Evening Star Newspaper, October 4, 1936, Page 35

NEW DEAL ALLIED WITH THIRD PARTY Renewal of ’32 Pact Marks | Roosevelt Drive for | Liberal Votes. BY JERRY VESSELS, Bpecial Correspondent of The Star. ST. PAUL, Minn,, October 3.—Dem- ocrats and Farmer-Laborites com- pleted a major deal today that vir- tually scrapped Minnesota's strange political triangle and presages a tre- mendous difference at the November election. Climaxing feverish efforts to swing liberal sentiment firmly behind Presi- dent Roosevelt and the third party ticket, the Democrats withdrew their candidates for United States Senator and Governor, saying flatly that any | other stand would jeopardize chances | ©of both parties in this State. Those resigning formally from the eampaign were Fred A. Curtis and | Patrick J. Delaney, gubernatorial and | senatorial nominees, respectively. Both issued statements supporting the | Farmer-Labor candidates for the same offices. Another part of the transac- tion found Richard B. Walsh, Demo- erat, canceling his filing for Repre- sentative from the eighth Minnesota district in favor of Roger Bernard, Farmer-Laborite. Follows Conference Series. The unusual development followed | & serles of conferences here this week between Democrat and Farmer-Labor leaders, reportedly requested by the President as a drastic means of keep- ing Minnesota in the Roosevelt col- umns. Minnesota went for Roosevelt tlar to today’s weighty transaction. Pirst-glance impressions by ob- servers who sensed that a desperate step would be taken by the Democrats following Father Coughlin’s preten- tious appearance here two weeks ago were that the New Deal and third party combination would spike a strong Republican bid to regain con- trol of the State government, yielded to the Farmer-Laborites six years ago. Thus Farmer-Labor chieftains, minus the powerful leadership of the | late Gov. Floyd B. Olson, doubtless welcomed the agreement with great | enthusiasm. However, all the talking | today was done by the Democrats. United States Senator Elmer Ben- son, who aspires to succeed the throne | left vacant by Olson's recent death,| has been campaigning actively for | directions. Governor and is a sincere speaker. But, being a newcomer at politics, he | Ppossesses little of the oratorical ability | and flery leadership that distinguished Olson’s career. Benson Lauds Roosevelt. Benson has been emphasizing the | virtues of President Roosevelt and the New Deal and he promptly stepped to | the support of the President two weksi ago, after Father Coughlin had elec- trified the State's political strategists by exacting from a 50,000 State fair grounds crowd a pledge to support ‘William Lemke, Union party presiden- tial candidate, and Ernest Lundeen, Farmer-Labor senatorial nominee. That spectacle, unprecedented in this State, twisted things all out of | shape so far as Democrats and Farmer- | Laborites were concerned and Repub- licans smiled broadly at the specter of a big split in the State’s liberal- radical vote. Lundeen has remained tight-lipped | sbout the Coughlin incident and| strangely enough it remained for that| youthful Delaney, his then Democrat | opponent for the Senate, to recall that previously Lundeen had said that “Bill Lemke is good enough for me.” But Lundeen's keynote speech is set for next Friday and in view of today's sensational developments he is ex- pected to step from one of the two horses he has been trying to ride with- out, however, alienating too strongly the Lemke-Coughlin-Townsend votes he had been soliciting. ‘The big deal today was not to the liking of all acknowledged Democrats | and just after the afternoon papers | appeared with the announcements | backfire began popping about the| State. Ryan Shows Distaste. PFirst to formally register distaste | for the alliance was Representative | Elmer Ryan, facing a hard three-way fight for re-election from the second Minnesota district. He phoned politi- cal writers: “You can say for me that I am not In sympathy with any deal or trans- action which involves the sacrifice of the integrity of the Democratic party and its principles.” Ryan refused to say who he would support for Gov- ernor now that his own party was without & candidate, the time limit having expired at noon today for filing new candidates by petition. Ryan is a leader of the Democratic faction aligned squarely against the Joe Wolf group, which engineered the bargain both in 1932 and today. Roosevelt headquarters futilely has tried to pacify the combating fac- tions. Indicating that they are just as belligerent as ever, Representative Ryan's retort concerning the latest alliance and the fact that Joe Wolf, ousted as national committeeman last Summer in a peace move, distributed the announcements today about the new post. John P. Erickson, Ryan henchman named to succeed Wolf as national committeeman, to all appear- ances did not figure in the deal, which ‘was greeted in Washington by James A. Farley as guaranteeing victory for Farmer-Laborites as well as Roosevelt forces in Minnesota in November. There have been indications that the anti-Wold Democrats might swing their support to the Republican guber- natorial and senatorial candidates, but even at that the powerful combina- tion of the State Farmer-Labor ma- chine in the Roosevelt forces, bul- ‘warked by Federal patronage and vari- ous New Deal alphabetical connections, may be too much for any last-minute reinforcements the Republicans might develop. Chicago Power Rates Cut. CHICAGO, October 3 (#).—The Tllinois Commerce Commission yester- day ordered an immediate reduction of $3,000,000 a year in Chicago elec- tricity rates at the conclusion of what officials termed the largest -electric utility case in the State’s history. A ruling against the Commonwealth Edison Co. meant an average saving of 8 or 9 per cent to residential con- sumers. It affected approximately 900,000 customers in homes, offices, small stores and business houses, L3 | ganization representatives of ¢ Town Elections In Connecticut May Hint Trend Local Disorganization Is Handicap for Democrats. BY ROBERT D. BYRNES, Special Correspondent of The Star. HARTFORD, Conn,, October 3.— Connecticut'’s small town elections Monday in about 120 of the State’s 169 towns will be watched more closely than usual this year because the State campaign has progressed far enough to bring national issues before some of the voters who will name local candidates. Most of these small towns are Re- publican, and local issues sway re- sults in many of them, but a trend has been discernible in the October voting in other years. An increase in the number of Demo- cratic towns and in the total vote of that party began in 1926 and continued until last year, when the Republicans, making the New Deal the issue, gained more towns than at any time since 1893. Democrats are handicapped by disrupted local organizations in some towns they now hold. Fourth district Republican renom- inated Schuyler Merritt unanimously. There was minor opposition to re- nomination of James A. Shanley by Democrats in the third, where Re- publicans have named John F. Lynch of West Haven as their congres- sional candidate. OHIO UNCERTAINTY New Deal Forces to Open Drive Friday With Ickes’ Speech. BY. L. R. CONNOR. Special Correspondent of The Star. COLUMBUS, Ohjo, October 3.— Aside from the Davey-Bricker con- test for Governor the uncertainty of the election still is a topic of con- versation among Ohiocans, who are having a difficult time deciding who will win the State's electoral votes. The political wind hereabouts con- tinues to blow the many straws in all The Dispatch’s State-wide poll so far gives President Rooseveit an edge of almost 7 per cent over Gov. Landon. Another straw vote, how- ever, indicates a nip-and-tuck race, with no definite prediction of which will carry Ohio. And the Literary Digest gives the State to Gov. Landon in what seems a walkaway. Republicans in Ohio are enthusias- tic for their cause at the moment. Col. Frank -Knox has just recently | swept through the State. Ely to Speak Soon. The Constitutional Democrats are to listen soon to former Gov. Ely of Massachusetts and others who will gather in Columbus for an anti-New Deal meeting. And Gov. Landon, it seems pretty certain, will go through the latter part of this week (October 6, 7 and 8), with perhaps two major political speeches and a host of public appearances, most of them informal. He plans now to stop in Columbus over the -week end of October 7 and see the Ohio State-University of Pittsburgh foot ball game, an event which before the Governor’s intentions were announced promised to cause a sell-out in Ohio State University's 70,000 capacity stadium. It is sup- posed the Governor will spend Satur= day evening with the Republican or- the State, talk over plans, map out strategy and be available generally for discussions with his lieutenants and admirers here. Sunday morning he is expected to attend church in Co- lumbus, and Sunday afternoon to rest before continuing his trip. While in the State, it is hoped he will take occasion to visit the scenes of his boyhood in Marietta and to make appearances in all the South- eastern hill country, where there ex- ists a local pride of association with the man who is Republican candidate for President. New Deal Efforts Lag. This expedition, it is hoped, will erase any doubt cast upon a Repub- lican victory in Ohio by.several poll results. Why the New Deal has not done more about insuring Ohio for itself is somewhat of a mystery. Ad- mittedly the State is close. An opening gun will be fired in Co- lumbus Friday, when Secretary of the Interior Ickes speaks to the Ohio conference of the Good Neighbor League. With him will be Dr. Stanley High, Mrs. Estelle M. Sternberger of New York, executive director of World Peaceways; George M. Harrison, Cin- cinnati, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, and Miss Ellen Woodward of Washington, D. C, as- sistant administrator of the Works Progress Administration in charge of the women's division. DEMOCRATS .PLAN_STIFF CAMPAIGN IN MONTANA Union Party Is Showing Little Activity—Coughlin Speeches Btir Resentment. BY L. M. THAYER, Special Correspondent of The Star, HELENA, Mont., October 38— Grover Cisel of Billings, Democratic State chairman, met State leaders and candidates here this week and intends “to put on-one of the most intensive and effective campaigns the Demo- crats ever have waged in Montana.” Much of the speaking at the rallies to be arranged in each of the 56 coun- ties will be by Senator James E. Mur- ray of Butte, a candidate for re- election; Judge James F. O'Connor of Livingston, candidate for Congress in the eastern district; Jerry J. O’Con- nell of Butte, eongressional nominee in the western district, and Repre- sentative Roy Ayers of Lewistown, the gubernatorial nominee. On his recent visit here Col. Frank Knox was quoted as conceding Mon- tana is Democratic, but as hoping the Union party would divert sufficient votes to make the State Republican. The Lemke party is showing little ac- tivity and recent speeches by Father Coughlin are lessening Lemke's -chances and weakening the Townsend pension movement. L) THE SUNDAY 'STAR, WASHINGTON, 'D. 'C., ‘OCTOBER' 4, 1936—PART TWO. MINNESOTA G. O. P. CHANCES FADE IN DEMOCRATIC COUP Fi il TCOL T FALL _HAT STYLES BY J. A. O'LEARY. THE outcome of the presidential election still rests with a group of doubtful States, having a substantial block of electoral votes, on the basis of latest dispatches from a corps of political observers throughout the country. While most of the States are reported as showing definite trends either to Roosevelt or Landon, more than enough electoral votes are hang- ing in the balance on the border line to determine who will be the winner on November 3. From several States reports during the past week gave added en- couragement to one side or the other, but not sufficiently conclusive to reflect any far-reaching change in the probable line-up of electoral votes. One definite trend of the week was seen, however, in the word which came yesterday from Miresota that Democratic candidates for Governor and Senator have dropped out of the race. This gave credence to earlier reports that the national Democratic camp was preparing to work in co-operation with the Farmer-Laborites in Minnesota again this year. Four years ago Roosevelt got Minnesota's electoral vote with the aid of Farmer-Labor support, while Farmer-Laborites were winning major State offices. Yesterday's developments were taken to mean the Republicans will have to work harder than ever if they hope to get Minnesota's elec- toral vote. As both major parties turned into the October home stretch develop- ments came thick and fast on widely scattered political battlegrounds dur- ing the week. It is too early for observers to determine to what extent these de- velopments will affect the national election, especially in the doubtful States. New York, with its coveted prize of 47 electoral votes, is still looked upon as debatable ground, depending on whether Democrats in the city will be able to overcome Landon's predicted plurality upstate. The action of the Republicans in making Justice William F. Bleakley their nominee for Governor is believed to have improved their chances of holding down the Roosevelt vote in New York City. The judge is from Westchester County, adjoining the Bronx, and is described as a popular public official. Because the Democratic ticket will need a decisive victory in the metropolis to carry the State for Roosevelt, campaign workers also will await with interest the reaction of the city voters to the opening campaign speech of former Gov. Al Smith, in which he came out flatly for Landon. The question observers will try to fathom during the next few weeks is whether Tammany will turn out wholeheartedly for the national ticket on Novem- ber 3. Smith Speaks Thursday in Philadelphia. Following up his New York appearance, Smith is slated to speak Thursday of this week in Philadelphia, which, like New York City, is an important spot on the political map this year. The strength the Demo- crats have developed in normally Republican Pennsylvania in recent years began with Smith's campaign as the Democratic standard bearer in 1928. Encouraged by the ground they gained in the State and congressional election in 1934, the Democrats are making a bid this year for the State's 36 electoral votes. Their strength is mainly in the vicinity of Pittsburgh. The Republicans are counting on the vote in Philadelphia and the rural counties to keep the Keystone State in the G. O. P. column. The effect of Smith’s break with the New Deal on his 1928 supporters in Pennsylvania may prove an important factor in the State this year. Out on the West Coast the Democrats got a break near the close of the week, when & 15-day truce headed off a labor dispute which had threatened a tie-up of shipping at ports on the Pacific. Political dispatches from that sector had indicated that if a waterfront strike had developed, it probably would have swung a large number of votes away from the New Deal in ‘Washington, Oregon and California. Registration gains by the Democrats in parts of Oregon &lso were reporied during the week. Reports continue to give the Democrats the edge in California, on unofficial registration fig- ures. The race in Washington still appears close. Iowa, important agricultural State, with 11 electoral votes, is showing signs of returning to the Republican fold, according to latest dispatches. In Idaho, where the presidential race is close, Landon was reported to have made greater hecdway in cutting down Roosevelt’s strength in the past two weeks. Senator Borah, Republican, whose re-election is expected by a wide margin, continued to gain further ground during the week. In Oregon Senator Charles L. McNary, Republican floor leader of the Senate, also is reported running well ahead for re-election. Tllinois, with 29 electoral votes, and Ohio, with 26, are among the main battle fronts. The two major parties will wage vigorous campaigns there during the remaining four weeks, since both of these States, like New York, are looked upon as doubtful at the present time. Gov. Landon will travel through Ohio this week, and the voters, of that State also will hear former Gov. Ely of Massachusetts, an anti-New Deal Democrat. Indiana, another border-line State, reports heavy registration figures, indicating the intense interest the presidential campaign is producing in the Middle West. The battle of the veteran progressive Republican, Senator Norris, for re-election, continues one of the highlights of the campaign in Nebraska. Running as an independent, with the support of the New Deal leaders, Norris is opposed by former Representative Robert G. Simmons, Republican, and by Terry Carpenter, Democrat. With Carpenter showing no indication of dropping out, the three-cornered neemyruultln:clmeflnnh. 5 Small States Not Being Overlooked. h Arizona, Nevada, Montana and the Dakotas have com- p.m'&':'f “a'mnll black‘x' of electoral votes, they are not being overlooked in the campaign plans of the major parties. If the presidential election should be close, these votes would assume added importance. Oklahoma continues to look safely Democratic. 3 ts are coun on their customary victories in the solid mf" l::;'om from mu:uucum indicate more Republican eampaign activity than usual in Arkansas and in Florida. : In West Virginia the Republicans are centering their - campaign y J How They Stand Today Possible Line-Up of the States’ Electoral Votes, Based on Star's Political Correspondence. Electoral Vote Sure Repub- lican Sure Demo- cratic Leaning to Republican Leaning to Democratic ' Doubtful “ el o) 0l o) | o & e Vermont Virginia 11 ‘Washington 8 West Virginia 8 Wisconsin 12 ‘Wyomin; 3 531 95 ISEES DRIVEBY G. 0. P., Majority, 266 This tabulation of electoral votes for and against Roosevelt and Landon is based on reports of special correspondents of The Star in every State. The table will be changed as the crystallization of po- litical sentiment is more fully revealed. The table today shows a total of 206 electoral votes “sure” and “leaning” toward Roosevelt; a total of 144 electoral votes “sure” and “leaning” toward Landon, and a total of 181 electoral votes that are still considered “doubtful.” A majority, or 266, is necessary for election. attack on the Democratic state administration, and contend they are making progress. Latest reports from Maryland still classify that as one of the doubtful states. e o o Al cky is generally regarded as ready g0 Roose= velt, th‘eh gg.‘:u:l‘;:: )k:,-vo t‘:flul n'laynurmw to their registration strength since the August primary. In New England the trend is decidedly Republican. Rhode Island is reported to be headed for & li campaign during the final month. vmnu;ymmmmuorbenmummm INDIANA EXPECTS NEW VOTE REGORD Registrations of Voters Are 20,000 Higher Than in 1934, BY WILLIAM L. TOMS, Bpecial Correspondent of The Star. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., October 3.— If registration figures mean anything the forthcoming election in Indiana bids fair to produce a heavier total vote than the record turnout in 1932, when the State went overwhelmingly for Franklin D. Roosevelt. Election officials in Marion County, where the capital city is situated, re- port 96 per cent of all eligibles have qualified to vote this year under the voters’ registration law. While the Indiana registration law is by no| means cumbersome in operation, the fact remains that the act of register- ing requires as much time and care as does voting, so the safe assumption is that nearly all who registered in- tend to vote on November 3. Registrations Up 20,000, The number of registered voters this year, incidentally, is more than 20,000 higher than in 1934, when the off-year election was held to elect a | United States Senator and a State ticket. The off-year election decline in 1934 was regarded as somewhat heavier than normal, although the campaigners had both the New Deal | and the exploits of John Dillinger, the | bandit, as issues. This year the State issue is as nearly 100 per cent civic as an issue could be, For several weeks the Re- publican and Democratic candidates have held themselves almost exclu- sively to the taxation problem and have reached the stage where almost anything else that might be injected into the campaign could be little more than collateral. Raymond S. Springer, the Repub- lican nominee for Governor, continues to insist that a program of rigid economy and elimination of graft in | importation of out-State beer will make possible the elimination of the gross income tax. His opponent, M. Clifford Townsend, the present lieu- tenant governor, is arguing that elim- | ination of the gross income would | make necessary the closing of hun- dreds of rural schools in the poorer counties of Southern Indiana. | Springer Has Upper Hand. | Townsend and his fellow party spokesmen attempted some time ago to create the impression that numerous services of the State government would have to be abandoned if the Springer tax program were placed in opera- tion. The Democrats found to their dismay that the public cared little Jjust where the ax might fall. | Springer still has the upper hand, even if Townsend should run counter to the desires of Governor McNutt | that the present tax structure be re- tained, for the simple reason that no tax always is more popular than even & limited tax. KANSAS WHEAT AREA Sixth and Seventh Districts Are in Roosevelt Camp Now. Capper Aids Landon. BY CLIF STRATTON, Special Correspondent of The Star. TOPEKA, Kans, October 3. — The Kansas Republican organization, which holds the re-election of Sena- | tor Capper and the election of Will | G. West as Governor and the entire | State ticket practically assured, is pre- paring to bend its efforts the rest of this month on the western Kansas wheat belt. The two wheat belt districts of Kan- sas are the sixth and seventh. To- | day these apparently are in the| Roosevelt camp, thought not by | enough to give Roosevelt much chance | of carrying the State. If these two districts can be swung into line, then Kansas should give Landon a “re- spectable” majority in November. If these two districts go for Roosevelt, and also the fifth—which seems a | foregone conclusion—the Landon ma- | jority might drop down around the | 15,000 mark, though probably nearer | 25,000. | Senator Capper is campaigning for | Landon with Representative Frank | Carlson of Concordia in the sixth dis- trict next week. He will move over | into the seventh the following week. S TOWNSEND, COUGHLIN BACKING DISCOUNTED | | Few Michigan Candidates With Their Indorsements Were Primary Winners. BY H. C. GARRISON, Special Correspondent of The Star. DETROIT, Mich.,, October 3.—After looking over the results of the Michi- | gan primary, politicians are inclined to scoff at the effectiveness of an in- dorsement by the Townsend Plan- ners or by Father Charles E. Cough- | lin's National Union for Social Jus- tice. | In the congressional primaries the Coughlinites indorsed 19 candidates and the Townsendites 16, a total of 35 indorsements affecting 30 candi- | dates, for 5 of them were indorsed by both groups. Six of the Coughlin-indorsed can- didates were nominated, an average of 31 per cent. Only one Townsend- indorsed candidate won, an average of 6 per cent, and he also held the Coughlin indorsement. RED PROBE ORDERED Texas Representatives Vote for State College Inquiry. AUSTIN, Tex., October 3 (#).—The Texas House of Representatives adopted a resolution yesterday call- ing for a committee investigation of charges communism was being taught in State colleges. The vote was 71 to 57. Representative Joe Caldwell, who introduced the legislation, told his colleagues he has documentary evi- dence that certain faculty members were teaching communism and at- tracting “young zealots” to their sup- port. Opponents charged the resolution was inspired by enemies of President Roosevelt for political effect. Y | the Republican rural KEYSTONE STATE WILL HEAR SITH Second Blast Against New Deal Thursday Night in Philadelphia. BY WALTER D. ROOS, Special Correspondent of The Star. HARRISBURG, Pa., October 3.—Al Smith is coming into Pennsylvania to campaign next week. In Philadelphia’s Metropolitan Opera House Thursday night, the “Happy Warrior” is sched« uled for a speech which is expected to be his second campaign blast against the New Deal. The invasion of the former New York Governor is expected to shift the vortex of the Pennsylvania came paign from the western to the easte ern front. The center of battle has been held this week bv the Pittsburgh district, with President Roosevelt and Col. Frank Knox speaking at rival | ralifes. Still smarting at the campaign maneuver by which the President's speech was scheduled not only for the same night, but almost the same moment as the major Republican rally of the Western Pennsylvania cam- paign, the Republicans this week by two moves sought to tyrn the tables to embarrass the President. 1932 Speech Quoted. In advertisements appearing in vire | tually every daily newspaper in the State on the eve of the President's arrival, the Republicans quoted the President’s Pittsburgh speech in 1933 | and dared him to explain that speech in the same city in 1936. His Pitts- burgh speech of four years ago pledged economy in Government and strict adherence to the Democratic plat- form. Then, Mr. Roosevelt denounced “unprecedented magnitude of Federal deficits,” promised “reduction in Fed | eral spending” and pledged to cut costs of the Federal Government by 25 per cent. The Republican State Committee, meeting in Pittsburgh a few hours be- fore the President spoke, also attacked him on broken promises and scrap- Ping of the 1932 platform. The com- mittee, adopting a platform which in- cluded the national planks, pledged adherence to it not only for the dura- tion of the campaign but to make an honest endeavor to enact it into law in the State and Nation after the elec- tion as well. The announcement of Smith's speech in Philadelphia next Thursday has brought reactions in the two major political parties which are almost the direct opposites of the way they re- garded his campaign efforts eight years ago. In 1928 Smith, as the first Democrat to poli more than 1,000,000 votes in Pennsylvania, shattered some of the Republican strongholds which until that time had been considered the most impregnable. Smith Campaign Marked Change. It was the Smith campaign of 1928 which marked the beginning of the rise of Democratic strength which re sulted in turning Pennsylvania Demo-. cratic in the State election two years ago and which makes the State doubt= ful in the presidential balloting this year. This year Republicans hope and Democrats fear that Smith's attack upon the New Deal may swing enough of his followers in Philadelphia and the anthracite region to decide the issue in those two hotly contested battlegrounds. Democratic managers contend Smith no longer has the potent appeal to voters he did in 1928, and Republicans, conceding this may be true, maintain that if he can ine fluence even a sizable percentage of his 1928 adherents, the anti-Roose- velt vote in these two sectors, plus districts, will be too large for the Democratic mae jority in western counties to overe come. Republicans hope Smith's cam- paigning will not only array the old Smith wing of the Democratic party definitely against Roosevelt, but will | loosen the New Deal's grip on certain racial and religious groups which have been Democratic ever since they followed Smith in 1928. In Philadelphia it was Smith in 1928 who first cracked the Republie can strength of the old Vare organe ization. He cut the Republican ma= jority in that city to 144,000, which was 100,000 below the G. O. P. lead two years earlier In the anthracite counties the situae tion is the same. Smith Faction Ignored. While Smith's 1936 influence with foreign-born voters is a subject of disagreement, it appears more likely that his position may win direct support from active groups in the old Smith faction. That wing of the party has not been happy under New Deal leadership, despite the fact that Senator Joseph F. Guffey, the Roosee velt leader in the State, had also been the Smith leader in 1928. The Smith faction, to a large extent, has been ignored by the New Deal leaders. While the Smith meeting may help the Republican cause, it will not be a Republican sideshow in any sense of the word. The meeting was are ranged and is being staged by Jeffer- sonian Democrats, a group of the old party stalwarts who refuse to sube scribe to the New Deal tenets. No Republicans will speak at the rally; in fact, none but Democrats will be POLITICAL MORATORIUM IN PROGRESS IN MAINE State, Traditionally Republican, Has No Expectation of Going Otherwise This Year. BY SAM E. CONNER, Epecial Correspondent of The Star. AUGUSTA, Me, October 3. — Maine's moratorium on politics has been in operation a week, 10 days later than usual. As a rule it starts two days after the September elec~ fion and continues until the presi- dential election in November. With a single exception—1912—the State has been Republican in its choice for President in every election since the organization of the party. It has come to be accepted that it will elect Republican electors, so the Democrats make no effort to win and the Republicans have no necessity of 80 doing. This being the condition, with ‘few exceptions, all the cam- paigning done in the State after the September election is in newspaper editorials and reports of campaigning elsewhere. 2