New Britain herald., 1928-11-02
VOTES ID SETTLE
 THUS CAMPAIGN
Is Out Of Hands of Professional
 Politicians

Boston. Nov. , (CP)-From one end of the country to the other every indication is that the people have taken this campaign out of the hands of professional politicians and are preparing to decide it themselves next Tuesday.
 Popular feeling has been so gen. orally aroused because of prohibi- tion and religion that party organ ization and the painstaking drudg- cry of ward leaders and precinct captains are likely to count less in this election than is usually the case. Everywhere professional poli- ticians are bewildered by the num- bers which have been aroused.
 Out Of Their Hands
 The fight has now passed out of the hands of candidates and party workers e . large extent. Hoover and Smith and their supporting bat teries of stump speakers are about to wind up the campaign with 8 spectacular and deafening barrage of argument. Ward leaders and pre- cinct captains are organizing their election day workers and arranging machinery to get their voters to the polls.
 But the interest of the voters is so tremendous that such prepara- tions seem superfluous except where they are concerned with protecting party rights at the polls and super vising the count. In 1924 a total of 29,o0O,000 votes were cast. This year it will be 35,000,O00 to 4O,OOO,- O0o. In some of the dignitied rnsi- dential suburbs around Boston, reg istration this year has more than doubled. Massachusetts registration has gone up an average of 32 per cent because of the interest in the Hoover Smith battle.
 Almost every other state shows considerable increase. Election off cials are worried lest the rush of voters overtax facilities. Usually the problem is to get out the voters. This year the problem is to take care of them. Women everywhere are being urged to vote while the men are at work. In many places employees will be dismissed at noon.
 Some believe this interest will re- suit in more alert watching at the polls with consequent reduction in irregularities. In some southern Et1fpS rapI1bIica !, at the polls for the first time in years. Democrats will man the polls in some northwestern states more thoroughly than they usually do. Irregularities on both sides may be held down for this reason. How ever the campaign cuts across party lines and in some Philadelphia wet republican wards, for instance, there may be disposition on the part of republicans to give Smith every advantage and likewise in some dry districts of the South Hoover will get better treatment than any republican presidential candidate has received before.
 Count Vote
 We have been assured that every smith vote will be counted" one Philadelphia democrat told the United Press correspondent recently In an elated manner which indicated that this assurance of a fair count constituted an unusual victory. Tn the same way Hoover dry leader in North Carolina said Hoover would get credit for all votes cast for him there. which was more. he said, than had always been the case All of which may imply conditions shock ing to the average citizen but which are taken as matter of course among professional politicians.
 The watchful eye the federal gov ernment has recently cast upon Ohio, New Jersey and Texas will have a healthy effect upon the conduct of voting places
 Sordid as some election day ac- fivities are, they are probably con- fined to a small fraction of the thousands of men and women who participate in the conduct of the ma- chinery.
 On the whole this election may be expected to represent the most direct and most complete exnression of the American people in the history of the nation-marred only bv the fact that bigotry and prejudice have played such an important part in the contest,