New Britain herald., 1926-11-02
SWEEPING CLAIMS
 0N ELECTION ARE
 HEARD FROM BOTH
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 Spokesmen for the now dominant party declared such contentious were but optimistic bubbles which will burst with the counting of the votes after sundown.
 To obtain control of the senate the democratic party will have 10 pick up nine seats now held by re- publicans, while they must sway S6 congress districts to get majority Of the house.
 Many of the republican togas at stake were won in the Harding landslide in 1920 and the house that is asking another tenure of office came into power in the Coolidge tidal wave of 1924.
 Turnovcrs Expected
 Pointing to this situation, demo- cratic managers maintain that with the presidency not now at stake they can count on a number of turnovers involving seats in both houses. They also call attention that the seven democratic senators to be elected are from the solid south where victory is certain.
 The four border states--kentucky. Maryland. Missouri and Oklahoma as well as Arizona, are listed by the democrats as already stricken from the republican lists. Refusing to concede this. the republicans claimed that these states. which frequently are found in the democratic column, will remain within the G, O. r. fold.
 Other states in which the demo- crats believe they have better than even chance are Massachusetts, New York, Ohio. Illinois, and Colorado. In Idaho, Indiana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington they claim at least fighting chances.
 Republicans Differ
 Again countering democratic pre- iictions and hopes, republicans sec all these states safely held in their present political status. They like wise are confident that few if any in- roads will bo made in their ranks in the house.
 Here again the rival managers arc found wide apart. Democratic lead CTS insist they will carry at least six republican districts in Pennsylvania; will recapture a number of house ta hot tN C 1 n column in the Coolidge victory two years ago. and also win some dis tricts which they contend are dis satisfied with administration policies.
 Prohibition Question Too
 Tn many of the contests for senate and house seats, prohibition has run through the whole fabric of the cam- paigns and in eight states the voters are expressing their views on this question in referenda. These states are New York. Nevada, Wisconsin, Illinois, Montana. Missouri, Cobra do and California.
 Tho proposals put forward, range all the way from repeal of all state prohibition enforcement codes to ex- pressions of sentiment for guidance of representatives in the halls of congress
 Both vets and drys have been &C., tive in practically all Of these con- tests as well as in the fights for of- fees in number of states in which the issue is not brought to a direct vote. In Maryland. which has re- fused to adopt Q state enforcement code, last minute twist was given the campaign by the association against the prohibition amendment which repudiated it's endorsement of senator Weller. republican. and came out for Representative Willard Tydings, his democratic opponent.
 Senatorial Fights
 Out Of the ordinary developments served to focus widespread attention on a number of the other senatorial fights. In Massachusetts. President Coolidge came 10 the aid of his per- sonal friend, Senator William NJ. Butler. in the contest against former Senator David ] Walsh.
 The president made an overnight journey from Washington to North ampton 10 personally cast his ballot for the man who conducted his cam- paisn for the presidency two years ago.
 Corruption Charges.
 Charges of political corruption brought into unusual prominence the campaigns in half q dozen states -Pennsyivania, lliinoi, Indiana, Oregon, Washington and Arizona. The inquiry by q special senate com mIttoe into conditions in the last named state was carried forward all most 10 the time Of the opening of the polls.
 Because of a possible relation to the presidential year. 1928. cam paigns in New York. Maryland and Ohio held more than their custom ary share of the political spotlight Governor Al Smith, whose long battle for the democratic prcsiden- tial nomination in 1924 is historic, again is putting his political future 10 the test in the Empire State. The governor. however. did not alone hold the center of interest in New York's heated contest, as Senator Wadsworth found himself in a three -cornercd race with his power in the republican state organization challenged because of his stand on