PRESIDENCY FIGHT.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10737, 7 November 1928, Page 5

PRESIDENCY FIGHT.

SMITH FEELS “ALL RIGHT." 15FT NOT OPTIMISTIC. VOTE EXPECTED TO REACH 35.000.000. United Press Assn by El. Tel. Copyriabi iastrallan Press Assn.—United Servloe NEW YORK, November 5. Governor A 1 Smith feels 'Rill right" about the outcome of tile election tomorrow but is not making predictions. Two women are included in the 12 candidates to contest 37 Senate seats in 33 States, while 450 members or tiie House will be elected from 950 candidates, including 18 women, : ml 124 candidates will contest 34 State, for Governorships. It is estimated that the total popular vote will reach 35,000,000. A Chicago message states that the Board of Election Commission, in order to prevent ballot stuffing and other untoward incidents at the pells, is mobilising 15,000 official volunteer watcher.-. 1 to guard the election.

TOTAL VOTE EXPECTED TO REACH 39,000,000 ACTIVE PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN UNUSUALLY KEEN INTEREST IN THE SOUTH United Press Assn, by El. Tel. Copyright 'Australian Press Assooiation.) (Received Nov. 0, 8.-50 p.m.l NEW YORK, Feb. 6. Conservative estimates are based on extraordinarily enrolments, which indicate that the total vote cast will possibly reach 39,000,000, or 10,000,000 liioro than in 1924. It is known that, increased enrolment is duo chiefly to the fact that women ara now participating in tim suffrage about Genially with the men. It is reckoned that only 50 per cent-, of potential female voters exercised the franchise in 1924. The increased female participation is ascribed to greater familiarity with politics, this being only the third Presidential contest wherein they have been able to vote, and. groat interest in the present campaign which has Iveen most strenuously fought since 1912. The “Got Out and Vote” movement this year was, moreover, strikingly successful and in the South, where the elections are usually perfunctory, because they are solidly Democratic, the election this year is a controversial matter,' thus resulting in an augmented enrolment. It is expected that if the weather is good the rural vote will bn unusually large, thus favoring Mr Hoover, because Governor Smith’s strength is avowedly in tho urban areas

UA MPA 1G N Cl )N CL U D E3l. NATION AWAITS POLLING. ODDS OF FIVE TO ONE ON Ml? HOOVER. United Press Assn, by El. Tel. Oopyrighi i Australian Press Assn i (Received Nov. ft, 8.45 p.m.l NEW YORK, Nov. 5 The campaign is over. Nothing is left but the polling, and it is clearly indicated that Mr Hoover will be returned liy a considerable popular and Electoral College majority. It is interesting to note that the bettnui odds have lengthened in the last 21 hours. -The scarcity of Smith money forced the odds to five.to one, Mr Hoover to win. A last-ntiimte definite movement towards Air Hoover is 'clear from the betting alone; Ten days ago considerable money was being wagered at three to one, favoring Mr Hoover. To-day it is rumored that one noted speculator on Wall Street wagered a million dollars to two hundred thousand dollars on Mr Hoover. J.f is disceruable now that the Republican issue of prosperity, Governor Smith’s religion and dissontions in tho Democratic party in the south over the religious and prohibition issues are the chief factors working for Governor Smith’s defeat. fi.VAI, SPEECHES ON RADIO Mr Hoover and Governor Smith made their final speeches to-night over the radio in a last minute appeal to the voters.

I'olitics this year have been brought into every home in the notion by means of the radio, since every speech of importance was broadcast over tiie national “hookup” with 40,01)0,000 Jisteners-in. Governor Smith made nearly „ three times as many addresses' as Mr Hoover. )t is announced that Governor Smith consumed twenty-two and a-half hours on the National Radio, the cost of which to the Democrats was 125,000 dollars. PRESENT PARTY CONTROL IN LEGISLATURE.

Heaths, among members of , Congress during the past fortnight have somewhat changed the position as concerns the present party control tin- the Legislature, and possible changes due to the election. The !Senate has 47 Republicans, 46 Democrats, one Farmcr-Laborite and two Republicans elected, but not seated. Thirty-four Senators will be elected on Tuesday, and the Republicans have a better chance to make gains :<n the Senate, because most of those •States choosing Senators at this election are nominally Republicans. It jis likewise expected that the House control by a considerable majority will also' bo vested in the Republicans, unless the unexpected occurs, and Governor Smith is selected by a landslide that carries with it Democratic officials throughout the nation. ENORMOUS CAMPAIGN EXPENDITURE. The major political bodies have filed returns of campaign expenditure showing that the Republicans .have disbursed 5,030,000 dollars, ami thp Democrats -l/JOO.UUC dollars, the Association against Prohibition 300:0..! * dollars, and the anti-Saloon League '610,000 dollars. These figures, it is estimated, represent only part of the total sums expended on the election bv various groups, since, the campaign funds listed are only those ’which come under the control of the national party heads. It is believed that when the funds spent' for the •Congressional campaign and the thousands of minor'officials throughout the nation who will Ire elected tomorrow are included, the total sum may be five times as great.