Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-03
Several Statewide Elections
Also Being Held in Addition
to Filling Congressional
Vacancies.
NORMAL RESULTS WILL
GIVE REPUBLICANS TIE
First Ohio and Eighth Michigan
Seen as Doubtful, With Hoover
Administration as Issue-New
York Interest Centers on Roose-
velt-Smith Disagreement.
~ the Associated rresS.

BY the Associated Press.
Riding to the sway of balloting
today In five congressional dis
trictS is the 13-year -old DONNA
ton OF the House Of Representa-
tives.
From the results of these and
other elections in a number OF
States, observers will seek to read
political foreShadowingS OF events
during the 1882 presidential cam
paign.
OF the FIVE special elections
called to fill vacancies in the
House, the outcome in two usually
Republican districts is considered
doubtful. They are the first Ohio
and the eighth Michigan.
The Democrats, who have
formed the House minority since
1918, have assailed the Hoover
administration Whatever the
election results, they will be gen.
orally interpreted as the political
sentiment toward the Chief Exec
utive.
q. p. o. Best Is Tie.
Should the Rel ublicans return Rep
resentatives from the three seats ira
Sitionally theirs, the most they could
do would be 70 tie the Democrats at
2l6, as the Democrats have virtually
been conceded victory in the other two
districts, which ere normally In their
column.
The present Lne-up gives the Demo-
Gratis 2l4, Republicans, 2l3; Farmer
Labor. / vacancies, z. One vacancy In
the fifth New Jersey district, usually
Republican will be filled December /,
1t may be the decisive district, should
today's elections 20 as in the past.
The seventh vacancy :s IN a, the ,i flrst
January S, too late for the Represent
alive to participate in House organi-
zation when Congress convenes, De-
The dispute in New York between
Gov. Franklin Roosevelt and Alfred E.
Smith, the 1923 Democratic presidential
nominee, over n forestation amend
ment to the Stste constitution has
bothered Democrats. Roosevelt looms
as presidential timber and Smith con-
tinues the titular party leader.
BelittIes Disagreement.
Anton ]. Cernak. Democratic mayor
of Chicago. however, last night in New
York belittled this talk about a
CtfAIil-ENOOceNelb disagreement ne
held the issue vas merely State mat
ter.
In New York the Democrats also
hope to capture control of the Assembly
Down in Kentucky both Republicans
and Democrats are claiming victory in
the gubernatorial contest that conferred
around Ben Johnson, highway commits
sioner. He was Endorsed by Judge Ruby
Laffoon. Democratic candidate, and de-
nounced by Mayor William B. Harrison
of Louisville, Republican candidate
Virginia is electing its General As
sembly. and Mississippi will ratify its
Democratic slate Of State officers.
The New Jersey gubernatorial race.
led for a time by two anti-prohibition-
lists, Harry Moore. Democrat, and David
Baird, Republican. had the wet-and-dry
issue injected by a third candidate.
Edmund r. Halsey has Anti-Saloon
League support,
Ohio has a $500, 900 State welfare
bond issue to vote on.
Pennsylvania is elecIing q Supreme
Court justice, and a hot sectional scrap
among Republicans in the Pittsburgh
Allegheny Counties dispute over a COM
missioner is reaching its climax.
Down in the first Ohio district, rep
resented rs years by the late Speaker
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