Thomas chides Progressive leaders for support of New Deal (Evening Star, Oct. 18, 1936, p. 39)

WISCONSIN DEMOCRAT WON'T QUIT FOR LA FOLLETTE _ I tThomas Chides Progressive Leaders for Support of New Deal. BY CHARLES W. HOLMBURG, Special Correspondent of The Star. MADISON, Wis., October 17.-- There isn't the slightest chance ol Democratic candidates for State of fices In Wisconsin following the ex ample of Minnesota Democrats and withdrawing in favor of their third party, pro-iRoosevelt opponents, it be came certain this week. Rumors that Arthur W. Lueck, Democratic nominee for Governor, might quit in favor of Gov. Philip F. La Follette, Progressive, were heatedly quashed by party leaders. Including Lueck, and it is evident that the State Democratic organiza tion will continue its present bitter fight to defeat Gov. La Follette and other Progressive party candidates despite the indorsement of President Roosevelt by Gov. La Follette and his brother, Senator Robert M. La j Follette. meek, in a heated statement this Week, declared he would continue to flail the La Follette administration and to urge the re-election of Roose velt, and claimed the November elec tion returns would show the State Democrats with more votes than Gov. La Follette or his Republican guber natorial rival, Alexander Wiley. Thomas Chides La Follettes. Meanwhile Norman Thomas, Social ist presidential nominee, has visited the State and chided the La Follettes on their indorsement of the New Deal. "They have handed Mr, Roose velt everything on a silver platter and didn't even force the withdrawal of State Democratic candidates, as the Farmer-Laborites did in Minnesota," Thomas told a Milwaukee audience. Thomas appeared resentful of the fcetion of Wisconsin Socialists in giv ing up their identity as a State party and joining forces through the Parmer-Labor-Progressive federation With the Progressives. His visit was said to be an attempt j to keep the Wisconsin Socialist vote j In the national Socialist column in- stead of having it directed to Roose velt. In 1932 Thomas received 53,000 Votes in this State. Republican leaders insist that the •upport of Roosevelt by the La Fol lettes will fail to "deliver" all of the Progressive party vote. They claim Wisconsin, although giving Roosevelt a majority of 360.000 votes in 1932. Is today a "50-50" State, and that Oov. Landon has an excellent chance to carry It. Roosevelt Loss Denied. Pro-<Roosevelt forecasts, however, discount the theory that the Presi dent has lost any serious amount of •trength in Wisgonsin. They point out that the voters are split three ways among Republican, Democratic and Progressive parties, and that the pro-Roosevelt vote of the latter two should give the President about two thirds of the total State vote, despite tome anti-Roosevelt feeling in both j these groups. Interest in the candidacy of Wil- j flam Lemke here appears on the de cline. and it Is generally agreed that the vote the North Dakotan receives will be on the basis of his fight for the Frazier-Lemke farm mortgage moratorium. The former estimate that Lemke might pick up 100.000 votes has shrunk to a third of that dumber. Gov. La Follette continues a strenu ous State-wide speech-making sched ule, directing his attacks at State Democrats as well as Republicans. He is maintaining that the Demo crats of Wisconsin are false to Roosevelt and points to their coali tion with State Republicans in the last Legislature as evidence that they •re "reactionaries." NtW HAIVirbrllnfc U. U. V. CLAIMS LANDON VICTORY Democrats Claim Manchester and Hillsborough County--Winant Backs Roosevelt. by j. j. McCarthy, Special Correspondent of The Star. MANCHESTER. N. H.. October 17. •--New Hampshire State Republican leaders claim the Granite State for London and Knox, pointing out that the State is normally a G. O. P. stronghold and there is no reason why there should be a change this year. Democratic leaders believe they have a chance, but political observers agree that the Republicans will carry the State. The Democrats claim Manchester, the State's largest city, and Hillsbor ough County, which also Includes Nashua, the State's second largest city. A complimentary vote for Col. Prank Knox, who has a home in Man chester and still has a big interest in the States two largest newspapers published here, the Morning Union and the Leader, is expected and will cut down the Democratic lead in the City and county. Former Gov. John O. Winant, who has come out in support of President Roosevelt, still exercises considerable power in New Hampshire and his move may swing many of- his follow ers to the President. m COMMERCE BUREAU REPORTS ON SHIP CRASH Pudden Turn at "Extremely low Altitude" Held Besponsible for Death of Eight. My the Associated Press. The Air Commerce Bureau re ported yesterday that a sudden turn made at "extremely low altitude" was responsible for an air liner crash Au gust 5, near St. Louis, in which eight persons were killed. In a formal report to Secretary Roper, director Eugene L. Vidal of the Commerce Department Air Bureau, •aid contributory causes of the crash were: *'Tbe undeterminable factor" which caused Pilot Carl F. Zeier to turn back toward Lambert Field Airport within two minutes after his plane left the ground. The pilot's failure to maintain or Increase altitude when he decided the

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Glider and Glided ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE. A PHILIP F. LA FOLLETTE. NORMAN THOMAS. I Labor Struggles in Puget Sound Basin Hurts Roosevelt. BY JAMES De K. BROWN, Special Correspondent of The Star. SEATTLE, Wash., October 17 La bor disturbances in the Puget Sound Basin with the threat of a general strike tieing up all transportation fa cilities are responsible for a slow but steady swing away from the Roosevelt standard to the Republican party in this State. There is also disintegration of the Washington Commonwealth Federa tlon, the parent body of the radical organization. Immediately after the September primaries, when the radi- j cal left wing Democrats were defeated for nominations organized labor with- drew from the Federation. Then there was a shake-up and other units dropped out. This was followed by repudiation of left wing indorsements by candidates, excenting those who had signed pledges. The withdrawal of organized labor, however, was too late. The general public knew there was a tie-up. This is one of the reasons why there is a falling oft of Roosevelt sentiment. The Commonwealth Federation and other communistic groups as w'ell as organ ized labor have openly indorsed Pres ident Roosevelt. The primary vote showed that the vast majority of vot ers are opposed to the extreme left wing policies of the Democratic party. Republican leadership is taking ad vantage of this situation. Straw ballot polls being taken in this State on various candidacies and issues show a strong trend toward con servatism. President Roosevelt is not being accorded anything like the sup port received two years ago--in fact in all polls including those in both the industrial centers and In the country districts he is falling behind the Lan don-Knox ticket. In the legislative districts the voters are dividing along entirely new lines, radical and conservative. This is especially marked in King County. State's Fame Spreads. LINCOLN. Nebr. (/P).--Rosy reports of Nebraska's financial status have reached Vienna, Austria. A Viennese divorcee wrote State Treasurer George E. Hall that she could use about 3,500 shillings of the State's surplus and asked that the money be forwarded to her. In return she offered to come to America and serve Hall as a maid. "Your kind letter received too late," replied Hall. "All the shillings have been deposited in banks or invested in bonds." Report Cheering Democrats Is Immediately Spiked. BY JOSEPH, G. DEPONAT, Special Correspondent of The 8tar. BALTIMORE, October 17.--Demo cratic leaders here were greatly elated this week by a report published In one of the local papers that the Repub lican National Committee had given up hope of carrying Maryland and would send no more funds into the State. This, however, was promptly denied by State leaders of the G. O. P., who declared the report was started by the president of the Maryland Federa tion of Young Republicans, an or ganization which is working inde pendently of both the State Central Committee, headed by William P. Lawson, and backed by Gov. Harry W. Nice, and the Maryland Landon-Knox League, which is being directed by Galen L. Tait, for years the chairman of the State Central Committee. Harry Lee Katz, the president of the Young Republican organization, it was explained, wrote to Representa tive Joseph W. Martin, jr., Eastern manager of the Republican National Committee, asking if there was any truth to "reports circulated to the effect that there will be no financial support forthcoming for proper func tioning of the National campaign in Maryland. Hope for Maryland Victory. In reply Mr. Martin wired: ''For your Information would say that the Republican National Committee is hopeful of carrying the State of Maryland. We believe that the Na tion-wide trend against the New Deal exists in Maryland as well as in the other States of the Union. We are co-operating in the Maryland cam paign to the best of our ability and as fully as our limited means will permit." It was announced at headquarters of the Tait organization that there was no shortage of funds for the campaign and that the Landon-Knox League was receiving financial as sistance from the "secret" Maryland committee. Robert O. Bonnell, chairman of this committee, authorized the state ment that his "nonpartisan" fund raising committee affords financial backing for the Tait organization. "We are putting up the money for the Landon-Knox Volunteer League," he said. Republicans as well as many fol lowers of the late Gov. Albert C. Ritchie are showing marked interest in the anti-Roosevelt speeches here Monday night of former Gov. Joseph B. Ely of Massachusetts and Bain bridge Colby, Secretary of State in the Wilson cabinet. Jeffersonians Sponsor Rally. The rally is being sponsored by the Maryland Jeffersonian Democrats, of which organization Edgar Allan Poe. former assistant attorney general of Maryland, is chairman. Leaders of the Democratic party, on the other hand, are emphatic in declaring that Maryland Is "in the bag" and point to the fact that in a straw vote conducted by a local paper President Roosevelt carried the State by 79,000 out of 277,000 votes cast. A number of out-of-State speakers will be brought into Maryland during the next two weeks, including Cor dell Hull, Secretary of State; Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi and prob ably Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, it was announced at Democratic headquarters here. Railroad Official Dies. WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va., October 17 (JP).--D. Kemper Kel logg, 67, for more than 30 years treasurer of the Richmond, Freder icksburg Potomac Railroad, died here early today of a heart attack. South Jersey G. O. P. Weakness Is Revealed in Visit by Knox BY EDWARD M. GILROY, Special Correspondent of The Star. TRENTON, N. J., October 17.--Re publican campaign managers are re vising their plans in order to con centrate their fire on South Jersey counties where unexpected weaknesses have developed. Strong Roosevelt sen tlment in normally Republican Atlan tic and organization difficulties in Camden, another former stronghold, caused concern on the two-day State tour by Col. Prank Knox, vice presi dential nominee. After unexpectedly strong Repub lican demonstrations for Col. Knox in northern counties, particularly Pas saic, the visits to Atlantic and Cam den proved a shock. Although Enoch L. Johnson, Atlantic Republican boss, admittedly has one of the strongest organizations in the State, he made no attempt to produce a crowd as the Knox motorcade drove through main streets. Instead, the Knox party was subjected to a running fire from Roosevelt boosters all along the trip. Johnson's lieutenants told State leaders Roosevelt was unusually i^rong. Atlantic City had its bast Summer In five years and the dispo sition is to credit it to Roosevelt. Lo cal leaders admitted the Republican local ticket would be elected without difficulty, but were non-committal on the national ticket. In Camden the Republican machine is split as the aftermath of .a bitter city commission election last Spring Control of police and Are department; has passed from the machine of David Baird, jr„ former United States Sen ator, to the remnants of the organi zation of Albert C. Woodruff, former State Senator. Mrs. Elizabeth C. Verga, chief lieutenant of Baird, ha; been on the Pacific Coast most of the campaign and apparently is out ol politics. While the Republicans can carry the State for Landon and Knox without heavy pluralities in Atlantic and Cam den, these two counties must produce heavily If the Republicans are to have the sweep their leaders are predict ing. Walter E. Edge, campaign man ager, predicted a Landon margin ol 350,000 after the first day of the Knox tour, but he has been quiet ever since the South Jersey trie. a 1 LEMKE STRATEGY FAILS IN DAKOTA Democrat Representatives Expected to Win in Election. BY KENNETH W. SIMONS, 8pectsi Correspondent of The Star. BISMARCK, N. Dak., October 17.-- There is at least a chance that North Dakota will send one. It not two, Democratic representatives to Wash ington In the coming election. This could happen even though Roosevelt lost the State. The feeling here is that Lemke be came the Union candidate for Pres ident so 'he might keep out of in ternal squabbles of the Non-partisan League, long a dominant political force, and thus retain support of all groups in his candidacy for Congress. Actually the opposite has been the result. Regular Republicans are grateful to him for his presidential candidacy, for it gives them a chance to carry the State for Landon. Technically they are supporting his candidacy for Congress on the Republican ticket, but they do not stress the fact because the majority of regular Republicans have never been for Lemke. On the other hand, the Non-par tisans remain divided and about the only thing upon which they are agreed is that Lemke tried to run out on the States internal political troubles and hence can claim no sup Tv»rf frnm t The group led by William Langer, independent gubernatorial candidate and a considerable factor In this State's affairs, is irked with the Rep resentative because they feel he de serted them at the primary. Besides, there long has been bad blood be tween Lemke and Langer. The right-wing Non-partisan, led by Goy. Walter Welford, are in tne same position, although they support Lemke because he is running for Congress as a Republican on the same ticket with Welford. But this sup port is nominal rather than real. The Non-partisans who are for Roosevelt are definitely angry with Lemke. They are important because the bulk of Democratic strength in national elections in the past has come from the Non-partisans or the progressive wing of the Republican party. The conservative Republicans, the real backbone of the G. O. P. In this State, never did care for Lemke any way and a good many will vote for the Democratic congressional candidates in an effort to rid the State of two Representatives whom they regard as worse than useless. On the other hand, the Democrats are making a united campaign for Henry Holt of Grand Porks and J. J. Nygard of Jamestown and are getting support from the dissident Republi cans. If it were not for the long-estab lished voting habits of North Dako tans, which keep them in the Repub lican column below President execept on rare occasions, it would be a pretty safe bet that both Lemke and Burdick will be beaten in the coming election. As it Is, the contest is ex pected to be close. This situation also handicaps Lemke's presidential campaign In this State. The general opinion is that i he hasn't a chance and politicians re port he would have received more votes a month ago than he would get now and that he would get more now than will be recorded for him on elec tion day. West Virginia Defections Hearten Republicans in Campaign. BY ROBERT H. HORNER, Special Correspondent of The Star. CHARLESTON. W. Va., October 17, --Political observers at West Vir ginia's State capital are studying re ports of Democratic defections In the rural counties to determine how far they will affect the party's ticket, both national and State. While Democratic leaders appear undisturbed over the reports. Repub licans are making the mo6t of the reports and their lea'dlng speakers concentrate their efforts in the strictly agricultural counties. They report that big meetings are being held and that those attending show unusual interest in their fight on the New Deal. Both Judge Summers H. Sharp, Republican candidate for Governor, and Hugh Ike Shott of Bluefleld, op posing United States Senator M M. Neely, Democrat, for re-election, have been devoting their energies to lural audiences, neglecting the mining and Industrial counties. Judge Sharp for the most part has attacked what he calls the extravagance and waste of Gov. H. G. Kump's Democratic ad ministration, especially In the school and road departments, though he has devoted much time to condemning the State Liquor Control Commission. He has charged nepotism to Chairman D. H. Stephenson, as well as favorit ism in purchasing liquors through political allies. Holt Ignores Attacks. Attorney General Homer A. Holt, Democratic candidate for Governor, has ignored the charges hurled against the Kump administration, confining his speeches to discussion of the ad ministration's policies, which he is pledged to maintain. Aside from Senator Neely's cam paign in support of the New Deal, there has been little work by outstand ing Democratic leaders for President Roosevelt. Senator Rush D. Holt has continued his speaking tour against his senior colleague, Senator Neely, condemning Neely's record and W. P. A. practices. Holt is arranging his own meetings and is paving for halls out of his own pocket. He has no organization. Democratic leaders here say Holt's speeches are not hurting Senator Neely's chances of victory. Neely won the State by more than 130,000 ma jority in 1930. Partita Organising Effectively. Both parties are organizing ef fectively. President Rooeevelt has continued to hold his strength with labor in West Virginia. Democrats claim they have much strength among small busi ness houses, but they concede that the big business Interests of the State are opposed to the New Deal. West Virginia Is still regarded by j most observers as doubtful, with con 1 ditlons favoring President Roosevelt.

i Germans Lose Soccer Game. DUBLIN, October 17 i/P>--Ger many suffered Its second soccer loss In four days today when a team rep i resenting the Irish Free State turned in a 5-2 victory before 30,000 specta j tors. Winning Contract BT THE FOUR ACES. (David Burnstine. Merwln D Maler, Oawald Jaeoby. Howard Sehenkan. world I leadina team-of-four, inventors of the system that has beaten every other system In existence.) About Partnerships. SOME years ago a bridge writer went into an elaborate descrip tion of a supposedly hypothetical hand, showing how the hand would be bid by poor players, fair players, good players, master players and super-master players. The analysis, while not particularly good, was very interesting, particularly since the hand in question had been misbid by this particular writer and his favorite partner in a set match. In today's article we are going to present a hand and give our im pression of how it would be bid by various partnerships. South dealer. NORTH. Q x A J x A J x X A x x x x SOUTH. K J x x X K X x AAKQJX First, let us consider the bidding if both North and South are master players. South opens with one spade, North bids two diamonds (an explora tory response--he knows that Siuth will bid again). South bids three clubs, a skip level shift, sinoe it takes the bidding past both the two-spade and two-no-trump level. North now sees there are some slight slam possibilities and, not being sure of the best way to develop the hand, decides to bid three hearts. South now goes to three no-trump, since, so far, his partner has not shown any real strength. North will bid four clubs, whereupon South says to himself: "My partner's four-club bid shows that he could have raised clubs immediately. In stead he made the bid of three hearts. Obviously, this was an ace-showlng bid. and since he has now bid four clubs, he is inviting a slam. He would not show the ace of hearts unless he also held some other aoe." Hence. South bids six clubs, which la a laydown except against very ab normal distribution. TVTOW let us see what happens with a master player in the South seat and a very poor player at North. South will still open 'with one spade and North will probably make the horrible response of one no-trump, although actually his hand is far too strong for such a bid. However, South, being a master player, will make some allowance and will bid three clubs. North will now bid four clubs and South will bid five and make his con tract with an overtrick, there being no way for him to get to slam. and still retain our master player In the South seat. The master player will still bid a spade, but the fair play er will respond with two notrump. Being a fair player only, he will not understand the exploratory response of two diamonds, but he will realize the inadequacy of the one not rump re sponse. Now South will unquestion ably jump to four elute, North will bid five clubs and South will bid six. In other words, the slam will probably be reached, even though the master player is taking some slight gamble when he bids it In that fashion. Now let us place either a poor or a fair player in the South position and a master player at North. The dub or fair player will bid one spade, but the master player will not bid two dia monds--he will bid two notrump, a slight variation from his correct bid to make allowance for his partner. Now the dub will breathe a sigh of re lief, realize that he is going to be dummy and take his partner to three notrump. The fair player, however, will bid three clubs, whereupon the master player wUl undoubtedly go back to three notrump, since his initial bid of two notrump has been a slight overbid. At this point the next bid by the various fair players will vary greatly, some will pass, others will bid four clubs, whereupon North will go to five clubs. Others will make a strong slam invitation by jumping to five clubs, whereupon the master North will bid six, while some will bid four notrump, which the master player will pass promptly. yie foregoing serves merely to point out the fact that the win ning bridge player carefully analyzes and attempts to complement his part ner's bidding. If one's partner is a first-class player, accuracy should be the keynote and full information as to the strength and distribution of one's hand should be imparted to him. If one's partner is a conservative bidder but a poor card player, the clever bidder overbids slightly and at tempts to become the declarer. But if one's partner is both a rash bidder and a poor card player, one can only bid conservatively and pray that no disasters occur. (Coprrlsbt, 1930.) The Pour Aces will be pleased to answer letters from readers U a stamped (3-cent). self-addressed envelope is Inclosed with each communication. If you desire the pocket outline of the Pour Aees' system of contract bridse. send with your request a stamped (3-cent). self-addressed, larse slse envelope to the Pour Aces. Inc., 130 West Porty-seeond street. Mew York City, and you win receive an outline without any cherts The next article in this series win appear tomorrow. Candidacy of Ward May Give G. 0. P. Michigan Senatorsliip: Coughlin Aide Expected to Take Support From Brown.

BY H. C. GARRISON, Special Correspondent of The Star. DETROIT, Mich., October 17.-- Republicans consider they received a lucky break when touts B. Ward, Father Coughlin's Washington lobby ist and biographer, accepted nomina tion of the Third party for United States Senator. Ward ran for the same office as a Democrat in the primary and lost by 7,000 votes to Representative Prentiss M. Brown of St. Ignace. Ward was given about 118,000 votes. Political dopesters had figured Brown to be the most certain of all the Democratic candidates to win. His Republican opponent, former Gov. Wilber M. Brucker. is not overly pop ular. Now the wise boys are not so sure. They are not sure but that Ward will eat into the Democratic vote sufficiently to permit Brucker to slip in. Democrats Doubt Effect. Some Democrats are a little fearful that this may be the outcome. Others profess to believe the entrance of Ward into the picture will make little difference. They point out that the Third party, an uttej-ly unknown or ganization with mysterious origins, has no following of its own and can only take whatever votes the Cough- i lin-Townsend alliance can bludgeon j into line. Real Democrats will not1 vote the ticket, they believe. Their theory is that Ward, running as a: Republican, would be dangerous, but running on an unknown ticket away over on the right-hand side of the ballot will not be a factor. There is considerable doubt as to the legality of the convention which selected Ward as the Third party can didate and voted to Include Lemke electors in it* column. Proceedings already have been started in court to restrain the secretary of State from including the Third party candidates on the ballot. 199,00# Vote* is Key. The key to the situation seems to be the 199.000 votes that were cast for Senator Couzens in the Republican _LOUIS B. WARD. _ primary. If Brucker can get most of these, he will win. If the bulk of them go to Brown, most observers believe Brucker is sunk. Democrats argue that Brucker will get few of Couzens' votes. They point! out that these two men, Brucker and Couzens, are as far apart as the poles in their characters and characteristics. Where Couzens was the most inde pendent of Michigan Republicans, Brucker is the most slavishly regular. Where Couzens was progressive, Brucker Is conservative. Couzens was wet, Brucker is dry. Couzens hated to make apeeches; Brucker loves to. Chiefs of Both Parties See Possibility 14 Votes May Be Decisive. BT WILLIAM L. TOMS. Special Corresponaent ot The Star. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., October 17. --As authentic polls and straw votes continue to Indicate that Gov. All M. London has the edge in Indiana, the more interested both parties be come in the Hoosier State's 14 elec toral votes. Since the beginning of the cam paign. leaders of the two major par ties in Indiana have been alert to i the possibility that these 14 electoral i votes might easily prove the decid ing factor in the coming election. And now national political leaders are demonstrating a solicitious attitude toward Indiana that was not mani fest at the time of the national con ventions and for many subsequent weeks. Not in many presidential elections have Hoosier voters seen the political fireworks and cannonading that will resound here in the final fortnight of the 1936 battle. And in the tre mendous registration of the voters this year may be found concrete evi dence that citizens of this State are attentive to the arguments now being advanced. Word is out that Gov. Landon may make one of his final campaign ad dresses in the Hoosier capital 'ere the month passes. Both he and Knox crossed the State this past week, making numerous rear-platform talks. What they say is being fortified with addresses by such outstanding orators as Senator Frederick Steiwer of Ore gon and former Senators James E. Watson of Indiana and Simeon D. Fess of Ohio. And the Democrats are striking back, employing the cream of their national oratorical talent to check what all agree is a steady movement against the New Deal. In the next few days Democratic audiences will hear such noted party speakers as United States Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, Harold L. Ickes, Secre tary of the Interior, United States Sen ator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, keynote speaker at the last national convention; the Hoosier State's two United States Senators, Frederick Van Nuys and Sherman Minton; Gov. Paul V. McNutt of this State and others receiving late speaking assignments. Backing up the presidential fight is the contest for places on the new congressional delegation of 12 mem bers, only one of whom now is a Re publican. The determined work of the G. O. P. organization is expected to bring the party two or three ad ditional Representatives, despite the claim of Democrats that they will return a solid delegation to Wash ington next year. 10 to 15 Per Cent May Give 11 Electoral Ballots to Either Party. BY C. C. CLIFTON, Special Correspondent of The Star. DBS MOINES, Iowa, October 17.-- Iowa, basking in the glory of being a potential pivotal State, still remains in the doubtful column on the presi dency. For the present the race for the State's 11 electoral votes is so close the decision may be made by 10 to 15 per cent of the voters who have not made up their minds. In the end the State doubtless will go with the national drift, if the tide becomes pronounced. There is no doubt that if this were an off year the Republican State ticket would win easily from the Democratic State offi cers, who have been in four years. Resembles 1916 Battle. There also is little dispute that the State election will go as the presi dency goes, unless the race between Roosevelt and Landon is nervously close. The closer election day approaches the more the 1936 campaign resem bles that 1916 battle between Wilson and Hughes. In 1916 Hughes carried Iowa by a little less than 60,000 votes. Wilson had not carried a State ad ministration into office with him in 1912, hence the patronage and pay roll of the State and national ad ministrations this year, plus the heavy spending for farm ad unemployment relief, now give the Democrats an advantage they did not have 20 years ago. Balancing against this is the four year record of the Democratic ad ministration which requires defense and opens up attack by the Republi can outs. Crowds Meet Roosevelt. President Roosevelt was met by huge and enthusiastic crowds in his two swings across corners of the State last week. He went across Northeastern Iowa, where there is a heavy Democratic vote, and across southeastern Iowa, which is reported by scouts to be heavily Republican. Democrats were happy to have the President personally pep up their campaign, which has not been as aggressive as the Republicans have made. The Democrats have Deen hit by deaths of United States Senator Louis Murphy and Representative B. M. Jacobsen of the second Iowa dis trict, and they are meeting trouble with wet Republicans going back to their ticket. anti-New Deal Demo crats leaving the Democratic party and assaults upon spending and debt. Republicans have to overcome a lead of 184,000 votes piled up by Roosevelt in 1932. To do this they have to win back a net of 93,000 votes, or an average of 1,000 votes per county. Landon Visit Expected to Turn Oklahoma Tide From Roosevelt BY OTIS SUIXIVANT, Special Correspondent of The Star. OKLAHOMA CITY, October 17.-- Republicans have hurled their chal lenge against Democratic claims that Oklahoma is overwhelmingly for President Roosevelt by booking Gov. Alf M. Landon for a speech here Tuesday. W. G. Johnston, Republican State chairman, has announced that cara vans of Republicans and anti-New Deal Democrats from all sections of the State will help make a mammoth rally for the Republican nominee. Johnston and the other party leaders hail the Landon decision to speak here as a means of stimulating interest in the campaign. For them it is a direct answer to the winning psychology in favor of the Democrats. Republican leaders have not been able to Are party workers with en thusiasm. It has been taken for granted that Roosevelt will carry Oklahoma. Republican county chair men have asked what is the use of trying. But with the Republican nominee speaking in the State, the party chair man maintains the G. O. P. will have a good chance of turning the tide. CoL Prank Knox, Republican nomi nee for Vice President, spoke in Tulsa Friday at a big rally of party mem bers in Northeastern Oklahoma. Lon don's speech in the capital city affords the O. O. P., its opportunity for a big State-wide meeting. Democrats have plugged away in their campaign, maintaining the favorable odds. It has been the strategy of the leaders to avoid con troversies and let the campaign rock along. Unless the Republicans can stir Interest In their cause, the vote normally will drift into the Democratic column by a substantial majority. nr Opposition of Republican Newspapers Fails to Erase Edge. BY BART SHERIDAN, Special Correspondent of The Star. LOS ANGELES, October 17.--Dem ocratic voting strength in California is remaining doggedly out in front despite vigorous Roosevelt opposition by the State's many Republican news papers. Newest press association registra tion figures for the State give the Democrats 57.83 per cent of the total registration of 3,251,366, and the Re publicans 38.25 per cent. This is a gain of 0.26 of 1 per cent for the Democrats and a loss of 0.45 of 1 per cent for the Republicans since the August compilations So accepted is the pro-Roosevelt trend the legislative propositions for the November ballot are being backed and opposed, officially and otherwise, almost as vigorously as are the op posing presidential candidates. Cam paign expenditures, reported as of October 1, showed that nearly $800 000 had already been raised to pro mote or oppose the propositions. Chain Store Tax Fight Bitter. The reports show that the largest sums of money have been put to work on the chain-store tax referendum, the proposal to eliminate tide-land oil drilling and two liquor-control measures--local option and reorgan ized liquor control. Bitterest of the fights is that over the chain-store tax. A proposal to protect independent merchandising by levying a progressive assessment on retail stores, the measure was voted by the last State Legislature and is being balloted as a referendum proposition. It would impose a fee of $500 per store on the retail estab lishments owned by the larger chains. Fallow State-Wide Scandal. The two liquor-control measures come in the wake of a State-wide scandal over the liquor licensing ac tivities of the Board of Equalization, present beverage control unit. The local option amendment, coming be fore the same voters who repealed the Wright prohibition act in 1932, will probably not get the required majority. The second liquor measure, proposing substitution of an appoint ive administrative commission for the present system, might pass on the strength of the recent scandal, al though its opponents insist it makes possible a still grosser flaunting of the taxpayers' trust. Tide-land oil drilling--the oil pump ing practice which pollutes the beach short area with a murky refuse oil, would be prohibited under another proposed law. GREGORY'S BROTHER GETS TICKET PLACE Kentucky Representative's Death Won't Affect Democrats' Standing: in House. BY HARRY BLOOM. Special Correspondent of The Star. LOUISVILLE. Ky.. October 17 The death of W. Voris Gregory. 58, for 10 years Representative from the first district of Kentucky, necessitat ing selection of another congressional nominee by the Democratic party, was an unexpected political event of the week in Kentucky. A meeting of the District Committee to pick a suc cessor was held in Mayfield, home of Representative Gregory. His brother, J. Noble Gregory, was tipped for the place, although there were half a dozen other contenders. Mr. Gregory, who was running for his sixth term, took ill during the Summer after he had won renomina tion by an overwhelming majority. Since Mr. Gregory ran in a district regarded as a Democratic Gibraltar, his death was not expected to affect the political complexion of the Ken tucky delegation. It is again expected to consist of eight Democrats and a Republican. The week's big meeting was a train shed rally for Col. Frank Knox. Senator Barkley, whose oratory has been utilized by the Democratic Na tional Committee in States where the outcome was regarded as close, has been assigned to close the campaign in his home State. He is booked lor nine speeches, one in each congres sional district. Gov. Bibb Graves of Alabama was another major speaking luminary who invaded the State this week in behalf of President Roosevelt. Gov. A. B. "Happy" Chandler has been touring Ohio and Missouri. He told an audience at Fulton, Mo., that the Democratic majority in Kentucky would reach 200,000 and expressed the opinion that hotly-contested Ohio ia now "safely Democratic." KNOX TAKES ROOSEVELT NORTH CAROLINA ROUTE Two Major Addresses Delivered by G. 0. P. Nominee at Chapel Hill and Asheville. BY ROBERT E. WILLIAMS, Special Correspondent of The Star. RALEIGH, N. C.. October 17 --Col. Frank Nnox, Republican vice presi dential candidate, came to North Carolina this week. He found the State safely Democratic and left It in the same condition. Col. Knox made two set speeches in the State, one at Chapel Hill, the seat of the State University, and the other at Asheville, with six rear plat form speeches at train stops in be tween the two main speeches. His course duplicated to a large extent the route followed by Presi dent Roosevelt in a "non-political" visit to the State. Both spoke at Asheville and both made identical train stops for short speeches at Greensboro and Salisbury. The Knox crowds at these three points were only fractions of the crowds which greeted President Roosevelt a month ago. From the standpoint of enthusiasm, the con trast was even greater.

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