The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-30

But c vast area of big, populous
 states with fat electoral vote quotas,
 ,s % close this year that final week
 campaign breaks could turn them
 Pittsr way. Political prophets are
 confused by these numerous indi-
 cations of narrow margins. National
 slls vary and foretell directly con-
 Fling election day results.
 Pay Envelope Blast
 republicans, their campaign click ing with increasing effectiveness in the final To-day sprint toward Tues day, have loosed a devastating ate tack on the New Deal social secur- ity program. Slipped into millions { of factory pay envelopes in the past fortnight were notices that with nsxt January there would be levied a one per cent tax on each works wage to build up funds from which old age pensions ultimately will be sf d.
 c. o. P. csmpaigners are ham, : lmering at that issue in the smoky cities of the lake states and ts-oughout New England in final thrust to drive a wedge between N Roosevelt and the workers. From coast-tC- coast come reports of s. ..e and local endorsement of MT, Roosevelt by organized labor. The wage-tax program of the social se- curity act-frequently presented without emphasis on the fact that employers IT. st put up at least dol- lar- dollar is the only effective issue with which republicans have been able to challenge the New Deal appeal to labor. That issue is cost ing Mir. Roosevelt votes today in the st.-tes where black smoke from fac- tory chimneys is the plume of pros- perity.
 One Lost Issue
 Lost and almost leaderless Is the radical ho-t of discontent. It was forming under the standard of the late Huey P. Long IA months ago when Q bullet dropped him in the state capitol at Baton Rouge. Left ! wingers, who wanted MT. Roosevelt to be more radical, reached theil ] peak in late summer instead of Oc- tober.
 Campaign Significance The significance in this campaign of William Le:nke, presidential can d, late of the union party, of Fath- . CT Charles E. Coughlin and Dr Francis E. (Old Age PenSion) T wnsend. is greatest in New Eng land where Lemke votes will helr , Gov. Landon. It is possible that one or two per cent of the poll tc be garnered by Lemke in the lake states and some more agriculture. . communities may pull MT. Roose- welt down sufficiently to give Gov Landon electoral votes he otherwise would not obtain.
 In every state I visited outside Nev England I was told the priests pulling power was waning. Obcerv- CTS of various political compilations attributed that phenomena to Fath- CT Coughlin's violent platorm de- nunciations of MT. Roosevelt, and especially to the mid-August ad- dres- beore t 2 Cleveland conven- ton of the National Union for So- cikl Justice in which the priest call- ed the president "liar" and "be. trayer."
 WilI Come From Democrats Iemke-C Coughlin- Townsend votes { next Tuesda. whatever their num- Der, will be taken largely from among potential democratic voters . Ohsetting this left wing raid on Roosevelt preserves of forgotten and er-privileged men and women is the stamcede of labor to the New Deal banner and evidence of shift of negro allegiance from republi- can to democratic leaders. This
 combination of labor and negro sup port will win for MT. Roosevelt--ii he wins-in such states as Pennsyl- . vania, Ohio, Indiana. New York.