Evening star., 1934-11-04
RY J. III. GALBRAITH.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
- oLUMBUs, Ohio, November
3.-Deeper and more general
interest is being taken in the
Ohio lections on next Tues
day than in any election in
years not involving the presidency.
For that reason a large vote is ex-
pected. It may reach $500 900.
The issue of the New Deal is partly
responsible, but that is not all. A
contest that has been vigorous-almost
bitter-is being waged by Clarence j.
Brown, Republican, and Martin L. Da-
vey, Democrat, for the governorship.
The fight on State matters has turned
on these two candidates and a few
thousand votes might decide it.
This contest has drawn some at
tention from the race for United
States Senator. From the beginning
1t has been generally regarded as GER
tain that Senator Simeon D. Fess
would be defeated, but as the cam
paign draws to close there has been
a closing up of the ranks of the Re-
publicans and a flrmer line Of de-
tense formed as the Senator Waged
a vigorous fight against the recovery
methods of the Federal administra-
ton. 1t still seems, however, that this
can only tend to reduce the plurality
by which his opponent, the former
Democratic three-term Governor, Vic
Donahey, will be elected
DOnahey Far in Front.
In fairness to Senator Fess, it
should be said that this is not due
to his weakness as a candidate, nor
to the kind of a campaign he has
been making, but to the remarkable
personality of his opponent and his
popularity with the voters. Both
Senator Fess and Gov. Donahey have
been complimentary and maintained a
dignif1ed bearing toward each other.
Gov Donahey's friends are claiming
he will have a plurality of between
100000 and 100000. A more conserv-
ative estimate would place it at about
100000
The Republicans have not criticized
Davey, the Democratic candidate for
Governor, as lined up with the New
Deal. In fact, he has never before
been able to see eye to eye with
ii H.,
way, though he has claimed in this
campaign to be in sympathy with the
recovery plans. Early in the cam
paign Davey declared himself in
favor of a two-year moratorium on
principal and interest on local gov
ernment bonds, and through his COL
leagues on the State ticket never
agreed with him, he has continued to
advocate it.
Teachers Back Brown.
This turned the teachers of the
State. whose pension funds are in
vested in such securities, in a body
to the support of his Republican op-
ponent, c. J. Brown. This movement
to Brown was further aided by
Browns declaration that if elected
Governor he would resist the propo-
sition to aid the parochial schools
with money from the public school
fund. The proposal was twice de-
feated in the present Legislature, but
1t is known that it will be renewed
in the next. This has injected a re-
ligious issue into the campaign and
intensified the fight between Brown
and Davey. Davey has made no
statement as to his views on this
matter, though repeatedly asked to
do so.
Except in Hamilton and Cuyahoga
Counties political sentiment seems
pretty evenly divided between the two
candidates for Governor. In Hamil-
ton, Brown is far in the lead, due to
the fact that by a remark in the
primary campaign Davey alienated
w. j. Leonard, the Democratic organi-
zation head at Cincinnati. Cuyahoga
County in all probability will be car
ried by Davey, though the best indi-
cations there are that the Davey plu-
rality will not be sufficient to wipe
out the Brown lead downstate' and
in Hamilton County
There is some ill-feeling in Cleve-
land toward Brown, due to the fact
that when he was secretary of State
and eX-officio State supervisor Of
elections, he removed the Cuyahoga
County Board of Elections because of
complaints against the members, the
board being a part of the set-up of