New Britain herald., 1928-10-02
REPUBLICANS ARE
 NOT WORRYING IN
 WEST COAST AREA
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arc making much noise. and they appear thoroughly confident that they can at least scale down the normal republican majorities in all three states. They speak of carrying most of the larger cities, including San Francisco. Portland and Seattle by appreciable margins. But they recognize fully that nothing but an >pochal turnover can do them any rood in the matter of counting cleo toral votes.
 Only 5S Votes
 An irregular line drawn across the map from north to south, start ing at the western border of the Dakotas and ending with the west srn border of Texas, would have west of 1t eleven states, comprising more than one third of the area of the country but commanding only S6 electoral votes. In this entire area, democratic efforts seem now to center most forcibly on 16 of the S6 votes-four in Montana, six in Colorado, three in New Mexico and three in Arizona.
 s Coast Is Dry
 So far as the Pacific coast states are concerned. the Hoover manag- CTS are counting on variety of fac tors to help offset whatever swing there may be toward the democrat tc nominee. Washington and Ore. son always have been overwhelm- ingly dry. and California. which was almost evenly divided at the last prohibition test, is being exhorted te rally in overwhelming numbers for . favorite son. The cry against Tammany echoes all along the coast. and of course the religious Issue is talked about everywhere, ! with consequences which the poli- ,ticians find it extremely difficult to assess.
 In California, especially. the dem- ecrats count first of all on their strength in the cities. They bank heavily on carrying San Francisco, which has a large republican Catho- jlc population. and is wet. They see possibilities in the fact that two years ago northern California voted vet in a statewide referendum by which . dry enforcement code fin ally was kept on the statute books by . count of 565,S75 to 502,25S.
 Deny Labor Charge
 The Hoover people have not been ineensible to the attacks made on their candidate in his home state. Among other things they have dis ,tributed pamphlets denying a charge that he employs no white labor on his 1900 acre farm in Kern County, and an accusation that while he was food administrator he was responsible for heavy losses suffered by the California bean growers. Hoover also has on his side Senator Hiram Johnson. who for years has had a large independent following and his managers claim the overwhelming support of the women voters.
 McAdoo Quiet
 In 1916 the women were credited with turning the state to Wilson, and in 1924 are said to have swung Ito Coolidge. Many women were among the crusaders for William G. NcAdoo in Madison Square Garden, and this year McAdoo. at his home lin Santa Barbara, is doing what he did most of the time during the pre- convention campaign of 1924-say nothing.
 Beats Two Combined
 The vote in California eight years ago was 624,992 for Harding and 229,191 for Cox. In 1924 it was 733,25O for Coolidge, 424,649 for La Toilette and 1O5.514 for Davis, giv- ing Coolidge a margin of more than 2O0,00O over his two opponents combined. In Washington. Coolidge had 220,224, La Toilette 150,T27 and Davis only 42.S42. In Oregon the count was Coolidge 14.579, La Fol lette 6S,403 and Davis 67,5S9. READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS