Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-04
Rival Candidates Take Final
Thrusts as Bitter Cam
paign Closes.
ELECTION LAW FIGHT
FILLS END OF DRIVE
"Raskobism" and "Cannonism"
Face Crucial Test at Polls
Tomorrow.
special Dispatch to The Star.

Dominion remained the poHIlcal COCK
pit of America today as rival candidates
for governor exchanged final blows in a
fight to decide the political future Of
Virginia at the polls tomorrow.
The contest between John Garland
Pollard of williamsburg the Demo-
cratic nominee. and William Moseley
Brown of Lexington, the Republican
anti-Smith coalition nominee, has in
most respects remained family affair,
and so it has been the bitterest kind of
struggle.
Aid from the national Democratic or
ganiZation, headed by Jouett Shouse,
was declined by the Virginia Democrats
on the grounds that State issues alone
are before the people and that the ma
tional Democratic committee, no matter
how important the fight is nationally,
should not have a hand in it.
At the same time the Republicans
have summed helping hand from
President Hoover, who captured Vir-
ginia in 1923, and no nationally promi
nent Republicans have been on the
speakers list.
Fight Over Election Laws.
The closing hours of the contest
which ends in the general election
Tuesday, have been taken up with a
tumultuous controversy on the election
laws of Virginia. For weeks Democratic
and Republican tacticians spared on
this issue. The end of the week saw
the leading Republican. Henry w. An
derson, make plunge in an effort to
prove that Democratic State ieadquar-
ters was engaged in the underground
circulation of white supremacy"
propaganda, a pamphlet containing
news dispatches of speeches and other
activities of the colored Representative,
Oscar De Priest.
The Democrats accepted his chal-
lenge and overnight the State became
wildly aflutter from the resounding
speeches Of dozen old-faShioned
cans for advocating liberalization Of
election laws that saved Virginia from
social chaos and economic ruin"
Democratic State headquarters did
not admit having published or distrib-
uted the De Priest pamphlet, however.
They denied all connection with 1t.
Democratic speakers, however did not
fail to discuss the pamphlet, or to
hammer Mr.. Anderson for his advocacy
in 1921 of the repeal of the poll tax
as prerequisite to voting, or to call
upon all true Democrats to defeat this
Republican effort.
Within IL hours after Mr.. Anderson's
attempt to fasten the De Priest PAM
phlet upon State Democratic head
quarters, the Republicans were on the
defensive, fighting against shower Of
indignant Democratic missives. The
battle Is raging now and may rage up
to sunset on election day, Tuesday.
Candidates Scrap vigorously.
While all the excitement ragged in and
around the capital, the rival candidates.
one Of whom, Pollard, is a professor of
government at William and Mary, and
the other, Brown, is a professor of
psychology at washington and Lee Uni
verSlty, have been scrapping vigorously
from succession Of Virginia stumps.
Pollard has been sticking to a plat
form OF governmental progress along
the policies laid out during past Demo-
cratic administrations. Brown has been
running on platform of change, be-
hev1ng that the Virginia electorate
psychologically is ready for a change.
Pollard is backed by Harry r. Byrd,
considered the most successful gov
ernor Virginia has had in A years,
and the actual as well as titular party
leader. Brown is backed by the former
lndisputed political boss of Virginia,
Blshop James Cannon, jr., now an ally
of the Republicans. Bishop Cannon
LETT for Brazil in the middle of the
campaign, leaving his followers de-
pendent upon the former Republican
candidate for governor, Henry w. An
derson. But the Republicans count
neaVlly upon his influence and upon
the statements which he issued before
ms departure, in which he exhorted all
dry Democrats to defeat Pollard because
Pollard supported the Democratic ma
tional ticket last year.
The Republican nominee began his
campaign on Cannon platform con-
oemning the Virginia Democrats be-
cause the national Democratic chair
man, John j. Raskob is a wet Tam
many Catholic" who vowed to DESTROY
the "damnable affiiction of prohibition"
BuC IN mid-campaign Brown suddenly
shlIteo from the Cannon line Of effort
ana took up the strategy advocated by
the Republican generalissimo Henry
w. Anderson. This shift was coincident
With Bishop Cannons sudden departure
for Brazil.
Claim Line Ineffective.
The Democrats claimed that Brown
changed his line because the electorate
olo not react satisfactorily to the "Ras-
kob1sm" talk. And when the Republi-
can nominee suddenly appeared under
Mr.. Anderson's wing they stopped dis
cussing Brown almost entirely and be-
gan to pick upon Mr. Anderson.
Carter Glass called him a ventrilo-
quist and referred to the Republican
| candidate as Col. Andersons talking
doll" Gov. Byrd, defending his ad-
| ministration from the assaults of Mr.
Anderson and the Republican nominee,
revealed that grateful national Re-
publican, organization" has rewarded
~ ..,sAL &C.,
age appointments" totaling $99,666.
Mr.. Anderson tried to answer his tor
, mentors and did answer them with en-
phasis and vigor, but when he began to
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