Evening star., 1933-11-05
KEYSTONE BALLOT
/. ON REPEAL To Be
RECORD BREAKING
Registration 10000 Higher
Than Peak of 1923 Hoover.
Smith Fight.
1907, ,096 ARE WOMEN
AND 2,185,182 MEN
Certainty Of Wet Victory Gives
Little Inclination to Fore.
cast Size Of Majority.
BY WALTER d. ROSS.
peciaI Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HARRISBURG. Pa, November a
Pennsylvania votes on repeal next Tues
day with the largest registration Of
voters in the States history eligible to
participate.
In other on years registration always
has fallen far below the totals for pres.
tdential year The 1888 enrolment, how
ever. Is 10000 higher than the previous
peak, recorded In 1928 for the Hoover
Smith fight, and 10000 greater than
the number of voters who qualified in
advance Of the Roosevelt-Hoover elec-
ton last year.
Eligible to vote next Tuesday are
3,9s2,278 Pennsylvanians, Of whom
2.l85.182 are men and l.8o7,os6 are
women.
Repeal has been regarded as so GER
tain to carry Pennsylvania that no one
has considered 1t worth while to fore
cast the size Of majorities. The repeal
lists have not regarded it as necessary
to do any spellbinding in advance Of
the vote. Drys have waged a desultory
campaign, and last week lost belated
court action which sought to prevent
a vote on the issue.
The voters wishes regarding the fate
of prohibition will be recorded on sep
arate ballots containing the names Of
opposing ratification Of the new amend.
ment. The Is elected will meet at Penn.
sylvanias convention December 8 to
cast and certify the States vote.
Four Important Elections.
While repeal unquestionably Is a
major reason for the big registration, 1t
is only one Of four important elections
scheduled tor Tuesday. Interest in the
combined issues accounts for the new
record of qualified voters.
For the first time since Pennsyl-
vania's Sunday blue law" was enacted
| in 1874. an opportunity will be pro-
! vided to liberaliZe its stern provisions.
Except in Huntington County, where
Sabbath Organizations obtained . court
injunction hating the vote, every
municipality will conduct separate
referendum Tuesday on the question Of
legalizing Sunday base ball and foot
ball. In municipalities voting in favor,
these sports will be permitted between z
and pm. on Sunday. Where the op-
position scores. the Sunday sports will
continue to be prohibited.
Twelve amendments to the State con-
stitution also will be submitted for rati-
| fcation. Among them are three bond
issues, $50,000,000 for soldiers bonus,
S25, ,000, 900 for State expenses, with 80
per cent already appropriated for un-
buy and free toll bridges. Another elm.
mates tax payment as q qualification
for voting. Another permits consolida-
ton OF al municipalities IN A11egheny
County into a reyanPed City OF Pitts
burgh.
There also are many spirited con-
tests among candidates for county and
local offices throughout the State. Dem
ocrats. aided by the hope OF Federal
patronage and encouraged by q regis
tration Of 1,087,000 "a gain Of $3.50
since last year,, have campaigned with
unaccustomed vigor in the hope Of gain.
ing new footholds in preparation for
the 1884 election.
In 334 municipalities q referendum
on the retail sale Of beer will be held
under the local option clause Of the
State beer control law. Where the ma.
1ority vote Is against beer, the effect
will be to ban the sale within the mu.
| nictpality for consumption on the ven.
ders premises; but the adverse vote
viii not prevent distributors from de.
Ivering to the homes Of customers.
Special elections also will I'LL one va
cancy in the House Of Congress and
three IN the State House Of Represents
ativeS.
BY default, the Republicans have as
| sured the congressional election to Oil.
yer w. Frey, Democrat and lawyer
OF Allentown. to succeed Representa-
tive Henry w. Watson Of the Bucks
Lehigh district. This is the home dis
tr1ct OF former Senator Joseph r. Grun-
dy. and it was upon Grundys motion
that the Republican conferees agreed
to put patriotism above partisan con-
alteration" and leave Frey unopposed
for the unexpired term.