Evening star., 1930-10-31
CAMPAIGN RACES
AS VOTING NEARS
Leaders on Both Sides See
Hoover and Dry Question
as Ballot Issues.
BY BYRON PRICE,
Associated Press STAR Writar


True to its early promise Of infinite
variety, the political campaign con-
tinues an ever-changing picture, reviv-
Ing old associations and producing new
issues almost within sight Of election
day.
Raising a once familiar voice from
his political retirement, Calvin Coolidge
counseled a radio audience of his fell
low countrymen last night to stand by
the Republican administration at WASH
ington and avoid rash experiments" in
troubled times.
simultaneously, a member Of the
Hoover cabinet, Secretary Hurley, de-
clared Republicans first had sponsored
the five-day work week, which made an
unheralded entry into the national cam
paign but few days since in q speech
by Democratic Chairman Raskob.
Speaking in Ohio, James M. Cox
charged that Republican candidates
were raising an issue of sectional hate
by warning the voters against deliver
ing the leadership Of Congress into the
hands OF the Southern Democrats.
Borah Speaks for Norris.
Farm relief, brought back into the
picture recently by Alfred E. Smith, was
kept there, momentarily, at least, by
Senator Borah. The independent Re-
publican leader from Idaho said the new
Congress would see a fresh attempt to
enact the debenture plan, opposed so
insistently by President Hoover. Borah,
speaking in Lincoln, Nebr., on behalf
OF Senator George w. Norris, forecast
also an early fight in Congress to repeal
the eighteenth amendment
Former Senator James A. Reed. in St
Louis, offered as a remedy for hard
times, ITO turn out Republicans as fast
as we can get to them"
While the echoes of these and divers
other national announcements were
mingling today with the noisy wind-ur
Of more than a score Of State cam
paigns, the political prognosticators put
out new sheaf of predictions.
William Tyler Page. clerk Of the Ma
tional House Of Representatives, forecast
safe Republican majority in the new
House to be chosen Tuesday, thus con-
tradicting directly even the most mod
Caraway, returning from a Democratic
campaign trip into Kentucky and Ok
lahoma, pronounced both States safely
Democratic. Notwithstanding Repub-
lican claims to the contrary.
From the prohibition front, too, enna-
mated warning communiques. H. H
Curran, generalissimo of the Associa-
ton Against the Prohibition Amend
ment, predicted gain Of at least
seats in the Senate and 60 in the House
for the opponents of prohibition. DR.
r. Scott Mcbride Of the Anti-Saloon
League said Maj Curran had been
blowing bubbles.
Political Weather Maps Spotty.
Meantime, even so near election day
political headquarters found difnculty
in Judging how seriously the. great
American electorate really was interest
ing itself in these matters. All political
weather maps were spotty. Some To-
calities remained comparatively quiet,
whatever their voters might be think
ing; in others registration figures had
mounted to extraordinary totals for an
od-year, and weeks of furious cam
paigning were entering upon their
rioutous climax.
In such a campaign no division can
be drawn between the pull OF national
questions and the emotional appeal OF
local contests like those now passing
through their decisive stages In New
York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio and
other States torn by painful internal
dissention. 1t Is the best guess Of the
leaders on both sides, however, that at
least two issues Of national import are
rooted deep in the emotions Of the voters
far and wide. One Of these issues Is
Herbert Hoover. The other Is prohibi-
ton.