Evening star., 1928-10-28
OHIO NOW EXPECTS :.
VOTE OF 100000
Officials Face Task in AC.
Commodating Record
Number.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


in this State on November has been
raised from 2,250,000 to 3,000.000 and
election authorities have been driven TO
steps not governed by law to make the
precinct machinery equal to the de-
mandS of so greatly increased electo-
rate. In this city-and in a number
of other cities-registra has shown
many precincts with as many as $50
qualified voters No voting machines
may be used In this State, the Supreme
Court having held that their use did
not comply with the constitutional pro-
vision that "all elections shall be by
ballot" and in many Of these precincts,
where the number of voters has been
suddenly increased by reason Of un-
usual interest in the election, 1t viii
be necessary to take in more than a
vote per minute, in order that none
may be shut out when time for closing
the polls arrives.
State Supervisor of Elections c. M.
Brown has ruled that 1t is too late
now to divide precincts, and the only
way to facilitate voting in the big pre-
cincts will be by adding extra clerks
and this has been ordered, though there
Is no authority in law for such action
Registration is not required outside the
larger cities, but other indications show
that interest in the election is fully as
keen among the rural residents as Il
Is IN the registration cities.
Sees Resentment.
Democratic State Chairman Henry
G. Drummer sees in this an expression
of resentment on the part of the farm
ers toward the Republican party be-
cause OF the failure of farm relief. but
IN all the straw votes being taken liz
the State where the units are confined
10 residents on rural mail routes. they
snow preferences for Mr.. Hoover of
from two and half to three and a
nalr TO one, for Mr. Smith.
A feature that is common to all the
straW-Vote polls that are being taken
IN tne state tends to show that prohf-
DlClon Is cutting large figure. 1t Is
InaC the proportion OF woman votes for
Mr.. Hoover in almost any unit polled
is decidedly greater than is the caSa.
with the male voters, whether the ma
lority is for the Republican or the
Democratic candidate, and the plurality
OF Hoover votes among the women
polied is usually sufficient to change
the total result where in the male vote
Gov. Smith Is shown to have a margin
reasonably small. The drys point to
this as an indication that many women
In Democratic families, and In RE-
publican families where the husbands
are for the Democratic candidate are
supporting Mr.. Hoover because he is
for prohibition.
The Democrats in this state ind
themselves seriously handicapped In
their effort to elect their State ticket
by the position Gov. Smith has taken
toward prohibition Ohio is decidedly
dry, as the repeated election Of Gov.
Donahey, a dry, on the Democratic
ticket has shown. The Democratic can
o1date for governor, Representative NJ.
L. Daveyi Is dry, and would like to make
his position emphatic in the campaign,
but that would put him out Of line With
MS party's national leader, so he has
said very little about 1t. Arthur l..
Dixon, the chairman of the Republican
State central committee, has been di-
recting searching questions to Mr.. Dayey
to make his position still more delicate,
but he has replied only that he is stand
ing on the Houston platform and sup
porting the Democratic national ticket
Silent So Far.
It was announced from the Demo.
cratic. State campaign. headquarters
early in the campaign that Gov. Dona-
hey would make one speech In the State
campaign, but so far he has not spoken
and with the campaign almost at the
end no date has been. assigned for him
At Democratic State conference this
week, a message was read from the gov
ernor to the effect that he would sup
port the Democratic national and State
tickets.
Among the members of the governors
own organization the feeling Is that the
defeat of Gov. Smith viii be so en-
phatic in the coming election that he
will not be looked upon again as avail
able as national candidate, and in
that event movement for the reorgan-
ization of the party for 1882 will pro-
ceed with Gov. Donahey in mind as
one of the most available leaders for the
Democrats for that campaign. Though
Gov. Donahey has not bolted the ticket,
he did let 1t be plainly understood that
he must not be considered in any re-
spect for the movement for Gov. Smith.
Friends were present at Houston to
withdraw his name should 1t be pre-
Sented to the convention for any po-
sition on the ticket. The governor
realized that the nomination Of Gov.
Smith was inevitable.
4I1E DeLJlUE OIL CI1e result III NlIlkOa III
spite of the fact that it Is mostly con-
fined to the large cities where Smith
sentiment Is strong, favors MIR Hoover
to win. Most Of the betting seeIls to
be on the size Of the Republican plu-
rality.
Burton Holds Pace.
Davey, Democratic candidate for gov
ernor. seems to be rather stronger, the
State over, than Gov. Smith, but not to
any such extent as to give the Demo-
Gratis any hope Of electing Democratic
governor to succeed Gov Donahey. Out
side of Cincinnati Representative Bur-
ton seems to run well up to the pace set
by Senator FesS, and both OF the Re-
publican candidates for United Stetes
Senator lead Myers Y. Cooper, Repup-
lican candidate for governor, to a de-
gree.
The negro detection is the only dis
turbing feature of the Ohio campaign
at this time on the Republican side.
It has been hard to gauge, but 1t fy
that strong Smith sentiment
pervades the colored element OF the
population. How far it will be able 70
ead them to break the well established
habit of voting the Republican ticket
remains to be seen. Republican State
leaders believe they have checked the
movement Of the colored voters toward
J. II. GALBRAITH.