Evening star., 1926-10-24
SMITH LOOKS BEST
IN ILLINOIS BATTLE.
Expected to Win in Spite Of
SIush Handicap-MagiII
Vote Will Tell Tale.
BY G.. GOULD LINCOLN,


CHICAGO. October Gas the
Smith Brennan Magill campaign for
Senator swings into its final week
Smith looks to be the winner. with
Brennan having an outside chance
for victory. Only political miracle
could bring success to Hugh S. Ma
gill, independent and protest candi-
date of the citizens of Illinois who
are disgusted with machine politics.
corruption and booze.
Here in Illinois the dollar sign has
been stained on the Republican BAN
ner The banner of booze floats over
the Democrats. The great weakness
of Magill, the candidate of voters of
both parties who have no faith in
Republican or Democratic candidate.
lies in the fact that he came into the
race so late that he is running prac-
tically without Orga niZatiOn. while
both the Republican and Democratic
senatorial campaigns are hitting on
all cylinders.
Magill Vote Will Decide.
The vote which Macill receives on
election day will tell the tale. 1t will
throw the victory to Smith or to
Brennan, or-in the event of the politi
cal miracle referred to above-will
give Magill seat in the Senate. This
town Is as full of estimates and
prophecies of the Magill vote. the
Smith vote and the Brennan vote as
it is of bootleggers. In order to un
derstand these estimates 1t must be
explained that Cook County. which
includes Chicago. casts about two
fifths Of the entire vote of Illinois.
while down n-state"--the rest of I'LL
nois-casts the other three-fifth
Cook County, because of it's wetness.
is the Brennan stronghold. Down
state, because Of its dryness and its
overwhelming Republicanism, is the
Smith bailiwick.
Magill is a Republican and dry. His
party designation Is Independent Re
publican. The Smith campaign man
ayers claim that their candidate will
come up to Chicago with from 800 900
to $4,000 votes. over and above the
Brennan strength down-state. They
claim that Brennan will not carry
Cook County by more than $4,000, If
he carries 1t at ALL
Brennan Men Undaunted.
Do these claims daunt the Bren-
naniteso They do not. The Demo
Gratis insist that their candidate will
come out Of Cook County with 200. 900
votes more than Smith. and they do
not figure that the Smith lead over
Brennan down-state will he more than
100. 900 or 100000 at thes most.
Both the Republicans and the Demo
Gratis undertake to estimate the
strength of Magill. knowing that
upon it will depend their own for
tunes From Republican headquar-
ters comes the statement that MaSill
will not poll more than $4,000 votes
go as high as $4,000. The Democrats
estimate. on the other hand. that the
Magill vote will run upwards of 300
900 and they see the most of it taken
from the Republican candidate.
The Magill supporters make no
claim in actual figures Of the strength
of their candidate. but they insist that
he Is gaining thousands of votes
daily They figure on getting both
Republican and Democratic votes
Down state the Democratic party, like
the Republican, Is largely dry. Magill
believes that he will get practicall* all
of this dry Democratic vote, which
might hesitate to go to the regular
h6DuDllCdn CdHUlQdte, DuC WHICH mates
Brennan and what he stands for.
State Strongly Republican.
Illinois Is so overwhelmingly Re
publican that it is always difficult to
figure that a Democrat will carry the
State 1t gave Harding a 900. 900
ma jority over Cox in 1920 1t gave
President Coolidge a 500 900 lead over
the combined vote uf John w. Davis
and the late Senator La Toilette in
1925. In 1912. when the Bull Moose
split the Republican party from stem
to stern. Illinois cast it's electoral vote
for Woodrow Wilson, but by a plural
ity only. The Wilson vote was 215, 900
less than the combined vote for Taft
and Roosevelt.
Perhaps more significant than al,
these figures is the fact that in 1914,
when the schism in the Republican
party still existed as a result of the
Bull Moose movement. the Republi-
cans elected Lawrence Y. Sherman to
the Senate in the three-cornered race
with the late Roger Sullivan. Demo
cratic boss of Chicago and Brennan s
old leader. and Raymond Robins,
Progressive. Robins at that time r.
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