The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-02

The buSffc or months enOed to-
 night at national headquarters,
 where campaign strategists rested.
 their summing up complete. The
 candidates retired to sccIusfon to
 receive the decision of the Ameri-
 can people. With the people rested
 the task of ringing down the cur
 tain the national drama of
 eIecting leader for the next four
 years. With the voters rested also the duty of deciding which party
 should control the senate and which should control the House of Representatives.. With the electo-
 rate of many states rested the duty
 of choosing governors and legis- iatures,
 Party leaders who week after week had been directing the destinies of their candidates and focusing their at tertion on the League of Nations, the ! chief issue of the campaign, pulled down their desk tops, put on their hats and went home Before they left their headquarters they had scanned last minute reports from state chairmen but almost as closely they had studied the reports of the government weather bureau.
 tlG Sldlc ul WedtHtf oil tlGCllOH Qi y was considered most important, for this alone would determine the turnout of voters, particularly in isolated sections Ot the country, where heavy rains would upset the best laid plans for transporting voters to the polls. There are districts with streams which, when flooded, cannot be crossed even on muleback, and in certain states where the contest is close, every ballot plays it's part
 ELECTION DAY WEATHER In general this is what the weather man had to say of western disturb- ance which appeared over Iowa, and i of the prospects tomorrow all over the country:
 'The western disturbance will advance east northcastward and | be attended by unsettled weather and rains Tuesday, election day, in
 the Atlantic states, the upper Ohio Valley, md the region of the great l lakes with some probability of 1 snow in northern Michigan. Wis 1 consin and Minnesota. The weather 1 will be clearing and much cooler
 during Tuesday in the gulf states, l Tennessee, the lower Ohio and cen l traI Mississippi valleys. Fair, cool | weather will prevail Tuesday over l the plains states, the Rocky noun
 tain states and all far western i states.v
 1 With addition of women to those who 1 choose the< electoral college, party Readers, Of course, expect vote great l ly swollen over that of 1915. Should the skies open the downpour could hardly discourage enough voters to l hold the total below that of four years
 ago, and the ballot counters ard moi expecting a smaller, but a much larger
 task--so large indeed that the count may possibly not be known until much later than in other presidential years HARDING TAKES A REST l Senator Harding. of Ohio. standard
 bearer of the republican party, today re tired to his home in Marion to await thu
 decision of his countrymen. To his par 1 ty managers he left detailed forecast O i the vote and from Chairman Hays O ] the republican national committee ther' | was forthcoming tonight reiteratlon O 1 confidence in republican victory MT Hays, however, issued no formal state mert announcing that he chose to re
 main mute" until the ballots had beel l counted.
 1 Governor Cox. also Ohio's native son | selected by the democratic party as it: ] choice for the white house, tonight de | livered his final campaign address il Toledo and returned to his home in Day l ton His convictlon that he will b' 1 elected was expressed in final state ment today by Chairman White of thu democratic national committee. | Senator Harding and Governor Cox, fel low newspaper proprletors, have choser different ways to receive campaign re suits. With Mrs. Harding the senator will receive at their home bulletins com piled by The Associated Press, keeping them advised of the latest totals. Governor COX, on the other hand. vii receive news at his office in the Daytor Daily News, men1ber of the Asso' ciated Press, where special telegraph in struments, including a receiver used 1T the Cleveland campaign of more than 2 quarter of a century ago. have been sci up Chairmen White and Hays witt other democratic and republican leaders will gather at their respective headquar. ters tomorrow night to receive the re. turns.
 COOLIDGE AT HOME In Boston. cap i.t. CT the s.-s.e whose chief executive he is, Calvin Coolidge republican vice presidential nominee, will learn whether or not next year he Is R