Evening star., 1932-10-19
KANSAS TIDE TURNS
TOWARD HOOVER AS
ROOSEVELT TRAILS
Fight for Great Dry State
Will Be Close, But Repub-
Iican Hopes Rise.
PRESIDENTS DES MONIES
ADDRESS CHEERS G. O. P.
Party Believed to Have Improved
It's Position Since Democrats
Won in 1850 Contest.
BY G.. GOULD LINCOLN,
Staff Correspondent of The Star.

TOPEKA, Kans., October 19-Demo-
cratic high tide in Kansas was reached
Just before and after candidate Frank
lin D. Roosevelt came to this State. 1t
has been ebbing ever since, and the
prospects today are for Hoover VIC
tory here on November 8.
This does not mean that the battle
Is all over, not by great deal. The
Democrats are still counting on the
great resentment of the farmers to
carry their national ticket to victory
here, and they hope that the national
ticket will aid their State and con-
gressional tickets.
However, since President Hoover
leaped into the campaign at Des Moines
a couple of weeks ago, the Republicans
in Kansas have taken of their coats
and gone to work. They believe that
they will win, now, which they sadly
doubted a month ago.
Kansas Always Republican.
Kansas, although it is the home o.:
cyclones, Garry Nation and political
phenomena. is, in the last analysis,
strongly Republican, or has been. The
Democrats themselves will tell you that
the task of upsetting a 100000 Re
publican lead, which Hoover had over
AL Smith in 1928, is looking bigger and
too. that the swing has been to Hoover
and away from Roosevelt in recent
weeks, but they continue to insist that
the swing is not enough to carry the
State for Hoover and that "Old Man
Depression" in the end will weigh the
scales down in favor of the Demo-
Gratis.
The Republicans in Kansas have an
advantage which they lacked in 1880
when a Democratic Senator and a
Democratic Governor were elected This
year there are no factional differences.
The candidate for Governor, Landon, Is
a former campaign manager Tor Clyde
Reed, Of the Progressive group, and has
been accepted by the conservatives:
Paullen, the Republican nominee Tor
Senator. has been twice Governor and
is widely popular The picture pre-
sented in the Republican camp, there
fore. is very different from that of two
years ago. when factions tore the party
limb from limb.
State Strongly Dry.
Then, too, Kansas is and has been
a drv State. Probably rs per cent of
the voters are dry in the estimation OF
Senator Capper, who knows lot about
Kansas voters and who has been the
biggest vote-getter the State has seen
in years. Whatever any polls may snow
about the lack of Kansas dryness, the
oryress leaders on both sides here are
perfectly willing to admit that the State
is overwhelmingly dry That Is the
reason that the party platforms OF the
Republicans and the Democrats In the
State continue to be dry this year, not
withstanding the repeal and revision
blanks of their national platforms. In
the opinion of the Republicans ana
also of some of the Democrats, the wet
and dry issues as between Hoover ana
Roosevelt is going to aid the President.
The Booze Fighter publication
issued in Butler, Ind, has been sent In
large numbers to clergymen In TINS
State and through the churches has
reached the hands of a lot OF the voters.
This four-page publication urges all the
drys to vote for Hoover and against
Roosevelt Undoubtedly, it is said, the
churches are likely to throw their in
fluence in behind Mr.. Hoover in this
contest.
The President is popular with the
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