Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-04
VOTING APPEARS
LIGHTER THAN 1928
Coalition May Win Control
of One or Both Houses
of Congress.
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margin in the Senate. AS a result, con-
troll of Senate or House, or both, by a
Observation-Disclosures coalition was
possibility.
Prohibition, unrecognized by either
party as a national issue, has all but
monopolized the stage in many locali-
ties and any oyerturns will be scru-
tinized with extreme interest by vets
and drys.
Not only are the possible fortunes of
President Hoover in 1882 thus entangled
with today's verdict at the polls, but
the result Is fraught with potentialities
for other outstanding figures in Ameri-
can politics.
Among other things, the election will
decide whether Franklin d. Roosevelt,
groomed by his supporters for the presi-
dency, will be reelected Governor of
New York or voted out of public life.
It will determine whether the time
has come to confer the title Of Senator
by-election on woman, Ruth Hanna
Mccormick of Illinois.
It win disclose whether Democratic
Alabama Is to discipline Senator Hefiin,
by keeping him at home, because he
It win write success or failure across
Clifford Pinchots spectacular campaign
to win the Pennsylvania governorship
on the Republican ticket without the
support Of powerful Republican leaders.
In Montana the returns will say
whether Senator Walsh, prosecutor of
the Teapot Dome investigation, is to
return again to the Senate after one
OF the hardest campaigns in his career.
Norris vs.. Hitchcock.
In Nebraska the voters will decide be-
tween the veteran Senator Norris and
his one-time colleague, former Senator
Hitchcock.
Maryland will answer whether Albert
G. Richie is to break still another
precedent by winning the governorship
for a fourth time
And, by the degree in which it gives
to the independent Republicans the
balance OF power in the new Senate, the
election conceivably viii give scope to
the operations henceforth of the inde-
pendent Senator Borah
In two-thirds of the States measures
Of legislation or public policy are be-
fore the voter for direct action by
referendum. Prohibition provides the
medium for three, Illinois and Rhode
Island voting their opinions whether
the eighteenth amendment should be
repealed, and Massachusetts, deciding
whether to do away with her State en-
forcement act. Bond issues for public
works totaling upward of half-billion
dollars, advocated as a boon to employ
ment, are on the ballots in 20 States.
Eleventh. Hour Appeals.
In many communities the voters
turned out today with eleventh. hour
appeals by party spokesman still fresh
in overnight memories.
Nationally, both parties said their last
word last evening over the radio.
Speaking for the Republicans, James
Frances Burke repeated again the
watchword of the Republican campaign,
Stand by the President; for the DEM
ocrats, Jouett Shouse and Senator
Robinson Of Arkansas asked that the
congressional election express Nations
disapproval of the Hoover policies.
Fair weather over most of the country
augured for . heavy vote, although, OF
course, the total, as customary in off,
years, was expected to fall below the
mammoth figure Of 1928. Only for the
South Atlantic States, where there are
few election contests, did the weather
map show signs of rain.
Most Of the States close their polls at
nightfall. and comprehensive returns
from the East and Middle West seemed
likely by early evening The Far West
will be well behind. In Washington and
Oregon the closing time was pm,
Pacific time, or IL pm. on the Atlantic
Seaboaid. Kentucky, under q new law,
viii not begin to count the ballots until
tomorrow morning, circumstance
which held possibilities of leaving an
important gap in election might tabula-
items. For this year. the Blue Grass
State was one of the most bitterly con-
tested among them all.
Democrats Need So.
To gain control of the House-the
big prize In every off-year election--the
Democrats must make a net gain of
So. Technically. they have 435 chances
In 1880, for the entire membership
comes up for election. Actually, how
ever, the field Is much narrower.
A total Of "a nominees, most of them
Southern Democrats, have no candi-
dates against them. In the four Maine
districts Republicans already have been
elected; for Maine votes In September,
and was the only State casting no bal
lots today. In many other districts the
result was foregone conclusion, one
way or the other.
Many scattered districts. one or two
to State, were on today's list of the
actually disputed. but Kentucky. Ohio
Indiana, West Virginia and Missouri
were the States which were feeling the
full force Of the Democratic shock
troops.
In the Senate, which elects but one
third of its membership this year, the
Democrats need net gain of 10 for q
majority, and the whole number Of
really disputable States numbered only
about @ dozen. States which today
were writing the verdict on especially
aggressive Democratic efforts 70 unseat
Republican Senator'S included Colorado.
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