Evening star., 1934-11-03
VOTE OF 100000
IS SEEN TUESDAY
Both Sides Are Confident
in Election, Test of
New Deal.
BY the Associated Press.


When President Roosevelt drops his
ballot in the box next Tuesday he will
be one of 3o,OoO,ooO citizens from
coast TO coast who are registering their
opinion of congressional and State
candidates and-in many cases-of
the New Deal.
This probable vote was forecast to-
day on the basis of a Nationwide
survey of registration figures and pub
lie interest in this first grand test Of
the Roosevelt administration.
Both sides were preparing today
prediction statements expressing con-
fidence Before President Roosevelt
left on his special train for Hyde Park,
N. Y, last night, Chairman James A
Farley of the Democratic National
Committee gave him an optimistic re-
port.
Senate Gain Predicted.
Farley said the Democrats probably
would gain between six and nine seats
in the Senate, giving them more than
two-thirds majority. The party
chiefs also say their losses in the
House surely will not exceed 10 and
that they may gain 20 seats there.
Chairman Henry P. Fletcher of the
Republican National Committee was
preparing a statement painting very
different picture. Disputing the DEM
ocratic claims of Senate gains, the Re-
publlcans also insist the G. o. P. will
pick up between 80 and 40 more seats
in the House.
Senator Lewis of Illinois, chairman
Of the Democratic Senatorial Commit
tee predicted "a vote of confidence"
for President Roosevelt.
While the election Tuesday will be
the first chance voters across the Ma
ton will have to pass on the New Deal,
it involves many important questions
and unusual characters.
The elections pose the important
problem of how the next Congress will
divide as between right" and left"
policies. The division may be fraught
with great significance for the future
of such matters as relief, Government
expenditures and monetary policies, to
mention only three.
Altogether about 1,450 candidates
are seeking 80 governorships, "a SEN
atorshIps and 432 House seats In
addition, $50 candidates are striving
for 274 principal State Offices, exclusive
of Legislatures and minor posts.
Other issues are to be decided by
"a States. Included in 68 proposed
changes in State charters is the ques-
ton Of prohibition repeal, which will
be voted upon in Kansas, Florida.
Idaho, Nebraska, South Dakota, West
Virginia and Wyoming. Massachusetts
and California are to act on local op-
ton liquor control.
Eighty women are candidates for
Congress, governorships and other
State posts. while more than 30
"thiro-party" movements-a record
are under way.
The fight of Upton Sinclair for
Governor in California may tell, |
some observers are saying, whether
the "leftward" movement that has
risen with hard times has reached its
peak or not.
The attitude of the White House
toward Senators Shipstead, Minnesota |
Farmer La Toilette, Wis
consin Progressive candidate, and !
Cutting, New Mexico Republican in
dependent who supported Roosevelt |
in the 1882 campaign, also has been
watched closely.
Strong Democratic candidates were |
put up against Cutting and Shipstead,
but Senator johnson of California
was given the Democratic and Repub-
lican nominations. La Toilette, it |
developed yesterday, has been invited
to lunch at the White House Thurs
day.
Concentrate on 3 States.
In move to hamstring the Re-
publican party in 1886, the Democrats
on attempts to capture
Senate seats in Vermont, Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio.
They hope to invade normally Re
publican Vermont by the election of |
Fred c. Martin over Senator Austin,
The Democrats feel a crushing blow
would be served the G. o. P. if Joseph |
W. Guffey defeats Senator Reed, old |
guard Republican, in Pennsylvania.
In addition. they covet Ohio, where
Gov. Vic Donahey, Democrat, is war
ring with the veteran Sena tor EeSs