The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-21
Real attLeground To .Stnrt In Chicago City
Three Campaign Managers Agree to That-WfII Ex-
 tend Through Lake States-A Confident
BY LYLE c. WILSON.

BX LYLE c. WILSON.
 IUnlted Press staH Correspondsntl
 Chicago, Oct. 2f--(UP) -Thret campaign managers agree that ths presidential election battle-ground begins here and extends easi through the lake states to the At. 1antic seaboard. The candidate whG polls best in those areas is likely tC be elected president.
 Chairman John D., Hamilton Comfortable at republican head quarters in his corner office over. looking Lake Michigan, told me Governor AR M. Laf1don would carry every state north of the Ohic and east of the Mississippi rivers.
 Hamilton Claims All
 On Hamilton's calculation, the governor needs only AS electoral votes outside the northeast quarter of the country to win. The major 4ty necessary to elect is 266 votes He is confident they will be more / than provided from such states as: Kansas, Nebraska, Washington Wyoming, South Dakota, New Mex leo, Utah and Colorado.
 Final lap reports to Hamilton as- sure him that Wisconsin and West Virginia have swung away from President Roosevelt and will vote republican this time. But the red- headed chairman is placing major dependence on the populous and wealthy 14 states lying east and northeast of Illinois. They will cast R21 electoral votes.
 All Three Confident
 I have talked to three presiden- tial campaign managers in the past month, Democratic Chairman James A Farley in New York, and Hamilton and John NyStul, of the Union Party, here in Chicago. All three have Staked claims in that vi- tai northeast sector.
 Farley said that MT. Roosevelt had chance in a couple of New England states. Political observers, however, uniformly give all six New England States and their 41 elector- al votes to Gov. Landon.
 Hamilton and Farley evidently mean what they say in claiming the Lake States, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Delaware. The heaviest political cannonading echoes now in those areas. Both national headquarters appeared to be most disturbed about Ohio, each fearing the other was on top there.
 Illinois It Hatfield
 Illinois with 20 Electoral votes is Q typical major battlefield, the race 50 close that only politicians pro- feSS to know how 1t will end and the political prospects further con- fused by an avalanche of new vot- CTS who have registered here.
 MT. Roosevelt, Coy. Landon and Lemke are the principal presiden- tial contestants. The outside limit of Lemke's ambition is to pick up few electoral votes, enough to prevent either the republican or democratic presidential candidate from having an electoral college majority. Under those circumstance es the selection of a president would be by vote of the house of represen- tatives with each state casting 8 single ballot.
 Union Party BoastfuI
 Remember this," Nystul told me, s'The Union Party will have the balance of power and will pick the next president of the United States. We will force the election into the house of representatives"
 Illinois is one of the states in which Nystul says his man has a chance against the two major can- didates. The others. are Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin. Connec- ticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Dakota and Rhode Island.
 So far I have found no evidence that Lemke will carry single state. But in the lake states and New England area his candidacy is cutting deeply into MT. Roosevelt's potential strength and, generally, is adding Gov. Landon in propor- tion. The Lemke blade cuts both ways in Illinois, but principally against Mir. Roosevelt.
 Newton Jenkins, one-time candi- date for United States Senator, and now Lemke'S Illinois manager said Father Charles E. Coughlin had E00,000 National Union for Social Justice members in Illinois, dis tributed among BOO active club units. He estimated Townsend strength here at 000-which l believe to be overly optimistic. And. finally Jenkins predicted that Will liam Hale (Big BID Thompson would swing tens of thousands of votes to the Union Party ticket.
 Thompson In Scrap
 Thompson, bizarre thee-times mayor of Chicago, is campaigning for governor as the Union Party Candidate. He once was elected mayor of Chicago on a platform consisting largely of the repeated