The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-11
FIERCE BALLOT
BATTLE FACED
IN CALIFORNIA
Gain in Electoral Votes
Makes Hoover'S State
Greater Prize.
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER
United Press stan Correspondent
opvriqht. 1882 BY United Press


WASHINGTON, July 11-Cali-
fornia is to be real battle ground
in the presidential election this
year.
Democrats are preparing to carry
their fight into President Hoover's
home state.
At the White House it is said Mr..
Hoover does not intend to go to Cal
ifornia during The campaign. He
cancelled plans to open the Olympic
games at Los Angeles.
But his opponent, Governor
Franklin d. Roosevelt, is going, as
is Speaker John N. Garner, the
Democratic presidential candi-
date.
The prize is greater this year than
ever before. California win cast
twenty-five electoral votes next No
vember. Nine votes we're gained
through the recent reapportion-
ment under the new census.
This is the first time Democrats
have given more than perfunctory
thought to California since 1916
when Republicans, though one
neglected handshake lost the senate
and the White House. Remember
ing that, it is the firm intention of
the Democrats to leave no hand I'M
shaken in California this year.
Normally 2-tO-1 G. o. p.
Normally the state is at least q
to-1 Republican. Sometimes it S
3 and to l. Democrats hopes are
built on these considerations:
1-Senator Hiram Johnson, idol
L Of California progressives, has
Condemned Mr.. Hoover and lauded
Roosevelt.
He has not bolted the Republican
ticket, but he publicly has told his
friends he likes Roosevelt. Should
he openly support Roosevelt later,
Democratic chances in California
would be rated good.
O-Republican registration in
- California dropped $4,000
Democratic registrations gained
$4,000, according to Democratic ma
tional committee figures.
In the recent Democratic primary,
Democrats polled a total of more
than $4,000 votes, not far short of
the total vote for Alfred E. Smith
four years ago
These signs lead Democratic poll
ticians to believe that California
voters are preparing to desert Palo
Altos first citizen in large numbers.
O-Democrats have a new agrees
- sive state organization. Will
liam G. McAdoo is the candidate for
senator.
One Of the best politicians in the
state, John B, Elliott, is one of the
managers of the Democratic cam
paign.
Twice in Office
This team long has had a feud
with the San Francisco Democratic
organization under Isadore Dock
weller, retiring national committee
man. ---..,.--.-.~r,s..v..s,s
buJ DOChWeller WAS a fOOSeVeIC
man months before McAdoo
switched California and Texas at
Chicago and will be taken care of.
So the peacemakers are optimistic.
Democrats elected a senator,
James D. Phelan, in 1914. Other
wise they have had starvation fare
in California except when Wilson
carried the state in 1916, because
his Republican opponent, Charles
E. Hughes, failed to shake hands
with Hiram Johnson, then Repub-
lican candidate for the senate.
Some have said Hughes did not
know Johnson was in the same
hotel
Johnson's friends said it was
deliberate snub because he had
bolted the party to be Teddy Roose-
velt's presidential candidate
four years earlier. 1t cost the Re-
publicans California and the ma
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