The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-02
CAMP AICN is
TAKEN out OF
BOSSES HANDS
People to Decide 1t for
Themselves Tuesday,
Says Observer.
3X BAYMOND CLAPPER


BOeICb, Nov. Prom 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 them
selves next Tuesday.
Popular feeling generally has been
so aroused because of prohibition
and religion that party organiza-
ton and the painstaking drudgery
of ward leaders and precinct cap
tains are likely to count less in this
election than is usually the case.
Hoover and Smith and their sup
porting batteries of stump speakers
winding up the campaign with a
spectacular barrage of argument.
Ward leaders and precinct cap
tainS are organizing their election
day workers and arranging ma
chinery to get their voters to the
polls.
Gain in Registration
But the interest of the voters is
so tremendous that such prepara-
tons seem Superfluous except where
they are concerned with protecting
party rights at the polls and super
vising the count.
In 1924, grand total of 100000
votes were cast. This year it will
be 100000 to 100000.
In some Of the dignified reSiden-
tial suburbs around Boston, regis
tration this year has more than
doubled. Massachusetts, registration
has gone up an average of % per
cent because of the interest in the
Hoover Smith battle.
Almost every other state shows
a considerable increase. Election
officials 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.
Alert Watching at Polls
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 2 consequent reduction
in Irregularities. In some southern
states, Republicans will have watch
erS 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.
However, the campaign cuts
across party lines and in some
Philadelphia wet Republican wards
for instance there may be a dispo-
sition on the part of Republicans
to give Smith every advantage and
likewise in some dry districts of the
south Hoover will get better treat
ment than any Republican pres1-
Dental candidate has received be-
fore.
Count Every Vote
1--WE have been assured that every
Smith vote will be counted" one
Philadelphia Democrat told the
United Press correspondent recent
~ in an elated manner which in
dicated that this assurance of a
fair count constituted an unusual
victory.
In the same way Hoover dry
leader in North Carolina said Hoo
yer 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
shocking to the average citizen. but
which are taken as matter of
course among professional polite
ians.
The watchful eye the federal gov
ernment has recently cast upon
Ohio, New Jersey and Texas will
have healthy effect upon the con-
duct of voting places.