The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1920-11-01
WHAT WILL
WOMEN DO,
Is QUESTION
Leaders of Both Major Parties
Disclaim Possession of Ad-
vance Information Though
Both Are Confident.
INTEREST IS INTENSE
(By Associated Press)

tBy Associated PreSS)
NEW YORK, Nov. l. - With the
opening of the polls less than "a hours
away, both Republican and Democratic
headquarters early today took up the
stride which will carry them in the
final scene of the presidential contest
tomorrow, either to victory or defeat.
Both major parties began their last
day of campaigning by reasserting
confidence in the election of their can
didates. "Cox and Roosevelt will win"
declared George White, Democratic
national chairman.
viii H. Hays, leader Of the Republi-
can forces, translated his expectations
into figures, expressing the conviction
that Harding will have no less than
368-probably 395-electoral votes out
of the possible 531. The number re-
Quired to elect is 266.
Interest in the last day of the great
tight centers in the final, desperate at
tempt 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 of the two prin-
cipal candidates, with "a votes, while
the outstanding case of the second
class is Nevada. with only three.
Contest intense.
Other states, where the eleventh
hour contest is intense with both par
ties sanguine of success are Arizona,
Kentucky, Maryland, New Mexico.
Tennessee, North Carolina and Okla
homa. All these, as we'll as the Buck
eye state, are claimed by both Repub-
licans and Democrats
Second only in interest to the out
come of the voting is the subject,
What Will the Women Do?" Leaders
of both major parties disclaim pos
session of advance information on
what is to be expected of the new
class of voters exercising their fran
chise in all the states for the first
time.
Women in limelight.
Speculation in ordinarily we'll in
formed political circles, centers about
the numerical proportion of women
who will vote tomorrow in compari
son with the male vote, section dis
tribution of the woman's vote, and the
possibility Of its being as whole,
Independent enough to overturn the
tables OF election probabilities COM
piled over a period of years in which
certain states have been normally"
inclined 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 the men can be considered no crit
erion for predicating national election
results. Women in states where uni
versal suffrage has obtained for some
years are expected to outdo their new
ly enfranchised sisters. And, on the
other hand, the experts" admit, this
hypothesis also may be wrong.
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-
nee, Eugen V. Debs, the Socialists pre-
dict vote of at least 100000. In
1916 the Socialist vote was less than
100000.
If any of the six national parties
starts out to break electoral college
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.
ATLANTA, Ga. Nov. 1.-Contests
in a half dozen scattered COMPRESSION
al districts where the outcome is said
to be in doubt continued today to
stimulate interest among southern vot-
ers in tomorrow election. While
Democratic leaders in the various
states expressed confidence that there
would be no break in the solid south
the Republicans who have conducted
an unusually vigorous campaign said
they expected to make an unpreced-
ented showing and predicted that the
Republican nominees in several con-
gressiofAl districts would be elected.
Fight For Senators.
The Republicans have waged a fight
to capture seats in the lower house
of congress with particular vigor in
the third Louisiana district, the third
district of Arkansas, the seventh Ala
bama district and in the second and
ninth districts in Virginia. Democrats
claim Governor Cox will carry Tenn
essee by a 10000 majority. Although
Republican leaders have not been
claiming the state for Senator Hard
ing they have been predicting victory
for their gubernatorial nominee.
Normal Democratic majorities We're
claimed today for all of the party's
candidates in North and South Caro-
lima, Georgia, Florida and Mississippi.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-The Demo-
cratic campaign committee OF the Dis
trict OF Columbia is planning to hold
a league of nations demonstration in
front of the white house tonight, 1t
is planned to have league sympa-
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