Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-01
Democrats Expect Majority
in Next House-G. O. p.
Sees Anti-CIimax.
FINAL DRIVE FOR VOTES
DEVELOPS BITTERNESS
New Congress and 80 Governors
to Be Chosen by Voters
Next Tuesday.
BY BYRON PRICE,
Associated Press STAFF Writer.

by political dissension the party cap
tains sounded today a final rallying call
to the millions who will choose new
Congress and the Governors Of 80
States at Tuesdays general election.
Except for the few valedictory cere-
monials reserved for election eve, the
campaign is ending with the week,
bringing 10 its big moment in carnival
profusion the customary noise and color
Of climatic political emotion. Today
and tonight many thousands Of Amer
leans exercise the constitutional right
of tumultuous free aSSemblage, as hun
dreds of travel-weary candidates petit
ton for victory with their last hoarse
whisper.
Contemplating this picture, on pre-
election Saturday, the leaders OF both
of the great parties turned hopeful but
anxious faces toward the fast-approach-
ing day of decision.
Democrats Optimistic.
Heartened by what they conceive to
be a widespread dissatisfaction with
the Hoover administration, on the score
of the business depression, prohibition,
the tariff, farm relief and other issues,
the Democrats stood by their predic-
lions that their unrelenting campaign
of attack would mean Democratic
House of Representatives and material
reduction, at least in the Republican
majority in the Senate.
The Republicans, acknowledging that
some losses are likely, took new hope
from reports-denied by the Democrats
that the last week or two had seen
turn downward in Democratic fortunes
one Of those anti-climaxeS which
sometimes mark the last days OF
party effort brought to its peak toe
long before election day.
It will be for the count OF the bal
lots, of course, to decide what substance
there may be in these premises, on
by them, on both sides, was substantial
enough today to throw both party head
quarters in Washington, and the many
lesser outposts throughout the country.
into a last CONFUSION of supreme
activity.
Campaign Of Strong Words.
The vigor of this final struggle was
evidenced, and had been evidenced for
some days past, in the mounting Bit
terness of the play and counterplay OF
political debate. 1t had become
campaign Of strong words.
Speaking last night 70 national
radio audience, Senator James z. Wat
son of Indiana, the Republican leader
of the Senate, forecast time of utter
chaos should a Democratic Congress
be chosen, declaring, mo man could
even begin to describe the appalling
conditions that inevitably would come"
Former Senator James A. Reed OF
Missouri. aSsailing the Republican farm
policies, spoke thus of his old-time
antagonist in Missouri politics, Secre-
tary of Agriculture Hyde: One gains
nothing by debate with an intellectual
ulcer"
Thus goes the argument in these last
days, and by no means does the ma
tional forum have a monopoly either OF
direct speaking or emotional enthu-
siasm. In an unusual number OF States
local contests on local issues are STIR
ring the spellbinders to fury.
In Illinois, where national issues have
become intricately intertwined with the
senatorial contest between Ruth Hanna
Mccormick and James Hamilton Lewis.
the senatorial contest itself has in turn
tangled itself with Chicago City poll
tics, including bitter dispute over
the regime of Mayor William Hale
Thompson.
1ammany halI issue.
In New York prediction Saturday
finds a pugnaciouS Republican organt-
zation peppering Gov. Roosevelt with a
final barrage of charges in which there
Is much mention of Tammany Hall.
Pennsylvania voters are listening to
fervent appeals for and against Clifford
Pinchot as he battles for the governor
ship minus the support of a conSid-
cradle bloc of boiling Republican State
leaders; Massachusetts, winds up in a
campaign comparable in intensity to
the Hoover Smith dispute there in 1928;
Alabama is swept with the whitening
croSs-fire of those Democrats who do
not want to see Senator Hefin return
to the Senate and those "Jeffersonian
Democrats" who do.
Which are only few Of the disagree
ments and unpleasantnesses to be
handed over to the voters next Tuesday
for decision as by law provided.