The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-01
DOPE MIXERS
ALL MUDDLED
ON FORECASTS
Political Leaders at Sea ON
Probable Election Result.
Socialists Claim Majority of the
New Voters.
BIGGEST FIGHT IN OHIO
BIGGEST FIGHT IN OHIO
Will Hays Claims 36S--PrOba-
bly, 395 Electoral Votes.
"COX and Roosevelt Will VIM"
Declares George White.

New York, Nov. with the OPEN
ing of the polls less than twenty-four
hours away both Republican and
Democratic headquarters early today
took up The stride 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 reassuring
confidence in the election of their
candidates. COX and Roosevelt will
win" declared George White, Demo-
scratic national chairman.
Will II. Hays. leader of the Repub-
lican forces, translated his expecta-
tions into figures expressing the con-
than 36S-probably S95-electoral
votes out of the possible 531 The
number required to elect is 266.
Women the Mystery.
Speculation in ordinarily well in
formed political circles centers about
the numerical proportion of women
who will vote tomorrow in comparison
with the male vote, section distribution
of the woman vote. and the possibility
of its being a whole independent
enough to overturn tables of election
probabilities compiled over a period
OF years in which certain other states
have been normally inclined to one po-
ffftlcal faith or the other
Most of the wiseacres declare that
the recent Maine election where the
women's vote was we'll under half that
of the men, can be considered no cri-
terion for predicating national election
results. Women in states where uni
versal suffrage has obtained for some
years are expected to outdo their new
ly eDfr,nch'zed sisters And on the
o.hcr hand the experts admit this
hypothesis also may be wrong
Socialists Claim New Vote.
The Socialist party has made claims
for the largest proportionate women's
vote. With the new voters properly
belonging to the party added to non
Socialists, who they say, will vote the
ticket in protest against the imprison-
ment of the party's presidential nomi-
ness, Eugene V. Debs. the Socialists
predict a vote of at least 100000. In
the 1915 election the Socialist vote
was less than 100000.
If any of the six national parties
| start out to break electoral college
records tomorrow, they must aim at
] those set up in the election of tickets
headed by President Wilson. In 1912
| his majority of 339 was the greatest
in the record of American elections.
while that of 1868 votes-was the
smallest.
The presidential campaign came to
an end today with the major party
candidates in their nome camps READY
| to await the verdict of the largest
number of voters ever registered for
an American election.
| Nineteen million ballots Will be cast
tomorrow if all the voters go to the
polls OF these. nine million will pe
| the votes of women who constitute
the unknown quantity in the equa-
tion.
If the women's votes divide along
party lines. following that OF the men.
the Republicans are confident of vic
tory. However. II the women are
| swayed by the Democratic appeal for
votes for the league of nations on the
ground that it Will keep America out
| of war. the result may surprise those
experts who are figuring on a RepuD-
lican landslide.
No Accurate Forecasts.
| Accurate forecasting of. the result
! was made more difficult by the fact
| that the farmer-labor party and the
Socialist party seemed likely to poll
very large votes. The FarmerI-abo
party expected TO capture several west
ern states, which might throw the
presidential election into the house Of
representatives. Socialist leavers were
also predicting the biggest. vote in his
tory for their candidate, Eugene ".
| Debs.
! The election day weather outlook
was rather unsettled. Rain was fore
! cast along the eastern seaboard, with
snow expected in the lakes region.
| Voters in the west probably will find It
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