The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-11-03
FULL POLL
MAY TURN
The TIDE
Element OF Uncertainty
Intensifies Last-Hour
Activities
BOTH MAJOR GROUPS
SHOW CONFIDENCE
Democratic Leaders See
Profit In Local COP.
Squabbles
BOTH PARTIES SURE
CONGRESS is THEIRS
Cubernatorial Races Enlivened
In Many States By
Khan Issue
BOTH MAJOR GROUPS
SHOW CONFIDENCE
BOTH PARTIES SURE
CONGRESS is THEIRS
Gubernatorial Races Enlivened
In Many States BY
Khan Issue
(By Associated Press.)

WASHINGTON, Nov. e
with the season for campaign
oratory and personal persua,,
sion virtually ended, political
managers of all calibres turn
ed their attention today to the
problem of bringing out the
full voting strength OF their
parties at the polls TUESDAY.
a. an unusual climax to the three
correred contest for the presidency
President Coolidge and John w. DAVIS
viii sneak to the entire country 70
morrow night by radio, but nei.h :,,
anne.,rs to regard the remarks ne WIN
mike MS an integral part OF ms cam
naipns speechmaking. Party managers
bel;eve that appreciable blocks OF votes
selIom are changed in the last "a hou Us
and their chief concern now is 70 "
liver i,l the yoting booth the yo.fs
siready won over to fifelfs ! !
Gases summarixsd
NJ fsoalidge regards the speech ne
A.i;,,ar. i here ten { VS. ago petore
tha cl,.,uaber of commerce as SUMMARY I,
;,,S fully his views on the Issues OIL tne
eanua;gn and q correspondening sum.
mary was made by Mr.. Davis hast night
~ his address in Carnegie hah.
Rusy as they were today plans to get
The voters TO the polls, political man
AYERS ranging from the pilots OF ma,
t;oraJ ,campaigns down to ward anu
townsl,ip chairmen, found time to re-
new their claims of victory.
The republicans declared they were
/, counting on ia clean swo,p LOT OVoi-
idee. approaching the proportions or q
landslide, right across the country L,on
New England to California; hotoins
the La Toilette strength IN the NORTH
west to negligible quantity ana cut-
ting into territory usually ciassed as
4 part of the democratic solid soutn'
Democrats Counter
Democratic leaders countered Win a
claim that Davis would hold the south
and the border states and would pro,
fit by republican local quarreis anu ha
capture enough electoral votes IN tne
west and pivotal states OIL the east u
put him in the White House
rrha In Toilette managers were not
so sneelfic but they predicted that an
astonishingly large popular vote "ouiu
t,,rn out or their candidate in every
state where his name appears on the
ballot and that in the west and north
west he would sweep everything before
him.
There was the same conflict of predic-
Z lions as to the political complexion OF
the next congress- Both the republican
and democratic congressional commit
tees claimed clear ma jorities IN the new
house and gains also in the senate
where thirty-four of the ninety-six are
to be filled in Tuesdays voting.
Khan To The Fore
In thirty-four states governors are
70 be chosen and in many states i'm
nortant questions of legislative policy
are 10 be submitted for popular
verdict. An unusual number of tight
pubernatorial races have developed,
Particularly in sections where the Ku
Klux Khan has become local issue.
There has been further complica-
tion of state politics, particularly in
The west, by Joint Endorsement of GER
tain candidates by the La Toilette
grouu and one or the other of the old
parties.
In sonfe sections interest apparently
has risen to fever heat but the party
managers appear pretty much at sea
rs 10 the acutal degree of interest the
yoters as a whole have taken IN the
campaign for the presidency. All of the
candida ties have been greeted by large
and mostly crowds, yet from some Sec
tions there have come persistent re-
ports of apathy. Various get-out-the'
vote campaigns have been carried on
by non partisan agencies but there has
been no way of gauging how successful
the effort has been. In some districts
registration figures have gone soaring
in others the stay-at-home percentage
has been astonishingly large.
1t is because of this element of IN
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