Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-11-01
Republican Chairman Says
G. @. p. Total May
Reach 395. 4
DEMOCRAT LEADER,
MAKES NO FIGURES
Content. Himself With Declaration
That Cox and Roosevelt Will Win
Efforts on Last Day Of Campaign
centersd in Doubtful states and in
Endeavor to Elect Senators and
Consrsssmsn.
BY Associated Press.

ing of the polls less than twenty
four hours away both republican and
democratic headquarters early today
took up the strife which will carry
them in the final scene Of the presi-
DENTAL contest tomorrow either to
victory or defeat.
Both major parties began their last
day Of campaigning by reasserting
confidence In the election Of their
candidates.
Cox and Roosevelt will win" de-
clared George White. democratic ma
tional chairman.
Will II. Hays, leader Of the repub-
hcan forces. translated his expecta-
tions into figures, expressing the
conviction that Harding will have no
less than 3es-probably 995- -elector-
al votes out of the possible 5S1. The
number required to elect is 266.
Work in Doubtful States.
Interest in the last day Of the~s great
fight centers In the final desperate
attempt TO bring over the doubtful"
states with large electoral votes to
deliver or to save United States SEN
ators in other doubtful states where
the electoral vote is not large enough
to be indispensable. The salient ex-
ample OF states In the first category
Is Ohio, home state cf the two prin-
CfpAl candidates. with tWenty-f0ur
votes, while the outstanding case Of
the second class Is Nevada, with only
three.
Other states where the eleventh
hour contest is intense. with both
parties sanguine of success. are Ari-
1ona, Kentucky, Maryland, New
Mexico, Tennessee. North Carolina
and Oklahoma All these, as well as
the Buckeye state, are claimed by
both republicans and democrats.
Women New Factor.
Second only in interest to the out
come of the voting is the subject,
What will the women do?"
Leaders Of both major parties dis
claim possession of advance informa-
tion on what Is TO be expected Of the
women. who are voting in all the
states for the first time
Speculation in ordinarily wellin-
formed political circles centers about
numerical proportion Of women who
will vote tomorrow in competition
With the male vote. section distribu-
ton o4s the womer,.s vote and the pes
sibility OF its being as a whole in
dependent enough to overturn tables
of election probabilities compiled
over a period OF years in which GER
tain states have been normally" in
clined to one political faith or the
other.
Most Of the wiseacres declare that
the recent Maine election, where the
women's vote was well under half
that of thelElen, can be considered no
tion results. Women I'm states where
universal suffrage has been obtained
for some years are expected to outdO
their newly enfranchised sisters. And,
on the other hand, the experts admit
this hypothesis also may be wrong.
Socialists Claim Gains.
The socialist party has made
claims for the Target proportionate
women's vote. With the new voters
properly belonging TO the party
added to non socialists who, they say,
will voteathe ticket in protest against
the imprisonment of the party's
presidential nominee, Eugene "
<Debs, the socialists predict vote of
at least 100000. In 1916 the socialist
vote was less than 100000.
II any Of the six national parties
start out TO break electorall college
records tomorrow they must aim at
those set up In the election of the
ticket headed by President Wilson.