Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-21
ILLINOIS IS HELD
c. 0. P. PIVOT STATE
Party Counts It as Won.
While Democrats Claim
a Fighting Chance"
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extent upon the disgruntled followers
OF Gov. Small and of Mayor Thompson
end Grove. who has been States at
torney in Cook County. to help pull
their chsstnuts out of the fire But
there Is considerable doubt that their
/ followers will do any such thing, or that
they have any large following now that
they have been turned down by the
voters. Big Bill Thompson is reported
TO be a sick man. He has been IN
volved in lawsuit over city business
that has put his own fortune in the
balance. Neither he nor Grove. who is
still States attorney. though to 60 out
Of Office after the election are doing
anything. at least openly. in this cam
paign.
Senator Charles S Deneen. one time
governor and for the last two years
Illinois sole representative in the
United States Senate because of the at
tack upon the right of Frank l.. Smith
to be seated In that body. Is sitting
rather on top of the Republican heap
in Illinois just now. though his leader
ship may be challenged later. 1t was
his faction that helped largely in the
drive to GUST the Thompson Grove
Small factions in the primary. Sem
going Republican. not Democratic. in
the coming election and that the Re-
publicans down State will roll up big
ms iority. too.
II is extremely difficult to predict
with certainty how many of the Ger
man. Americans. how many of the 9TH
er foreign-group voters how many of
the colored voters will be off the Re-
publican rsserva ton in this election
The Abend Post, the only German
language newspaper published in Chi=
cago. is supporting Coy. Smith, both
as vet and as Progressive.
Rely on wcmens Votes.
great deal on the woman vote. They
point to the great registration and
the fact that women have registered
in greater numbers than ever before.
The registration figures given by the
Cook County Election Board gave
total of l,436,S25. and of these 61e247
are women In one of the North
Shore wards. Republican. the woman
registrants outnumbered the men.
1t is true, however, that the women
in the foreign groups and In the stock
yard section have been registered in
unprecedented numbers. too. So both
sides are claiming BENEFITS from the
big registration of women.
All kinds OF claims are made re-
garding the number of colored voters
IN Illinois and in Chicago. Some of
the claims run the colored voters up to
$4,000 for the State and 100000 for
the city. But others assert that there
are probably not more than $4,000
colored voters In Cook County and
much smaller number out in the State.
The old Madden district has nominated
a colored man for Congress on the Re-
publican ticket, Oscar De Priest. He
has been indicted for alleged protec-
ton OF crime. An independent colored
candidate, also a Republican is running
against him in the election and the
Democrats have put forward no candi-
Date. The independent is William H.
Harris. an assistant in the States at
torney's Office. The opinion seems to
be that De Priest will surely be elected.
with the aid Of the old Grove Thomp-
son machine
The colorcd veters are favorine Smith
In the presidential race, 1t Is said, be-
cause he is wet and. because of the
anti-Klan sentiment among them, and
because it has been charged that the
Republicans are seeking to form lily
white organizations in all the Southern
States. However. colored leaders here
claim that not more than 20 per cent
of the colored vote will stray from the
Republican ranks on election day, If
that many.
Glenn Victory Seen.
There seems no doubt but what Glenn
will be elected to the Senate Indeed.
he and Mrs. Ruth Hanna Mccormick,
running for Congress at large, are eX-
pected to lead the Republican ticket
in the number of votes obtained. Floyd
e. Thompson. the Democratic nominee
for governor. has been conducting
vigorous campaign against Emmerson.
his Republican opponent. But the prob
abilities are that Emmerson. along with
the rest of the Republican ticket, will
be successful.
The local political situation affects to
some extent the Republican prospects
Although Thompson and Grove are APP
parently down and out politically, their
old following has number Of county
Offices on the ticket. They and the
Deneen faction are not meeting to-
gether, and the national and. State Re
publican campaign organizations are
holding aloof from the struggle over
county offices.
Harding and Coolidge both carried
down-State Illinois by upward of 100000.
Granted that Smith appeal to some of
the Republican farmers and heavy
Smith vote in some of the industrial
centers apart from Chicago will de-
crease the Republican plurality dowr
State, it would seem that AL Smith must
carry Cook County by 10000 or 300
900 to have an actual chance at accom-
plishing the miracle of carrying the
State. If he can carry Cook County by
any such figures, then his chance be-
comes a real 0nc