Evening Star Newspaper, September 30, 1928, Page 17

only costs about 13, cénts a day and 5 cents.Sunday t6 ve The Star delivered to vour home. Telephone Main 5000. THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €. SEPTEMBER 30. 1928—PART 1 17 Hoover Holds Advantage in Preliminary Tabulation of Probable Electorai Votes 17 VOTES LAED ASSIREFORG.0.. Listings Expected to Change as Campaign Progresses in Next Five Weeks. Electoral Votes of the S THE LINE-UP TODAY tates Classified on Basis of Present Political Outlook and Conjecture. lectoral Vote lican Sure Repub- El Democratic Leaning to Doubtful BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The presidential campaign has pro- gressed for enough to begin a check-up of the States, and the probable outcome of the election, now five weeks and two days in the future. This preliminary check-up cannot be considered final, nor can it properly te %0 complete as to_give the election finally to either Gov. Smith or Mr. Hoover. In many of the States the situation is in the making, and with five weeks' campaigning still ahead. the outcome must be considered doubtful in those States. ‘Today more electoral votes may properly be written down as “sure” for the Republican candidate than for the | Democratic candidate. But when they | have been written down there is found | to be lacking 79 votes to bring the Re- | publican total to 266. the number nec- | essary to elect. 187 Sure Republican Votes. | Here is the way the table of electoral Totes runs based on the information now at hand: | Sure Republican, 187: sure Demo- | eratic. 102; leaning to the Republicans 49: leaning to the Democrats. 83: doubtful. 110. Total, 531. The 14 States put down as sursly Republican and the electoral votes they cast follow: California, 13; Idaho, 4: Tllinois. 29: Indiana, 15: Iowa, 13; Kansas. 10; Maine, 6: Michigan, 15 Ohio. 24; Oregon. 5: Pennsylvania, 38: Utah, Vermont, 4: Washington, 7.! Total, 187. The nine States put down as surely Democratic and their electoral votes follow: Alabama, 12; Arkeysas, 9; Flor- ida, 6: Georgia, 14: Louisiana. 10; Mis- sissippi, 10: South Carolina, 9; Texas, 20; Virginia, 12, Those States leaning to the Repub- licans and their electoral votes are: Colorado. 6: Connecticut, 7; Kentucky, 13; Nebraska, 8; New Hampshire, 4: West Virginia, 8, and Wyoming, 3. The States leaning to the Democrats are: Missouri, 18; New Mexico, 3: New York. 45; North Carolina. 12, an Rhode Island, 5. The 13 States listed as “doubtful their votes in the electoral college are Arizona, 3: Deleware, 3; Maryland, 8; Massachusetts. 18; Minnesota, 12; Mon- tana. 4; Nevada, 3: New Jersey, 14: | North Dakota, 5; Oklahoma, 10: South | Dakota, 5; Tennessee, 12, and Wiscos- | sin, 13, total of 110 votes. Table Will Change. As the trend of sentiment for on: candidate or the other grows more pronounced in the States, changes will be made from one column to another, until on the Sunday before election the table should clearly indicate, if the forecast be right, the result at the polls on November 6. The table today gives the Republi- cans the advantage. But it leaves a con- siderable jeeway in which the Demo- eratic candidate might yet outstrip his Republican opponent. | If the electoral votes of the “sure’ Republican States are- added to the electoral votes of those put down as leaning to the Republicans, the total is 236, still 30 electoral votes short of the necessary 266. The sum of the “sure” Democratic votes and the votes of the States leaning to the Demo- erats today is 185. If both the Repub- licans and the Democrats win in the States set down as sure and leaning their respective parties, they must still go into the doubtful column znd pick up votes in order to elect their cand; | 1 — Alabama Arizona Arkansas California o W O W N | w, B | Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida | O @ N1 Oy Georgia il - Idaho Illinois Indiana Kenlucky' Louisiana Maine Marvyland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire 4] New Jersey 14| New Mexico 3 New York __ 451 North Carolina 12| North Dakota 5| Ohio 24| Oklahoma 10 | Oregon 5] Pennsylvania 38 Rhode Tsland__ 5 South Carolina 9| South Dakota 5| Tennessee 12] Texas 20| Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia dates. From that column the Repub- licans would have to take 30 votes, and the Democrats 81. Democrats Work in South. The nine States put down as “sure” for Smith today are all in the so-called “solid South.” There have been many | Teports that a political revolution was | going on in some of these States and that if the election were held today these States would in some instances go : Republican because of the animosity to Gov. Smith. But the chances are /that as the campaign progresses the Democratic strength will increase, due 10 the fact that the leaders of the party in those States are at work for the “national ticket and to the fact that the entire election machinery is in the] i hands of the Democrats. North Caro- | zfina has been placed in the column as leaning to the Democrats, differentia- {ding it from the other “solid South” Democratic States because of the fact ‘that Senator Simmons. for more than 8 quarter of a century the political leader of that State, is fighting the | election of Smith. Of the so-called border States, two, Kentucky and West Virginia. have been placed in the “lean- ing to the Republicans” column, and | Maryland. Oklahoma and Tennessee | have been assigned to the doubtful column. An analysis of the list shows that the Republican strength lies particularly in that great belt of States running west- ward from Pennsylvania. and including Ohio. Indiana. Illinois and Michigan, and in the States of the Pacific Coast. ‘The big fighting ground appears to be Incated in the States of the North and East, the so-called border States, and several States of the West, including , Wiseonsin, Missouri, Minnesota and the Dakotas. . If Gov. Smith is given the nine States listed as “sure” Democratic, and the five listed as leading Democratic, he must still pick up 81 electoral votes Wisconsin Wyoming 3] 3 | ‘ | Totals 7_331; 87 102 | 49 | 8 [ 110 Majority, 2 many years, and which make strongly Republican States in the North, East and- some parts- of the West . look doubtful. As the campaign appears today .it would seem that the Demo- crats had a tremendous task ahead of them to elect Gov. Smith. The tables published today ‘show how a Demo- | cratic victory may be achieved. But at| the same time it indicates that the/ chances of the Republican candidate at present are the brighter. What the five weeks' campaign will bring forth remains to be seen. No one can yet foretell exactly how the cross currents will affect some of the States. No one can say certainly some fortuitous twist may not be given at the eleventth hout which’will bring victory to one party and disaster to the other. - The publication yesterday of a letter alleged to have been signed by Mrs. M. M. Caldwell, Republican na- tional committeewoman for Virginia, raising tht issue of “Romanism” against Gov. Smith, caused' much ex- citement in both Republican'and Demo- | cratic ranks. The Democrats were “in- clined to recall the Burchard incident of 1884, when James G. Blaine, Re- publican, was running against Grover Cleveland, Democrat, and Rev. Dr. Burchard, introducing a committee to.the Republican candidate, sought to align the Democrats with “rum, Romanism and rebellion.” Seen as Hurting Blaine. This incident, coming shortly before election day, is credited with having swung votes away from Blaine and to | { elsewhere. He must find them in ‘the 13 States listed as doubtful and in the 7 States listed as leaning to the Republicans, and the combined elec- toral votes of these twn lists numbers 159. He must win. for example, Massa- chusetts, 18; New Jersey, 14: Oklahoma, 10: Tennessee, 12: Wisconsin, 13; Ken- tucky, 13, and Maryland, 8, and get 83 votes, or seven more than enough to elect him. He might substitute Arizona, Delaware. Nevada, North De- kota and South Dakota, with a total ofgl8 votes for Massachusetts, or he miBht win Nebraska in place of Mary- Jand. Republicans will insist that such is an impossible task for the New York Governor, while Democrats probably wili =ee strong hopes of his carrying nearly #ll of these States. Tioover’s ‘fask Easier. Cleveland in pivotal States and to have | brought about the defeat of the Re- | publican candidate. | The campaign this year presents only two major candidates for the presidency, | Smith and Hoover. Four years ago, | President Coolidge. John W. Davis, | Democrat. and the late Senator La Follette of Wisconsin, running as an Independent Progressive, fought it out at the polls, and 16 years ago, the late President Woodrow Wilson, Chief Justice Taft and the late Col. Theodore Roose- velt, struggled for the presidency. There is no chance this year that the election might be thrown into the House, owing to the failure of one of the candidates to obtain a majority of the electoral col- lege. Four years ago, the fact that the House might have been called upon to pick a President was used as an argu- ment by the Republicans in favor of the | Give Mr. Hoover the 187 electoral votes of the “sure” Republican States and add to them the 49 votes of the States listed as leaning Republican and iv appears that the Republican candi- date has an easier task, certainly a less number of votes to be gathered in, than has Gov. Smith under the conditions already indicated. Mr. Hoover will need only 30 additional votes to bring his total up to 266, the number required for an election. These he must get from the doubtful column or from the “leaning Democratic” column. If Mr. Hoover took New York State, with its 45 votes, it would be more than suffi- cient to elect him. Or he could still lose New York, and win Massachusetts and New Jersey, with a total of 32 votes and go across the wire a winner. he might pick up Tennessee, Minnesota and Maryland, a total of 32 votes, and have the required number and 2 votes to spare. There sre issues and cros: at work in the present camp: en’ severely aeross hoth parties. sre insues the! make the States e A s e s eurrents gn which They cf the or| election of President Coolidge. ‘Where the huge La_Follette vote of four years ago, nearly 5,000,000 in num- ber, goes in the forthcoming election is particularly important in view of the fact that the La Follette vote, plus the Davis vote, in nine or ten of the States, would have defeated the Republican candidate in those States four years ago.’ It is this La Follette vote, and what it may do, that makes Wisconsin for example, a doubtful State this year. The same is true of Minnesota, the Dakotas and_several other States. In most of the Western States the Demo- cratic party has been flat on its back for the last eight' years. SMITH VISIT FAILS T0 ROUSE WYOMING Républican Leaders Still Confident | of Large Ma- . jority. Special Dispatch to The Star. CASPER, Wyo., September 29.—Al Smith has made his circle of the West through Wyoming. He was cordially received in this State, given the glad hand. as it were, by his own clan as well as by Hoover Republicans and Hoover Democrats. However, it is improbable that Smith's visit has changed more than a handful of votes in his favor. Wyoming, on account of the tariff first, the liquor question second, is essentially Republi- can. Even the battle which Senator Kendrick, stalwart champion of De- mocracy’s cause, is waging in his cam- paign for re-election appears to fall short of what Democrats had hoped would turn the tide for Smith. Kendrick is one of the most popular men in Wyoming, but he admittedly depends upon Republican votes for re- election. Farmers in Wyoming apparently feel that they would rather trust a Republi- can. tariff than a Tammany Democrat to continue the era of agricultural pros- perity which has just dawned for this region. Charles E. Winter, lone Wyoming Republican who is opposing Kendrick for the Senate, is likewise a veteran campaigner. Summing up the situation, Republi- can chieftains are openly confident; Democratic leaders still maintain hope. EMMETT FULLER. Blease Woul_d Bar Anti-Smith'Votcrs From South Caroling Primaries in 1930| COLUMBIA, S. C., September 29.— | Senator Blease 1s the author of a prop- josition to the State Democratic com- | mittee which will prevent many who | might otherwise vote against the na- | tional Democratic nominees in the gen- | eral election in this State. It is to |require all who' participate in the | Democratic primarjes two years hence ! to swear that they did not vote against | the national nominees in 1928. ~This will not apply to those who do not vote, ! but only those who vote against the { nominees A~ the Democratic primaries really ~'=~ien infithis State, many who might wish this year to vote against the nominees will not be willing to be excluded from the Democratic primaries two years hence. Regular Democrats are organizing throughout the State and are taking unusua] measures to bring out the vote in the general election this year. And as that event approaches it becomes more and more evident that the protest | against Gov. Smith is to be mnothing more than a gesture this year. The ‘flnly thing that disturbs the leaders of | tha Democratic party is whether the inu in party lines will become per- manent, FITZ HUGH McMASTER. | tions have been coming in even faster. | Drive to Register Twin Cities’ Voters Gets Impetus. (Cashman Withdrawal Seen As Aid for Senator Shipstead. Special Dispatch to The Star. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., September 29. —Campaign machinery in Minnesota went into high gear following the visit of Gov. Alfred E. Smith to the Twin Cities this week. The first big politi- cal demonstration of the year marked Gov. Smith’s visit and 1t was a_high tide for Democratic enthusiasm. Dem- | ocrats, claiming the State already won. | tell each other now that it is only | necessary to hold the ground they have. | Republicans, after a period of organi- | | zation work that made little surface showing, now have the State dotted | rying their work into every county and village of the State. They are some- what surprised at the spirit shown by | workers in many towns. Republicans feel sure that the Smith tide will ebb steadily from now until election and that Hoover will grow. In most places men and women are organizing sepa- rately. Men's Hoover Clubs have been reported from the smaller towns at the rate of 10 a day, and women's organiza- Register Voters. In Minneapolis and St. Paul, the drive | is under way to register all voters and committees have block workers check- ing up unregistered men and women. The Republican committee has set a goal of 200,000 registrations by October 20, when the lists close. Minneapolis is a Republican stronghold and often has furnished the necessary majority for a Republican candidate, but indica- tions are this year that on the wet issue the Republican margin will be cut some- what. That issue is being used by Smith workers in the cities, while in the rural :flsmcu they are using the farm relief ssue. Republicans will start their big guns in ‘action Monday evening when Sen- ator Borah speaks at the Minneapolis Auditorium, and his speech is being heralded as the answer to Gov. Smith. Representative Dickinson of Iowa, McNary-Haugen champlon, has been speaking in the State for Hoover, urg- ing a continuance of Republican rule | with Hoover-Curtis clubs and are car- _ 'CAMPAIGN GOES INTO HIGH GEAR AS SMITH INVADES MINNESOTA SENATOR SHIPSTEAD. | | as the best hope of favorable legisia- tion for the farmer. Smith allies from among the farm re- lief leaders received a new accession | this week. Victor E. Anderson, a towns- man of Frank W. Murphy of Wheaton, and one of the leaders in the farm bu- reau organization for years, resigned | as an assistant attorney general to cam- | paign among the farmers for Smith. He always has been a Republican. Cashman Withdraws. The Democratic organization this week made its big bid for the support of the Farmer-Labor voters for the Smith-Robinson ticket. George F. Cashman, Democratic nominee for United States Senator, announced his withdrawal in order that there should be “no division of progressives” in the campaign. Joseph Wolf, national com- mitteeman, interpreted his action and said that it would help Senator Ship- stead and ‘“certainly it will help Gov. Smith's cause.” Senator Shipstead declared himself taken by surprise and still refused to make any statement as to how he will vote on President. He has some or- ganized support from among Republi- cans and is believed to have made pledges that he will not come out openly for Smith. His formal campaign address is still to be made, however. Democrats will ask Farmer-Labor voters to reciprocate for the withdrawal of Cashman by voting for Smith, CHARLES B. CHENEY. [EBSUATORSTHKE ALABANA STUNP |Religion Still Main Factor in War Against Gov. Smith. Special Dispatch to The Star. MONTGOMERY, Ala.. September 29. | —Democrats of Alabama have taken | the offensive in a determined manner | during the past few days. Following | the purging of the State committee by | expulsion of two members who are openly espousing the cause of the Re- publican nominee, various county Dem- | ocratic executive committees have call- | ed meetings to consider plans for | eliminating all party officials who have | not shown the organization the cour- tesy to resign. A _Speaking engagements such as have never been seen in this State during a presidential campaign mark the activ- ity of both Democratic and Republican forces. One or two verbal clashes have occurred on the stump between men of the old school and newly recruited Re- publican supporters. Efforts have been made to book other joint discussions. . Graves Is Silent. In the Democratic ranks Gov. Bibb Graves remains silent while a large | number of his appointees are actively | working for Herbert Hoover. Senator | Black has announced publicly that he will support the ticket and his friends are urging him to take the stump, but like Gov. Graves, he remains silent, though he is expected to become active carly in October. Senator Heflin spoke at Montgomery *and Opelika recently | and on each occasion voiced his bitter | opposition to Gev. Al Smith and his | determination to refrain from voting | for the New Yorker, but refused to | commit himself for Herbert Hoover. Representative Hill of the second Alabama district is waging an active speaking campaign for the entire ticket and proving himself an unusually at- tractive orator as well as a good advo- cate of the Democratic cause. In the first district John McDuffie is speaking from three to five times a week for the | ticket. The other eight Representatives are also making appeals to the Demo- cratic voters to stand by the ticket. As the fight progresses, it becomes more and more apparent that the basis for practically all defections from the Democratic party in Alabama is the religious faith of the nominee—only about 2 or 3 per cent of the pop- ulation of the State is Catholic and the fact that Gov. Smith is a communicant in that church is responsible for the objection. political observers charge. Attacked as Wet. The minds of many voters were | poisoned against Gov. Smith before the | national convention and immediately | after the nomination was made cards | were sent out by the W. C. T. U. asking women to sign a pledge not to vote for a wet. It is charged that word was sent into every Klavern by Ku Klux leaders to fight Smith either by voting for Hoover or staying away from the polls. Another effective ‘method of warfare was the distribution of thousands of little leaflets devoid of indication as to from what source they came, bearing the bogus Knights of Columbus oath. ‘While Democratic leaders are begin- ning to see some effects of recent work, it is known that the fight is not yet won in Alabama. ATTICUS MULLIN. COMMUNIST NOMINEE | FORESEES AN “UPRISING” | Candidate for President Denounces Other Parties. Predicts Campaign Will Array Labor Against Capital. By the Associated Press. SPOKANE, Wash., September 29.— Benjamin Gitlow, Communist candidate for President, in an _address here last night attacked the Republican, Demo- cratic and Socialist parties, Wall street, the Supreme Court and jails. Gitlow said that Communists in the United States do not hope to carry their policies through the ballot box, but that campaigning “will afford an opportunity of inciting workers to an uprising against the capitalists, to have them rise and !que the tools of pro- duction.” :He sald he Intanded to bring Rus- slaxr holshevism to the United States. | DEMOCRATS AGAIN ROW IN MARYLAND Bichy and Benson in Tilt! Over Payments to Ward Heads. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE. September 29.—The week in Maryland politics again was marked by an outbreak of the fac- tional bitterness which has been burn- ing flercely among the Democrats of Baltimore. A huge registration of wom- en on the first of two supplemental registration .days in the city has caused Democratic leaders anxiety. That the factional discord which broke out, early in the Summer among Baltimore Democrats was not complete- | ly buried was evidenced this week by A clash between Charles E. Bichy, chairman of the city committee, and Carville D. Benson, chairman of the Democratic advisory committee, which is managing the campaign in this county. It took the form of a face-to- face encounter. Mr. Bichy charged that Mr. Benson was “ignoring” him. It seems that when the time came for distribution of money to ward executives to pay for getting voters to register, Mr. Benson made checks payable to each individual and sent them direct. Called Unprecedented. The city chairman objected that this was depriving him of one of his prerog- atives and that the action of going around him in dealing with the ward executives was unprecedented. Mr. Ben- son in turn asserted that Mr. Bichy had failed to co-operate with the campaign committee. The next day the open rupture was smoothed over by the suggestion that Mr. Bichy appoint & committee to handle the campaign in the city and it was agreed that the advisory com- | mittee would consuit with this com- mittee on all matters of importance. ‘The committee was appointed by Mr. Bichy and besides himself, included four Democrats, representatives of both factions. Mr. Bichy is aligned with Howard W. Jackson, and they have formed about them a small group which is hostile to Gov. Ritchie and to the faction led by William Curran and Robert B. Ennis. This condition has existed in Baltimore since the death of Frank Kelly, machine boss, last February. Democrats Worried. ‘The situation Is worrying Democratic leaders, whose hearts are set on carry- ing Maryland for Gov. Smith. ‘Even though the. Jackson-Bichy faction re- mains true to the ticket, the lack of harmony always has a dulling effect on political campaigns and in a State where it appears the result will be close this discord may be disastrous from a Democratic viewpoint. Although both parties here were put- ting forth supreme efferts to increase their registration lists, no person imagined that 51915 persons would register on the first supplemental day for that purpose. The Democrats put on 25,924 of the total and the Repub- licans 21,910. Thus the Democratic majorlty in Baltimore was increased 014, If that were the whole picture it would be the Republicans who would be gloomy instead of the Democrats. But that total included 29,425 woman voters, the first time since they were given the franchise that they have exceeded the number of men registering on any given day. - FRANKLYN WALTMAN, Jr. McCORMACK THANKS POPE Converses With Pontiff After Re- ceiving Title of Count. ROME, September 29 (#).—John McCormack, the Irish tenor. today thanked Pope Pius in Italian for con- ferring upon him the title of papal count. The signer, his wife and daugh- ter were received by the Pontiff, who imparted an- apostolic benediction to the family group. In response to Count McCormack’s expression of gratitude, the Pope thanked him for the many generous contributions he has made to Roman Catholic charities in the diocese of Baltimore or through offerings made to the Holy See itself. More than 90.000 school children vizitzd Philadelphia’s Commercial Mu- seum durigg the last school year, .night was larger by several thousand' WEEK IN POLITICS Summary of National Developments Based on Reports of The Star’s Correspondents and Staff AMPAIGN oratory, partisan charges and denials—some- times extremely personal in thefr nature—flung back and forth between some of the leaders of both major parties during the last few days apparently indi- cate that prohibition and religion are still the most important issues with the voters nearly everywhere in this presidential contest, accord- ing to the latest dispatches re- ceived by The Star from its staff correspondents and special political writers in every State in the Union. Meanwhile, however, the national Democratic leaders are making a supreme effort to win the so-called independent vote, prnicipally in the Midwest, by thrusting forward farm relief. water power and other issues which seem to have a special appeal to that element. Frankly admitting the difficulty of winning the Presidency in the face of the big Republican majori- ties of the last two presidential cam- paigns, the Democratic leaders are reported to have come to a conclu- slon that their main chance of vic- tory lies in capturing the vote which went to La Follette in 1924 in the Midwest, and also capturing the wet States of the East. They are hopeful that they can do this. £ 5 x* Republican managers, cognizant of this strategy of their opponents, are countering by appeals in many States to the prohibition element: by pointing to Hoover's promise to tackle the farm problem and do his best to solve it, if elected, and by insisting that the country has been made prosperous by Republican policies. ‘While Smith has been talking di- rectly to the people in the West, Hoover has been holding con- ferences at his Washington head- quarters and preparing his remain- ing campaign speeches. Betting odds and straw vates con- tinue to favor the Republicans in .the country as a whole, but con- servative observers report that Smith has the advantage in several of the largest of the debatable States and several smaller ones, as well as in the “solid” South. From Massachusetts comes the report that many observers believe Smith has as good, if not a better, chance to carry that State than his own State of New York. The Re- publicans of the Bay State are gen- uinely alarmed and are making every effort to hold their State in its usual place in the Republican column. Rhode Island is also re- ported to be leaning strongly to- ward Smith. New Hampshire and Connecticut are placed in the doubtful column with slight Republican leanings. With the State conventions of both parties out of the way in the for- mer, the campaign is warming up there. In the Nutmeg State there will be a political barometer Monday when small town elections on local issues will be held. - The results will be eagerly scanned for indications as to the presidential trend. The other two New England States, Maine and Vermont, continue to be counted strongly Republican. L3 o o Presidential politics in- New York is temporarily eclipsed by the local questions involved in the Repub- lican and Democratic State conven- tions. When both of these are over and when Smith returns to.Albany from his Western tour the national campaign in the Empire State will doubtless begin to sizzle. Local talent has been drawn on lately by both parties in New Jersey, where Republicans are reported to have split over their own candidate for governor, Morgan F. Larson. How much that will injure Hoover's chances there is problematical. Women have registered in un- precedented numbers in Pennsylve- nia, both in the wet cities and dry rural communities. While some “danger spots” are reported in this State by Republican scouts, it is counted by most independent ob- servers as surely Republican. There is a curious state of apathy in Dela- ware, which is regarded as doubtful. * ok ok X In Ohio, where Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, ~ Assistant Attorney General, has been causing excite- ment by her speeches before re- ligious organizations, numerous straw votes of varying degrees of credi- bility all show Hoover in the lead. Prohibition, religion and agriculture have become so inextricably inter- woven in Indiana that some veteran observers, who have hitherto re- ported the State as leaning toward the Republicans, now admit com- plete mystification. Illinois is becoming a hard- fought - for battleground. ‘The Democrats are launching a big drive in Cook County in an effort to over-~ come the lead Hoover is expected to get downstate. Smith himself will RO there to help by a speech in Chi- Writers. cago October 16 or 17. Tilinois Re- publicans have renewed their urgent request that Hoover come to that State for a speech. The “battle of the border,” in Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri and Oklahom: is increasing in intensity. Prohibi tion seems to remain the chief issue in Maryland, where the Republicans are stronger in the northern and western counties and the Democrats In the eastern-and southern. The presidential race in West Virginia is in danger of being dwarfed by a bit- ter senatorial contest. Religion and liquor are the main issues in Ken- tucky, which is reported to have Re- publican leanings, while Tennessee, Where the same issues are paramount, appears to be swinging toward the Democratic side, although admitted by both sides privately to be doubt- ful ground. * ko % Smith’s recent speech in Oklahoma against religlous bigotry has un- leashed the tongues of still more Protestant ministers, and the “whis- pering” campaign has turned into a shour. It is reported as doubtful whether Smith aided his cause in that State, and time only will tell. Missouri’s electoral votes are report- ed to be in the balance, with possi- bly a little advantage on the Demo- cratic side. In the “solid” South most observ- ers count all States, except North Carolina, as safely Democratic, while many do not think even the Tar Heel State is in doubt. There are less conservative forecasters who insist that Alabama, Florida, Texas and even Virginia are doubtful. En- thusiasm is running high in Virginia among the regular Democrats, the Hoover Democrats and the regular Republicans, and the Old Dominion is ringing with campaign oratory from end to end. * K ok ok The campaign in North Carolina is becoming more heated, and erup- tions of all sorts are occurring, with religion and prohibition and Sena- tor Simmons’ desertion of the Demo- cratic party as the principal issues. No important changes are reported from South Carolina, Georgia, Flor- ida, Louisiana, Arkansas or Missis- sippl. Regular Democrats in Ala- bama have ‘taken the offensive in a determined manner against the anti- Smith bolters, while Protestant min- isters are becoming more active against Smith in Texas. Wisconsin is reported to be the transmississippi State in which Smith has the best chance at pres- ent, but he is conceded to have made inroads in Nebraska, both Dakotas, Minnesota, Montana and . Colorado by his recent speeches in that re- gion. Iowa, Kansas and Michigan appear to be pretty surely Republi- can. The farmers in some Midwest States are reported as liking Smith's farm views, but are finding it hard to swallow his views on prohibition and his “Tammanyism,” while his relig- ion is said to be alienating many who might otherwise vote for him. * ok o* ¥ The Non-Partisan League seems to have been reborn in Montana and is openly for Smith. Smith was cor- dially welcomed in Wyoming, even by the Hoover Republicans, who re- garded him as the State’s guest, but the State is declared to have strong Republican leanings. Smith and Senator Curtis, Republican Vice Presidential nominee, have both ad- dressed Colorado crowds and the lat- ter is reported to have been more quietly effective than Smith, who received the biggest ovations. In Idaho regular Republicans and Pro- gressives are declared to be favorable fo Hoover, and if that is so he will probably carry the State. It is gen- erally conceded that Hoover will carry Utah. Nevada's votes are in the balance and Arizona is conceded to be highly debatable ground. New Mexico is also in the doubtful column. The Hoover-Curtis ticket is ap- parently winning out in the three Pacific Coast States—Washington, Oregon and California, as heretofore reported. Registration of both Democrats and Republicans, espe- cially of women, continues to mount in Oregon and it promises to be the greatest in that State’s history. There are desertions from both sides. but the Smith wave, which was so apparent a few weeks ago, is reported to be receding. R There are still four factions, two in each party, in Washington. and various combinations, intended. to help Smith or Hoover, are being at- tempted. Democratic leaders are represented as acknowledging that Isl(‘e'fmm‘ strength is waning in that ate. _In California. home State of Hoover, the one-time La Follette voters, who conceivably could help to swing the State to Smith, if they wished, are reported either to be going over to Hoover or splitting up in a way to give Hoover the advantage. (Covyrisht. 1928.) CURTIS HOLDS EDGE IN COLORADO DRIVE Smith's Address in Denver Seen in Nature of Anti- Climax. Special Dispatch to The Star. DENVER, Colo., September 20.—Hav- | ing scen and heard the Democratic | presidential candidate and the Repub- | lican vice presidential nominee over the last week end, Colorado voters now are presumably getting down to the serious business of making up their minds which ticket they will vote for Novem- ber 6, and party leaders are trying to appraise with some degree of accuracy the results of the flood of oratory that was loosed and the reams of newspaper space that were used up incidental to the saturnalia of politics. ‘The consensus at this writing appears to be that Senator Curtis helped the Republican cause hereabouts more than Gov. Smith Iped the Democratic cause. The welcome accorded Gov. Smith was almost fanatical in its in- tensity, and the crowd he addressed at the Municipal Auditorium Saturday persons than the audience which greet- ed Senator Curtis in the same building Monday night. But Gov. Smith's talk on water power was somewhat over the heads of a large portion of his audience and was looked upon as in the nature of an anti-cli- max, coming on the heels of his talks | on prohibition and religion at Omaha and Oklahoma City. Senator Curtis came here without the flare of trumpets that attended Gov. Smith's arrival and was in the city only 4 hours as against “Al's” 24, but his talk seemed to make a more pro- found Jdmpression on his audience, and he had the added advantage of knowing what Smith talked about here and the opportunity to answer Illl.l'l 8 TENNESSEE IS SEEN AT OLD MOORINGS Observers Doubt That Hoover Speech Will Be Able to Swing State. Special Dispatch to The Star MEMPHIS, Tenn., September 20— Tennessee Democrats showed more en- thusiasm this week than they have dur- ing any similar period of the presiden- tial campaign. and in spite of contin- uing predictions that Mr. Hoover will make votes at Elizabethton October 6, old observers see the State quietly set- tling back in its old moorings. Not that Gov. Smith has anything like a walk- over. The State is admittedly doubt- ful still, but if the work and the cam- paign keep up at the present rate, the Democrats will carry the State for President. By far the most notable instance of Democratic activity during the week was the swinging into line of the Demo- crats in Memphis, the largest Demo- | cratic stronghold in the State. At a series of meeting attended by all the Democratic factions, plans were laid for a vigorous campaign. with predic- tions of from 10,000 to 20,000 majority for the ticket in Shelby County, of which Memphis is the capital. Meanwhile, little has been done dur- ing the week by the Republicans. Plans are about complete for Mr. Hoover's re- ception, and Republicans from all parts of the State will be on hand to wel- come him. But organization work is not going forward in the Democratic com- munities with the degree of success that might have been expected a month ago. This has been retarded by the lack of Democratic leaders opposing Smith. Not a single nominee in the State has declared against Smith and not a single mentber of any of the con- trolling party committees has declined to get busy. Judge Cordell Hull. who opposed Smith at Houston fer the presidential nomination, took the stump, and all the ncounees ot gress are campalgn- INTLERO KUANAGAINREARS HEAD IN INDIANA Dry, Church and Farm Issues Are Interwoven in State. Special Dispatch to The Star. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., September 29, —Prohibition, religion and agriculturs are so inextricably interwoven in the Indiana presidential campaign that vet~ eran political observers run alternately hot and cold and finally admit complete mystification. Not even in 1924, when the Ku Klux Klan was at the height of its power, were there such cross cur« rents of opinion. In a general way, the prohibition question is being used to the benefit of Herbert Hoover, while Gov. Smith seems to be getting the break among the farmers. The Klan, which most obscrv~ ers hold now as a mere incident in the scheme of things political, is identified with the dry and Protestant church forces in such a way that it can scarcely | be regarded as a separate entity. Ail of these forces, some of which may | ultimately dominate the election, are apparently removed from and unrelated to the regular political organizations, which are functioning in the customary way, but there is a suspicion that if one could peer far enough a connecting link or two might be discovered. Wet Views Attacked. Little is being said, at least publicly, against Gov. Smith's religious affilia- tions, but many Protestant ministers are saying, not only in the pulpits but else- | where, a good deal about Gov. Smith's | views on prohibition. An example of the effort to enlist churches against Gov. Smith came this week. when the Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, meet- ing at Seymour, heard F. Scott McBride, general superintendent of the Anti- Saloon League, appeal for election of Hoover and then adopted a resolution which, while not mentioning Gov. Smith by name, .plainly called on all Metho- dists to vote against him. | McBride did not mince words. and | after asserting that Hoover had “spoken in no uncertain terms against the re- |peal or modification of prohibition.” and referring to Gov. Smith as having | “been started on his way to political |advancement by the wet interests,” he outlined two important things that | “must be done this year to meet this |crisis: Get the church people informed {and aroused. They must register and {vote. If the dry church voters of this country will register and voie victory will be certain.” Klan Comes Back. ‘There are ample indications that efforts to recruit the Klan to war | strength are being made. Joseph Hi | fington, grand dragon. has been tending meetings in the State and, | while the usual secrecy is maintained, no concealment is made of the fact | that the Klan leaders are denouncing Gov. Smith. { Democratic leaders are meeting the | religious_issue squarely, after having had considerable doubts about handling it following the Houston convention. R. Ear] Peters, State chairman: Mrs. A. P. Flynn, State vice chairman: Mrs. | James R. Riggs, national committee- woman, d other organizers are talk- | ing plainly on the religious question and | even prohibition. and they report that | prejudice is breaking away. | _ Reports are out that some of the Republican leaders are stirring up a ! revolt against W. H. Settle, president |of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federa- | tion, because of his attacks on Hoover. It is reported that an effort may be made to oust Settle as head of the organization and to replace him with some one more in sympathy with Hoover. That Republicans have become gen- uinely alarmed over the situation in Lake County is evident from the fact that Senator Charles Curtis, the vice | bresidential nominee, has been routed back into the State for a speech at | Gary October 5. For the four days preceding that meeting an intense drive will be made through all the counties of the tenth district by State candi- | dates. HAROLD C. FEIGHTNER. 6. 0. P. CONFIDENT OF IDWA VICTORY Fermers' Union Indorsement Will Give Block of Votes to Smith. | Special Dispateh to The Star. DES MOINES. Iowa. September 29.. - Republicans in Iowa are sitting tight, content with the assurance—as certain as pre-elections can be—that Herbert Hoover will carry this State in Ne- vember. Results of straw votes and the roe ports of Republican scouts agree 11 pointing to an ultimate Hoover victory m spite of the popularity of Smith | with the Farmers Union and. presume |ably, in the urban districts. It is probe | able that Smith will carry several coun= | ties and it is even possible that he ; will carry as much as an entire distriet, but not likely. The action of Senator Norris in ap~ | proving Smith's stand on both the | farm problems and water power is | certain to be reflected in the final Iowa count. There is an appreciable body of Iowa voters who have followell Senator Brookhart in the past but have refused to follow him into the Hoover camp this year. This group is sure to be influenced by Norris when Brook- hart is held up as the cream of the Senate’s Liberals. | The action of the Farmers' Union in | convention here last week. in prac- | tically indorsing Smith, assures the Democratic candidate of somewhere between 25.000 and 45.000 votes. C. C. CLIFTON. |DEMOCRATS PATCH UP NEVADA DIFFERENCES and State Committes Reach Agreement on Cam- paign Personnel. Special Dispatch to The Star. RENO, Nev.. September 29.—Differ- ences of opinion regarding the conduct of the Democratic campaign in Nevada between Senator Pittman and members of the State central committee were |adjusted this week and Democrats | finally got their campaign under way, | after marking time for a month. Ex- ipecnng Joseph T. Robinson to stir things up when he reaches Reno ta speak October 11, Democrats are now making extensive plans for recelving the Vice Presidential nominee and one of the largest political meetings held here since the visit of President Wilson after the close of the war is predicted. Pittman’s difficulties, which threat- ened to disrupt party organization, cens tered around the personnel of the ex- ecutive committee appointed to conduet the campaign. Republicans were prepared to take advantage of the Democratic difficulties and gained some ground while Democrats were idle. Sam Platt, publican nominee opposing Pittman for the Senate, §= making an intenalve 2ED ele Pittman |