Evening Star Newspaper, September 27, 1936, Page 5

. KNOX SEES BATTLE INFIVEKEY STATES Finds “Tide Rising Fast” for Party After Long Campaign Tour. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 26.— Five States—Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Ulinois and Indiana—were termed the “real battlefield” of 1936 politics to- night by Col. Frank Knox, Republican vice presidential nominee, as his cam- vaign travels passed the 10,000-mile mark. | The Chicago publisher gave this as | his conclusion in an interview, after surveying the 23 States in which he has campaigned, and asserting he found “the tide is rising fast” for his party. Knox was back in Chicago after a 17-day stumping trip which took him to the Pacific Coast and back through the Southwest. He wound up this phase of his touring, expected to total 22,000 miles in all, with a night ad- dress Friday in Ottumwa, Iowa. Claims New York. His special campaign train, which set out from Manchester, N. H., on | August 31, had carried him 9,071 miles | when it arrived at the Union Station | here Saturday. Before boarding it Knox had traveled approximately | 1,500 miles by auto. | He claimed New York State as safe | for his party, asserting a vote of | 750,000 would turn out up-State to | counter New York City Democratic | ballots. Retracing his campaign route, Knox called the New England States “unan- imously Republican.” He said the | eastern section of Pennsylvania, | which he saw, was ‘“overwhelmingly Republican.” Calls Maryland Doubtful. His comment on other States he has | toured to date was: Maryland—“Very debatable; but al- most half the old Democrats are cold to the New Deal.” West Virginia—"“The open support of Gov. Landon by Senator Rush Holt hurts the Democrats.” Minnesota—"The death of Gov. Olson leaves the Farmer-Labor party | divided. The Lemke vote will be | heavier there than in any other State, and it is a defection from the Roose- velt vote.” South Dakota—“The administra- tion hurt itself there by advertising the State as being desolated by the drought.” ‘Wyoming—"“Senator Robert Carey | is sure of re-election, and the State ticket is going over.” Montana—"At the moment, it is Democratic. The outcome depends on the size of the Lemke vote. which will come—four out of five—as a net | loss for the Democrats.” Says Ross a “Fizzle.” Tdaho—"Senator Borah will win by 30.000 to 40,000. The Ross campaign (Gov. C. Ben Ross, Borah's opponent) is a fizzle. He has found active oppo- sition in his own ranks.” Washington—"‘Democratic, at the moment. But if the Communist ele- | YOU PRY 107 for tounging Rujomas, . of which 1198 qoesfor WS (' TAXES TAKE 5> fewn'lD fvcninq Gown. A view of the “barrel show” held by the Victims of Future Tazes Unit of the First Voters’ League at their headquarters in New York. Bonnie Clare (left), Virginia Dixr (center) and Vir- ginia Maurice show what the tarpayers of today would look like if they only wore the part of the clothes they paid for after substracting the amount of the purchase prices that represented | about 100,000 tares. —Wide World Photo. the Democratic small towns are less | Democratic than in the past. Business in Ohio is improving right along. This should be a factor on the Roosevelt side of the ledger. It is influencing some of the business men who in the recent past have been inclined to damn the New Deal. ‘With business improvement has come greater private employment. Never- theless, the number of persons living on W. P. A, wages and direct relief of one kind or another is tremendous. And that, by the way, is one of the things that is hurting the New Deal with thousands of the Ohio voters, as | well as helping the New Deal with relief votes. As of September 19, there were 147,500 W. P. A. workers. It is estimated this means 550,000 | men, women and children benefiting | from the W. P. A. wages. On direct relief there were 67,274 ‘“cases,” or “cases” for the State. This would bring the total number | of persons in the State receiving re- lief either through the W. P. A. or/ otherwise up to about 900,000. This | is about the same number as last | May. | Many Negroes on Relief. A large number of colored people dn this State have been on relief. Therefore, in counting the relief vote | and the colored vote for Roosevelt, it | becomes necessary to combine them to some degree, and not to count In addition, the Democrats claim that campaign funds are none too plenti- ful. The campaign is going forward vigorously and the chances are a huge vote will turn out on November 3. The organizations of both major parties are working at fever heat. The Republicans hope to have Gov. Lane don come into the State for at least one major address between October 9 and 12, and the Democrats have sent & plea to President Roosevelt to come into the State. Former Gov. “Jimmy” Cox, it has been arranged, will make a speech for Roosevelt on September 29. Cox was the Democratic presi- dential candidate in 1920 when Roose- velt was the vice presidential candi- date. There were earlier reports that Cox was hostile to the New Deal President. However, he has agreed to make at least one speech for him. So one out of three former Demo- cratic presidential candidates now living is to come out flatly for the re- election of President Roosevelt. Of the other two, Al Smith is to cam- paign against Roosevelt, and John W. Davis has certainly given no sign of support to the present Democratic President. The Democrats hope to have Senator “Vic” Donahey make some speeches for Roosevelt during October. Father Coughlin. Lemke supporter, stirred the political cauldron in this DLLLINU LUIN CHAMBER REPORT HITS PROFITS TAX Declares Business Senti- ment for Repeal of Levy Is Gaining. By the Associated Press. Business sentiment for repeal of the New Deal's tax on undistributed corporate earnings was reported by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States yesterday to be gain- ing momentum. The chamber, at the same time in the periodical, Washington Review, said there was “skepticism” among business men over the administra- tion's current study designed to re- move “any iniquities” from the tax structure. Reporting that business sentiment for repeal of the corporation earn- ings tax is mounting as its “destruc- tive effects on recovery and re-em- ployment become more clearly seen,” the chamber called on business execu- tives to send it confidenttal reports on concrete examples of the levy's results. Declares Expansion Retarded. In a special tax supplement to the regular Review, it said the surtax places “a brake on expanding bus- . v ness activities.” At the same time, the supplement said, the levy would intensify any boom period by “co- ercing” corporations to distribute earnings and thus tending to increase spending. . “The surtax consequently has double effect, lowering the depths in depression times and heightening the crest of the boom periods,” it added. Reduction of expenditures is the clared in an address Friday in Cin- cinnati that President Roosevelt was “anti-God” because, he said, the President “says destroy and devas- tate.” His statement brought a hot retort from Archbishop John T. Mc- Nicholas of the Cincinnati Archdio- cese of the Roman Catholic Church, condemning Father Coughlin for tis attack on the President. The New Dealers feel that this attack by Fa- ther Coughlin will make Roosevelt votes. Lemke, in Ohio and in other States, is getting many more of his votes from the Democratic ranks than from the Republicans. He may yet prove a factor in election if it is close between Roosevelt and Landon. Kidney Trouble Physicians everywhere recommend the alkaline properties of Mountain Valley Mineral Water, direct from famous Hot Springs, Arkansas. A | natural corrective. Deeply satisfy- ing. Phone for descriptive booklet. Mountain Valley Mineral Water ment in the Democratic party gets | them twice. The W. P. A. has put any stronger decent Democrats are |® Breater number of women to sew- going to enter the Republican party.” | if8, making over clothes, making California—"Exactly the same situ- | bedding and so forth. About 4600 k Wash- | colored women, for example, have in;;z:n'lzuld.! ienelihere SR INRRAL | been given such work in Cleveland. Arizona—"“There is & sharp dispute | L1é Products of their labor are used among the Democrats. The Repub- | f0f persons on relief, 1t is said. a lican party, on the other hand, has| IR 1 e o AMoSTRLC . a1 5 | Republican vote cast in Ohio in the the strongest candidate for Governor | : 5 in many vears. I put it in the Re- presidential race was 2,529,374. publican column.” | Roosevelt's plurality over Hoover in New Mexico—"Safely Republican. | that election was 74,016, a narrow ‘The Bronson Cutting Republicans and the old liners have joined forces and | we'll elect two Senators along with the State ticket.” | Colorado—"It's fighting ground, but | the Republicans have the edge.” Towa—"Iowa is obviously under the | influence of the big swing to Gov. | Landon.” e e . Ohio (Continued From First Page.) gives Landon a big lead over Roose- velt, with 34,311 votes to 20,777 for Roosevelt and 3,780 for Lemke. To this the New Dealers reply that the newspaper polls are getting to a lot of people that are not covered by the Digest poll. ‘The newspaper polls show a great preponderance of the labor vote for Roosevelt. There seems no slightest doubt about that. They show, too, that the vote of the W. P. A. workers and other persons on relief is strongly pro-Roosevelt. And among the Negroes the polls show Roosevelt and Landon about 50-50, with a very considerable number of the colored voters unwilling to say which candidate they will sup- port. 1t is estimated that Ohio has a Negro vote of 125,000. In the past the | Negro vote has been strongly Re- publican. Ohio Divided Agriculturally. Roughly speaking, Ohio is divided agriculturally by a line which crosses the State from Cleveland to Columbus to Cincinnati. The part of the State east of that line has had little help from the A. A. A. The part to the west is the corn-hog belt, and has benefitted by Federal checks to the farmers. But even in the western part of the State the farmers are more Republican than Democratic, and some of the polls, as far as they have 80 far gone, indicate that these farm- ers are more for Landon than for Roosevelt. Furthermore, the speeches which Gov. Landon has been making in Jowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin, dealing with what he proposes to do for the farmers if elected President, have made a considerable impression. Roosevelt's greatest strength in Ohlo is expected to come from the eight largest cities in the State, and it is sald that if & vote were taken today these cities would give Roosevelt of from 100,000 to 150,000. It vote which the Republicans roome in the rural parts of smaller cities and sections are more than usual, and can 1 are showing up blican’ than usual, while —————————————— iep g EE;E g g ] DEPENDABLE ECONOMICAL GUARANTEED Wm. KING & SON Establizhed 1835 100 YEARS OF SERVICE margin considering the size of the | vote. In September of 1932, the polis | taken by the newspapers indicated that Roosevelt would carry the State by several hundred thousand votes. | In the final drive, however, the Re- | publicans made great strides, with the result that Ohio became a com- paratively close State. It is to the last few weeks of the campaign that | the Republicans are looking now to an " increase in strength that will win for | them by from 5,000 to 100,000 votes plurality. Democratic leaders here express their confidence that Roosevelt will carry Ohio by from 100,000 to 200,000. They admit, however, that the State is by no means “in the bag” and that they have a hard fight ahead of them. The Republicans are more harmoni- ously and better organized in the | State than they have been for a long | time. Factional lines have been wiped | out, at least for this campaign. Wal- ter Brown, former Republican Na- tional committeeman and former postmaster general in the Hoover cab- inet, is out of the picture and has been since he was beaten for re-elec- tion as national committeeman at the Cleveland national convention last June. The Republican leaders who supported Senator Borah for the pres- idential nomination are now in line for Landon, among them Dan E. Mor- gan of Cleveland and John 8. Knight of Akron, both of whom are on the Republican Campaign Committee. Those Republicans who wanted Col. Frank Knox for the presidential can- didate are satisfled, now that he is the vice presidential candidate. Fur- thermore, the Republicans have plenty of money for the campaign. The women are strongly organized, under the leadership of Mrs. Katharine Ken- nedy Brown, the national committee- woman. Democrats Inharmonious. On the Democratic side all has not been so harmonious. Gov. Martin L. 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