The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-24
6. Q. p. TO FACE TEST IN OHIO
 ON NOV. 7
Close Race Between Pome- rene and Fess, Donahey
 and Thompson Foreseen.
By WILLIAM J. HUsKE.
International News Service Stan
 CoI-respon(fent.

correspondent.
 Cleveland, O., Oct. 'straws,'' says an old proverb. show the way me W-nd blows," and if the proverb ! II oltls good as to straw votes the DO? Htlcal contest in Ohio which cuanin- ateS Tn the election November ', will ps nara fought, with the ultimate de- cislon Known only when the vote from the last outlying precinct has been
 Straw votes are being taken hD. leading newspapers in the state on the race of Senator Atlee Pomerene. Dem ocrdt, seeking third term in the senate, and Congressman Simeon is Fess, one of the leaders in the lower house and until recently chairman Of the Republican Congresstonal Sampaign Committee. IA V. Dona- hey, former State Auditor, and Col onel Carni A. Thompson are contest Ing for the governorship.
 National. State Issues Up
 Ine campaign is being fought out Senator Pomerene is attacking the record made by Congress and espec- iaily the F'ourdney-McCumbe tariff, while Congressman F'ess whole heart edly defends the record made by his party colleagues and himself declar- Ing no Congress has 8 better rec
 Colonel Thompson is appealing for support upon promises of a 'fbusiness administration" of State affairs and also upon the duty, as he sees 1t, of ths Presidents State upholding his hands. His opponent, who served eight years az State Auditor, is nak- Ing campaign almost wholly upon State issues.
 The 'wet'' and dry issue is invoyv- ed. through the endorsement of the Republican candidates for Senator and Governor by the Anti-Saloon League, and because 8 State constitutional aTnendm ent to permit the manufac- lure and sale Of beer and light wines will be voted upon at the same time. Proponents of this amendment large iy are lining up behind the Demo cratic candidates. and Senator Pom creme has received the endorsement of the Association Opposed to the Prohibition Amendment.
 Both parties, according to reports. are suffering from lack of campaign funds.
 More Democrats in House? Democratic leaders assert that the next Ohio delegation in the Lower h Yeast ten and perhaps twelve Demo- crats, compared with the present so1idly Republican representation. the first ever chosen in the history of the State. Dem ocrats predict success for their Congressional nominees in the Third, Fourth Sixth, Eighth. Ninth, teerth. Fifteenth, Twentieth and Twenty-first districts. Interest in these races, however, centers in the Third which includes the home of
  the Eighth, which includes Marion, the home town of President Harding. The fight in both districts is compli- cated by the "wet' and dry issun Congressmen Roy Fitzgerald, of tT@ Third, and Clint Cole. of the Eighth, having the support of the Anti-Sa- loon League against former Congress- man Warren Gard and H. H.Hartman, the Dem ocratic nominee.
 Woman Candidate Strong.
 Women of the nation are interest cd in the independent candidacy of Judge Florence E Allen for the Su- preme Court Predictions are freely made that she will win out over the nominees of both Republican and Democratic parties. The judicial ballot is apart from that for other State offices.
 Generally speaking, however, wo- men of the State are showing but lit He of the intense interest manifest In the 1920 campaign. The regis tration, particularly Of women voters has been extremely light, and not more than 50 per cent. of those wo- men residing in registration cities will be qualified to cast their ballots, ac- core ing to election authorities.