Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-28
RORABACK CLAIMS
75,OlO PLURALITY
Connecticut Chairman Still
Sure of Hoover Victory
in State.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The star.
HARTFORD, Conn, october 81
With the coming of Gov. Smith to
Hartford thus week, dropping Demo-
cratic hopes have revived to some ex-
tent and the more optimistic party
leaders see chance to carry the State
for the electoral ticket at least. The
Republican chiefs, on the other hand,
have never admitted that there was
any doubt about Republican victory
from the top to the bottom Of the
ticket.
j. Henry Roraback national commit
teeman and chairman of the State
central committee, has not receded
from the figure of $4,000 plurality
which he predicted at the time of the
nomination of Hoover. This would be
about $4,000 below the Coolidge plu-
rality of 1924, but nobody expects the
mark Of 10000 in that year to be
duplicated, for the Republican vote
included ballots cast by thousands of
voters who left the Democratic party
for the time being to show their re-
sentiment at the failure of the Madison
Square Garden convention to nominate
Gov. Smith.
See $4,000 Majority.
Shrewd observers of elections be-
lieve that the larger cities Of the State
New Haven, Hartford and Water
bury, at least, and possibly Bridgeport
and New Britain-will show pluralities
for the Democratic electoral ticket, and
that the smaller towns will, as they
have done before, Offset the Democratic
margins in the cities by Republican
pluralities. They cannot see, however,
that this situation will permit any,
thing that can be called a one-sided
election, and certainly nothing in the
nature of landslide
These non-extremists are inclined to
figure that the State will go for Hoo
yer, but probably by only approximate
ly ne-fourth the plurality for Coolidge
four years ago-say 10000. This would
carry through the whole Republican
general ticket and should, by its nat
ural distribution, elect al five Republi-
can candidates for the National House
of Representatives.
What complexities the problem of the
election forecasters is the number of
new voters added to the lists. All over
the State the registration of new
voters-Connecticut has no law re-
curing reregistration of those already
on the voting lists-has been remark
ably large In Hartford, alone, more
than 10000 names were added to the
lists, which, with about 1900 made
before the city election in the Spring
will give total of approximately $4,000
new voters and make $4,000 eligible to
vote at the November election, or about
$4,000 more than the previous high
record. Reports from the State at
large indicate that, while the Demo-
Gratis have had the advantage in the
making of new voters in certain cities,
the grand total shows the Republicans
in the lead in new electors.
Invited to Debate.
One of the humorous events of the
campaign is the invitation of William
M. Citron of Middletown, Democratic
candidate for Congress from the second
district, to Assistant Attorney General
Mabel Walker Willebrandt to come to
Connecticut to debate with him. This
invitation was declined
Senator Curtis, Republican candidate
for Vice President, who addressed a
Republican rally last Saturday night,
spent Sunday with his colleague, SEN
ator George P. Mclean, at the latter's
home IN Simsbury. H. I. HORTON.