The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-05
SHERMAN MINT0N TO BE ELECTED
SENATOR BY 35,0OO-YOTE LEAD,
STATE POLITICAL EXPERTS PREDICT
National Administration to
Be Kept in Control in
Voting Tomorrow.
G. o. P. IS FACING TEST
Defeat in Pennsylvania
Would Wreck Party,
Is Assertion.
BY LYLE G.. WILSON
United Press STAFF Correspondent
downright. 1894. BY United Press

Copyright. 1884. by United Press
NEW YORK, Nov. 5.-Democrats
maintained a lead through the ma
tional campaign which ended today
and will continue in control OF
house and senate after tomorrow's
polling.
The national campaign in some
respects has been the least interest
ing since the war. Outcome of the
balloting became obvious in the ag-
gregate after the counting of early
primary votes in May and June.
Democrats are due to pick up few
senate seats at the expense of a
diSorganized opposition. Republic
ans may gain in the house, but not
sufficiently. to jeopardize the DEM
ocratic majority.
Party lines have sagged and van
iShed as the campaign progressed.
So many Democrats are critical of
New Deal policies and so many Re
publicanS are afraid directly to
challenge President Roosevelt that
the election tomorrow can not be
accepted as a satisfactory referen-
dun on the New Deal.
For the element of suspense which
makes horse races and elections in
teresting it is necessary to look to
various state contests for national
and local office In two states, Penn
sylvania and Nebraska, the issue is
clearly drawn between the New Deal
and anti-New Dealers. Senator
David A. Reed (Rep) delivered
smashing challenge to adminiStra-
ton policies.
Guffey Accepts Issue
Joseph F. Guffey, Democratic
senate nominee, accepted Reeds is
sue. Victory for Guffey would be
a staggering blow to Republican
plans for a revitalized party by 1886.
Edward r. Burke, Democratic
senate nominee. carries New Deal
banner in Nebraska. Robert G.. Sim
mons, Republican, was not afraid to
speak for the anti-New Dealers. If
Simmons defeats Burke the admin
iStration must acceput the fact that
a powerful agricultural state has Sc
coded from the Roosevelt reform
movement.
The New Deal issue figures to
lesser degree in some other states
and in others scarcely figures at all
New Mexico must choose for the
senate between two liberals or pro-
gressiveS, Dennis Chavez Dem),
and Senator Bronson Cuttin g
(Rep). Cutting bolted Herbert
Hoover in 1882, but in turn was
deserted by the administration this
year.
Picture in Reverse
The New Deal picture appears in
reverse for Wisconsin electors so
far as the senate contest is con-
cerned Senator Robert M. La Fol-
lette, one-time Republican and now
co-founder of a new Progressive
party, has the White House blessing
in his race against John M. Gala
han, Democratic nominee.
Party lines are most scrambled in
California, where Upton Sinclair's
vision of a state without poverty
seems to be leading the electorate TO
the political miracle of 1884. Sim
clair is the Democratic nominee for
Governor, opposed by F. F. Mer-
RAM, Republican, and Frank
Haight, Commonwealth party Sc
lection. Merriam has been a part
of CALIFORNIA; reactionary Repub-
lican organization.
But in protest against Sinclair
there has developed in support of
Merriam an almost unbelievable
coalition of stand-patters, Liberals
and Progressives of all parties. Last
minute surveys indicate Merriam
will nose out the famous Socialist
pamphleteer. The Democratic SEN
ate nominee is Senator Hiram w.
johnson, Progressive Republican.
If the New Deal holds its congress
sional strength or increases it, the
movement toward party realgn-
ment will gain impetus which may
bring a conservative liberal show
down in 1886 and which scarcely
could fail to do so by 1888.
The administration consistently
has beckoned progressives of all
parties under its tent while waving
conservatives toward the nearest
exit