Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-03
If Pollard Wins, Old Dominion
Will Do the Expected
and Return.
"RASK0BISM" OPPOSES
"CANNONISM" IN ELECTION
Victory for Brown Held Likely to
Spell Defeat for Senator Glass
Next Year.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN,

stan Correspondent OF The Star.
RICHMOND. Va, November 2.-In
terest in the Virginia gubernatoria
election, which takes place Tuesday
goes far beyond the borders of the OLE
Dominion. The election will furnish the
fiTst Statewide test since four or thu
States of the Solid South" drapped theil
Democratic moorings last year anc
were carried over into the Republican
column by the anti-Smith and pro.
Hoover tide. If the regular Democratic
candidate for governor, John G. Pol
lard. wins, and particularly if he wins
by wide margin, the predicted will
have happened and the South will sp.
pear to be sliding rapidly back tc IL:
old allegiance to the Democratic party
The prospects of a real Republican
party in Virginia, North Carolina, Flor
ida and Texas, developed from a coaIl-
ton Of the Republicans and Democrats
who jumped the reservation last year
will have vanished in a considerable de-
gree.
AL Smith Held Cause"
While the rest of the country outside
the South is taking rather ar academic
interest in the coming election, Virginia
Democracy is taking a very real and
definite interest in the result. If DR.
William Mosely Brown. the candidate
for governor of the Republican ano
anti-Smith coalition, wins on Tuesday
it will be the severest blow dealt the
regular organization in Virginia for ger
erations. The fact that Virginia f1op-
ped over to Mr.. Hoover last year has
been attributed generally to the fact
that the religious and prohibition issues
were involved ir the campaign
With the removal of Al Smith from
the picture, it was predicted the Demo-
critic organization would quickly resume
Its control of the situation. Should DR..
Brown win this year. it is likely that
Senator Carter Glass, who comes up for
reelection, will receive short shift nexC
year. The junior Senator from Virginia
has plenty of enemies as well as frienos
in the State, and his vitriolic attacks
upon the anti-Smith Democrats, both
last year and this year. have aroused =
great amount of antago.isn.
A canvass Of the State, congressional
district by congressional district, by a
careful observer, which was given here,
indicates margin Of victory for Pol
lard Of $4,000 votes. This canvass gives
the first and the eighth congressional
districts to Brown. These districts
comprise the counties lying along the
Potomac River near Washington and
the so-called northern neck" It also
places in doubt" the fifth and sixth
districts, the Roanoke and Lynchburg
districts. 1t places the ninth district,
has been going Democratic since Slemp
went out of the House back in 20. ex-
cept for the Republican landslide of
last year. as probably for Pollard y
The other districts, the second. third,
fourth, seventh and tenth, are all given
to Pollard in this canvass Of the situa-
ton.
Estimated Votes in Districts.
The estimated pluralities given Brown
and Pollard in these congressional dis
tricts are as follows: For Brown-first
district, 1000; eighth district, 5000;
total, 5000. For Pollard-ninth dis
trict, 1000; second district, 1900; third
district, 5000; fourth district, 5000;
seventh district, 5000, and tenth dis
trict 2,000; total, 10000. The fifth
not counted in this tabulation. With
them omitted, the lead of Pollard over
Brown would be $4,000 If this canvass
is correct.
In both the Pollard and Brown camps
II is declared that the race question Is
not cutting much figure in this cam
paign. But when you scratch the sur
face and get down deep, 1T is found
that Pollard supporters really believe
that this old issue is going to cut big
figure in the voting on Tuesday, and
the Brown people also fear that 1t will.
Both sides have insisted publicly that
this race question was one that should
not properly belong in the election.
Their attitude has been that the race
question, so far as Virginia is con-
cerned, has been solved.
An eleyenth-hour development has
been the announcement that the De
Priest circular, seeking to link up the
colored member of the House from
Chicago with the coalition leaders, and
carrying the pictures OF De Priest ano
his wife, was issued by I, c. Trotman
of Suffolk, a former member OF the
anti-Smith Democratic State commit
tee. When this circular came 10 ngnt a
week ago. Henry w. Anderson, Repuo-
lican leader here, wrote to the Demo-
cratic headquarters and to DR.. Pollard
demanding they say whether they were
responsible for the circular, which Mr
Anderson characterized as utterly lalse'
Pollard Denied Charge.
Roth DR.. Pollard and the Democratic
HEADQUARTERS indignantly denied tney
had anything to do with the circular
Trotman quit the anti-Smith factlon O.
the party months and months ago. He
was anxious to have the anl-Smltf
DenlOCIdlC COllNClltAOii AA
Spring go on record as oenouncmg tlt
entertainment OF Mrs. De Priest At tes
at the White House by Mrs. Hoover
But the anti-Smith convention Woulc
have nothing to do with the propose
which would have made an alliance be-
tween themselves and the Republican,
of the State to elect Brown governor
utterly impossible So Trotman quit thu
anti-Smith faction and went over u
the regulars again.
In the platform adopted by the anti
Smith Democrats in Roanoke 1t was de
clared:
we stand unqualifiedly for racial in
tegrity. While purely ofhcial relations
must be maintained, we are adaman
against any social relations between TIT
white and the colored races and con
denim any such practices as unnatura
and as not only having the tendenc!
to undermine racial integrity, but a
one of the most certain ways OF stirring
up racial prejudice, hatred and unres
and making against peace and good
A-;ll and not In the best interests o
both races"
So the anti-Smith Democrats VIII
voted for Mr.. Hoover make the dis
tinction between purely official' rela
tions and social relations between tn
white and colored and place the enter
tainn1ent Of Mrs. D Priest In the FRS
category.
During the campaign they hav
sought TO make this distinction YER
1rionfinIed IN pace Column II