Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-11-02
both PARTIES
SEE VICTORY
IN ELECTION
Apathetic Attitude of
Entire Nation Indi-
Gates Light Voting
In Most States

NEW YORK, Nov. 2---1F1-Ths
American voter today IA recording
his judgment on the personalities
and issues that have come TO him in
virtually j crossword puzzle cam
paign.
Control of the SEVENTEEN congress
and Of nearly two-thirds OF the state
governments a. well as the extent 40
which prohibition II likely 10 figure
i'm political affairs in the near future
are the major issues resting upon
his decision.
Although a host of candidates and
party managers kept the stump and
hall ringing with campaign notes
until Il late hour last night, they
were out early today in an effort 70
swell the march Of voters toward the
baliCting places.
Iney were spurred TO a somewkat
unusual effort in this direction by
reports from many sections Of the
country that a feeling almost OF
apathy had settled upon large groups
Ok the electorate
Last minute statements from tha
hostile political camps disclosed no
change IN the sweeping claims issued
Uy the warning chieftains several
days before the tumult OF the cam
plIgn mad diel away.
Democratic leaders still made claims
10 nothing short Of a landslide
which would enable them To wrost
control OF both the senate and the
mouse from the republicans.
on the other hand sp0kesmcn for
the now dominant parry declared
such contentious were but optimistic
bubbles which VIII burst with the
counting of the votes alter sundown.
Dcms Must Gain Nine.
To obtain control Of the senate the
democratic party will have To pick
up nine seats now held BY republic
cans, while thay must sway 80 con-
gressional districts 10 get "A majority
cf the house.
Many 0f the republican senatorial
t0gas W. stake were won In the Hard
ing landslide in 1920 and the house
thAt is asking another tenure of Of
lice came into power in the Coolidge
tiuhl of 1924.
Pointing To this situation, demo
cratic managers stoutiv maintain
thnt with the presidency net now nt
stake they can count on 4 number
ot tulnoscIs involving seats in both
houses. Th-y also call attention to
the TACT that the seven democratic
senator's to he elected are from the
eoi.d south where victory Is certain.
The four border states-Kentuc-
ky. Maryland. Missouri and Okla
homa-as well as Arizona, are listed
by the democrats as already stricken
from the republican lists. Refusing
70 eoncede this. the republicans claim
that these states. which frequently
are found IN tho democratic column.
wi!l remain within the COP foldl-
PreLigt Change in East
Other states in which the demo-
Gratis believe they have u better than
even chance are Massachusetts,, New
YORK Ohio, Illinois and Colorado. I'm
Idaho, Indiana, Nevada, Oregon.
otah ane Washington, they claim at
least fighting chances.
Again countering democratic pre-
alctlons and hopes. republicans zee
all these states safely held In their
present political status. Thev Eke-
wise are confident that few N anv
inroads viii be made in their ranks
in the South.
Here again the rival mar GERS ar-
found apart in their assessments az
the minds Of the voters. for the DEM
orfatlc leaders insist they viii carry
It isats six republican districts in
pennsylvania; will recarture n num-
Der OF house seats that went 70 the
republican column in the Coolidge
victory two years ago. also will win
some Districts which they contend
are dissatisfied with administration
policies. 's'
Prohibition an Issue
iA many Of the contests for sen
ate and house seats, Prohibition has
run through the whole fabric "a the
campaigns and w eight states ths
voters are expressing their views on
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