New Britain herald., 1926-11-01
NOW THE SHOWDOWN BY THE VOTERS

will express their will silently, secretly and with devastating effect. Candidates who have been claiming the earth have only 24 hours in which to swallow the bitter dregs of disillusionment; others have a similar period in which to practice the melodious chansons of victory.
 Will the grand old party of Lin coin, Mckinley, Mark Hanna, Ware and Bingham maintain its su- premacy in Congress, or will 1t be compelled to see the donkey kick over the traces? Will Coolidge needs Butler" really save Butler, or will economy" impress a public mind which has become not used to it, or will prosperity" hold the fort on the Potomac? The Presi- dent has sent out an appeal for everybody to vote who can in cluding the Democrats, although this Is not specified; Al Smith has predicted Coolidge landslide for himself and Herrn Wagner; Bing- ham Is already counting his plural ity; in Massachusetts everybody is groggy from the excessive argu- mentation; Gabb is feeling pretty.
 It was David Lawrence who was quoted as stalking his reputation as political prophet on the pre- diction that If Governor Smith wins, it will be by the smallest ma- jority he has yet received, but in dications point to the election of Mir. Mills by close margin" This prediction looked rather rough on reason. so in subsequent state ments the astute Lawrence gave Governor Smith better oppor- tunity to win.
 It was the gloomy Mark Sullivan who predicted the Senate would become the happy hunting ground of the Democrats and the Inde- pendent Republicans, with the regular Republicans possibly being so much in the minority that they would not have the privilege of forming the committees.
 The New York Herald Tribune comedies nothing 10 the Demo- crats and claims everything for the Republicans. The Hartford Courant is in the same mental stew, while the New Haven Journal-Courier is still sniping and not very still about it. either. This thing is like horse-racing; you pay your money and take your choice. If not inter-  ested enough, read Shakespeare.
 Of confidence there is a pleni- tude - every candidate has it, ex- cept perhaps in Connecticut, where there isn't enough of 1t to go around. The voters themselves are not overburdened with this confi- dence; half of them may not go to the trouble of exercising their franchises, as usual.
 In Massachusetts, regarded by some as having the most spectacu- lar election of them all, Senator Butler is depending upon the Cool idge letter to pull him through. The President and the first lady of the land will journey all the way 10 Northampton to vote for him, thus setting an example to those who thought it was taking too much time to step around the corner and go through the rite. Ever since the Springfield Republican came out latfooted for Butler the campaign has taken on a more desperate as pect; it all depends upon Walsh in Boston and the mill cities, where textile prosperity gives Mir. Butler much of a pain.
 In New York Ogden Mills and Senator Wadsworth spoke in two Negro churches in Harlem Sunday night, indicating they expect to shake down much of the Harlem leading citizen vote. Governor Al Smith, however, is winding up his on the East Side in an effort to make it unanimous there. The milk issue happily is now about dead, and won't be heard from until the next election; and by that time the reservoirs are likely 10 be full again - at least. all the water won't be distributed in the form of milk.
 Every state has it's own peculi- arities of course, and it would take an encyclopedia to enumerate all of them, This is no encyclopedia. For tn" summaries, duly tabulated from everywhere except the Pan handle of Teyas and the Upper Peninsuar of Michigan, watch Wednesdays paper.
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