Evening star., 1940-11-05
Election
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House of Representatives to be
| filled. Thirty-three States hac
gubernatorial races, and there were
numerous State, county and loca
contests on many of the ballots
The number of national and State
offices at issue alone totaled 6,794
Both Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr.. Will
kie in final messages to the elec-
torate urged all qualified voters tc
exercise the right and duty of citi-
zens by casting their ballots. Lesser
party figures seconded this appeal
While these messages stressed the
duty of citizenship. and as such
could be considered non-political.
the bipartisan siege for votes con-
tinued "all out" during election eve
and carried over past midnight into
election day morning hours.
The Voter Has the Last Say.
Only then did the campaign end,
and 'voters-all reduced to the same
individual level by the common de-
nominator of the ballot-had their
opportunity to speak. Assailed for
weeks by partisan oratory, eXhorted
by billboards, and beset by all kinds
of electioneering literature. the
voter had the last say in the privacy
of his local polling booth.
Neither President Roosevelt nor
Mr. Willkie abandoned active cam
paigning on election eve.
The Democratic candidate, con-
filming himself to a motor tour of
his Hudson Valley neighbors in New
York, told these neighbors in i'm
promptu talks that he was making
his last appearance among them
"as a candidate for office"
In the evening from his Hyde
Park home he spoke to the Nation
during a two-hour radio broadcast
arranged by the Democratic Ma
tional Committee, and it was then
he urged voters to vote.
Mr.. Willkie took to the air three
times during the day for his closing
words to the country.
Running Mates Speak.
The two running mates on the
major party tickets added their
final words to those of the presi-
dental nominees.
Henry A. Wallace, Democratic
vice presidential nominee who spoke
on the same radio program as Mr.
Roosevelt, praised the administra-
tion's farm program as means of
helping the Nation preserve peace.
Peace can be maintained only
by preparedness on all fronts" he
said, talking from Washington, land
we are gratified that on the agricul-
tural front no such breakdown as
that of eight years ago is occurring
this year"
Senator McNary of Oregon, Re-
publican vice presidential candidate,
wound up his campaign at Salem in
his home State with speech
charging that the New Deal was
taking deeper and deeper refuge in
paternaism and statism."
Like the speeches. campaign
charges and counter-charges filled
the air to the bitter end.
Voting "Tombstones" Charged.
In one of the last exchanges, Vim
cent Daley, Democratic State cam
paign manager, asserted that up
State New York Republicans were
planning to vote the tombstones. y
Samuel F. Pryor. Eastern Division
chairman of the Republican Ma
| tional Committee, denounced as
''foully un-American" a pamphlet
which purportedly accused Demo-
cratic National Chairman Flynn Of
favoring Catholics for positions.
Mr.. Pryor charged that this lit
erature had actually been traced to
Democratic sources"
The election eve speeches, mean
while, kept up the final siege for
votes.
John L. Lewis, C. I. o. chairman