The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-11-06
POLITICIANS MAKE
nth HOUR ATTEMPT
TO ASSURE SUCCESS

NEW YORK. Nov. 6-Spurring
their weary workers to one last effort
political strategists Of both parties to-
day put everything they had into an
eleventh hour attempt to win the
doubtful. states and districts in to-
morrow's elections.
With the voting less than "a hours
of, campaign activities in most states
had died down to virtually nothing.
The workers were devoting their time
TO checking up on arrangements for
getting out as big vote as possible.
In most states too, the voters ap-
peared to have made up their minds
about their choices for members of
the house and for such state and local
OFFICIALS as were to be elected Signs
familiar to experienced politicians
showed the direction of the political
WIND In majority Of the states.
Ohio Battle Ground.
OHIO, President Hardings home
state, remained the most hotly con-
tested battle ground of the year, up
to the last. With both sides claiming
victory, it was evident neither side
knew just how the voting would go.
There are Indications that Senator At
i lee Pomerene(, Democrat, had the
better Of his fight with Representa-
i've Simeon Fess, Republican, for the
senatorial seat These indications,
/ however, were discounted by some of
Pomerene's own friends who recalled
THAT he was elected at a time when
feyerything pointed to an overwhelm-
ing success of his Republican oppo-
nent.
/ The Ohio governorship contest be-
A II
lCarmi Thompson. Republican, looked
like dead heat today. Everything
that the Harding administration could
do short of personal appeal by Pres
ident Harding, to the people of the
state, has been done to win for
Thompson. Donahey has had to COM
bat not only the effective and extern
sive Republican organization but has
suffered from thin1y yelled hostility
of some Ohio Democrats, who fought
him in the primaries, and are said
by Donaheys friends to have done lit
tie for him in the campaign proper.
Want to Win IN Ohio.
The Harding administration will be
more elated by victory in Ohio than
in any other state, and corresponding
ly will be more downcast by a defeat
tltu HnbIo ClHS. WI. I1dt VI
ing has his heart set on getting ap-
prevail from his administration thus
far from his home folks and if they
do not approve. he will feel it keenly.
In New York state. also, last-min-
'ute efforts were being made in behalf
of both governor candidates-Al Smith
Democrat and Governor Nathan Miller
Republican. Smiths cohorts were
more in evidence than Millers, though
lthe latter were quietly in action ION
the inside" of the G. o. P. organization.
In Missouri, where Senator Jim
Reeds state hung in the balance, both
he and his Republican opponent R. R
! Brewster, were trying to turn the final
moments into votes, with the aid of
their statewide organizations.
Other states where the issue seem
ed in doubt, were Wyoming. where
Senator Kendrick, Democrat is oppos-
ed by Representative Mondell, Repub-
. lican and majority leader in the last
house; Maryland, where Senator
{ France, Republican was neck and neck
with William C. Bruce, Democrat and
Rhode Island, where Senator Peter G.
Gerry, Democrat, was contesting with
former Governor Beekman.