Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-04
Roosevelt Talks.
To Neighbors
Near Hyde Park
FinoI Radio Appeal
To Begin Tonight
About 11O'CIock
BY JOHN c. HENRY,
Star stan Correspondent.

President Roosevelt carried his |
third-term campaign to his neigh
bors today. whirling through four
upstate New York counties in an
afternoon of speechmaking.
This evening he will address a |
street crowd in Poughkeepsie and
about II pm. will make his final
radio appeal to the Nation, speaking |
then from the study of his home
during a two-hour Democratic pro-
gram
With every sounding of sentiment |
in New York State indicating a !
photo finish" between Mr.. Roose-
welt and his Republican opponent. |
Wendell L. Willkie, every vote in
f1uenced by today's campaigning
may be of unusual importance to-
morrow. And that the country
squire" of Hyde Park House can
exert political influence in this
normally Republican area was
demonstrated in 1886 when his cleo
ton eve address to an uproarous
Poughkeepsie crowd was credited
with l,00o-vote plurality the next
day.
Talks in Fish's District.
On his itinerary this afternoon
were Beacon, Newburgh, Kingston,
Highland Village and Rhinebeck.
Added to the Poughkeepsie appear
ance tonight, this schedule will take
the President into four county seats,
three of them in the congressional
district represented by Representa-
tive Fish, an enthusiastic foe of the
New Deal and particularly bitter
opponent of the administrator
foreign policy.
In past elections, Mr.. Fish has
carried his district by capturing
close to 10 per cent of the total vote
cast. In 1886, Mr.. Roosevelt could
take only A per cent in the same
district.
While the veteran Republican
must still be considered an easy
favorite in this area, the campaign
managers for the Democratic candi-
date. Hardy Steeholm, are carrying
oA1 a fASO4OdS dIl0 OIlCIlll1lC
campaign than ever before against
the incumbent.
Making preliminary poll about
October /, they found that Mr.. Fish
was favored by about his customary
10 per cent of those interviewed,
but that there were twice as many
voters declaring themselves unde-
cided, as is customary at that time
In addition, 1t was said a majority
Of the voters admitted that if criti-
cism Of Mr.. Fish's position on for
eign policy and the defense program
could be substantiated, they might
shift their support.
Topic Tonight Not Revealed.
Consequently, the whole Steeholm
campaign has been directed at sell
ing" the foreign and defense policies
of the Roosevelt administration. And
on the basis of a telephone poll of
1854 voters in the district yesterday,
the Steeholm managers claim that
584 per cent said they would vote
against Mr.. Fish.
The topic for Mr.. Roosevelt's
Nationwide address tonight has not
yet been announced, but it is ex-
pected he will talk from II to IS
minutes.
Relying in the first instance on a
draft" movement to keep him in the
White House for a third term while
he leads the Nation through "the
cfn that &c niyacy N other
parts of the world, the President
actually compressed his real cam
paign into a series of five major
addresses concluded last Saturday
night in Cleveland. ".
Within period Of some two weeks
preceding, he had talked to the
Nation from Philadelphia, New York,
Boston and Brooklyn. An initial
campaign address, made before this
final drive was launched or even
fully planned, was delivered in
Washington early in october.
Confers With Hull.
Tomorrow, Mr.. Roosevelt will cast
his own vote-and then await the
decision of the American people as
to whether he should continue as
their Chief Executive through a
four-year period that is likely to be
epochal in the worlds history.
Before he left Washington yester-
day, the President conferred with
Secretary of State Hull and Under
secretary Welles and telephone
coy,S,,lta tiop with the head of the
State Department was to take place
today.
Before he left, too, he issued
call to all the Nations electorate to
exercise their privilege of suffrage In
the voting tomorrow and directed
that Federal employees be given
opportunity to leave their work to
cast their ballots.
ut is a duty of the Nation" he
said, that every citizen should ex-
ercise the solemn right of suffrage
guaranteed under the Constitution.
1t therefore behooves all citizens to
cooperate to the end. that the larg-
est number eligible shall register
their preference in the elections to
be held on Tuesday, November 5,
next. To that end I am directing
that all employees of the Federal
Government be given SUFFICIENT time
from their. duties to cast their votes,
and I urge that all Government
agencies, State and local, and all
other employers grant the same priv
ilege in order that all who are quail