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4y HE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., NOVEMBER 2, 1930—PART O ROOSEVELT, TUTTLE AND PINCHOT FIGHTS GIVE COLOR TO CAMPAIGN TWO PARTIES SPLIT IN PENNSYLVANIA Savage Attack on Pinchot Widens to Make Other Races Doubtful. @pecial Dispatch to The Btar. HARRISBURG, Pa., November 1.— Pennsylvania, for decades the Gibraltar of Republicanism, 18 in the grip of sav- political revolution which has split both major parties to the core. The cause of the upheaval is a fight for the rnorship. Although the revolt was intended to affect only the gubernatorial fight, it has left the fate of various congres- sional candidates in doubt. Other can- didates almost have been lost from sight in the fierce battle waging about the governorship. Election of Secretary of Labor James J. Davis as Senator for the seat now held by Joseph R. Grundy by appoint- ment, lgpmn certain beyond all doubt, although Democrats are claiming it for Bedgwick Kistler, member of the Demo- cratic National Committee. The Pennsylvania delegation in Con- gress, now consisting of 36 Republicans, will be reduced. The Republican State organization is clalming election of 35, and seems likely to elect more than 30 Republicans, although the Democrats cl they may elect as high as 10. The Democrats are sure of one member and seem to have a reasonable chance of electing four. Utilities Made Issue. In the vortex of the political typhoon which is rocking the State is Gifford Pinchot, former Governor. At the pri- mary he won Republican nomination for another four years in the State House over a candidate backed by the Philadelphia organization and a third candidate running on a purely wet issue. Although a militant dry when Governor- before, Pinchot based his pri- mary campaign almost entirely on changes in utility regulation and abo- lition of the Public Service Commiss! which he described as the “catspaw the corporations.” Although party regularity has been almost a fetish with Pennsylvania Re- publicans for many years, there followed & most amazing bolt headed by those ‘who normally would have been regarded as least likely to abandon their party tradition. The “war board” of the Vare Republican organization in Philadelphia and 47 of the 48 ward leaders in that city declared against Pinchot in a group. Because he could not support Pinchot, Gen. W. W. Atterbury, president of the on, of and utility lawyers in urshte counties to party. Support for Democrat. All of these have declared their sup- En for John M. Hemphill, who until won the tic nomination f 10D} pal wn lawyer of West Chester. been given the Liberal party nom!| as the vehicle to receive votes of Republicans who are averse to wvoting the Democratic ticket. E:mphill's acceptance of a led | ;" Scnmeider; tenth, James A. Frear, dry, | State Senate, which would be d It is because party lines have crum- led in this fashion that the fate of candidates is E nominees. Wednesday of this week the vet- eran Representative George 8. Graham of the second Philadelphia district re- signed as Pennsylvania member of the Congressional Campaign Committee of the Republican National Committee in order to be free to support Hemphill. ‘The Democrats are certain of elect- the member in the eleventh dis- W] Representative L. A. Wat- is retiring. iton, & Democrat, holds all there. Gen. Edward Martin, chairman of the Republican State Committee, pre- dicts the Republican nominees in the 35 other districts will win. In at least two districts, however, the nominees are facing great odds. One is the fourteenth (Berks-Le- high) district, which never elected a Republican until 1920. Representative Charles J. Esterly is not a candidate. ‘The Republican nominee, former Rep- Tesentative Robert Grey Bushong, in- curred enmity of the Republican or- E‘muuom in his district by support- a Democrat when he retired two years ago. The district contains many wet Democrats. who will be aided by some organization Republicans in sup- port of Norton L. Lichtenwalner, Allen- town, the Democfatic nominee. Another Hard Fight. Another hard fight is in the thir- tleth (Carbon-Monroe-Northampton) Representative William R. y Republican, who won in the presidential years of 1924 and 1928, is opposed by former Representative Ev- erett Kent, Democrat, who won in the gbflnlunal years of 1922 and 1926. egistration is almost equally divided between the two counties in the dis- trict. Pinchot’s popularity among the wet mine vote may make the fight for re- nom- election of Representative C. Murray | Turpin, Republican, slightly easier than for Bushong or Coyle. X pin was chosen at a special election to succeed Representative John J. Casey, {Mldent of the State Federation of r, who died after being the only ocrat to win for Congress in 1928. Turpin’s Democratic oppouent this year is John T. Kmetz, & vice president of the State Federation of Labor. John R. Collins, chairman of the State Committee, is claim- in these three over Representative B , seventeenth district, and Rep- ta nkiin Menge:, twenty- Oollins also claims f | stantial majority in the primary, Leh- . | Lehner, however, is continuing & hot Patrick J. Boland, | WISCONSIN IS GIVEN 0 PROGRESSIVES Socialist Candidates for Con- gress May Win in Hotly Fought Races. Special Dispatch to The Star MADISON, Wis., November 1.—With oéne of the most vigorous political cam- paigns in Wisconsin history drawing to a close, the progressive Republican fac- tion in this State stands assured of suc- cess paralleled only by its 127,000 ma- jority victory in the recent primary. Philip F. La Follette, Republican nominee for Governor, who.carried all but 6 of 71 counties in the primary, will probably carry with him into office the whole Republican ticket, save several stalwarts who are being given stiff fights by independent candidates. Wis- consin elects no Senators this year and in the congressional races only 2 of the 11 House candidates face any seri- ous opposition, while three of the num- ber, John M. Nelson, George J. Schnei- der and Hubert H, Peavey are unop- posed. In the fourt and fifth districts, which include Milwaukee, the two Republican incumbents, Representatives John C. Schafer and Willl H. Stafford, are being opposed by iwo Socialists whose chances of election have improved greatly in view of their intensive cam- paigning within the last few weeks. These candidates, William F. Quick, former State Senator, and James P. Sheehan, are basing their campaign on the fact that Schafer and Stafford, as stalwarts, supported Gov. Kohler and have voted with administration leaders in Congress. Tariff Issue Raised. They point particularly to their sup- port of the tariff bill, and on the basis of Hoover unpopularity and the resent= ment caused by the depression, it is not unlikely that the two Milwaukee districts will send Socialists to Con- gress next year. Sheehan’s chances are considered particularly good, as he is running in the district formerly rep- resented by Victor L. Berger, who, be- fore his death, had a strong following there, and where a great many Social- ist_voters reside. The only other congressional fight of consequence is_that in the sixth dis- trict between Philip Lehner, Republi- can nominee, to succeed the late Florian Lampert, who is being opposed by Michael K. Reilly, Democratic candi- date. Although nominated by a sub- ner is facing & hard fight from Reilly, who apparently has been given the support of the stalwart Republicans. speaking campaign right up to the election and opinion is that he will be successful, though, perhaps, by a tight In the seventh district, Gardner ‘Withrow, Progressive Republican, is certain of election to.the seat formerly held by Representative Merlin Hull, and in the eighth district, Gerald J. Boileau of Wausau, who defeated Rep- resentative Edward E. Browne in the primary, has no effective opposition. The other candidates, all of whom .are Progressive Republicans, are practically certain of election. They are: First district, Henry Allen Cooper, dean of the House of Representatives; second , Charles A. Kading; third, John M. Nelson; ninth, George and eleventh, Hubert H. Peavey. Nel- son, Schneider and Peavey are unop- State Offices to G. O. P. Election of Republican candidates for State offices is considered as a l’oficme conclusion. _ All Republican cal 100,000 or over in the primary. Th State Assembly will be overwhelmingly Progressive Republican, although there | is a fight on for the eoncmloltl:e jomi- nated by stalwarts by a one-majority vote if all Republican nominees were elected. For that reason, Phil La Fol- lette has ignored y lines in two districts and has thrown his support to two Progessives running s inde- pendents. Both independents are making a de- | termined race and observers believe | they have an excellent chance to win, in view of the Progressive landslide of | the primary. Although sentiment seems | to be overwhelmingly for the La Fol- | lette faction, Phil La Follette and| Progressive Republicans are emphasiz- ing the danger of overconfidence and urging a large vote. In many instances stalwaris are sup- porting Demoecrats of independents under cover in an attempt to hamper | ive legislation in ihe Legisla- Candidates are winding up their campaigns with radio speeches Sunday and Monday nights. e ———————— 400,000 of the record registration for | the Hoover-Smith election. While it | may be difficult to imagine that the { 1,000,000 lead given Hoover and the 750,000 polled by Gov. Fisher four | ears ago can be overcome in a State | habitually Republican, it may be - | sible if the Philadelphia majority is | subtracted from the Republican column | | to be added to the Democratic, and the | up-State vote is light. A Hemphill majority in Philadelphia is conceded. ~ Organization leaders there have claimed it may be as m!hl as 375,000, but obcervers have indi- cated 200,000 may be nearer the Phila- delphia lead. Eight years ago Pinchot was elected by 250,071 majority, of which he received 180,201 in Phila- | delphia. ‘While it is probab'e that the outcome | of the gubernatorial election will be interpreted nationally as a wet or a dry | viciory, that is only one of a number of | issues in the campaign, and is scarcely | the chief one. Wets in both partles | are supporting Pinchot and some dry ' Republicans are aiding Hemphill. : ‘The fight between the Philadelphia organization and up-State leaders is an | issue that transcends others in import- ance in many interfor counties. Oppo- sitidn to Philadelphia political control | was largely responsible for Pinchot's | | nomination, for at the primary he car- | | ried 61 of the 67 counties over the | vare organization's candidate. “Jhe | city-county issue has been stresstd in | the Fall campaign. | Nor is the fight entirely one between | conservatives and radicals, because of Pinchot's espousal of the Progressive | cause. Although many conservative business men and bankers oppose him, Pinchot has the backing of such con- | servatives as Senator Grundy. W. L. Mellon, former Republican State chair- man and political representative of the Mellon family, has declared his support for the entire Republican ticket, al- though it is known he and his uncle, the Secretary of the Treasury, have no personal liking for Pinchot. Opposition of various business ele- ments to him is primarily on his stand on utilities. When Governor he incurred opposition of electric compa- nies by opposing super-power schemes. Now he proposes creation of an elective ‘fair-ratc board” to regulate utilities, and has attacked several companies, alleging extortionate rates. Many util- ity men, industrialists who sell to them, and bankers who hold their securities, am'r:u;om the Liberal party as & result. Other Republican candidates for State office are expected to be elected by es close to normal. The fimnmm “'"‘3.2'; for granted. g s ture. HOUSE MEMBERS WHO ARE FIGHTING HARD FOR R 3 G. 0. P. IN KANSAS HOLDS ADVANTAGE Capper and Allen Expected to Return as Senators—Some Predict Upset, However. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. “'TOPEKA, Kans, November 1—By | (5) Louis Ludlow, Democrat; (6) James W. Dunbar, Republican, and (7) Albert greatly reduced majorities, Kansas vot- | R. Hall, Republican, of Indiana. (8) Charles H. Sloan, Republican, and (9) Fred ers will return two Republican Senators | G. Johnson, Republican, of Nebraska; (10) J. Lincoln Newhall, Republican, and | and seven Republican Representatives | (11) Elva R. Kendall, Republican, of Kentucky; (12) William A. Pittinger, Repu to the National Legislature in the elec- | lican, of Minnesota; (13) Edgar C. Ellis, Republican; (14) John W. Palmer, | Republican, and (15) Thomas J. Halsey, Republican, of Missourl. | L. Underhill, Republican, and (17) William J. Granfield, Democrat, of Massa- chusetts; (18) Mrs. Ruth Pratt, Republican, and Liorello H. La Guardia, Repub- lican, of New York; (20) Fred A. Hartley, jr., Republican, of New Jersey; (21) Charles A. Jonas, Republican, of North Carolina; | Republican, and (23) Joe L. Smith, Democrat, of West Virginia; (24) Milton W. | Shreve, Republican, of Pennsylvania; (25) William Wiliamson, Republican, of v | South Dakota; (26) Willis R. Hawley, Republican, and (27) Franklin F. Korell, tion next Tuesday, barring a complete overturn that always is possible this kind of a year. Ayres of Representative W. A. ‘Wichita, eighth district, the lone Demo- crat on the Kansas congressional dele- gation in Wasl , will be returned, g:x;lupa, by a record majority. Ayres represented a district that has gone Republican regularly on pret: nearly every other e for 16 of the last 18 years. ‘The depression, plus a bitter primary fight among the Republicans over the governorship, has taken a heavy toll of the usual Republican majorities of more | than 150,000 in this State. A trip through all eight congressional districts indicates that Senator Arthur Capper will be re-elected for his third term in the Senate by a large majority, though not as large as 1924. His per- sonal popularity, aided by the unpopu- larity of his opponent, former Gov. Jonathan M. Davis, in Democratic circles, may save Capper from taking serfous reductions in his usual vote. Senator Henry J. Allen, appointed by Gov. Clyde M. Reed to succeed Charles Curtis when Curtis became Vice President, on the other hand, faces trouble that might even result in his defeat, although indications are he will pull through with a majority of better than 20,000 over George McGill of Wichita, his Democratic opponent. Allen is up for the remaining two years i of the Curtis term. 1 | Concordia has (1) Grant E. Mouser, | William E. Hess, Republican, and (4) Republican, of Oregon. Jr., Republican; (2) Joe E. Baird, Republican; (3) John C. Speaks, Republican, of Ohio. | (16) Charles (22) John M. Wolverton, | Littie of Olathe, whom Guyer succeeded | six years ago. Is the third district, where Repre- | sentative W. H. Sproul stepped out of | the district fight to become an unmsuc- | cessful candidate for the Republican | nomination for the Senate against Al- len, Harold McGugin of Coffeyville, Re- publican, will win over Howard Knight | of Arkansas City unless McGugin should lose his own county .badly, which at this time does not seem probable. Representatives Homer Hoch of the | fourth, James G. Strong of the fifth, Charles 1. Sparks of the sixth and Clif- ford Hope of the seventh, all Republi- cans, appear to have their districts well |in hand. In the fifth Clyde Short of been cutting away Strong’s support in several counties, but unless there is that always possible gen- eral uprising against “all the ins,” Strong should be returned. In the seventh A. 8. Allphine of Dodge City threatens | ent candidate for Governor. Under the Kansas law his name cannot appear on the ballots, as independents have to file before June 20. Brinkley is | conducting a vigorous airplane and | radio campaign—over his radio station that the Radio Commission so far has | been unable to take away from him— | and meeting with such apparent popu- | larity that the regular party headquar- | ters are all at sea. Until Brinkley’s strength showed up the governorship contest looked like a horse race between Frank Haucke of Council Grove, Republican, and Harry Woodring of Neodeshia, Democrat. Both are former commanders of the Kansas American Legion. Haucke de- feated Gov. Reed for renomination for a second term in one of the bitterest and most bitterly personal campaigns in years. The hangover from that plus the general resentment against hard ARKANGANS SEE DEMOCRAT SWEEP Only Few County Offices Con-| | ceded to Republicans—Mrs. Wingo to Come to House. Special Dispatch to The Star. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., November 1.— At no point, except in four or five county races, will the Democrats be driven from their stronghold this year, although the Republicans have con- | ducted their customary campaign, and although the death of Representative Otis T. Wingo on October 21, after he had been renominated for another term, left a possible opening for Republican success in the fourth district. In fear of a Republican coup, the Democratic State Central Committee met_hastily and. nominated Mrs. Otis T. Wingo for the short and the long term in this district. This was done on the posthumous request of Repre- sentative Wingo, and the Republicans, realizing they had no chance to win, announced that they would not put out & candidate in that district. ‘The Republican leaders picked up an issue which brought them more favor- able publicity in Democratic newspapers than they have been accustomed to re- ceive, although this issue will not bring success in the campaign. Candidates for Governor in the primary are limited to an expenditure of $5,000. There was great astonishment when Gov. Harvey Parnell's expenses were filled showing a of $5930. Later an amended report was filed admitting an error in ulation of $1,000 and giving the total &s $4,930, but this amended report was not filed until after the 30 days allowed by law had passed. ‘The Republicans sought through the courts to have Gov. Parnell declared ineligible. They did not succeed in this and did not expect to succeed, but they did obtain publicity against the administration. ‘The total Republican vote in Arkansas Organized labor is making a bitter | to reduce Hope's leads of four and two | times three weeks ago appeared to have | is expected to fall short of what it was fight on Allen, because of the industrial | years ago, due largely to the low price | given Woodring a chance to overcome | in 1928. The | of wheat and Hope's spirited defense | the normal off-year Republican ma- farm organizations also are hostile to | of the Farm Board and the tariff act, | jority of 175,000. court law he espoused in 1920. Allen, but since his operation in & Bal- timore hospital and announced inabil- ity to take part in the campaign their opposifion has been passive. Among the Kansas Representatives seeking re-election, W. P. Lambertson, | recently was revoked by the State Medi- | made by independent observers. in the first has no opposition. U. 8. |cal Board, is furnishing the surprise of | unexpected | State for Haucke and Allen when it kansas Congresswoman will Guyer in the second looks good for 15,000 majority over Chauncey B. CONSPICUOUS crat, of Pennsylvania; (5) Wilbur Brucker, Republican, of Michigan; | neither of which have too many friends in_the Southwestern wheat belt. Dr. John R. Brinkley of Milford, goat | gland specialist, whose license to prac- | tice medicine and surgery in Kansas the campaign in the strength he is showing as an independ- FIGURES It now looks as if Brinkley will get | between 50,000 and 75000 disaffected Republican votes, and that few of these will go to Woodring, so Haucke has the | edge in the political predictions being There is no Republican op- position to any member of Congress in the State. It is unlikely that a Repub- lican will be elected to any State office. The only two new members of the Arkansas_delegation will be John E. Miller, who succeeds Mrs. Pear] Peden Oldfield in the second district, and Mrs. Wingo, who will succeed her hus- Curtis came home and stumped the looked as if both might be in danger. band in the fourth district. One Ar- go out March 4, but another will come in. IN STATE GUBERNATORIAL CONTESTS (1) Franklin D. Rocsevelt, Democrat, and (2) Charles H. Tuttle, Republican, of New York; (3) Gifford Pinchot, Republican, and (4) John Hemphill, Demo. 6) Frank R. Allen, Republican, of Massachusetts; (7) Phil Metschan, Republican, of Oregon; (8) William H. Adams, Republican, of Colorado; (9) Frank Haucke, Republican, of Kansas; (10) Arthur J. Weaver, Republican, and (11) Charies W. Bryan, Democrat, of Nebraska; (12) Philip La Follette, Republican, ef Wisconsin; (13) Albert W. Noone, Democrat, and (14) John G./m Republican; of New o “t H % | Wa Collter, INHOUSE IS SEEN Democrats May Get 12 of 16 Seats—Apathy In St. Louis May Cause Light Vote. Special Dispatch to The Star. KANSAS CITY, Mo, November 1.— Unless all signs faill Missouri is headed back for the Democratic column with & bang. With no seats to fill in the United States Senate and no major office of consequence at stake in the State gov- ernment, one of the most colorless cam- paigns in Missouri’s history is draw- ing to a close. The contests center around the State's 16 seats in the National House of Representatives, of which the Republicans now control 10; a Supreme Court judge and superin- tendent of schools, the only two State- wide offices to be filled, and the Mis- souri Legislature. May Get 12 Seats. Putting aside party claims and pre- dictions, indications on the eve of the election are that Missouri will do & political flip-flop and the Democrats will win 10 and ibly 12 _of the State’s congressional districts Tuesday. That belief is based on present ele- ments engendered into the campaign, together with past results in of elections in the State since 1920, when Missouri started going Republican in presidential years and Democratic be- tween times. Also indications are that the Demo- cratic State ticket will win with esti- mates from 40,000 to 60,000 majorities. The Democrats may win control of the State’s next General Assembly, although that is questionable. The State Senate is Democratic and the lower branch overwhelmingly Republican. Nine of the State’s 16 congressional districts are normally Democratic, two questionable and the remainder usually to be found in the Republican column. Hawes Led by 41,000, ‘The outcome of Missouri's election this time, in the absence of outstanding elements, must to a big degree be meas- ured by results of former off-year con- tests in the State. In 1926, the last off-year scrap, the Democrats elected 12 of the 16 members of Congress. In that election Harry B. Hawes obtained a majority of 41,000 over his Republican opponent, George H. Willlams, then in the Senate by appointment. In 1922, the previous off-year showdown in the State, the Democrats won 11 of the congressional seats. It was that year James A. Reed, Democrat, was returned to the United States Senate for his | third term with a 44,000 majority, to which the Republicans contributed most liberally in a campaign that split the State's Democracy as seldom before. Even in 1924, when Coolidge carried Missourl by 75,000, the Democrats managed to hold nine of the 16 con- gressional seats, which indic the | Democrats carry a pronounced off-year wallop in this State. The present G. O. P. advantages in the House delega- tion were obtained in the Hoover land- slide over Missouri. Attracting wide attention this time is the race here in the fifth (Kansas City) district between Edgar C. Ellis, Republican incumbent, and Joseph B. Shannon, one of the Democratic bosses of Kansas City, who is nationally known in his party’s political circles. In the last off-year election this dis- | trict furnished a 17,000 majority for, George H. Coombs, Jr., then the young- est member of the National House. A woman, Mrs. Pearl Gehrig of Salisbury, Republican, is contesting against Rep- resentative Ralph Lozies a veteran member of Congress from the second district, heavily Democratic. St. Louis Is Quiet. In the three St. Louis districts the Democrats and Republicans are on the best terms, congressionally d:&e:kin& L. C. Dyer and Henry F. Nek haus, Republican incumbents, are without Democratic opponents, and Jol J. Cochran, Democrat, is without Repub- lican opposition. General business depression, agricul- tural setbacks and the jobless are being stressed by the Democrats, while the Republicans are standing steadfast be- hind the Hoover administration and calling attention to a good regime in | the State under the leadership of Gov. Caulfield. While much is heard of the wet-and-dry question on the sidelines, it is not an issue here. In the last days of the campaign Senator Reed, in typical fiery fashion, has turned loose his guns on President Hoover, while Arthur M. Hyde, Secretary of Agriculture, has come back to the State in defense of the administration. Despite present indications, Repub- licans are far from ready to concede Missouri, contending they will continue to hold their lines, despite Democratic pre-election hurrahs. The G. O. P. has a good out-State organization. But St. Louis, usually counted on for a 35,000 to 40,000 Republican majority, is not| taking the interest of other years and | may fall down badly, while Kansas City probably will roll up a substantial Dem- ocratic majority. The big battle in the closing days in both camps has been to awaken the voters. Unless a political | bomb is dropped in the final hours, the vote in Missouri Tuesday will be the lightest in years. OPPOSITION LACKING FOR MISSISSIPPIANS Senator Harrison and Full Delega- tion of Democrats in House to Be Elected. Special Dispatch to The Star. JACKSON, Miss.,, November 1.—Mis- | sissippi is returning a full Democratic | delegation to Congress. No Republican | opposition will be encountered at the | polls on Tuesday. Senator Pat Harrison will be re-| elected without opposition. He was | nominated by the Democrats without an opponent in the primary. Repre- sentative Ross Collins was the only Democrat to have opposition in his own party and he won overwhelmingly, although he was charged with being a “Hoovercrat.” Collins’ explanation that he had not voted for Hoover for Presi- dent apparently appeased the bitterest Democrats and his nomination was almost a foregone conclusion. When John Cook was the Republican candidate for the United States Sen- ate—the last Republican to make the race—he polled less than 4,000 votes in the State in 1922 against Senator Hubert Stephens. lent to election, since the winners usually have no Republic opposition. ‘Thus the party nominees for will, through formality, elected on Tuesday. : The solid Democratic return to the House _ist Piref, John E. Rankin, Tupelg: second, Doxey, Holly Springs; third, W. g Whittington, Gregnwood; fourth, Jeff ton; fifth, Ross Collins, Me; R. 8. Hall, Hattiesburg; se E. Quinn, McComb, and nin | and _Controller estecrion ]SSR SHITH N YORK TRNS EYES T0 CONGRESS Democrats Expect Gains in House Seats—Roosevelt Victory Seen. Special Dispatch to The Star. ALBANY, N. Y., November 1.—Aside from the possibility that the re-election of Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt would make him one of the chief conten for the Democratic presidential noml- nation in 1932, the chief concern n:: Republican and Democratic nationil leaders in the New York State election this year is the outcome of the con- gressional elections, which may have an important bearing on control of te House at the next session of Congress. Forty-three Representatives, but re United States Senators, are to be elect« ed Tuesday. The Democrats, now hold- ing 23 seats to the Republicans™20, ate making one of the most determined bids they have ever attempted to gain aw even greater majority. The Republican leaders are making an equally stiff fight to hold the seats they have. In view of the fact that the present division of congressional seats in the State is the result of the outcome of the 1928 presidential election, when the full Republican vote came out it ap- the Democrats, in an off g old whatever edge there is in the fight, for it is conceded the Republican State organization cannot approximate the vote it got two years ago. Party Lines Broken. ‘The injection of the wet-dry issue to an extent has openly broken down party lines and has complicated the sit- uation considerably. IX would appear the Democrats have a chance to gafn one or possibly two seats. ‘There are six districts which two years ago elected Republicans in which the Democrats are making special drives with the professed hope of victory. impartial observers it would appear they have a chance in but two, or at most three, of these. & Guernsey T. Cross, secretary to tie Governor, has been granted a leave of absence from his official duties in the executive chamber in, an attempt to overturn the twenty-seventh congres- sional district, includj the counties of Sullivan, Orange and Uister. Mr, Crcss is runn t Representative Haf- court J. Pratt, who won tWo years ago by an approximate vote of 59,000 to 34, 000. It is conceded Mr. Cross will make an exceptional run, but whether it be good enough to give him a of victory is considered doubtful. Mrs. Pratt Hard Pressed. 3 ‘The best Democratic ‘chance lies the seventeenth congressional distr! where Mrs. Ruth B. Pratt, Republican, is in a three-cornered contest. Her margin of victory two years ago was only slightly more than 4,000 and re- ports reaching the Capitol are that she is in trouble. Louis B. Brodsky, Democratic opponent, is mnktnsrl"qu personal campaign, while the of the contest are from wood Broun, New York ne umnist, who is running as a The‘ggrlnt in this contest appears to bie ‘whet Mr, Broun will take more votes from Mrs. Pratt or Mr, Brodsky. . district, where Representative S. Wi lace Dempsey, chairman of the House Rivers and Harbors Committee, was de- feated for a renomination after a pri- mary fight. Willlam G. Andrews, Rg- publican nominee, is & wet. Frank ©. Perkins, independent nominee, is Republican dry. Roland Prangle, Democratic nominee, hopes this di will give him victory. However, the trict went Republican two years ago in & ratio of 99,000 to 46,000. s s In the thirtieth congressional district, Democrats are making a bid to de- feat Representative Frank C. Crowther of Schnectady. Mrs. Isetta Jewel Mil- :&e‘nh be i inated against hing. T, has been nominated Mrs. Roosevelt, wife of the Governor, has appeared at one or two functions further Mrs. Miller's m?.lrn E:ny leaders are hopeful she will eavily into the vote of two years when Mr. Crowther about 000 votes to his opponent’s 36,000. Chance in Thirty-third. 3 ‘The wet-dry issue may ve the Democrats a chance in the t! -third congressional district where they are trying to defeat Representative Fred- erick M. Davenport, a dry. Mr. Daven- * port won two years ago by a vote of 62,000 to 46,000, but the Democrats contend the district is wet. James J. Loftis, the Democratic nominee, is campaigning on the wet isisue. Even in the twenty-ninth congres- sional district the Democrats are mak- ing a fiight, although a rather hopeless one. Against Representative James 8 Parker, a dry, who has carried the dis- trict without difficulty year after they have nominated a wet, The A. Knapp of Saratoga. While Mr. Knapp may make some inroads in thg normal Republican vote in the districty his chance of victory is concededly als most nil. 5 The wet declaration of Charles H. Tuttle, Republican nominee for Gova ernor, who favors repeal of the eight- eenth amendment, may hurt some of the Republican congressional nominee, as registration has fallen off heavily i thirty-three dry up-State counties. - ROOSEVELT VICTORY ASSURED. Forecast Indicates Size of Majority Biggest Remaining Question. Special Dispatch to The Star. BUFFALO, N. Y, November 1< New York State voters are preparing to re-elect Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt by a greatly increased margin over the' 25,564 given him in 1928, laun him fairly into the 1932 campaign as’ the State's candidate for the Demo< cratic presidential nomination. Esti- mates of his majority range all the: way from 100,000 upward, dependens. to ‘some extent on the vote polled by: Robert Paris Carroll, member of Syra= cuse University faculty, who was ine jected into the field by the “drys” fol- lowing Republican nomination of Charles H. Tuttle on a repeal platform: With Gov. Roosevelt it is expected that Lieut. Gov. Herbert H. Lehman: Morris S. Tremaine. will be re-elected. Whatever doubt is- involved in the State election appears connection with the remaining office of attorney general, for which _the, Democrats have named John J. Bens. nett of Brooklyn, popular former: State head of the American Legion, but who was admitted to the bar only three years ago. nett is By Isadore Bo%ksull.n. Albol‘ny can leader, and a lawyer of experiency and ability, ot Little, if any, change is expected i the congressional delegation, of 23 Democrats and 20 Re-: publicans. Two districts are listed as Soubttul, both In_ New York City and. both now represented by Repub! X! Pratt and F. H. La Guardis, ns oon- Demos” seat of Albany and James lo. State ticket rn:guu? conceded : Republican clr’clea. chief interest turns’ toward the fight which is being for control of the State Senate, now” Republican on a 27-to-24 line-up. i3 Republicans expect to retain controf of the Assembly, a result that would’ not be di to Dem