Evening star., 1932-11-06
Claims Major Parties Departments
Are Hard at Work on Eve of Election

trail character in the operations of the
power trust"
In sum, thereupon, on this point the
Republicans insist that Mr.. Smith and
Mr. Young, though they may have
strengthened Roosevelt in the East.
have weakened him in the West. They
ironically inquire as 10 the health OF
Senator George Norris Of Nebraska
when he now observes his candidate,
Roosevelt, accepting gratefully the
praise and support of the same Mr..
Young whom the senatorial Progress
sives have SO often described as the
epitome of power trust" Vaccinations !!
Thereupon the Republicans, though
given a lew additional shivers by Mr..
Smith and Mr. Young in the East. are
because of them a trifie encouraged as
they proceed from Pittsburgh westward
In the region from Pittsburgh to
Chicago they realize that 1t IS almost
essential for them to capture the SO
electoral votes OF Ohio. Michigan, Indi-
ana and Illinois. They are conscious
that they will this year receive no re-
Inducements from the 10 States of the
Solid South. They have almost en-
tirely refrained this year from even
sending any formal missionaries into
those States.
They are also conscious that their
prospects re extremely dubious this
year in all of the six border States OF
Maryland. West Virginia. Kentucky,
Tennessee, Missouri and Oklahoma. In
their most optimistic moments they
dream of acquiring West Virginia In
the other States OF the border between
North and South. If they should be
victorious. they would share on equal
terms the surprise that would be felt
by the Democrats
Hence as they proceed from Pitts
burgh westward they are reSolute upon
the conquest of Ohio, Michigan Indi-
ana and Illinois. with the 88 electoral
votes appertaining to them.
These votes the Democrats emphati-
cally claim for themselves. The least
they thus claim in any one Of the four
States in question is So per cent of the
votes to be cast on November 8. The
Republicans counter with the assertion
that the undercurrent drift toward
Hoover will pull down all the super
structures Of statistics and will float all
four main Central Lakes States j, to
the Hoover column on November 8
without fail.
From the Republican point Of view it
must, indeed. be without fal-or with
out substantial fail-because when the
electoral votes of the New England
States and of the North Central Allan
tic States and of the four Main Central
Lakes States are all added together the
total is only 23l. The journey from 23l
to 266-the majority in the electoral
colleges numerically 35 and IS politi
cally very long trip indeed, across the
vast regions west and northwest and
southwest from the boundaries OF ILL
nois.
In those regions the Democrats con-
cede to the Republicans a glimmer of
possible success in Kansas, in Colorado
and in Wyoming. The electoral votes
Of those three States come to 18. With
them the Republicans would still have
II more to find President Hoover Is at
this moment in search Of them.
The Presidents Far Western trip Is
no caprice. 1t is the logical necessity
enforced upon him by the unfolding
facts of campaign developments. He is
pursuing those developments to the
campaigns statistical and dramatic
climax.
Copyright. 1922