Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-11-02
Result Probably
to Be Known
Tonight.
CONGRESS FIGHT
WILL BE CLOSE
Hays Claims 1858 in
Electoral College
for Harding.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. November MAN and
woman voters of the forty-eight SOW
ereign states of the nation went to
the polls today to select new Presi-
dent for the four years beginning
March next.
Before the dawn of another day has
broken the country. in all likelihood
will know whether Warren G. Hard
ing, republican, or James NJ. Cox,
democrat, has been elected to succeed
woodrow Wilson, for it is generally
agreed that, barring miracle, none
of the other five candidates has
chance. This choice, it is estimated,
will be registered by record vote OF
between 100000 and 3O,0o0.o0o per
sons, many of whom are women, VINO
have been enfranchised since the last
presidential election and are voting
today for the first time.
Contest for Senate Control.
Second only in interest to the con-
test for the presidency is the fight
between the two major parties for the
control of the next Congress. Thirty
four United States senators. thirty
two to fill seats now held by seven
cans. and two to fill the unexpired
terms caused by the deaths OF Sena-
tors Bankhead, Alabama, and Martin,
Virginia, both democrats, are being
chosen, as well as an entire new
House of Representatives. composed
of 435 members.
The present Senate is composed of
forty-seven democrats, forty-eight re-
publicans and one republican and pro-
Eressive. The present House consists
Of 100 democrats. 232 republicans. two
independent republicans, one 1nde-
pendent and one prohibitionist. There
are also nine vacancies.
Campaign Leaders Confident.
will H. Hays, and George White. re-
publican and democratic national
chairmen, each continued confident Of
victory when the polls opened. Mr..
Hays reiterated his prediction that
the republican ticket was certain to
obtain 368 electoral votes" and that
there was strong possibility that
the total might reach the 400 mark
A total of 266 is necessary to elect
Mr.. White gave out no 1ast-minute
prediction on the electoral vote. but
renewed his expression of confidence
in the election of Gov. Cox. Each
chairman also predicts control of the
next Congress by his party.
League Principal Issue.
The campaign itself. waged princi-
pally around the league of nations
issue, did not come to an end until
an early hour this morning. Senator
Harding spent election eve quietly at
his home in Marion, Ohio, while Gov
Cox wound up his campaign at big
meeting in Toledo last night, but state
and local candidates throughout the
country kept up their quest for votes
into the dark hours of the night.
Unsettled weather, with the possi-
bility Of rain, faced the early voters
of the eastern states as they trudged
to the polls to cast their ballots.
valley and northern New England and
New York prepared for the weather
mans prediction of snow. The rest
Of the country generally is expected
to vote under clear skies.
Harding to Receive Returns.
Senator Harding will await the ver-
dict of the electorate at his home in
Marion. where he will receive news
bulletins compiled from figures COL
1ected by the Associated Press. Gov.
Cox plans to receive the returns in
the office of his newspaper, the Day
ton Daily News, which is a member
of the Associated Press. and will OBJ
tain its full election night service.
Gov. Calvin Coolidge of Massachu-
didate. will watch the returns at Bos-
ton. (whi1e his democratic opponent
Franklin D. Roosevelt, will await the
results at his home in Hyde Park,
n. Y.
Democrats Locked Out of Home.
Early in the day democratic ma
tional headquarters here sent out
distress signal: The landlord had
locked the administrators of the
party of Jefferson out of house and
homo at a moment when the admin
istrators particularly wanted to be
inside.
In long statement. issued after
compromise had been effected and
the double bars of the Office doors
let down. George White, chairman
of the democratic national commit
tee. accused the owners of the Grand
Central Palace Of attempting to stop
the entire machinery of the demo-
cratic national committee this morn
ing" An hour or two later, however
the headquarters was buzzing with
the same activity as pervaded it's
rival on 44th street, where repub-
of the country by telephone and tele-
graph wires, awaited the returns
Mr.. White said that the rent of the
national committee Office had been
paid to November 1. and that an addi-
tional $4,000 was rendered the land
lord this morning to cover the addi-
tional period, including election day.
This sum, he said, was refused. and
it was not until check for $4,000
had been put up that the offices were
opened.
The final day of prediction ten
sion brought no let-down of conf
dence on the part Of the major party
leaders. Mr.. White began the day by
saying Cox and Roosevelt will be
elected" He also predicted substan-
tial gains in House and Senate
Will H. Hays, directing the repub-
lca campaign, gave out no official
statement. Il am mute for the pres
ent," he said.