New Britain herald., 1930-10-30
CAMPAIGN ENTERS i LAST LAP OF RACE:
Experienced Prophets Admit Re . suit Gan Not Be FOretOld
By the Associated Press.

With quickening step, as it's great figures are paraded in a final rally, the political campaign is trooping helter-skelter into history. Its last days, like it's first, are filled with confusion and uncertainty.
 Nationally, the wandering atten- tons of the voter are invited witc growing insistence to single issue Herbert Hoover and his twenty months in the White House. But To- cally, in many a precinct, the voice of national politics is drowned by Q dispute over prohibition, or party regularity, or the personality of minor candidate. Even 1928 was scarcely richer in it's tumble of is- sues than is 1930, five days before election.
 Today the country had the addi- tlonal word of two such eminen. public men as Andrew w. Mellon and Alfred E. Smith that the rec ords of the republican administra- ton at Washington stands out as a commanding promontory on the 1resent political map of the nation.
 Speaking by radio last night from Washington, Secretary Mellon asked for the election of republican con- gress to uphold the hands of a president whose leadership he prais- cd in a time of national trouble. Speaking by radio from New York. former Governor Smith asked for d democratic congress as rebuke to the administration and to provide d leadership which he said was lack ing at the capital.
 Coolidge to Speak
 With increasing emphasis, utter aDces like these have come recently from scarcely less distinguished sources. Others are to follow. To- night former President Coolidge speaks. Senator Robinson of Ark ansas, the democrat senate leader, will close his party's campaign on election eve, November 3. But there is no sign that MT. Hoover, the cen ter of it all, will address any word on this subject to his follow citizens.
 To some degree every president becomes the focus of controversy in the off-year campaign midway be- tween presidential elections. In the present instance, however, special consid derations have thrust the Hoo- yer policies into the spotlight The business situation, and what the president did and did not do about if, have formed the arrowhead of the democratic attack. Prohibition has contributed it's share to the dis pute, and the republican tariff bill, became a law just in time to carry it's special load of controversy to the political stump.
 Nearly all of these considerations have become more or less inter- twined with various state campaigns, including the spectacular guberna- torial contests in New York and Pennsylvania, now at fever heat. They are still further tangled with local issues in senatorial and con- gressional campaigns, in manner which makes even the wisest politi- cal diagnosticians hesitate when they speak of what may happen at the polls on November 4.
 No responsible party leader de- nies, however, that on the basis of all these issues jumbled together, the democrats have made a really serious bid for control of the next house of representatives. Even when they speak privately the democra- tic politicians insist they expect a majority. The republicans, passing their opinions on different set of reports from the field. insist private ly that while their margin of con- trol will be reduced materially, the majority will remain republican.
 Verdict Doubtful
 If the most earnest professions on both sides are to be taken at face value, this is one campaign where only 8 count of the ballots can de- liver a reliable verdict.
 The senate is quite another propo- sition. Only one-third of it's mem- bership comes up for election in 1880, and many of the states elect ing provide no possibility of a turn over. In the limited field remaining, republicans and democrats agree that the republican majority will be reduced, but that only an epochal democratic landslide could insure