New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 4, 1930, Page 3

NATIONAL SURVEY SHOWS INTEREST IN VOTING LIGHT early voting which approached that of 1928. Other polling places in the same state found the early vote sur- prisingly small. Ohio and Indiana, two states which have seen particu- larly bitter campaigning, turned in varied reports: the former recorded long lines waiting at the polling places, and the latter only a normal off-year attendance. Where local campaign enmities were bitterest, special precautions were taken against disorders and the carly hours produced few disorders. At Danville, Ky.. a negro was fatally shot in an clection quarrel, and at Buckner, Mo., two arrests followed the reported kidnapping of an elec- tion official. New Ashford is First New Ashford, Mass., which prides itself on voting its entire population earlier than any other clection dis- trict in the country, came in with the first returns. Its vote showed the customary overwhelming republican majority, little changed from the total of two years ago, when the democrats carried the state for president and senator but lost the governorship to the republicans. Chicago, Detroit and some other lake cities voted in a heavy fog dur- ing the morning, in Philadelphia anc southward along a portion of the Atlantic coast it was raining or threatening rain. Kansas, in the middle of the sunshine belt, furnish- ed a surprise by turning out a vote heavier, in some sections, than that of 1 Uncertainties Many By the Associated Press In an election weighted with un- certainties the nation is deciding to- day who shall sit in congress and in the pla of authority at 32 state capitals. A democratic swing away the great republican 1 1928 is conceded, from 1jorities of bit its extent is o v.clouded, even in the private reck- onings of party leaders, that only the returns themselves can tell the story Basing their on President Hoover his administration in the business crisis. the democrats are acknow ledged even by the republican stal- warts to have menaced seriously republican dominance in the house, and reduced the republican margin | in the senate. As a result, control of senate or house, or both, by a dem- ogratic - independent coalition, wa a possibility. Tiquor Issuc Important Prohibition, unrecognized by ei- ther party as a national issue, has all but monopolized the stage in many localitics and any scrutinized with extreme interest by wets and drys. Not only are the possible fortunes of President Hoover in 1932 thus entangled with today's verdict at the polls, but the result is fraught with votentialities for other outstanding figures in American politics. Among other things, the election will decide <whether F Roosevelt, groomed by his support ers for the presidency. will be re- clected governor of New York or voted out of public iife. 1t will determine whether time has come to confer the senator-by-clection on a campaign of attack woman, Ruth Hanna McCormick of Illinois. | It will disclose whether demo- eratic Alabama is to discipline Sen- ator Heflin, keeping him at home, because he bolted Al Smith. It will write success or failur &cross Gifford Pinchot's spectacular | campaign to win the nnsylvania | governorship on the republican ticket, Without the support of pow- | erful republican leaders In Montant the returns whether Senator Walsh, of the Teapot Dome investigation, is to return again to the senate after one of the hardest campaigns in his career. In Nebrask: cid the Norris and his one-time former Senator Hitchcock. Maryland will answer whether Al- bert C. Ritchie is to break still an- other precedent by winning the gov- ernorship for a fourth time. And, by the degree in which it gives to the independent republicans the baiance of power in the ne senate, the election conceivably will &ive scope to the operations hence- forth of the independent Borah. Referendum Votes Pending In two-thirds of the states, mea sures of legislation or public polic are before the voter for direct a tion by referendum. vides the medium for three, Illinois end Rhode Island voting their opin- fons whether the 18th amendment should be repealed. and Massachu- setts deciding whether to do awa with her state enforcement act. Bond issues for public works t talling upw ds of a half bhillion dollars, advocated as a hoon to em ployment, are on the ballots in statee. In many turned o veals b in overnight will voters will de- veteran senator colleague, the between communities the voters today with 11th hour ap- party spokesmen still fresh memories. Nationally, both partics said their last word last evening over the for the republicans, J Burke repeated again the watch- word of the republican campaigr “Stand by the president.” For the democrats, Jouett Shouse and Sen- ator Robinson or Arkansas aske that the congressional election ¢ press a nation’s disapproval of the Hoover policies. Fair weather over most of the country augured for a heavy vote, although of course the total, as cus- tomary in off s, was expected to fall far below the mammoth figure of 1928. Only for the south Atlantic states, where there are few election contests, did the weather map show signs of rain. Most Polls Close at 6 Most of the states close their polls at nightfall, and comprehensive Te- turns from the east and middle west | seemed likely by early evening. The far west will be well behind. In ‘Washington and Oregon the closing time was 8 p. m.. Pacific time, or 11 p. m. on the Atlantic scaboard. conduct of | overturns will be | anklin - D. | the | title of prosecutor | Senator Prohibition pro- | Pt e Heywood Broun Gets Jump On Opponents New York, Nov. 3 (A—Hey- wood Eroun, socialist candidate for representative in the 17th congressional district cast the first ballot in his home precinct at the lower edge of the ‘silx stocking” Park avenue zone. Broun's campaign opponents were the incumbent, Mrs. Ruth Baker Pratt, republican, and Magistrate Louis B. Brodsky, democrat. Kentucky, under a new law, will not begin to count the ballots until to- morrow morning. a circumstance which held possibilities of leaving an #mportant gap in clection night tabulations, For this year the blue- grass state was one of the most bit- terly contasted among them all. To gain control of the house—the big prize in cvery off-year clection— the democrats must make a net gain of 53. Technically, they have {425 chances in 1930, for the membership comes up for election. Actually, however, the field is much narrower. A total of 94 nominees, of them southern democrats, have no candidates against them. In the four Maine districts, republicans aiready have been clected; for Maine votes in September, and was the only state casting no ballots to- day. In many other districts the re- sult was a foregone conclusion, one way or the other. Many scattered districts, one or two to a state, were on today's list of the actually disputed, but Ken- tucky, Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia and Missouri were the states which were feeling the full force of the democratic shock troops. Need 10 Gain in Senate In the senate, which elects but one-third of its membership this vear, the democrats need a net gain of 10 for a majority, and the whole number of really disputable states numbered only about a dozen. States which today were writing the v |dict on especially aggressive demo- |cratic efforts to unseat republican |senators included Colorado, Dela- {ware, Illinois. Kentucky, Massachu- |setts, Ohio. Oklahoma, Rhode Is- |land and West Virginia. The extent to which prohibition will determine [the net result, and what light it will |throw on 1932, is hotly disputed by > leaders of wets and drys. In many states one or both par- ties adopted planks referring to pro- [ ibition but indirectly, or not at all. iIn New York, New Je Wash- ‘mnvon Wisconsin and Connecticut | both party platforms dissented from lnmmmvmn while in nine other states—Illinois, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, ~New Hampshire, | North Dakota. Rhode Island, Penn- [sylvania and Vermont—the demo- |crats declared for a change. The T | publicans of Tilinois and the demo- |crats of Towa, Michigan and Minne- |sota proposed a referendum, In several of the larger states, in- where party platforms do not raise the issue, the dispute over the dry laws became involved |in contests over governor or sena- e Robert J. Bulkley, democratic nominees for the senate in Ohio, has attracted notional attention by his campaign on a repeal platform, lin the home state of the Anti-Saloon | League, against Senator McCullough, dry. In Massachusetts, likewise, democratic senatorial nominee, Coolidge, is for repeal |and the republican nominee, Wil- {liam M. Butler, is against it. In Montana, on the contrary, the | democratic Senator Walsh, one of the dry leaders of congress, is op- | posed by a republican, Albert J. | Galen, who advocates submission of a repeal amendment. | In many contests for the house, |too, prohibition has cut through |party lines and taken to itself a |large share of the political spot- |tight. The result, when today’s bal- |lots all have been counted, is calcu- {lated to provide the theme for & long-continuing debate. irludin‘: some the | Marcus A Radio to Inform Hoover Washington, Nov. 4 P {home radio and telephone | bring election results to President | Hoover and a majority of his cab- inet, though some will be found all through election day and election {night on the republican fighting | front. With a number of intimate friends the president expects to re- ceive returns in the White House |until his usual retiring hour—10:390 |o'clock. ¥or the full story of the | ballots—wheth the 72d congress | will be nominated by democratic op- position—he will wait until next day. Two years ago, at Palo Alto, Cal- lifornia, he retired early also, but only after assuring himself of his own victory and determing the pro- | portions of the landslide that placed lin office with him a staunchly re- publican congress. A group of [ blackboards set up in the living- |room of the Hoover home, told the [story then as it came hot from the | \vires of press associations. The [three hours difference in time be- [tween the Atlantic seaboard and | california ~ gave him ' complete cnough results from the populous | east soon after sundown. [ Cabinct Interested | The cabinet members, campaign- lers almost all, each with a special election interest as well as the gen- cral hope for administration major- ities, will be among the most eager watchers of results. Like Vice Pres dent Curtis, virtually all of these leaders of administrative affairs have made forays out into local po- litical fields or have talked over na- tional radio hookups from Washing- ton. Tonight. thosc in Washington will keep one ear attuned to the radio announcer's tale, the other to the telephone bringing news from the republican national committee head- quarters. The most active cabinet member, of course, is James J. Davis, the secretary of labor, himself a candi- date. Already in Pittsburgh, conduct- ing the finale of his own campaign for the senatorship from Pennsyl- vania, Secretary Davis was to be joined today by Mrs. Davis, who has lost no opportunities to aid her hus- band. | Ppittsbrugh drew also Andrew W. |Mellon, secretary of the treasury, | who intended casting his vote at the home precinct in person. Traveling farthest to perform his entire | {M. Butler, NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, citizen’s ballot-casting duty, the sec- retary of war, Patrick J. Hurley, hurried out to Tulsa, Okla. Curtis Finishes Swing That indefatigable campaigner, Vice President Curtis, round of oratory in his home town | of Topeka, Kas, and after voting| planned to dash back to Washing- | ton for the avalanche of return: The postmaster general, Walter F. Brown, who has been in the midst of Ohio politics in his home town of Toledo, also planned an! election day return to Washington | to watch results. | Arthur M. Hyde, the secrctary of | agriculture who recently returned | from his Missouri home, said today | he would:be most concerned about results in his state. But the secre- | tary of interior, Ray Lyman Wilbur, of California, sald he was most in- terested in Ohio, Oklahoma and | Delaware. Three cabinet members, mmhm: their home states, will take a spe- | cial interest in the fate of a woman at the polls. Robert P. Lamont of | Chicago, the sccretary of com- merce, made his final pre-election | statement urging support of Ruth Hanna McCormick as senator. Sec- retary of State Henry L. Stimson, speaking for New York republican candidates, singled out for pr: Ruth Baker Pratt, republican nomi- nee for the house from his home | district. The secretary of the mavy, | Charles Francis Adams, looked to- ward the results in his home state, Massachusetts, where the republican | representative, Edith Nourse Rog- | ers, is running for reelection. | Attorney General William D. | Mitchell, whose duties have kept | him at his own desk every day since the summer vacation and who | made no campaign speeches, was the | one member of the cabinet whose interest in the returns was purely | a general one. Pay State Vote Heavy 1 Boston, Nov. 4 (P—Long lines of | men and women passed through | voting booths throughout the state | today marking the ballots which will | decide one of the closest and least | predictable campaigns Massachusetts | has seen in many | The echoes of campaign ora\ory‘ were still in their ears as the peo- ple who have heard their wishes talked about so much for the past | six weeks decided between William | republican, and Marcus | A. Coolidge, democrat, for the| United States senate and between Governor Frank G. Alien, republ can, and Joseph B. Ely, democrat, for the governorship. | Prohibition and unemployment on the democratic side played a major | part in both these campaigns. Both democratic candidates declared for | repeal of the prohibition laws and delivered nightly assaults on the republicans for “inaction” in the unemployment crisis. The republi- | can candidates, both previously ex- pressed drys, avoided mention of | prohibition, defended the republican record on unemployment and as- sailed the democrats for appealing to “forces of unrest” in an effort to | make political capital out of human | needs. Besides the contests for major of- fices, the people voted on 16 con- gressional fights. The closest con- tests were in the sccond and ninth districts. In the second district Congressman William J. Granfield, Springfield, democrat, was opposed by Joshua L. Brooks in a determin- ed republican effort to regain this traditionally G. O. P. seat. In tt ninth district it was the republican ! incumbent, Charles L. Underhill of Somerville, who was threatened by Joseph J. Borgatti, Somerville dem- ocrat. Republicans now hold the 16 congressional seats. Dry Issue Also Up The prohibition question also was presented to the voters in a refer- endum asking them whether or not | they would repeal the state prohibi- tion enforcement act, voted on the statute books in 1924 by another : referendum. An unusual referendum was the question whether or not to forbid the use of steel traps in hunting fur bearing animals. Voters in the metropolitan district served by the Boston elevated had to decide whether it should be government owned, continued under public con- trol, or returned to private manage- | Rhode Island Votes Providence, R. I, Nov. 4 (P) - Claims of victory by both democrats and republicans rang in the ears of voting Rhode Islanders today as the | cl.ctorate went to the polls to choose | a governor, a senator, and three con- gressmen. The senatorial fight, around which interest seemed chiefly centered, found U. §. Senator Jesse H. Met- | calf, republican incumbent, oppos- | ing former Senator Peter G. Gerry, democrat, who failed reelection by a | narrow margin two years ago. Both | are wets, but Metcalf has qualified his wet stand to the extent that he will be guided by the vote of his constituents on the state referendum question: “The 18th amendment, shall it be retained?” Norman §. Case, republican, sought reelection as governor. He opposed Theodore I'. Green, demo- crat. Congressional Contests In the first and second congres. sional districts Clark Burdick, re- publican, opposed Samuel W. Smith, Jr., democrat; Richard §. Aldrich, republican, was pitted against Ar- thur L. Conaty, democrat and, in the third district, Francis B. Condon, | democrat and William R. Fortin, republican, battled it out for the seat made vacant by the retirement of Jeremiah E. O'Connell, democrat. See G. O. P. Victory Concord, N. H., Nov. 4 (UP)—The New Hampshire electorate went to the polls today confident of republi- can victorics for the candidates for major offices. The republicans claimed the usual normal majorities | ®"ile the democrats kept silent. Former Gov:rnor John G. Win- ant, republican, who broke a pre cedent of 80 years' standing by seek- ing a second term nomination, op- posed Albert W, Noone, democrat, 84 year old Peterboro manufacturer, | who was also nominated as his | party's senatorial candidate. Noone's opponent in the senatorial | field was U. 8. Senator Henry W. Keyes, republican incumbent, who has been kept from actively- cam- paigning by illness. 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