AMERICAN ELECTIONS

Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 108, 3 November 1926, Page 7

AMERICAN ELECTIONS

BITTER CAMPAIGN OVER

INTEREST AT HOME AND ABROAD

CHANCE OF DEMOCRATIC VICTORY.

(Unitod Press Association.—Copy right.) WASHINGTON, Ist November. Ono of tho most complicated and hardest fought political campaigns ended to-day, with a tangle of issues obscuring the result and a depth of interest never before recorded, aroused both.here and abroad. Cable messages from Europe state that not since the lato Mr. Harding's election has there been so much anticipation as to the result of an ■ American election as in the present ease. France and Germany are both looking for a Democratic victory, as they believe such an event will result in a change in the United States fiscal policy, particularly regarding the tariff and war debts. In England, where less interest is shown in the broader issues, the campaign nevertheless has been closely followed, more as regards domestic issues, particularly Prohibition. PART V _FOREC ASTS. While President Coolidge has expressed confidence that the next Congress will be Republican, Representative Oldfield, in giving the Democratic forecast, announced that his party would gain fifty seats in the House of Representatives and have a certain majority in the Senate. He said there were many reasons why the country was turning Democratic, notably "because the Democrats stand for purity in elections and honesty in office. Every trail of corruption has led to a cesspool fed by Republican 'practical' politicians.'' THE "DRY" AND "WET" OF IT. The anti-Prohibitionists declare that they' will gain, strength in the new Congress, while tho Prohibitionists assort that their fbrces will bo increased by three to five votes in the Senate and the House of Representatives will have certainly not less than 309 Drys and possibly 319, against 109 Wets, with six doubtful. , Mr. Wayne B. Wheeler (general counsel and legislative superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League) attacked tho Prohibitiin referenda which are held in eight States. He *iid: "Constitutional anarchy or law enforcement are two issues which confront the voters. The liquor groups, unable to muster the required number of voS*s to change the Eighteenth Amendmdnfc' in a legal, orderly method, are nttenrpting the most daring nullification programme that ever has been conceived in this nation." THE PROHIBITION IS-OE. Particular interest is eentTed' upon the Prohibition issue, owing tw the drastic decision of tho United Spates Supremo Court, issued to-day, ruling that any violator of the Prohibition laws can be punished by both the Federal Government-and by the Government of the State in which the offencov is committed. This, in spite of the , •provision in the United States Constitution, that no s man can be put in double jeopardy for the same offence. LAWLESSNESS TEARED. Owing to the unprecedented bitterness of the campaign in many places, particularly in noted lawless districts, special efforts are being made for the conduct of to-mOrrow's polling without violence. Forty-two squads of detectives, armed with loaded shotguns and tear bombs, have already begun to tour the city of Chicago in automobiles to prevent pre-election riots, and these will be augmented by two thousand other armed vigilants, ready to repulse all efforts of gangsters to storm the balloting places to-morrow. The town of Hcrrin, Illinois, was the scene two days ago of several killings over, liquor feuds. The town authorities are preparing to. ask for State troopers to prevent armed warfare, as bootleggers' factions promise that they will raid the polls and take revenge. The home of one Roman Catholic priest in Massachusetts is being guarded as the result of the receipt of threatening letters following on his issue of statements condemning certain candidates for the' latter's Prohibition Views.