Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-11-01
DOUBTFUL STATES
HOLD INTEREST IN
CAMPAIGN finale
Both Major Parties Claim
Victory as Last Day of
Struggle Begins.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November with the
opening of the polls less than twenty
four hours away. both republican ant
democratic headquarters early today
took up the stride which will carry
them in the final scene of the presi-
Dental contest tomorrow either tc
victory or defeat.
Both major parties began their last
day of campaigning by reassertion OF
confidence in the election of theiI
candidate.
Cox and Roosevelt will win" de-
clared George White, democratic
chairman.
Will Hays. leader of the republican
forces, translated his expectations
into figures. expressing the conviction
that Harding will have no less than
3SS-probably 395-electoral votes out
of the possible 531.
The number required to elect is 266
Interest In Final Struggles.
Interest in the last day of the great
fght centers in the final. desperate
attempt to bring over the doubtful
states with large electoral votes to
deliver, or to save United States Sena-
tors 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 twenty-four
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 Arizona Ken
lucky. Maryland. New Mexico. Tennes-
see. North Carolina and Oklahoma.
All these, as well as the Buckeye
state, are claimed by both republicans
and democrats.
Doubt Over Women.
Second only in interest to the out
come of the voting is the subject,
What will the women do?" Leade RS
of both parties disclaim possession of
advance Information on what issto be
expected of the new class of voters
exercisig their franchise in all the
states for the first time. HS
Speculation in ofdinariiy well in
formed political circles centers about
the numerical proportion 1t women
who will vote tomorrow IN c6mpari-
i son with the male vote, section dis
tribution of the woman's vote, and
the possibility of it's being as a whole
Independent enough to overturn ta-
bles of election probabilities compiled
over a period of years in which GER
tain states have been normally in
ChuCu " OuS pOHtCdl Iditu Ut the
other.
Maine No Criferion.
Most Of the wiseacres declare that
! the recent Maine election, where the
women's vote was well under hAif that
Of the men, can be considered no eri-
terion for predicating national eJee-
tion results. Women In states where
universal suffrage has obtained fol
some years are expected to outdc
their newly enfranchised sisters. And
on the other hand, the experts" ad.
NIT. this hypothesis also may be
wrong.
The socialist party has made claims
for the largest proportionate women'a
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 impris-
onment Of the party's presidential
nominee, Eugene v. Debs, the social
lists predict a vote of at least 100000
In 1916 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.