilities ot Mr. Hooper. Some of the
Republican leaders have turned a cold
(boulder to the Fuaion movement.
KANSAS ELECTION
HAS UNCERTAINTIES
I
Repeal and New Deal Interest to
Bring Out Exceptionally
Heavy Vote.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
TOPEKA, Kans., November 3.—Re
peal and the New Deal will be voted
upon in Kansas next Tuesday. Indi
cations point to an exceptionally
heavy "off-year" vote.
Uncertainty over how Kansans under
30 years will vote on repeal and on
how the 75,000 on relief rolls will vote
between the Republican and Demo
cratic candidates is holding down
what would otherwise be positive pre
dictions of overwhelming victories by
the Republicans and by the dry forces.
There are enough young voters to
adopt the repeal amendment If these
should all go wet or if a huge ma
jority of them should vote lor repeal.
And if the 75,000 on relief rolls, with
their voting relatives, should all, or
a great majority of them, vote Demo
cratic, they could throw the balanc#
in favor of the Democrats.
But unless these two groups go al
most unanimously Democratic and
wet, it looks like repeal will lose and
the 54-year-old prohibitory amend
ment will remain in the constitution
and that Gov. Landon and the Repub
lican State ticket will ride to a victory
by safe majorities.
Bitter, possibly close, congressional
contests ere being fought in three pre
ponderantly agricultural districts, nor
mally Republican, and In the Wichita
district, which has kept W. A. Ayres,
Democrat, in Congress for 20 of the
last 22 years.
Three of these four districts are—or
were belore Representative Ayres re
signed to take a piece on the Federal
Trade Commission—represented by
Democrats, Ayres from the fifth. Rep
resentative Randolph Carpenter of
Marlon from the fourth. Representa
tive Kathryn O'Loughlin McCarthy
from the sixth. In the seventh Rep
resentative Clifford R. Hope of Gar
den City, Republican, for the first
time since he bluffed Representative
Poley Tincher of Medicine Lodge out
of the Republican primaries in 1926,
is facing a real fight for his seat in
Cooereee.
Highlights of Pre-Election Activities Over the Nation
At the upper left Is a scene typical of the crowds which gathered to
listen to platform speakers parading the Issues in the recent heated political
campaigns in the Middle West. At the top center is shown Josephine Roche,
wealthy Colorado mine owner and defeated candidate for Governor of the
State, who stopped ç>ver in Washington recently en route to New York to
take part, along with Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt, in the congressional cam
paign of Mrs. Caroline O'Day.
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh (top right) entered the New York State
political campaign in a role most familiar to him—that of flyer—when he
piloted last Monday his legal adviser. Henry Breckinridge. Constitutional
party candidate for United States Senate, from New York to Syracuse,
where the latter spoke.
Accompanied by friends who saw her off at the station. Miss Elizabeth
Wheeler (lower left), daughter of Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana,
is shown leaving Washington headquarters of the Women's International
League last Tuesday to make a whirlwind campaign of New York State for
Mrs. Caroline ODay, candidate for Representative at Large. Miss Wheeler
i* second from the left
Breaking Into the middle of the political campaign in Colorado, several
hundred State relief workers dower right) massed at the capltol In Denver
last Monday to demand of Gov. Johnson an increased relief budget and re
moval of the Federal State administrator. C. D. Shawver. The following
day the strikers and police engaged in a bloody battle, resulting in many
casualties. —A. P. Photos.
BYRD IS ASSURED
OF RE-ELECTION
Congress Delegation Holds
Favor in Campaign
Marked by Apathy.
BY R. L. C. BARRET.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
RICHMOND, Va., November 3 —
With a little more activity than has
been in evidence at other stages the
congressional campaign in Virginia
was brought virtually to an end this
week. It has probably been the most
apathetic campaign in the history of
the State notwithstanding the fact
that the list of registered voters shows
an increase of 16,300 over those on the
list in the Roosevelt-Hoover campaign
of 1932.
Re-election of Senator Harry F.
Byrd and eight of the nine Democrats
composing the Virginia delegation in
the House of Representatives appears
assured. Only one district, the ninth,
is in doubt.
Ninth District Contest.
In the ninth, which comprises the
area known as Southwest Virginia,
John W. Flannagan, incumbent De
mocrat. is opposed by Fred C. Parks,
Republican; C. Louis Mllllrons, Social
ist. and Bruce Crawford, Independent.
Flannagan's election would appear
assured if Crawford, Norton publisher,
were not in the race. Crawford is
making an aggressive campaign and
although his election is not expected
he is drawing his votes mainly from
the Democrats, and It may be that
he will draw sufficient to cause the
election of the Republican candidate.
COUNTY VOTING TOPS
NORTH CAROLINA RACE
11 Members of House Certain of
Re-election in State—Local
Contests Are Close.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
RALEIGH, N. C„ November 3.—
With little doubt existing that North
Carolina again will elect 11 Democrats
to seats in the National House of
Representatives, interest in the elec
tion next Tuesday, is largely confined
to the score or more of counties In
which doubt exists as to members of
the Legislature and county offices.
Approximately half of the 100 coun
ties always elect Democrats and about
12 choose Republicans. The other
counties usually furnish real battle
grounds. This seems to be a Demo
cratic year in North Carolina, and
the number of close fights is slightly
smaller than usual.
However, the Republicans hope to
capitalize opposition to the State sales
tax and dissatisfaction.with the low
pay of public school teachers. With
that end in view, better-known Re
publicans are offering for seats in
the Legislature, rather than for higher
office. Oustanding in their number
is Charles A. Jonas of Llncolntown,
who vu elected to Congress in 1928
and defeated for the same office in
1930 and 1033. This year he is re
ported as havyig a good chance of
being elected to represent Lincoln
County la thi 1936 General Assembly.
Colorado Democratic Split
Hailed by Warren Friends
Republicans Say Governorship Candi
date Will WinJ as Campaign
Is Slowed Up.
BY J. J. MULLEN.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
DENVER, November 3.—A flare
up over Federal relief that
threatened a serious lntra
party split in Democratic
ranks has resulted in claims
by G. O. P. leaders of a victory for
Nate C. Warren, Republican, as Gov
ernor of Colorado. The claims, of
course, are vehemently disputed by
Democratic leaders, but the fact is
that betting odds on Gov. Edwin C.
Johnson, Democrat, running for re
election, have been shortened notice
ably.
The respective gubernatorial candi
dates confined their speaking activi
ties in the last week of the campaign
practically within the confines of Den
ver, where, it is believed, the fate of
the two will be decided. Supporting
Johnson and Warren in a plethora of
radio talks and community rallies are
scores of party workers, legislative and
other candidates for office.
Republican leaders, 48 hours before
election next Tuesday, declared that
Warren would carry Colorado by ap
ι
proximately 15,000. Democrats han
dling statistics confidently name a fig
ure of 30,000 as Johnson's margin,
but impartial observers reduce this to
at least 10,000, and some concede
that the race will be very close.
Two weeks ago sentiment favored
Johnson's re-election by a wide mar
gin. Several asserted "political blun
ders" on the part of the Governor,
however, in the closing days of the
campaign admittedly have cost him
many votes. Included in these so
called blunders was his open demand
upon Federal Relief Administrator
Harry L. Hopkins that C. D. Shawver, |
Colorado State relief administrator, be ;
discharged for alleged inefficiency.
Shawver belongs to the Costigan wing
of the Democratic party, and the senior
United States Senator from Colorado,
Edward P. Costigan. staged a furious
campaign against Johnson in the
Democratic primary in arf eflort to
have Miss Josephine Roche, indus
trialist and ardent New Dealer, named
as the Democratic gubernatorial can
didate. Hopkins refused to J'flre^'
(Continued on Page 9, Column 7.)
"ALL 67 COUNTIES"
ALABAMA SLOGAN
Democrats Expect State to Stick
to Party in Old-Fash
ioned Way.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., November 3 —
"Every one oi the 67 counties for the
Democratic ticket." That slogan,
adopted by the Alabama State Demo
cratic Executive Committee ior the
general election, indicates accurately
the certainty that the State will stick
to the Democratic party Tuesday.
The question in the minds of
Democrats during the campaign has
been to hold the record made in 1932
when Democrats swept every county
for the national ticket, although the
Republicans carried some local offices.
In an effort to hold the three or
four counties that usually go Repub
lican, the Democrats In the last pre
election week sent their best speakers
into the doubtful sections. Gov.
Miller, former Gov. Brandon, and
Bibb Graves, Democratic nominee for
Governor, have led the list of speak
ers. Significant among the campaign
speakers was former Senator Thomas
J. Hefflin, who has been restored to
the good graces of the party after
leaving it and Ai Smith in 1928 and
subsequently in 1930 running as an
Independent.
With no State or local races of
prominence, the effort is being cen
tered on getting out the vote Tuesday.
Democrat· want a large vote as an
indication of support of President
Roosevelt and his policies, which the
Republicans have been attacking In
those counties of the State where they
hav· waged a campaign.
DEMOCRATIC SWEEP
SEEN FOR ARIZONA
Election Interest Chiefly Concerns
Governorship Race in Neigh
boring California.
Spécial Dispatch to The Star.
PHOENIX, Ariz., November 3 —
Election of the entire Democratic
ticket. State and congressional, with
majorities of 15,000 and more for
each candidate, is foreseen as one of
the quietest campaigns in Arizona's
history nears its close.
For several weeks Arizonians have
displayed more interest in the battle
being waged for the governorship in
the neighboring State of California
than in -their own election.
Margins of some Democratic candi
dates are expected to be upward of
30,000 votes with an estimated 65 per
cent of the State's 150,000 qualified,
electors casting ballots.
Arizonians will give strong Indorse
ment to President Roosevelt's New
Deal policies. Throughout the cam
paign they have been assailed by but
one candidate. Col. J. E. Thompson,
Republican nominee for United States
Senator, brother of the late William
Boyce Thompson of New York.
Senator Henry P. Ashurst has de
fended the Rooseveltian policies and
called upon voters to subscribe 100
per cent approval of the President.
Senator Carl Hayden, although not
a candidate this year, has been de
fending the national administration
from Thompson's attacks and those
of his campaign manager. Thomas Έ.
Campbell, former Govern or and for
eight years president of the United
States Civil Service Commission.
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DEMOCRAT SWEEP
SEEN IN MISSOURI
Vote to Be Light in State.
New Districts to Elect
Republicans.
BY GEORGE K. WALLACE.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., November 3.
—All political weather vanes point to
another Democratic sweep of Missouri
in Tuesday's off-year congressional
election.
Only those with the stoutest Re
publican hearts see little chance of
salvaging much out of the Missouri
situation with its New Deal atmosphere
hanging around so heavily. While
some of the G. O. P. would like to be
lieve there is a chance for a slip-up,
there is nothing in reports and surveys
from over the State to indicate such
is in the air.
Forecasts indicate that Missouri's
vote will slump considerably under
that of 1932 when the State cast a
total of 1.590.000 with Roosevelt sub
merging Hoover by a majority of 460,
000. While the Democrats feel cer
tain this time of winning from 150,
000 up. it would appear that 100.000
majority would be a fairly safe bet.
Campaign Is Dull.
The campaign has been one of the
deadest In years and the chief Demo
cratic worry is that their followers by
the thousands may believe it unneces
sary to go to the polls. While numer
ous side issues have been injected into
the contest the one issue is the New
Deal program and Roosevelt, with the
State's Democracy hanging tightly
thereto.
LIGHT VOTE FORECAST
IN LOUISIANA ELECTION
Eight Members of Souse of Rep
resentatives to Be Reelected
Without Opposition.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW ORLEANS. La., November 3.
—An extremely light vote, consider
ing the importance of local issues in
volved. probably will be cast in the
general election in Louisiana Tuesday.
Absentee voting during the week
preceding the election has been
marked by absence of an appreciable
number of voters, and. aside from the
distribution of circulars by Senator
Huey P. Long in behalf of 14 pro
posed constitutional amendments,
there has been no campaigning.
The eight Louisiana members of the
House of Representatives will be re
jected without opposition. Two mem
bers of the Orleans Parish School
Board will be selected from a field
Df five candidates, all of whom are
running as representatives of no
party, but all of whom are Demo
crats.
A proposal for the levying of an
Income tax, ranging from 2 per cent
to β per eent on net incomes, proh
ibit interest* more voters than any
of the other 14 proposed constitu
tional amendments.
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WISCONSIN SPOTLIGHT
HELD BY PROGRESSIVES
Senator La Follette Only Candidate Assured of Victory.
Schmedeman Loses Support in Race
>. for Re-election.
BY CHARLES W. HOLMBIRG.
Special Dispatch to The 8tar.
MADI80N. Wis., November S —
At the close of a State politi
cal campaign unprecedented
in unusual and unpredicta
ble developments, political
leaderi In Wisconsin find themselves
at a loae to forecast with any cer
tainty ■ the outcome of the all-im
porlant election Tuesday.
One candidate, however, seems as
sured of re-election, Senator Robert
M. La Follette, jr., who, with his
brother, former Gov. Philip F. La
Follette, left the ranks of the old
Republican party in which the Wis
consin Progressive movement has
traditionally operated for 40 years,
to form the new Wisconsin Pro
cessive Party.
But Senator La Follette's chief op
ponent, John B. Chappie, has far
from conceded defeat and is winding
Maryland Sees G. 0. P. Can
didate Favored in Rural
Sections.
BV J. C. DEPONAI.
Special Dispatch to The 6tar.
BALTIMORE, November 3—Will
history repeat itself? That is the
question agitating leaders of both the
Democratic and Republican parties
today.
When Gov. Albert C. Ritchie was
first elected in 1919 by a narrow mar
gin of 165 votes, his Republican op
ponent was Harry W. Nice, a Balti
more lawyer, who today is again the
standard bearer of his party for the
highest gift at the hands of the State
electorate. Since then Gov. Ritchie
has b^en re-elected three times by
increased majorities, thereby break
ing all records—no Governor up to
that time ever having served more
than one term.
The situation today, however, is
entirely different from conditions at
the last three elections, when the
Democratic party was solidly united
and there were no primary contests
outside of 1926. when Gov. Ritchie was
opposed for the nomination by Wil
liam Milnes Maloy, but won out bv
over 81.500 votes in the primary and
was re-elected by a majority of 60,000.
which was approximately 40.000 more
than he received in 1923. when he was
re-elected to a second term.
In 1930 Gov. Ritchie was renomi
nated without opposition and re
elected by 66.000, the largest ma
jority by far ever received by any
candidate for Governor in the his
tory of the State.
Active Opposition.
This year, however, things are dif
ferent and at one time there were
three other candidates in the field.
Dr. Charles H. Conley of Frederick,
Mayor Howard W. Jackson of Balti
more and George L. Radcliffe of
Baltimore, all seeking the nomina
tion. Mayor Jackson and George L.
Radcliffe withdrew before the pri
mary and the contest was between
Gov. Ritchie and Dr. Conley with
the Governor winning by a majority
of 50.000 votes.
The contest, however, created a
split in the party which has not been
healed and the Democratic party
today is not the same solidified party
which has faced the G. O. P. candi
date in years past.
Dr. Conley, practically unknown
until he entered the race and with
out organized support, polled the
surprising vote of nearly 100.000. and
while he said, following the primary,
that he would support the Democratic
ticket, he has taken no active part in
the campaign and refused an Invita
tion from Gov. Ritchie to lend his
assistance in drawing up the Demo
cratic platform.
Radcliffe withdrew before the
gubernatorial primary, and while
Mayor Jackson did the same he let it
be known in his withdrawal state
ment that he was practically forced
out of the contest.
MANY REPUBLICANS
TO RETURN TO FOLD
Latest Reports From South Da
kota Indicate Mixed Elec
tion Results.
SIOUX FALLS, S. Dak., November
3.—Latest reports received from over
South Dakota indicate the possibility
of a mixed result in the election
Tuesday. The Democrats, who dur
ing the Roosevelt landslide two year»
ago, elected two Representatives and
all their nominees for State offices In
South Dakota, express confidence that
they can repeat this record Tuesday,
but the Republicans do not concede
any part of the claims of the Dem
ocrats.
If the Democrats win a victory and
elect a majority of the members of
the State legislature, they will enact
an N. R. A. compliance law. while
the Republicans, if they capture the
State and the legislature, will oppose
such a law.
As South Dakota normally is a
Republican State, it will be necessary
for the Democrats to again capture
many thousands of Republican votes
if they are to remain in control of the
State and re-elect their Representa
tives from the two districts into which
South Dakota is divided.
Those in touch with Republican
affairs say that thousands of Repub
licans who voted with the Democrats
two years ago in the hope there would
be an improvement in conditions have
returned to the party fold and will
vote the Republican ticket Tuesday.
It is thought the Republicans are
reasonably sure of electing W. C.
Allen, their nominee for Governor.
One factor which may assist Mr.
Allen in winning a victory is the
fact that farmers generally are op
posed to the State's gross Income tax
law, which was enacted by the Dem
ocrats.
If the Republican nominee for
Governor wins a victory his strength
may prove sufficient to earry some or
all of the other Republican nominees
to victory. The Republicans also are
believed to have a strong chance of
electing their nominee for Congress
in the first district,
up hi* campaign in a fiery fashion,
leveling newly conceived attacks at
the Wisconsin Senator. It will be
recalled that Chappie defeated the
late Senator John J. Blaine for the
Republican nomination in 1913. after
such a campaign in which It wu
believed he would draw few vote·.
Senator La Follette'» Democratic ex
ponent in the present campaign, John
M. Callahan of Milwaukee, A1 Smith
Democratic national committeeman
ousted when the Roosevelt forces ob
tained control, apparently has little
chance of victory. Even the State
Democratic organization is lending
him little support.
Shift From Schmedeman.
Last-minute shifts have changed
the picture of the governorship race
with a startling suddenness. Until
the middle of this week regular Re
publicans generally felt their can
didate, Howard T. Greene, had much
less chance of defeating Phil La Fol
lette than the present Democratic
incumbent, Gov. A. G. Schmedeman.
Schmedeman was supported openly
by a number of Republican State
leaders, including State Senator Ben
Gettelman, delegate to the 1933 Re
publican National Convention. The
Milwaukee Sentinel, largest newspaper
spokesman of *the party, was re
garded as favoring the Schmedeman
candidacy.
Whether it was felt that recent
events had injured the chances of
Schmedeman's success or not is not
known, but almost overnight Repub
lican leaders, including the Sentinel,
have returned to the Green banner
and are urging all party member» to
stay in their own party column on
the ballot. Schmedeman, who will be
70 years old this month, recently re
turned to the executive mansion from
a Madison hospital where he under
went an operation amputating his
left leg.
Although still convalescing. Gov.
Sechmedeman has endeavored to take
a part In the campaign in his own
behalf by making several radio broad
casts from the executive residence.
Exceptional interest is being focused
on the election campaign, both from
within and without the State, because
of the new Progressive party. It is
felt that victory of the party will
be an incentive to form similar move
ments elsewhere, drawing from liberals
in the two old parties. The La Fol
lettes are staking their political for
tunes on the outcome—a defeat might
send many of their followers back
in the Republican fold in a State
that has been traditionally Republican
for four decades.
Other Κ«cm Quirt.
The fight for State offices below
that of Governor has been very quiet,
the nominees preferring to let the
main interest center on the guber
natorial and senatorial battles. In
the State's 10 congressional districts,
however, lively campaigns are being
waged. Two Progressive Republican
incumbents. Representative Gerald J.
Boileau of Wausau and Representative
Gardner Wlthrow of La Crosse are
running on the new Progressive party
ticket. The four Democratic Repre
sentatives, three of whom were drawn
In on the Roosevelt landslide of two
years ago. are facing stiff competition
in both Republican and Progressive
opponents. It is not unlikely that
the Democratic congressional repre
sentation from Wisconsin will de
cline.
Political observers are not attaching
any great importance to the results of
the September primary, in which the
Democrats polled the most votes for
all offices, with the Progressives a
close second and regular Republicans
considerably behind. The trading of
strength between the two old parties
and the lightness of the primary vote,
as compared with the heavy vote ex
pected on Tuesday, make such predic
tions unreliable, they declare.
The Milwaukee Journal, State
Democratic spokesman, recently com
pleted a straw vote poll which gave
Senator La Follette and Gov. Schmed
eman the largest total vote in the 71
counties of the State. Progressives,
however, point out that the vote was
taken by a hostile paper and replies
were largely from urban centers,
w hereas Progressive strength is strong
est among the rural area*. Republi
cans, on the other hand, point to the
large regular Republican vote in the
1932 primary, in which Walter J.
Kohler defeated Phil La Follette for
the governorship, and predicted this
vote will be solid for Republican can
didates on election day.
Arkansas Voters
Indicate Little
Election Interest
Practically IVo Campaign
ing Being Done by 3
for Governor.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
LITTLE ROCK. Ark., November 3 —
On the eve of the general election
little interest is being displayed and
practically no campaigning Is being
done by the three candidate· for
Governor,
Gov. J. Marion Futrell, the Demo
cratic nominee for re-election, has
been attending fox hunts, American
Legion hut dedications and the like
and makes a speech on every occasion,
but most of them are of a non-politi·
cal nature except to make an appeal
for certain administration-sponsored
initiated acts and amendment· to be
voted on in the general election.
G. C. Ledbetter of Hamburg, Re
publican candidate for Governor, tau
made practically no campaign, know
ing the hopelessnee* of trying to
lain votes in a State that la almost
solidly Democratic. J. R. Butler of
Pangburn, Socialist nominee for
Governor, has been a little more ac
tive, but has been combining business
with pleasure. He has been on Ash
ing and hunting tripe, but pauaed long
enough In towns en route to make an
announcement of his candidacy and
deliver a brief speech.
An unusual situation has developed
In Washington County, where all
candidates except those on the Demo
cratic ticket were barred. The County
Election Commission reported that
they withheld the name· of Republi
cans and Independents from the
ticket for the general election because
their petition· were Insufficient anl
that the candidate· had not filed
corrupt practice· pledge·. .
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