Evening star., 1928-11-05
Candidates Give
Final Speeches
ON Air Today.
IMPULSES BRING
COMPLEX SPLIT
Survey Shows Lead
ers Are Puzzled
by Problems.
BY BYRON PRICE,
Associated Press STAFF Writer.

In quleCer mO0d aICer weeks ok
agitation and uncertainty, the Ma
ton is taking final counsel today
over it's choice of new leadership
in tomorrow's general election.
The long parade is almost end
ed. It's greater and lesser figures
have turned homeward, leaving In
the lap of the voter the tangled
threads of an epochal campaign.
The untangling of the complex
impulses of class, race and religion
remains for the more orderly
processes of the ballot box.
The final words of the Nation
wide debate fall to the two men
upon whom its responsibilities
have rested most heavily. From
his home at Palo Alto, Calf, aft
er his trip across the continent
from Washington, Mr.. Hoover will
speak over the radio tonight to
the Nations millions of voters.
Two such addresses were decided
on by Gov. Smith-a monday talk
today to the farm country, and
one tonight, both delivered from
radio studio in New York City.
Final Breathing Spell.
otherwise, the day was set aside
as final breathing spell for cam
didateS, political workers and vot-
erS, disturbed only by the reper-
cussions which are peculiar to the
day before election. These in
cluded ast-minute arguments
here and there over registration
and the policing of polling places,
and the usual outpouring of pre-
dictions of overwhelming victory
on both sides. Ali such predictions
continued to point to inch-by-
inch struggles for the East, the
border and the debated States of
the farm country and the Far
West.
In a few. places activity continued
among contestants for congressional
State and local Office, for besides
choosing a new President and vice
President, and the country will elect
tomorrow the full membership OF the
House of Representatives, 81 Senators,
"a governors, Legislatures IN many
States, and host of city, county ana
township officials. Many of the state
campaigns have developed into spec
tacular battles in themselves, although
as a rule the country over, local cann-
dacies have been overshadowed by the
contest between Smith and Hoover.
Party Lines Cut.
The issues of this national contest
remain. at the end of the campaign,
a patchwork of striking contradictions.
The Associated Press has asked hum
dreds of political leaders, editors ana
prominent men and women In business
and professional life, distributed through
all of the States, for information as TO
the topics of campaign discussion which
have been most prominent IN tnen
particular localities. The results OF TINS
survey, summarized below, snow now
the issues have cut across party hnes
and across one another
This summary does not purport TO
list all of the issues discussed, or 70
name them in the order OF their I'M
portance. Neither does it attempt 10
take account of the vote drawing pos
sibilitieS of the personalities OF tne Two
presidential nominees, factor Wnicn
many informants declared to be IN
creasingly prominent in polltlcal dis
cussions toward the close OF the cam
paign. The attempt Is merely 10 snow
how such subjects as farm reile1, prohl-
bition, religion and the others nave
fitted into the general pictures proouceo
by this campaign.
Religious Issue.
Whatever its relative rank in terms
OF votes, the religious issue has provldeo
the campaign with its most bitter m
gradients. Every State in the union
has debated it, sometimes TO the ac,
compartment of egg barrages and legai
proceedings. 1t has been talked OF most
openly in the South, particularly In Ala
bama.
Democratic leaders repeatedly have
charged that religion was the real force
behind the Southern bolt from Smith
The Republication national organlza-
ton has repeatedly denied raising the
issue against Gov Smiths Catholicism
and has charged that the Democrats
sought to belittle the Quaker faith OF
Mr. Hoover. These exchanges are con-
tinuing, up to the final hour of the
campaign.
The Smith managers believe they
have least to fear from this issue in
Eastern States like Massachusetts,, with
their large Catholic population. They
expect defectionS elsewhere, however
and especially in the Southern and Mid
western States, where the Klan once
was a great power. 1t is conceded thai
the issue has had special weight among
German and Scandinavian Lutherans ir
some sections of the Midwest and
Northwest, who might reasonably bt
expected otherwise TO vote for Smith
No political leader will venture a guess
how sweeping the net result will be.
Prohibition Controversy.
Conspicuous for the first time in {
presidential campaign, the prohibition
issue is credited by political leaders Of
both parties with having turned many
votes out of their normal channels. Gov
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