Evening Star Newspaper, November 3, 1930, Page 3

ELECTION RESULT HELD UNCERTAIN Democrats See Landslide and Moral Victory Seems Assured. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The outstanding characteristic of the situation on the eve of the national congressional election is the uncer- tainty of the outcome. ‘The Democrats are absolutely con- fident of a landslide—the Republicans concede that they will lose many seats— neither side can predict with certainty exactly how the election will turn out. The logic and tradition of politics | would seem to point to a moral victory for the Democrats no matter whether | they gain control of the House of Rep= resentatives or miss getting control by a few seats, for they will make substan- tial gains. This is because the party in power always suffers from popular dis- content or unrest, and this year there are two principal causes of irritation, namely, the effect of prohibition as re- flected in the development of the boot- legger and gangster and the effects of the economic depression as revealed in ‘widespread unemployment. Senate Control Doubtful. The Democrats are not sure whether they can gain control of the Senate. Certainly all the senatorial contests in the doubtful States contain so many complicated factors that it is hard to make any calculations in advance. Democratic Senators, however, may be looked for from Massachusetts, Ohio and Kentucky, with Democratic Gover- nors in New York wnd Pennsylvania Tllinois is doubtful, with the man on the | street predicting the election of former | Senator Lewis, Democrat, though the attitude of the rural districts is an un- known quantity. ‘The result in the House of Represent- atives, based on a conservative ap- praisal of the situation, would seem to indicate that a half dozen seats either way will be the ultimate majority. Results Felt Later. If the Democrats gain control even by & narrow majority it will give them the opportunity to organize the House and gain committee chairmanships, but the result of Tuesday's election would not be felt until a year from mnext December unless, of course, President Hoover should call an extra session some time after March 4, 1931. ‘There is no denying that the outcome of the congressional elections will be a factor in the 1932 presidential contest. | It will be used as a yardstick in meas- uring the political strength of Mr. | Hoover and unquestionably it will stimulate the Democrats because they will have made some real gains. | Thus Tuesday's election is a critical moment in political history and an un- | usually big vote for an off-year elec- tion may be anticipated. From a actical standpoint a change in con- Zrfll from one party to the other would not mean very much on legislation be- cause the insurgent groups in both houses probably would hold the balance of power as they always do when either one of the big parties gets numerical control by & narrow margin. Mr. Hoover may be just as well off under those circumstances as with the sit- uation that has existed in the last two | years for he has been dealing with an | adverse coalition in the Senate and | has _had to compromise with the Senate in order to get legislation passed. (Copyright. 1930.) * JEAN BALSAN DEAD PARIS, November 3 (#).—J:an Bal- san, a regent of the Bank of France and a brother-in-law of the former Consuelo Vanderbilt, died yesterday lllsgr a short iliness. He was 60 years old. M. Balsan's brother, Col. Jacques Balsan, war ac: and former French alr attache in London, married Con- suelo Vanderbilt, daughter of W. K. Vanderbilt, in 1921. 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Phone Lookout Co, Will Rogers LOS ANGELES, Calif. —Come pretty near having two holidays of equal impor- tance in the same week — Halloween and election, and of the two election provides us the most fun. On Halloween they put pumpkins on their heads, and on election they don't have to. Candidates who have been tellin you that if elected they would “Pull you from this bog hole of financial misery,” now is a good chance to get even with ’em, by electing 'em, just to prove what a liar they are. Per- sonally I think this is the right year for a good man to be defeated in. ALLOT FORECASTS CAUTIOUS N TONE Leading Political Prophets Foresee Probability of G. 0. P. Keeping Control. BY MARK SULLIVAN. The forecasts of Tuesday's election, made by the political experts of leading newspapers, are less exact as to figures ana less confident in tone than has been the case with regard to past elec- tions. There is, nevertheless, substan- tial agreement among them. As to the Senate, practically all agree that the Democrats will make gains, but the Re- publicans will retain control. As to the House, almost all agree that the Demo- crats will make large gains, that these gains will be slightly less than enough to control, but that there is a possibility of the Democrats gaining actual control of the House. Practically every predic- tion uses, in a cautious way, the phrase, “Possibility of a Democratic landslide.” The fundamental figures with which all forecasts must start are as to the Sznate, that the Democrats now have 39 Senators out of a total of 96 and, therefore, must gain 10 seats to have a majority, or 49. Hardly anybody ex- pects the Democrats to get a majority in the Senate. As to the House, th figures are that the Democrats now have 165 seats out of a total of 435 and, therefore, must gain 53 to have a bare majority. The real question in Tues- day’s election, about which there is any actual doubt, is whether the Democrats can gain the 53 House seats necessary to give tham a majority in that body. Democratic Control Possible. The summary of The Washington Star, which has made an exceptionally painstaking assemblage of reports from all over the country, predicts, some- what tentatively, that “the Democrats will have a net gain of seven seats in the Senate, giving them 46 seats, or three less than are necessary for a ma- jority. As to the House, The Star's summary cautiously refrains from fig- ures. It says “there appears to be a possibility, not a probability, that the Democrats will obtain a clear majority in the House.” The forecast of the Baltimore Sun refrains from specific figures. As to the Senate, the Sun agrees with all the others that it “cannot foresee an over- turn of the Republican majority.” As to the House, the Sun says that “im- partial observers are convinced the race is so close that the margin of con- trol will not be more than 10 votes one way or the other.” The correspondent of the New York Herald-Tribune makes a careful and extensive survey which refrains from arriving at exact figures. A reasonable deduction from the details of the Her- ald-Tribune’s report would say that in the Senate the Democrats will probably gain six seats and will, therefore, have four seats less than a majority. As to the House, the calculations of the Her- ald-Tribune correspondent suggest roughly a net gain by the Democrats of about 37 seats, which is 16 less than enough to give them a majority. Sees G. 0. P. Senate Control. ‘The New Y ‘Times correspondent says, as to the Senate, that “only by the remotest possibility will the Demo- crats be able to elect enough of their senatorial candidates to insure them party control.” As to the House, the Times correspondent says that “the margin is not wide enough to justify any positive prediction as to whether the Democrats will or will not carry the House. The most that can be said is that the (House) elections will be close.” New York World says as to the Senate that the Democrats “will fall short of winning control.” As to the House, this | correspondent says “the Democrats will The correspondent of the Democratic | RY ‘ASSN' INC.. | . ALLIED VAN LINE, MOTOK VAN RE- movals anywhere. ‘“‘Pool” vans for ship- ments of small lots to and from New York BECURITY STORAGE COMPANY. 1140 PFif- e 0045 'ANCE NG -DI MOVING — been keeping faith w! ith th at e ‘long-distance moving. 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Company __ District 0933 Printing Craftsmen... are at your service for 3 result-getting publicity The National Capital Press SEIRPE TV P e | capture the House by a close margin.” %d | The met of these forecasts is that d | the Republicans will retain control of DE- | {he Senate though by a majority re- ! duced to four or five. As to the House, | the net, stated roughly, would say that { the Republicans will lose between 30 aad 40 seats and will retain control by |a margin of between 13 and 23 seats. | Democratic ces does there come any prediction ‘of Demo- {cratic control of the House. At the same time, all the forecasters make | cautious allusions to the possibility of ! a Democratic landslide. H (Copyright. MRS. M’CORMICK . SEES 200,000 LEAD Lewis Equally Optimistic of Suc- cess in Illinois Senatorial Contest. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 3.—Confidence of victory in tomorrow’s senatorial election | was expressed at the camps of the three nominees—Representative Ruth Hanna McCormick, Republican; James Hamil- | ton Lewis, Democrat, and Mrs. Lottie O'Neill, independent. C. J. Doyle, State Republican chair- man, said he expected Representative McCormick to carry downstate by 200,- | 000 votes tomorrow and to retain that | plurality after the votes of Cook Coun- (Chicag>) are counted. Thomas J. Donovan, State Democratic chairman, claimed political indicated an even break for former Senator Lewis up to the Cook County line and a 200,000 plurality for the Democratic standard bearer within the metropolitan area. Mrs. O'Neill, the independent dry candidate, said she considered her chances cf victory good, but issued no statement as to her expected numerical superiority. The indications were for weather fa- vorable for a heavy vote. USE BOATS FOR APPLES HARDIN, Ill. (#).—Calhoun County, Iilinols’ apple-producing center, is without a railroad. All of its heavy fruit crop is moved Illinois River. A few years ago the Chicago & Alton :;:enlded “"x‘h’l: s to the east shore of river, eliminated & long over- land haul. portents | to a rail terminal on barges down lhe' THE EVE ILASTHOUR PLEAS MADE T0 VOTERS Leaders of Each Party Heard in Arguments for Sup- port at Polls. Rival political camps continued the argument up to the eve of election by statements on the administration’s rec- ord. Representative Will Wood, chairman of the Republican Congressional Com- mittee, cited speeches by two former Democratic presidential nominees in re- peating his charge of a campaign to misrepresent the President. He said the administration “began to move a year ago in easing the shock of the stock- market crash and in relieving unem- ployment.” in challenging statements to the contrary by Alfred E. Smith and James M. Cox. Democratic Leader Talks. Senator George, Democrat, of Georgia, said administration leaders in Congress had failed to co-operate last Spring with Democratic efforts to combat un- employment. He pointed to the Wagner unemployment bills which passed the Senate “only to be choked to death by the Republican leadership in the House.” After saying the Democrats would “go to the limit” to relieve unemployment, George concluded: “The signs indicate that the voters have resolved to prevent the beneficiaries of special privilege from holding up the American people.” Wood Alleges “False Charges.” After enumerating “false charges” made against the administration by Democrats, Wood concluded: “I have too much faith in the good sense of the American people to believe they are going to hand over the legisla- tive branch of the Government to such leadership. AUTHORITIES HOPE FOR CLEAN ELECTION State Attorney in Chicago Plans to Ferret Out All Violations of Law. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, November 3.—Representa- tives of the State’s attorney bent their efforts today to insure a clean election in Cook County tocmorrow. In a statement asking co-operation of all good citizens by requesting them to report any violations of electicn laws tomorrow, John A. Swancon, State’s attorney, said: “Complaints have come to me re- garding fictitious registration, plans for repeaters at the polls, falsificaton of returns and other frauds relating to electon tomorrow."” To prevent any frauds, Swanson said his representatives would visit various precincts, watch the conduct of the voting and, if any occur, gather evi- dence of violations. Radio appearances by Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick and James Hamil- ton Lewis, Republican and Democratic senatorial candidates, will conclude their campaign efforts tonight. BOTH PARTIES CLAIM MAJORITY IN OHIO Confidence Expressed by Rival | Leaders of Triumph at Polls. Prohibition Chief Issue. By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, November 3.— Resting their oars after a spectacular contest which made prohibition a clear- cut issue in the senatorial race, both Republicans and Democrats today con- fidently awaited tomorrow’s judgment of the electorate. Republican State headquarters claim- ed victory for Senator Roscoe C. Mc- Culloch, while the Democratic forces ! were equally certain of the election of Robert J. Bulkley. | Bulkley, a Cleveland attorney, based | his_campaign on a declaration for re- | peal of the eighteenth amendment and | return of liquor control to the States. Senator McCulloch, who seeks election | to the post he now holds by appoint- | | ment, is a firm advocate of prohibition | enforcement. They also differed over tariff policies in their campaign, which took them into every corner of the State. ‘The interest in the senatorial con- | test and the no less intensive struggle over the governorship between Myers | Y. Cooper, Republican incumbent, and George White of Marijetta, former Democratic Representative, drew a rec- ord “off-year” registration. A vote of around 2,000,000, or about 81 per cent of the 1928 poll, is predicted. 1750 OFFICERS ASSIGNED | T POLLS IN NEW YORK | Attorney General's Office | Special Investigators They Are ! Likely “to Have Hands Full.” By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November 3.—With a warning that they are likely to have | their hands full, more than 750 special | investigators for the attorney general’s | office have been assigned to various polling places tomorrow to watch for fraudulent voting. Instructing the deputies to watch for various types of election frauds, abuses of the voting machine and intimidation of voters, Harold Riegelman, assistant attorney general in charge of the Bu- reau of Elections, said a large motor transport division and a strong detail of uniformed police would be held at | Bureau. 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The organizations said in the state- ment that “in view of questions raised in the present election and the con- sideration of prohibition enforcement by the Government, we join in the declaration that the friends of prohi- bition will not compromise the prin- ciples of national, constitutional pro- hibition.” At the same time, the weekly clip- sheet issued by Dr. Clarence True Wilson, general secretary of the Becard of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church, asserted the recent ‘“wet ballyhoo,’ ‘challenges the competency of government to make decisions and bring them into effect” and “strikes at democracy itself.” The organizations issuing the joint statement were the Anti-Saloon League; the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church: the Board of Tem- perance and Social Service of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church South: the In- ternational Order of Good Templars; the International Reform Federation, and the Women'’s Christian Temperance Union. Clipsheet statement asserted that “wet ballyhoo” means: “That the Raskob machine holds in utter contempt the millions of prohibi- tion Democrats in the South and West, believing that this whole matter is to be determined by control or organiza- ople. “That there are men in the Repub- lican party who are willing to betray the great dry Republican majority to the wets, despite the fact that the drys are responsible for the election of Mr. Hoover and have repeatedly given their mandate to administration by the re- turn of Congresses having an over- whelming dry majority and the rolling up of An unprecedented dry support for Mr. Hoover in 1928." HORSE PRICES GOING UP DURHAM, N. H. (#).— Horses are likely to be higher in 1937 and 1940 than ever before, says M. Gale East- man, farm economist at the University issued a joint statement today appeal- | tion rather than by the will of thc‘ B VOTE EXPECTED *INHEFLN DISTY Retain Senate Seat Arouses Widespread Interest. By the Associated Press. MONTGOMERY, Ala., November 3.— | J. Thomas Heflin's flery fight to retain | his Senatorship in face of a challenge | from the party which sponsored him in public office for 34 years will be de- | cided tomorrow by an_outpouring of | voters, larger, perhaps, than any in the | State's history. ‘The end of Heflin's independent cam- paign against the regular Democratic nominee found him reiterating a de- | termination to demand a senatorial in- vestigation should any evidence of fraud develop in the balloting. | __John H. Bankhead of Jasper is the | Democratic nominee to succeed Heflin. | B. M. Miller of Camden, former asso- ciate justice of the State Supreme | Court, “Democrat, is opposed for Gov- | ernor by Hugh A. Locke of Birming- | ham, Hefiin's companion on s “Jeffer- ‘wnlm ticket, and Hugh D. Merrill of | Anniston, Democrat, faces Dempsey M. | Powell of Greenville, “Jeffersonian” as- | pirant for lieutenant governor. Interest in the campaign was height- ened by announcement of voters that | they had received a letter purporting | to come from the “National Secret Serv- ice,” signed “J. H. Grey, chief special agent, southern division,” and warning ?gamst illegal use of the absentee bal- ot. | Don’t Forget the Address | | | | | I 830 13th St. N.W. |Fiery Fight of Alabaman to| LAMONT ASKS VOTE BACKING UP HOOVER Election of G. 0. P. Congress and Mrs. McCormick to Sen- ate Called Trade Need. Election of Ruth Hanna McCormick, the Republican senatorial nominee in Illinois and the return of a Republican Congress in tomorrow's balloting was urged by Secretary Lamont in a state- ment _last night through the Republi- can Senatorial Committee. The Secre- tary of Commerce asserted that “‘seldom has it been so essential that there be the fullest team play in the conduct of the Government as at this time while the country is passing through a period of business depression.” “During such a period,” he added, “it seems to me that it would be un- wise to handicap the Hoover admin- 1stration by the election of a hostile Congress. Foresees Party Turmoil. “By its actions during the past year, its unfair criticism and misrepresenta- tion, the opposition party has furnished | a clear index of what may be expected if it is given control of the legislative machinery. “It is without & program now; it will be without a program if it organizes the Congress and, with an eye single to the presidency in 1932, it will con- tinue to obstruct by every means it can command the carrying forward of the constructive program the President has put into operation. Praises Mrs. McCormick. “I think it is particularly desirable that we of the great State of Illinois reaffirm the confidence expressed in Herbert Hoover two years ago by elect- ing Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick to the Sanate and returning o the House a strong Republican delegation. “In electing Mrs. McCormick the State wil send to Washington one who not only will co-operate with the ad- ministration, but one who is exper- jenced in the affairs of Government through a lifetime study of political questions based upon fundamentals learned from her distinguished father.” MANY BALLOTS PRINTED 10,305,400 Votes to Be Distributed | by 52 Chicago Trucks. CHICAGO, November 3 (#).—More and larger ballots than at any time in Chicago's history will be passed out to_voters tomorrow. Fifty-two automobile trucks were re- quired to distribute the 10,305,400 bal- lots. 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