Imperial Valley press., 1932-11-07
HEAVY VOTING
PREDICTED BY
PARTY CHIEFS.
Expect 5O,OOO,OOO Citizens
Will Go To Polls Tomorrow
To Select President.
DISPUTES BOURBON CLAIM
Sanders Says Hoover Has Is
More Electoral Votes Than
Needed For Election.
By RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press Staff CORRESPONDENT

United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Nov. THE most
direct and personal clash of poll
tical leadership of this century
comes to an end tonight, when Pre-
sident Herbert Hoover and Cover
nor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New
York, conclude their campaigns for
the presidency of the United States.
A record breaking number of bal
lots, estimated at possibly 50,000,-
600 will be cast tomorrow to de-
eide the result.
President Hoover and Governor
Roosevelt, men of contrasting back
ground, careers, views and fellow
workers in the Wilson war admins
tration, are the dominating protag-
onists in the depression election.
But Republicans do not concede
the election, although Democrats
are claiming it. Republican Nation
al Chairman Sanders credits Pre-
sident Hoover with an irreducible
minimum of Is more than a ma
jority of the electoral college. He
included in this list New York, Illi-
nois and Ohio, loss of any one of
which would bring this estimated
total below the 266 electoral major
ity line.
Both candidates, contrary to
usual practice, spent the last day
of the campaign continuing their
appeal to the voters. Mr.. Hoover,
westward bound to vote, spoke to
crowds from his west bound train.
Governor Roosevelt mingled with
his neighbors aIong the Hudson
river valley. Both were to make
eleventh hour appeals tonight. For
mer President Coolidge also was
to put in a final plea for his sue
CeSSOr.
Seek Voters
The chief purpose of these final
appeals was to bring out the vote.
Political workers for the next "a
hours were due to concentrate on
this practical task. In close states,
the result may turn entirely on
which organization gets out the
largest percentage of its vote. Cast
ing and counting-these are more
important to the average politician
now than speeches by the candi-
dates
Registrations have broken all rec
ords. This is considered by most
politicians as an indication of their
deep interest in the campaign.
The campaign has been less noisy
in some respects Snan that of four
years ago. A serious silence appears
to have spread over the electorate.
Deep economic questions, which
come down to stark elementary
matters of food and shelter for
wives and children, have made
ironical many of the usual circus
trappings of presidential campaigns.
Twenty minor parties have put can
didates in the Ceid, and the Social
list presidential candidate, Norman
Thomas, has been greeted every
where by larger crowds than his
hitherto Inflated party has been
able to muster in the past.
This tense, anxious Keeling, which
already in primary elections has
turned politics upside down in some
places, turned down the La Fol-
lettes in Wisconsin for instance,
converged most sharply on the two
chief figures of the depression cleo
tion-Hoovel and Roosevelt.
Candidates Active
They have dominated this cam
paign and it's every phase more
completely than candidates usual
ly do. Roosevelt overruled his adj
visers and took the Pacific Coast
trip anyway. Mr.. Hoover originally