Evening star., 1934-11-04
DEMOCRATS SEE
VICTORY IN NEVADA
Registration Figures Indi-
cate Whole Ticket Will
Carry Tuesday Vote.
BY EDGAR REINHART.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RENO, New, November 3.-H regis
tration figures are any criterion
Nevada should be Democratic from top
to bottom Tuesday, for registration is
the highest in the States history, and
it is strongly Democratic.
Even ardent supporters Of George
w. Malone, State engineer, seeking
election as a Republican to the United
States Senate. concede that he has
no chance against Senator Key Pitt
man, Democrat. who has conducted
his campaign on his record in the
Senate for 90 years, on his work in
behalf of silver and on his allegiance
to President Roosevelt Rallies Mon
day night will close the campaign.
Morley Griswold. acting Governor
since the death of Gov. Fred B. Balzar
last March, is the Republican nominee.
Ordinarily, in the opinion of observers,
his election would be certainty, be-
cause he has made good in the office
and because of the work he has done
in carrying on when the late Governor
lay at deaths door for months.
Bank Failures Hurt.
But he faces an opposition that has
been gathering momentum since the
failure of the Wingfield banks two
years ago, IL banks controlled by
George Wingfield, Republican national
committeeman. having crashed just be-
fore the election Of 1882. This crash
had a noticeable effect on the Wing
field Republican machine and un-
doubtedly had considerable to do with
the defeat of Senator Tasker L. Oddie
at that time.
Wingheld went broke, but it Is
charged that he is attempting to keep
intact, so far as possible, the political
control he held for years. This con-
troll, 1t is charged, was not only of
the Republican party, but also of the
Democrats, for his legal representa-
tives, George B. Thatcher and William
Woodburn, were the heads of the
Democratic party, Thatcher even
being elected Democratic national
committeeman of the Bourbon party
two years ago. He has since resigned,
however.
After the bank crash there was a
strenuous effort at reorganization.
Griswold, an attorney, then Lieutenant
Governor, took up the work in this
direction. 1t failed because Of legal
technicalities.
His principal opponent is Richard
Kirman, ST., until recently president Of
the First National Bank in Reno.
Kirman at first refused to be a candi-
date, but permitted himself to be
drafted" This was shortly after he
had sold his banking interests to Bank
OF America interests
Then followed the campaign, which
has resulted in the hurting of charges
that Kirman is ultra conservative, that
he is opposed to certain progressive
legislation and is not the friend of
labor Against Griswold it is charged
that he has the faint" of the old
Wingfeld organization.
Campaign Aggressive.
Griswold's campaign has been one
Of aggreSsiveness, mostly over the
radio, while Kirman's campaign has
been one of defense, but the people of
Nevada, from laSt-minute indications,
are for a change and it looks like Kir-
man might be elected-but by a very
slight margin. At the same time it is
claimed that Griswold may be elected,
also by slight margin.
1t is anybody's fight, but the odds
do appear to favor Kirman There is
another candidate in the field, L. C..
Branson, former State Senator, and
he has a large following among the
radically inclined Upon the size Of
his vote may depend to great extent
the election Of either Griswold or Kir-
man.