The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-11-03
PARTIES MAKE
LAST minute
BALLOT PLEAS
Democrats Closing VoIIey
in Campaign Charges
lob Aid Failure:
DRYS ISSUE WARNINGS
g. 0. P. Appeal Based on
Presidents Need for
Congress Support.
BY PAUL r. MALLON
United Press stan Correspondent


WASHINGTON, NOV. 3.-The last
partisan cheers are dying away and
The final word is being mimeo-
graphed or spoken at headquarters
OF candidates in preparation for
the election Tuesday Of congress
of the United States
Upward Of 100000 prospective
voters have only a few hours re-
naming to make up their minds
whether the Republican admin
istration or the Democrats should
control law making of the country
Tor the next two years.
BY shutdown Tuesday their col
lective voice will be heard through
the ballot box in forty-seven states
where 431 members Of the house
and thirty-four senators as we'll as
thirty-one states Governors are be-
ing elected.
The Democrats closed the cam
paign as they opened it-with high
hopes and a hammering at the con-
duct of the administration during
the business crisis. Through their
efficient publicity bureau here, a
> statement was issued by Senator
Walter F. George Dem., Ga)
charging the house Republican
leadership with thwarting the only
real effort to solve unemployment.
Charges Bills Killed
George contended these admins
tration leaders killed the Wagner
unemployment bills sponsored by
the Democrats at the last session
of congress.
The same trend will be followed
tonight in a national radio broad
cast by Jouett Shouse, chairman of
the executive committee.
On the Republican side, a men,
Der Of the Hoover cabinet came to
the support of the Republican sena-
torial candidate in Illinois, Mrs.
Ruth Hanna Mccormick.
In a statement issued through the
Republican senatorial committee,
Secretary of Commerce Lamont
urged the voters to elect men and
women who will support the Hoover
policies, and then he added:
Il think it particularly desirable
(. that we Of the great state of Illinois
reaff1rm the confidence expressed in
Herbert Hoover two years ago by
electing Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCor-
mick to the senate and returning to
the house a strong Republican dele
cation.
Drys Issue Warning
Between these laSt-minute mis-
siles of the two parties came a MINI
eographed warning from the dry
organization here, headed by the
Anti-Saloon League. Their state
ments urged the voters to support
III the elections those candidates
who stand for maintenance and eff
1ective administration of the pr0hi-
bition law and who will respect de-
' cisions effected by constitutional
means at The ballot box"
Their warning was directed
against proposals to existing consti-
tutional bans on what they called
''habit-fnrning poison
ANY modification by writing into
law legal fiction giving special
privilege to the manufacturers of
beer and wine to monopolize trade
in intoXicants would impugn this
sincerity of the Constitution and
strike at the integrity of govern
a ment," the drys concluded.
Refer to Beer Rumor
Their remarks obviously were re-
ferTing to rumorS which have swept
over the stock market tickers dur
ing the last two years suggesting
the WickerSham commission shortly
would report in favor of A per
cent beer.
These rumorS we're recurrent Sun
Gay night, but met the same wall
of official silence at the White
- House and the headquarters of the
Wickersham commission. 1t is
pointed out the commission will
meet here Wednesday the day after
election, to formulate its report on
prohibition.
The unusual nature of the three
statements from the Democrats,
Republicans and drys lent further
credence to the possibility that upSets
may be recorded IN the voting Tues
day.
The economic situation. business
retrenchment. unemployment and
prohibition are reported by many
: observers to have disturbed the cleo
torate accustomed for eighteen years
20 re-elect Republican congresses.
Prohibition is regarded as major
issue in eleven states, including
Massachusetts,, Illinois, Rhode
Island, Wisconsin, New Jersey, New
York, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Montana and Washington. Refer
enda are scheduled in Massachusetts,
Illinois and Rhode Island.
Four Prospects Affected
4 Involved in the election are
Franklin D. Roosevelt, candidate for
Governor of New York: Clifford Pin
chot, gubernatorial candidate of the
Republican party in Pennsylvania;
Dwight Morrow, Republican sena-
torial candidate in New Jersey, and
Albert Richie. Democratic candi-
date for reelection as Governor of
Maryland. All these -four. have been
mentioned as possible presidential
candidates in 1892
The Democrats believe they have
an excellent chance to win. Shouse
publicity predicts gain Of seventy
two house seats. a landslide which
would give the Democrats a major
ity Of twenty. He also claims a gain
OF ten senate seats, enough to over
throw control IF the INNER house