Evening Star Newspaper, October 31, 1928, Page 27

‘ L VOTES DEPED ON RACAL GROLPS . Both Parties Make Concerted, Drive for Connecticut and- Rhode Island. BY BYRON PRICE, Associated Press Staft Writer. NEW HAVEN, Conn. October 31.— Habitually later than most of their Y neighbors in opening the season of active campaigning, the Southern New England States of Connecticut and | Rhode Island are taking their politics in concentrated portions as the nation- al dispute over Hoover and Smith nears its end. As they make the feverish round of | vonferences and rallies, the leaders of th parties are claiming victory. When ese predictions are made in public they are cheered noisily, on both sides, by large assemblages of the Connecticut ? and Rhode Island voters themselves. The bystander can pay his money and make his own forecast whether these 12 electoral votes—Connecticut’s 7 and Rhode Island’s 5—will go eventually to Smith or to Hoover or be split between them. Both States have been voting the Republican presidential nominees for years and each is the stamping ground of a compact and experienced Republic- an organization. Yet both lie within that coveted Eastern block of electoral votes for which the Democrats are making an insistent appeal in 1928. They are the only two States in the Union that never ratified the prohibi- tion amendment. Each has far above the national average of Catholic popu- lation and each is the home of large colonies sprung from immigrant stock from continental Europe. Foreign Vote Disputed. Nowhere are the racial considerations that mingle in the present national campaign more persistently discussed. Politicans who talk of the prospects of November 6 veer around quickly to the probable disposition of what they call the Italian vote, the Polish vote, the French vote, the German vote or the colored vote. Nearly all of these mcial groups have been in recent years pre- > nderently Republican. This year ggth parties are claiming them, on one ound or another. For the two States, Rhode Island was singled out from the beginning of the campaign by Democratic leaders, who argued that it would be one of the most likely of all of the Eastern group to go for Smith, They based this hope not Yonly on the known wet sentiment of the State, but on the further fact that Senator Peter Gerry, a Democrat, had twice overturned the Republican nor- malcy and is this year a candidate for re-election. Senator Gerry is chairman of the advisory committee of the Demo- cratic national campaign organization and has not overlooked his home State in his efforts to garner in an electoral college’ majority for Smith. Tariff Issue Stressed. As in other New England States, ths Republicans have countered the Demo- cratic attack in Rhode Island by argu- ing that the prosperity of the State's dominant industrial interests rests on the protective tariff. A very large per- centage of those of foreign extraction are mill workers and the full dinner pail argument has been used extensively among them, despite the Democratic plea that the tariff is not an issue. Rhode Island the French-Canadian ele- ment is credited with having the bal- ance of power and there is much dis- pute among the rival political leaders ‘whether it will cling to its Republican traditions or go over to Smith. Neither do the politicians agree just ‘what application the religious issue may |. have as regards the French-Canadians, who are an important element in the electorate of New Hampshire as well as Rhode Island and who reside in lesser numbers in Massachusetts and Con- necticut. This group is Catholic, but it has not always been in harmony with the Catholics or other races, Two years ago, a question of church and school funds brought certain French-Canadian Jeaders in Rhode Island into a con- troversy with diocese =authorities and the State courts were appealed to to settle it. ‘The Democratic leaders now declare the French element will vote for Smith, but the Republicans deny it. After Gov. Smith’s recent trip across Connecticut and Rhode Island, Chairman Raskob said that much depended on the atti- tude of the French-speaking voters in several New England States. Democrats Count on Cities. In Connecticut, however, the French sonstitute one of the lesser racial groups. Their principal voting strength is con- centrated in a single county next to the Rhode Island boundary. The Italian colony is large and there are many of the German, Austrian and other na- tionalities. Nearly all of them live in the cities, and it is upon the cities that At _the present stage of the campaign the Smith supporters are claiming every one of the 20 cities of Connecticut, al- though most of them are normally Re- publican. The claim is disputed by the Republicans. It conceded, however, that Smith is likkly to get a big vote in New Haven, where the Democratic State committee has opened its head- quarters and i3 vigorously at work. It 15 upon the country districts, mn- { cludtng the small towns, that the Re- publican organization is relying to keep Connecticut safe for Hoover. In past years those sections have been &n un- failing reliance of the party. Almost every political subdivision is accustomed to turning out overwhelming Republi- can majorities and in some voting units the returns of the last election showed a ratio of as many as 500 Republicans to one Democrat. G. O. P. Active in Country. ‘While the Smith leaders have been | busy in the cities, the Republican organ- ization has used ‘such perrenial party pleas as the tariff and prosperity to get avery Republican man and woman regis- tered in the country sections and it pro- poses to have a State-wide army of workers on hand next Tuesday to get these voters to the polls. Registration has increased greatly in city and country in both Connecticut and Rhode Island, complicating the task of those political leaders who are attempt- ing to figure out just what significance can be attached this year to the vote of four years ago, when Coolidge varried Connecticut by more than two to one over Davis, and Rhode Island by only a slightly smaller ratio. BANDITS GIVEN YEAR. Mayflower Sailor and Other in Taxi Hold-up Are Sentenced. Special Dispatch to The Star. 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