Evening star., 1932-11-06
REICH TO CHOOSE
BETWEEN HITLER
ANDPAPEN TODAY
Yelled Nazi Threat and Stern
Order for Peace Mark
End of Campaign.
SCORE KILLED AND MANY
HURT SINCE SEPTEMBER
Chancellor Has Three Weapons Of
Defense in Dissolution, Dictator
ship and Alliance of Parties.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
BERLIN, November 5-With veiled
threat Of violence from Adolph Hitlers
Nazis, with stern order for peace
from the government, Germany's fifth
major political campaign Of the year
came to an end tonight.
Since it began, at the end of Sep
tember. at least score of men have
been killed in political riots and many
others have been injured Tomorrow
the voters, selecting members of new
Reichstag, will make their choice once
more between Hitler and Chancellor
Franz Won Papen.
-Four times this year the people have
sustained the chancellor, each time by
smaller margin. He expects to win
again. Hitler, looking back upon his
steadily growing strength, hopes that
when the votes are counted he will at
last be in the drivers seat.
AS in preceding campaigns, the issues
we're drawn early. Hitler stands un-
changed for uncompromising national
ism. He would repudiate the treaty Of
Versailles, write off all foreign debts
except commercial obligations, build the
German fighting forces to point be-
yond the limits now imposed upon
them.
Stands On His Record.
The chancellor stands on his record.
He has inaugurated plan for economic
restoration which he declares will pro-
vide jobs for hundreds of thousands now
idle. During his administration the
heaviest burden of the reparations was
lifted from the country. In the field
1f oyat hn bac
the other powers recognize Germany's
right to equality of treatment, and his
representatives at Geneva withdrew
from the Disarmament Conference when
this recognition was not forthcoming
He has constitutional weapons of de-
fenSe should his margin of victory be
so slender as TO take control OF the
Reichstag out Of his hands.
If no party wins clear majority
giving it certain control, he may dis
solve the Reichstag. he may establish
a dictatorship. or he may negotiate an
alliance with friendly parties and gov
ern through them.
The first he has already tried. With
the Hitler National Socialists and their
allies in the saddle during the last
Reichstag session, the government
escaped defeat only by hasty applica-
ticn of dissolution order. That order
made this election necessary, for under
the constitution a new election must be
held within 80 days of dissolution.
Second Measure Applied.
The second measure also has been
applied. in fact if not in name. During
periods of dissolution the cabinet has
governed by decree under the so-called
dictatorship clause" of the constitution.
The third alternative is in use fire.
quently, whenever the government party
cannot muster enough of its own votes
on the floor to back its own policies.
All these things were dealt with by
the party leaders in the early days of
the campaign. In the last weeks, espe-
cially in the last few days, they came
down to personal basis.
Hitler was attacked as traitor whose
refusal to cooperate with the govern
ment when he was offered cabinet
post was stab in the back to the
nation. Won Papen was described as
an opportunist who does the bidding of
the bankers and turns the other cheek
to France.
Hitler,S foreign policies have been
viewed with alarm; Won Papen's recon-
Struction program has been called q
mirage and a delusion.
There has been less physical violence
this time than in other campaigns, but
there have been riots and men have
been killed.
The issue Of states rights arose
when the federal authorities deposed
the PruSSian cabinet, charging that its
members were disregarding their duty
of maintaining the peace Other
states joired Prussias protest and q
Supreme Court ruling on the constitu-
tonality of the act was indecislve.
Government Is Upheld.
The court held that the government
was within its rights, but that the Prus-
sian ministry still was the constitu-
tional organ of the state.
The issue of unemployment remains
important, but the government has
hung its campaign on this issue upon
the program which already has been
put into operation.
National Socialists have allied them
selves at times with Socialists. and as
in the present transportation strike,
with Communists. These alliances Of
the moment, some observers believe, will
do Hitler more harm than good among
the bulk of the voters who usually have
proved conservatives at heart when they
go to the polls
The chancellor has taken over one
OF Hltler'S favortte issues and made 1t
his own-that of creating and MAIN
tanning an authoritative" government.
No one has denied that the present ad-
ministration, governing by decree, Is
authoritative" and one of the cabinets
major undertakings is revision of the
constitution to create new Parliament
like the American Congress, and elimi-
mating the system which has made this
years series of elections necessary.
Fifteen Parties Compete.
Fifteen parties have candidates in this
election, but interest centers upon the
vote for four-the National Socialists,
the Social Democrats, the Communists
and the German Nationalists.
In the last House their representation
in the order named was 23O, 1873, 80 and
81. No radical shift Of power is expect
ed from tomorrow's vote, but the Ma
tionals expect to draw enough from the
National Socialists to make their party
the pivotal group In the Reichstag.
Their program calls for overthrow Of
parliamer m, destruction of MARX
ISM" ar lguration of militant"
foreign | ~. Should they succeed at
the polls, and should they draw the
Nazis to their side In the House. Ger
many would swing back to the right"