Evening star., 1932-10-14
FINAL CAMPAIGNING
TO Be CENTRALIZED
1iq Guns to Concentrate on
East and Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois.
B. the Associated Press.

B. the Associated Press.
TIE presidential wars of 1892 are
entering tfcic last phase with the
drunhre continuing energetically all
along the line, but with the heaviest
prtillery moving into position for one
final concentrated bombardment On
two impo.tent salients in the East and
Middle West.
During the present week. the action
has been scattered and various, and
only a fo-etaste of what is to come
Gov. E-ecsave,t has spoken from Albany
outlining his views on relief. Former
President Coolidge. in Madison Square
Garden. asked fer the reelection OF
President Hoover Former Senator
James A. Reed chosen by the Demo-
Gratis to reply at Des Moines to Mr..
Hoover. asked for the election OF Mr..
Roosevelt
All of this time, in the political dug
outs further back, the high commands
OF the two parties were taking stock
OF the situation at the longawaited
turn Of midOctober. and planning in
detail the last headlong dash toward
their November 8 objective.
Drive to Be Concentrated.
Enough CT these plans now are known
to indicate with some deflnitenesS where
the pressure will be applied from now
on They point especially to the East
ern States of New York. New Jersey
and Massachusetts. and the Midwestern
States OF Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
President Hoover will speak tomorrow
night in Cleveland. His plans beyond
that are not definite. but it is likely he
Will go even further West week later,
swinging through Indiana and Illinois
to St. Louis. Still later he will be In
the East-New York certainly and
perhaps New Jersey and Massachusetts
also
Gov. Roosevelt leaves Albany Tues
day fer his second extended campaign
tour. He will speak as far West as St
Louis. and travel through the border
States and South to Atlanta before he
returns TO wind up his campaign in
New York
Former Gov. Alfred E. Smith is ex-
rectcd to put much of the Democratic
emphasis on the East during the last
da,-s Of October. Tentative plans route
him through New York. New jersey
and New England, starting early next
week.
Garner to Speak Tonight.
Speaker John NJ Garner speaks to-
night from New York in his first ria jor
address Of the campaign. He plans to
deal in general way with criticisms
of Democratic congressional leadership
that have been voiced by President
Hoover and former President Calvin
Coolidge
Ogden L. Mills. Secretary of the
Treasury and one of the chief reliance5
Of the Republican speaking staff. hos
returned from his trip to the Coast, He
spoke yesterday in Chicago and will be
kept busy henccforth in the East
All of this indicates that so far as
the chief figures of the campaign are
concerned, the West must now be left
chiefly in the hands of local talent.
The two vice presidential nominees
probably will 10th te heard west of
the Mississippi, but the two sectors fur
ther cast will have the first attention
of the political managers.
In the Eastern group around New
York and in the Central States more
than one election has been won and
lost 1t is difficult to figure hCw any
party which loses both of these sectors
can expect to win a national victory
Neither does either party seem dis
posed to depend on one of these two
groups alone. The effort on both sides
will be to capture both of them.