Evening star., 1924-11-03
LAF0LLETTE VOTE
BATTLES GUESSERS
ONELECT|0NSEvE
Continues to Be Big Puzzle
as Campaigns Come to
Close Generally.
FIGHT TO BRING VOTERS
OUT SURE OF SUCCESS
Record Breaking Balloting Conf
IDENTIFY Expected-Results
May Be Slow.
BY G., GOULD LINCOLN.
staff CORRESPONDENT of The Star.

staff Correspondent of The star
CHICAGO, November S.-The prize
TuZzle of the year-what vote Id
l'ollette-will be answered at the
nolls tomorrow. The solution or thls
,,Izzle will reveal also the real
strength of President Coolidge.
The campaign is completed. Ihe
hustle and buzz about the headquar-
,ers of the three parties here has
ceased. Stores in Chicago display
signs reading: Pay your electioh
nets with this or that hat" Campaign
managers admit that all that can pe
done has been done and the result
now lies with the people. Inc ohiS
remaining effort will be to get the
people to the polls, and local commit
tees and workers will work thelr
heads off tomorrow at that joo. J.
In the closing days Of the campaign
no political bombsheil has peeh eA
ploded. The La Toilette "slush iuhu
investigation has proved ouo'
notwithstanding the statements
sued hv the counsel for the La FOL
lette investigators. The people nave
shown a strange lack OF interest,",
though the newspapers have printed
,nanv columns about the lnVestisa-
ton
Campaign Apathefic.
On tho whole the campaign has
h>ap anatbetic in many States, cam
naieners returning from their heius
nf activity complain. The days "heii
political rallies were great eNehls IL
a community seem to nave
The radio, the movie, the autolhooiie
give more of a thrill. during lae
last week, however, the interest," III
the election has developed cohsloet
ahIy though not to the lighting pltcn.
p.on1e are interested particularly In
what La Toilette will do and IN "hat
tha size of the Coolidge electoral vote
Will be.
The largest vote ever cast in a
presidentiaI election is confidently
expected, however And by the same
token the final result of the electon
in many of the States may not be
known until Wednesday or later.
Here in Illinois, for example, the bal
lot which the people are called upon
TO mark is almost the size of bed
sheet, with a great number of names
on it. With bitter fight over the
governorship, in which large num-
bers of Republicans are deserting
Len Small, the present governor, Tor
mon L. Jones, there will be thou
sands of split ballots. which means
delay in counting. In States like
Colorado. Kansas and Indiana, where
local Ku klux klan fights are being
waged. there will be thousands of
split ballots cast also.
Northwest May BE Slow.
But it is in some of the States
which the La Toilette leaders claim
in the northwest that the returns
may be particularly delayed. In Min
nesota for instance. the polls do not
close until pm. central time, which
means II o'clock eastern time. In
North Oak ota and South Dakota the
first returns come from the cities,
but the big bulk of the votes must
come from the country districts, and
it is in those that the ProgreSsives
arc especially strong.
Queer twists and turns in the SEN
timent OF the voters in some of the
States will add to the difficulty of
reaching an early decision. In Iowa
Senator Brookhart is running as a
Republican on the ballot. while his
friend La Toilette is in the Progress
sive column. y vote for the Repub-
lican ticket, cast straight, means
Coolidge and Brookhart. To vote for
Brook hart and La Toilette the ballot
must be split 1t is the La Toilette
weakness in that State. In Iowa, too,
thousands of stand-pat Republicans
will vote for Steck, the Democratic
nominee for Senator, because of their
distaSte for Brookhart. On the other
hand, there is a feud between Demo-
cratic factions over Steck, and he
will not have the entire Democratic
strength, and Brookhart seems sure
TO carry the State.
The fact that Luther Brewer inde-
pendent Republican nominee for the
Senate from Iowa, still remains on the
official ballot, though he has with
drawn by personal announcement,
also will operate to aid Brookhart,
for Republicans who might otherwise
vote for Steck as protest against
Brookhart may vote for Brewer.
Kansas to Split Ballot.
In Kansas, where William Allen
White is after the scalp of the Ku
klux Klan, the ballots will be split
many times. Jonathan Davis is the
candidate on the Democratic ticket to
succeed himself, and the Democrats
have more hope of electing him than
they have of carrying the State for
John w. Davis. The corn-fed Davis
is better liked than the milk fed
Davis in Kansas.
Great confidence that La Toilette
will carry Washington State was ex-
pressed to me today by a leading
Democrat of that State, who has just
come from the coast. 1t is the hope
of the Democrats and La Toilette peo-
pie that their coalition will be sue
cessful there. In return for support
for La Toilette in that State, the
Democrats expect La Toilette voters
to get behind a couple of their candi-
dates for the House and to put them
across. The State probably will elect
= Republican governor, however, this
Democrat said.
Butler to Remain in West.
Chairman William NJ. Butler of the
Republican national committee, not
withstanding his entire confidence in
the outcome of the election. has de-
cidcd to remain at headquarters here
until the election is over before go
ing East. Chairman John M. Nelson
of the La Toilette national committee
is radiating confidence in the large
popular vote that his candidate will
receive, though he is making no pre-
dictloEs about the size of his electoral
vote, and confidence in the victory of
Progressive candidates for Congress.
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