Evening Star Newspaper, November 2, 1928, Page 7

CAMPAIGN CAUSES SELF-EXAMINATION ‘Race Ending With Emotions| at War Beneath Trou- bled Service. BY BYRON PRICE, Associated Press Staff Writer. The presidential campaign is ending, ¢as it began, with mighty currents of emotion at war beneath the troubled surface. To many millions of Americans, Tuesday's election has become vastly more than a choice of men and parties. Throughout the whole country, new and | surprising forces are on the march to- ward the ballot box. The stormy spirit | of the times has found expression in a stirring of racial and religious groups, a confusion of class impulses, turmoil in party organizations, and a return of the old-time fervor of the political crusader. Tossed on these swift-running cur- ¥ rents, political issues are in strange dis- array in these closing days of the cam- paign. Weeks of debate have produced no agreement 2s to the paramount con- siderations that are to be resolved by| the voter. Each side denies that the other has defined its position clearly. | and each denies the existence of jssues | thrust forward by the other. Farm relief, prohibition and all of the others | ¢ are jumbled together in a tangle of | ¥1In a literal sense, it #ican wets compare to his losses among | cast their votes by mail. argument. Self-Examination. One thing. however, is fully apparent. This has been a campaign of national self-examination. Not for many years | have the parties gone to the country, talking so little of foreign affairs and | so much of home affairs. Introspection has turned the light of public discus- | sion on such domestic questions as pro- hibition, agriculture. immi; vater pow of national soul searching. Considering the interplay of the issues with the con- current awakening of class and group | consciousness, the campaign may be; characterized as the most sweeping | national stock-taking since the United | States became a really cosmopolitan country. What sort of a balance the voters will strike off at Tuesday’s election, and whether it will be in favor of Hoover or Smith, still rests on the replies to a complicated set of questions, which are the same questions the politicians were asking ihemselves when the campaign began. Questions. How great a defection will there be on the religious issue? How will Smith’s gains among Repub- Democratic drys? What part of the farm vote in Re- ublican States can be diverted to Smith y those farm leaders who have bolted Hoover? | every Republican candidate since, will - | 7 o'clock to join about 100 other Hoos- In Voting Caravan WILLIAM HENRY SMITH, VETERAN HOOSIER HEADS VOTE TREK Man Who Voted for Lincoln Leads Local Indianans to Polls. William Henry Smith, 89-year-old veteran author and journalist of 1418 Perry place, who cast his first vote for Abraham Lincoln, and has voted for step aboard the Hoover-Hoosier caravan tomorrcw morning at the early hour of iers of this city for the motor trek to Indiana and the ballot boxes. Mr. Smith, who still is active as a writer, is in excellent health and today was looking forward eagerly to the 600- mile journey by motor bus over the Blue Ridge and Allegheny Mountains in order to cast his vote, as usual, to keep continuous his record of never failing to reach the ballot box. Law Has Been Changed. The trip to Indiana this year was necessary for Mr. Smith and his fellow Hoosiers in Washington because of the fact that the State Legislature repealed since the last election the absent voters’ ballot law, by which in previous elec- tions Hoosiers here had been able to Mr. Smith is the tather of Maj. Wil- liam Wolff Smith, general counsel of the United States Veterans’ Bureau. motor busses, two large seven-passenger The caravan will include two large [\ THE- EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, Ind., but had made his home for many years in Indianapolis, where he will cast his ballot Tuesday for Hoover. For years he was Indiana correspondent for the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. He has been a contributor to Washing- ton newspapers, is the author of a his- tory of Indiana and has just completed a history of the Speakers of the House of Representatives, scon to be pub- lished. The Hoover-Hoosler caravan was or- ganized by Miss Ailene Loveland and Mrs. Madge G. Ballard, secretaries to Senator Robinson of Indiana. 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The cars 7 nominees themselves? { will pull out. from the Senate Office What will the new voters do, and ' Building at 7 o'clock in the morning particularly what will the millions of |and, crossing the mountains, it is plan- new woman voters do? ned to stop all night at Wheeling, W. These all are questions which the|Va. arriving in Indianapolis Sunday | national party headquarters now are |night. Returning the caravan will leave quite willing to answer, when they are | Indianapolis about 9 o'clock Wednes- | N\ :fifi‘me;?rin &:llfintm mflm day n;:umlng after the election and is [N 3 expected to reach Washington the ne: reult would be the clection of ts ovn | evening. cisabieibi candidate. ere are politicians Tho S De Thnch DEEF Dleamed AL | T e for purposes of future reference, all of} these guestions could be printed on the ballot. 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