Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-11-01
NEW WORKERS FEAR
BALLOT BOX FRAUD
Both Sides on Watch for
Fake Voting as EIec-
tion Nears.
WET ISSUE STIRS STATE
Both Candidates Concentrate on
Beer Plank in Demo-
cratic Platform.
WET ISSUE STIRS STATE
BY n. o. MESSENGER.
Staff Correspondent of The Star.

NEW YORK. November 1.-Repub
licans are manifesting anxiety over
reports reaching them of alleged
fraudulent registration in this city
and Brooklyn of democrats to the es
| timated extent of $4,000 votes. The
election machinery on election day
| will be overwhelmingly in the hands
of the democrats in greater New
, York. Upstate it will be correspond
ingly controlled by the republicans.
One democrat cynicaliy remarked in
a mixed assemblage to republican
friend. You ought to be as expert in
your bailiwick as we are here"
Democratic managers report that
polls and straw votes" made by them
| in this city indicate that Smith will
carry the city by 100000, which they
estimate will be enough to swamp
the upstate republican plurality. Re
publican managers say their reports
do not give Smith more than 225.000
here. which would spell republican
victory in the state.
1t is probably the fact that neither
side knows to any such nicely of
calulation how the vote will break
here and both sides are scared. This
may account for the fact that the
betting, which showed odds favora-
BILE to the republicans, has now
changed to even money.
Wet Issue Prominent.
Local republicans are disturbed
over reports they are receiving from
other states. In New Jersey the SEN
atorial contest is admitted to be ex-
ceedingly close, with the democrats
making most of the noise. The re-
suit. it is thought, will depend upon
whether the church and rural ele-
ments turn out at the polls election
day, for it is regarded as a certainty
that the "wets'' will.
A survey of the congressional out
look for this state shows that the
republicans will lose the third dis
trict, IN Brooklyn. 1t is normally
democratic. They may lose the fifth
Brooklyn and are practically sure to
lose the seventh Brooklyn, the old
Fitzgerald district. They are threat
ened with the loss of the eighth and
ninth in Brooklyn. They may lose the
fifteenth and the twenty-third. while
the eighteenth and twenty-fourth are
regarded as doubtful. They will prob
ably lose the twenty-third They hope
to gain the Albany district.
The fight in New York over the
wet and dry issue grows warmer.
Gov Miller comments caustically upon
the attitude of Candidate Smith, say
ing: x
The democratic candidate recently
in an upstate city asked somebody
to ask me how l stood on prohibition.
Nobody needs to ask me that question.
l do not need myself to answer it. I
have answered it by my acts. I de-
clined to accept the Endorsement of
the prohibition party because I could
on the pretense that / believed in
something which 1 do not now and
never have believed in.
''While in a questioning mood. I sug-
gest that the democratic candidate ask
his running mate how he stands. He
was a member Of the Congress which
submitted the eighteenth amendment to
! the people. and on the 18th day of De-
| cember, 1917, as shown by the Con-
gressional Record, he, together with 140
other democrats constituting a ma
jority, voted to submit the eighteenth
amendment to the people.
Scouts Referendum!
rs he still for the eighteenth
amendment. or, to get office. is he
now for notification? He abandoned
the socialist party to get Office under
the democratic party. Is he now
abandoning his professed principles
of a lifetime to get Office on a plat
form which he does not believe in?
Is he now for notification or does he
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