Evening star., 1932-10-16
C. P. FIGHTS HARD
FOR CALIFORNIA
Leaders See Gains, but Fear
Loss of All Coast
States.
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| t0at. tne leaQerS are nOpe1ul tAat
radio address. to be delivered by the
President in washington and broadcast
only in California may be arranged for
the last t-minute drive.
Many Are From East.
| One reason given in Les Angeles for
demanding that Coolidge and other
J Eastern Republican spellbinders be sent
/ here for the remainder of the campaign
lies in the fact that Los Angeles and
Los Angeles County have been largely
populated by men and women from
the East and from the Middle West.
Only 25 per cent of the population
/ here is native Californian Thousands
have settled here and hereabouts who
formerly lived in Pennsylvania, Iowa.
New York. the Dakotas and indeed
| from every State in the Union. These
, thousands have made Southern Cali
fornia in the past a rock-ribbed Re-
| publican pasture The leaders. there
fore, feel that if they can get speakers
from the parts of the country these
| people came from they will be more
! inclined to listen to them.
| This is the part of California in
which the fight for righteousness" has
been the watchword. 1t is supposed to
| be the dry part of the State and
/ thousands of dry voters. it is contended,
are still to be found here. The Repub-
| liCans are hopeful these dryS. who have
for the most part also been Repub
| licans, will give their votes to Prcsi
| dent Hoover on the ground that he Is
preferable to the wringing wet repeal
| iSt, Franklin D. Roosevent
Never in the history Of California
have the Democrats been so full of pep,
certainly in Southern California, as
| ~ tt,n
| Democratic registration of voters this
year increase as it never has before.
For the first time. the Democrats point
out. the Republicans have not an actual
majority of the registration in Los
! Angeles City. The voters are regis
| tered as Democrats, Republicans. So
| cialistS, etc. and also as declining to
state" what their party preference may
! be. The Republican registration in
Los Angeles is 342673, Democratic
297,2l1 and declining to state 50,528.
| The registrants who declined to state
their party preference, the Democrats
President Hoover. But that, of course,
! is the Democratic way of looking at the
! thing.
County Registration Huge.
The registration for Los Angeles
County is huge today, totaling 1912 ,856.
] The county includes lot of territory
outside the city. This registration is
divided as follows: Republican, 636089,
! Prohibitionist, $685. Liberty. 1913;
declining to state, 8496l Two years
! ago the total registration was only 853,-
! 678 and the Republicans had of that
| total 6O3,574, while the Democratic
registration was down to 1926. In
| 1923 the registration was 925, 1892, of
which 600,636 was Republican and 2l7.-
050 Democratic 1t is clear, therefore,
| that there has been a great swing
| to the Democratic side. and also that
the increase in the size of the regis
tration has greatly augmented the
Democratic strength.
That the women in Southern Cali
forna are stronger for President Hoo
Yer today than are the men is shown
in the registration figures. In Los
Angeles County 322.426 women are
registered Republicans and 3l3,663 are
men. On the Democratic side 223.3l4
women are registered and 282,3O6 men.
AS in San Francisco and Northern
California the Republican leaders here
do not like the way the various news
! paper polls and other polls have
worked out. They seek to explain that
| these polls mostly were taken before
| the real swing to Hoover began in
this State and therefore are not re-
! liable However, it must be admitted
that check-ups made by the political
| leaders themselves. both Republican
and Democratic, give Roosevelt decided
! " the edge over the President, and
! this in the part of the State which
is supposed to be most strongly Re-
publican.
| Garner Strengthens Ticket.
In Southern California, if nowhere
| else Speaker Gamers nomination for
Vice President is believed to have
! strengthened the Democratic ticket.
| Garner, aided by William Gibbs Nc
| Adoo, ran like wild fire in Los Angeles
! Spring He had 100000 to 10000 for
Roosevelt and II 900 for Smith. Also,
| Mr.. McAdoo. who is not popular at all
with the Democrats of Northern Cali
| fornia, is the moving spirit of the
Democracy of the southern half of the
| State He is credited with having really
stirred the Democrats up and to have
| encouraged them to get out and reg
| lister and organize as they never had
| before.
| The statement by Senator Hiram
| johnson that he could not and would
not support President Hoover, put out
yesterday in San Francisco in reply to
| a telegram sent him by a lot of South
| ern California editors, has caused some
| grief here among the Republicans, just
! as it did in the northern part of the
| State. They are countering. however,
! with a statement from Representative
| Swing of the old Johnson-SWing Pro-
gressive combination. in which Mr..
| Swing declares his intention to support
President Hoover.
MI. Swing declared he had repeatedly
| stated that President Hoover is en-
, titled to the highest credit for the re-
| construction program he has put
| through Congress. We are beginning to
feel the good effects of it. He. deserves
reelection and certainly has my sup
port to that end"
| There are a considerable number of
the old johnson Progressives, it is said,
who are not lining up with Senator
| johnson in this fight If President
| Hoover carries California. the Republi-
cans here are likely to make it rather
| uncomfortable for Johnson in 1884.
when he must come up for reelection.
Indeed. one of the reasons given by
the Republican editors, and particularly
! by the dean of them, who has been
+ Progressive, Wneil CHey Sent Cuell tele-
gram 10 Johnson demanding that he
stand for Hoover was that they wished
to smoke out" Senator johnson SO that
| they would know just what to do when
| 1884 rolls around. At all events, they
, now know.
Fight by No Means Over.
! The Democrats here have seized on
an editorial remark made by Chairman
| Mathews of the Republican Committee,
] in which he ciassed, or seemed to class,
Italians with the Chinese and the South
Americans. 1t had been reprinted in
the Italian newspaper here and sent
around the country in an effort to stir
up the Italians against the Hoover
ticket If they are correct, it has al
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