HOOVER’S DEFEAT FORECASTED

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 90, 9 November 1932, Page 2

HOOVER’S DEFEAT FORECASTED

UNITED STATES’ ELECTIONS fefctfi-’ Press Association —Copyright New York, Nov. 7.—The United States Presidential campaign, which is regarded by many as the most important since the civil war, ended to-night. To-morrow an army of voters, expected to total 47,000,000, will troop to the polls to choose either Mr. Herbert Hoover (Republican) or Mr. Franklyn D. Roosevelt (Democrat) for policies which the candidates themselves have styled as leading the nation out of the worst depression. In addition, a world-weary electorate must decide scores of referenda and fill the posts of vice-President and Federal Senatorships in 35 States, and members from every State except Maine, to the Federal House of Representatives, governorships in 34 States and lesser officials in 39 States. As the campaign closed to the accompaniment of victory claims by each side, most estimates outside of politics forecast Mr. Hoover’s defeat. Dir. Hoover sped into the Far West on Monday en route to his Paloalto, California, home, firing his final shots at Salt Lake City and Elko, Nevada. Dir Roosevelt motored through his native Hudson Valley, ending with a speech at Poughkeepsie, New York, where he concluded his political campaign of the past 20 years.