New Britain herald., 1930-10-31
POLITICAL ISSUES
 GREATLY CONFUSED
Predictions Seem Vain as 47
 State3 GO to Polls

Washington, Oct. 31 P-Anoth- CT nationwide political campaign is nearing it's climax amid confusioc of men and measures which is at once reminiscent and prophetic.
 Over the protest of those party leaders who would prefer to forgive and forget. d strong savor of in- gradients smu5gled from the trou- hled ferment of 1928 fingers about the political mixing boards of 1930
 And the loaves that come from the oven election day will be sam- pied with many d wistful conjec- ture about political appetites in the presidential year 1932.
 To say it with statistics, the vot- CTS this year will choose d complete new house of representatives, con- sisting of 4S5 members: g. senators who will sit in the new congress after March 4. and five ulners who will fill out interrupted terms end ing March 4; the governors of 33 states; and minor state officials in eight others.
 Local Questions. Too
 The electorate also will decide, by referendum combined total of 163 lccal questions propounded on bal lots of 3l states.
 Every state but Maine. which clings to the custom of electing ir September, will vote on a single election day--Novembe 4.
 State differently. and from ma tional viewpoint, the voters will say whether President Hoover is to con- tinue to have in office with him a congress overwhelmingly republi- can. They will settle certain local Epleasantncsses over candidates who bolted their party ticket two years ago; will, conceivably, sort others who aspire to graduate into presidential candidates two years hence.
 No Dominating Note
 Perhaps, too, they will give the politicians a little more light and guidance on popular sentiment on such question as prohibition.
 Only in the most general way is it possible to state the issues on whicj! he election will turn. In the begin rins, it was tfc ukase of republican and democratic spOkesmcn alike that the record of the haif~ complet- cG Hoover administration should be the dominating note.
 It is true that much talk has en- sued about the Presidents attitude toward business depression, unem- rloyment. the tariff. the drought and vhat-not. but the effort to maintain 8 national party front has produced results which might be called surprising even for a time oe political turmoil.
 If it were possible to lay out n map of the political trenches short lv before clection the line of battle would be found somewhat more crooked than q buzz-saw's edge.
 In the nevcr-quiet prohibition sec tor. for instance. wet republicans and wet democrats in such states as New York and New Jersey stand almost side by side, facing directly the dry republicans and dry demo- crats of such states as Kansas. while in an cr-populated mo- man's-land between burn camp fires of a great host of republicans and democrats in every state an degree of moistness.
 Many Party Splits
 On the tariff issue, a sizable sec lion of the west sees duly chosen republican nominees campaigning against the revision bill signed by the President while a conspicuous group of democrats defend votes they cast for this same bill.
 In Nebraska Senator Norris seeks reelection as a republican who bolt ed Hoover. and is proud Of it. In Alabama Senator Heflin fights for another term as an independent democrat who bolted Smith, and would do it again. Ohio democrats lave named ! wet for senator and q dry for governor. A dry democrat battles wet republican for the sen- ate in Montana.
 Few Points of Solidarity
 The best that can be said is that only a few points there is semblance