Evening star., 1928-10-30
BOTH SIDES AFFIRM
FAITH IN BAY STATE
But Neither Republicans Nor
Democrats Are Taking
Any Chances.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, October 30.-The final
week of the presidential campaign finds
both Republicans and Democrats pro-
claiming their faith In Massachusetts,
but taking no chances.
On either side there are experienced
political leaders who profess to see
definite trends, each toward his own
ticket. Smith and Hoover headquar-
terS alike offer to exhibit to the in
quirer gratifying reports from enthusi-
aStic workers down the line. But when
it comes to the question of a detailed
and inclusive analysis Of the State
situation as whole the calculation
becomes entangled in snarl of con-
flicting claims. gt&
1t can be said, however, that nowhere
on this debated North Atlantic sea-
board. even in New. York State: have
the supporters of Gov. Smith made a
more spectacular assault on normal
Republican pluralitieS. With equal as
Surance it can be said that this assault
has been resisted aggreSSively and with
determination by the Republican or
ganiZation. To degree unmatched in
many of the other States the actuating
human emotions at work in this Mas
SachuSetts campaign run deep and
strong. The struggle has been spirited
and purposeful, and it gives every
promise of continuing to be spirited
and purpoSeful until the end.
Surface and Submerged Issues.
That part of the present political
agitation which lies on the surface is
concerned with prohibition and the
tariff, for this is an industrial State
with an enormous wet sentiment within
its borders. That part which lies be-
meath the surface concerns itself with
religion and with race, for many
groups of varied racial origin, have
come here through the years to live
side by side with the old hereditary
stock of New England. Religion has
been debated comparatively little from
the stump, but when the voters write
letters to the editor many of them dis
cuSS it copiouSly.
Massachusetts, has been almost i'm
pregnably Republican in the past. but
so far as the record goes the great con-
ISOLATION and hope of the Democrats
lies in the fact that Democrat, Sena-
tor David I. Walsh, who also is Cath
olic and a wet, has been. repeatedly
elected to Office over the most stubborn
Republican opposition. Walsh is can
didate for reelection this year, and is
ASKING the Republicans, WHO always
have supported him, to vote also for
Smith. Like Smith, he always has re-
ceived his greatest support from the
larger cities, with their foreign colonies,
their industrial colonies and their wet
sentiment. The whole coterie of Irish
American leaders who are the officials
of the Democratic party in the State
have thrown themselves into the fight
for the national ticket with q fiery de-
termination.
State Regular G. o. p. {.
On the basis Of the record, the great
consolation Of the Republicans lies
in the regularity with which the State
has persisted In voting the Republican
ticket nationally. Cleveland could not
break that regularity, and although Will
son did get the electoral vote in the
three-way split of 1912, it was by a
minority vote. Four years ago MaSsa-
chusetts gave Coolidge, her favorite
son, two and a half times as many
votes as she gave his Democratic op-
ponent The vote then was 703,4 for
Coolidge, 280,6S4 for Davis, and 141, ,225
for La Toilette.
There is a'particuIar reason why the