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PAGE TWO THE FREEPORT JOURNAL-STANDARD TUESDAY, NOVEMBER LIKELY TO GET LARGEST VOTE EVER GIVEN TO SOCIALIST MIGHT HAVElFLUENCE IN VOTE OF CLOSE STATES In Any Event It Is Not Expected To Reach Any Such Figure as That Cast for LaFollelte (Wantilneton Bnrenii Washington, D. Nev. Some apprehension was evident today in Democratic circles over reports thnt a substantial third party vote may be rolled up on November eighth. As much concern is felt over this prospect ns Is expressed over the effects of the present Hoover speaking campaign, the Democratic leaders believing that recent polls have shown that the acclaimed drift to the Republican side during recent weeks has failed to materialize. May Affect Doubtful States Although no vote similar to the 5.000,000 ballots cast for former Senator LaPollette In 1924 is expected, it was seen as a remote possibility that large totals for the Socialist candidate.

Norman Thomas, In Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin and New York might spell the difference between Democratic victory and defeat. Thomas is also expected to poll sizeable votes in such west north central states as Nebraska and Iowa, although not enough to make any difference. While expecting to hold the decided advantage they are believed to have despite the prospect of an increased third party vote, the Democrats were avoiding over-confidence this week by intensifying the local campaign in those states which might be seriously affected by the unexpected third-party defection. Hard to Tell There has been no way to estimate the strength of a possible desertion of the two old parties, as there always has beeii a practical impossibility to judge in advance the full effect of a third party move in a national election In the tTnited States. On the basis of recent polls, such as the Literary Digest poll, the Socialists, almlttedly the strongest and most dangerous minority faction, have been polling less than five per cent of the total vote, a margin which the Democrats consider safe for the party's success.

If this percentage is proved out in November, the Socialist ticket will receive less than 2,000,000, substantially below the number the LaFollette Progressive faction was given eight years ago when the Republican regular candidate, President Coolldge, was chosen despite defections in his party. Strength Lies in Industrial Centers The only Indications that the Socialist vote may exceed the figure indicated in the Digest poll has been reports from large industrial cities in the east and central mid- west, where local tabulations have shown a strong leaning toward Thomas. The socialist candidate has recently completed an extended speaking trip which carried him into these cities, where reports show he was given an excellent reception. Although such reports Indicate the Democrats may lose a part of the vote 'of the dissatisfied elements in the industrial centers, the Roosevelt leaders are confident that such losses will be offset by the overwhelming Roosevelt sentiment among the old-line Progressives in the Middle Western states, those thousands of voters who stood with Fighting Bob LaFollette in 1924. During the present campaign two sons of Fighting Bob and his closest comrades in the senate, Senator Norris of Nebraska and Senator wheeler of Montana, have openly declared for the Democratic ticket, and are making every effort to swing their personal strength to that side.

With a number of issues missing in this campaign which were effective In 1928, there is no doubt that the efforts of the LaPol- lettes and the Norrlses will be far more successful this year than they were during the last presidential campaign. Expected to Offset Defection to Socialists The tremendous support evident since the beginning of the campaign for Roosevelt in the rural sections of Illinois, Ohio, and states farther west is counted upon to offset the possibility of an unexpected third-party vote. Although the Hoover campaign this week is directed toward returning these disgruntled Republican farmers and small business men to the Republican told, the Democrats are extremely doubtful whether even this strong o. O. P.

appeal could change the situation during the few remaining days of the campaign. There Is of course no fear from either major party that the vote for uny other ticket in the field besides the Thomas ticket will have material effect in changing the ultimate results, it is considered possible that votes by rabid drys for the prohibition ticket, headed by former Rep. William D. Upshaw, of Georgia, might cause a decreased Republican vote in the southern states carried by the Republicans in 1928. The Republicans are considered by the Democrats, however, to have conceded these states.

PRICE Opposing Candidates Far Stated Attorney LOUIS F. REINHOLD The Democratic candidate for stale's attorney of Stephenson county is Louis F. Relnhold, who now holds that position. Mr. Reinhold is a native of Freeport.

He attended Freeport high school, graduating with the class of 1910 and completed his studies at the University of Wisconsin. HARRY WHEAT Harry E. Wheat is the Republican candidate for that office. Mr. Wheat is also a native of this city.

He graduated from Freeport high school and likewise graduated from Beloit college. He studied law In local law offices and for the past few years has been a member of the legal firm of Green and Wheat. BUI ll'S NO CONGRESSIONAL BATTLE IS EXPECTED OVER CASH PAYMENT QUESTION KEPT ALIVE BY CAMPAIGNING CANDIDATES Neither of Major Party Standard Bearers Wishes to Espouse Measure GRAIN REPORTS CHEER PEOPLE OF BRITAIN London, Nov. adverse impression created by the British agricultural statistics for 1931, issued by the ministry of Agriculture, showing a continued decline in crop acreages and disappointing yields generally, is somewhat offset by hopeful grain reports for this year. The weather has treated the north of England well and crops are of good bulk and quality.

The south of England and Scotland have both suffered storms, torrential rain, and wind, however, and the corn crops have been harmed. Most grain crops are particularly good in the north, with more land than usual under wheat, but oats is disappointing. Only Cumberland and Westmoreland appear to good crops. Grass and hay have flourished in Derbyshire, with beans also doing excently. Potatoes have yielded well, with an increase in acreage of some 51,000 acres' in England and Wales.

The bigger planting, undoubtedly was made in the hope of some measure of "protection." and the duty of £1 a ton against foreign potatoes has been welcomed by the growers here. Underground canals extend more than 400 miles under the streets of Hamburg and Munich, Germany. BY RODNEY DUTCMER NBA Service Writer Washington, Nov. cash bonus, bugbear of the last two congresses, has become for the time a mere political football. President Hoover kicked it into Governor Roosevelt's territory and the Democratic candidate kicked it weak, off-side kick, if you ask the Republicans.

Neither of the candidates and neither of the parties wish to espouse it, although It figures in various congressional contests where members are capitalizing or defending their vote on the question at the last session. The bill to pay off $2,300,000,000 on the soldiers' adjusted compensation certificates failed to pass the present congress and it Is inconceivable that It can pass the same congress at Its forthcoming short session. It Is little more likely to be passed over a presidential veto in the next congress. Forced Roosevelt Statement The situation in the presidential campaign is that President Hoover, through his emphatic denunciation of the proposal and his administration's eviction of the bonus army from Washington, has lost most of the veteran vote. The Democrats are willing enough to benefit by the acquisition, but they found Hoover and his orators reminding the country that a Democratic house had passed the bonus and continually prodding Roosevelt for a statement of his position, If he kept silent, they could continue frightening the conservative business interests and the overburdened taxpayers.

If -he spoke up and opposed cash he was certain to do if he spoke at in turn would antagonize the veterans. Roosevelt finally declared himself, briefly and as shrewdly as possible: "I do not see how, as a matter of practical sense, a government running behind two billion dollars annually can consider the anticipation of a bonus payment until it has a balanced not only on paper but with a surplus in the That statement sent few vets scurrying back into the arms ol Hoover. But It still leaves the Republicans able to declare thai Roosevelt is evasive and to suggesl that he may yet be willing to pay out the $2,300,000,000. Nobody knows when there will be a treasury surplus again. One Big Objection Neither Roosevelt nor any other orator of the past few weeks has been dwelling on the merits of immediate cash payment, aside from the fact that it would be likely to wreck the national credit.

But as against the attitude of the veterans that "it's our back pay and we need it now," there is the facl that the government has no more obligation to cash the veterans certificates-before 1945 than an insurance company would have to pay the maturity value of.a semi-matured endowment policy. Each certificate is a. sort of 20-year-endowmeni policy. The face value averaging $1000, which is to be sharpTy distinguished from the "present will be attained in 1945 through the method adopted by congress In 192 of crediting each veteran with $1 a day for home service and $1.25 a day for overseas service, adding 25 per cent for that sum to compensate for the wait until 1945 anc compounding annual interest at per cent for the 20 years, Congrcs appropriates $112,000,000 annually which, with Interest, will have created the necessary fund for payment in 1945. Prepayment now, the administration holds, would give the eiJCED IN ELGIN Elgin, 111., Nov.

Milk sold here today to a reduction of two a quart. The new price is eight cents a quart. Pines were reduced lo five cents, a cut of one cent. Coffee cream sold at 12 cents a half pint, instead of cents, and whipping cream at 18 cents a half pint, Instead of 20 cents. The three largest dealers in Elgin announced the savings.

They are supplied by members of the Pure Milk association. BIG REPUBLICAN RALLY I. 0. O. F.

Hall Freeport Nov. 3,8 p. m. HEAR EX-GOVERNOR EBERHARDT OF MINNESOTA He Has a Special Message for the Farmer and JUDGE FRANKLIN J. STRANSKY Chairman of Republican State Committee.

Ex-Gov, Eberhardt is an orator and a lecturer of nation wide renown, Years ago he spoke in Freeport at Chautauqua. Those who heard him will want to hear him again. He four speeches in Illinois. Freeport it fortunate in securing one of them. Judge Stransky formerly held court in this judicial district and is well informed on state issues.

There will not be a dull minute during the program. HKPL'BUCAN COUNTY CENTRAL COMMITTEE. HEAVY SOCIALIST VOTE EXPECTED Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for president. Though Norman Thomas, Socialist Intellectual and former Presbyterian minister, entered the 1932 race for the presidency without any serious hopes of victory, he was Norman Thoinna confident from the outset that he would poll the largest vote of any Socialist candidate in the nation's history. Here Is the record of the Socialist presidential vote in the past 32 years: 94,761 402,400 420,820 897,111 515,813 .919,799 supported LaFollette 267,420 Thomas was born 48 years ago at Marion, Ohio.

After graduation from Princeton he took up social service work and served as assistant pastor in large Presbyterian churches in New York city. In 1918 he withdrew from the ministry to devote al Ihls time to social and anti-war activities. veterans $1,600,000 more than contemplated in the bonus act. No Definite Results Among members defeated In the primaries, the proportion of those who voted for the bonus is even higher than of those who opposed it. Of 211 house members who voted for the bill 24 have been retired by the voters and nine voluntarily retired from congress, while of the 173 who voted nay 14 were defeated in the primaries and 13 were not candidates for either house.

Of course some of those who retired felt they couldn't be renominated and reelected; the combined group includes 33 yeas and 27 nays and to the latter group might be added five whose votes were not recorded. The election results will show larger mortality figures Jn both groups, but there are so many other factors serving to defeat the "ins" this year that there will be few congressmen who cart, be said definitely to have been defeated by their anti-bonus vote. Meanwhile, as Republicans attack the "Democratic house." foi? passing the bonus bill last session, it is also recalled that the previous "Republican house" also passed a bonus bill. In the last session, however, there were 152 Democrats and only 56 Republicans counted for the bill, as compared with 61 Democrats and 125 Republicans against. An Allied Problem The size of the senate majority against the bonus and the fact that veteran organizations probably will have their hands full this winter in fighting an attempt to cut veterans' appropriations are the chief reasons why hardly anyone anticipates another bonus battle in the seventy-second congress.

The senate killed the bonus by a vote of 62 to 18. The thought of an early turnover sufficient for the two-thirds vote required to override a presidential veto is obviously fantastic. The bonus has had a way of popping up and becoming a blazing issue after it was supposed to have been burled, but lobbyists for the veterans here are pessimistic as to its prospects in the near future. The major veterans' Issue this winter Is more likely to arise from the program of the National Economy league'and the U. S.

chamber of commerce for a cut in veteran appropriations of from $400,000,000 to $450,000,000. The drive for economy will be hotter than ever and the expenditure of nearly a billion dollars a year for veterans becomes an increasingly obvious target. PROPOSITION TO AMEND STATE BANKING LAW TO BE VOTED ON NOV. 8 One of the questions of public policy to be voted on Nov. 8.

will be the proposed amendment to the state banking law. The purpose of the proposed change is to allow receivers of closed banks to borrow money, pledging the assess of such bank as security therefor, for fa-, cilitating liquidation, protecting or preserving the assets, expediting the making of distributions to depositors and other creditors, providing for the expense of administration and liquidation, aiding in the reopening or reorganization of such bank or its merger or consolidation with another bank, or in the sale of its assets. No money can be borrowed until approval of the circuit court of the county in which the bank is situated or the judge thereof in vacation is secured, after a hearing before the court or judge. This proposition, like the so-called gateway amendment to the constitution will require a majority of all votes cast in the election in order to be adopted. Nemesis was the Greek goddess of retribution.

Rivals for Congress Thirteenth District LEO E. ALLEN Leo E. Allen, Galena, is the Republican candidate for 'representative In congress, thirteenth district. Mr. Allen is now serving as clerk of the circuit court of Jo Davless county and will complete his term the first Monday of next December.

ORESTES H. WRIGHT The Democratic candidate Is Orestes H. Wright, Lancaster township. Mr. Wright is a native of JPreeport and a son of the late William O.

Wright, for many years one of Freeport's prominent merchants. For the past several years he has resided at what is known as "Home Acres," a few miles east of Freeport. BOTH ttoovEtt AND ROOSEVELT UTILIZE SERVICES Of ASSISTANTS (Copyright, 1932, by the United Press) Behind the thousands of words with which President Hoover and his Democratic rival, Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, are bombarding one another, are hours of intense labor.

President Hoover prepares his speeches in the Lincoln study at the white house. He revises and edits a dozen times and works early and late. Roosevelt writes his In long hand, but occasionally dictates. He prepares his speeches only three or four days in advance of delivery. The following stories tell how each candidate works.

Herbert Hoover He revises, edits, rewrites, and then revises some more. He is never satisfied. Up to the very last moment when he is actually on the platform, he Is likely to make a change of a word or a phrase. Washington correspondents call him the world's champion reviser. Mostly, he prepares his speeches In the Lincoln study of the white house.

His immediate assistant is French Strother, editor, author, and novelist, who develops. ideas given him by the president. They are typed and given back to Mr. Hoover who gets to work on them with a blue pencil. He takes his ideas from everyone he talks to about the subjects he wants" to discuss.

Secretary of Treasury Mills and Postmaster General Brown sometimes suggest sub- jects, but other members of cabinet merely answer the the president asks them. He works on his speeches early afid late, fiven on the train Iflf him to the place of address, he is still revising and editing. Because of this, his speeches often are late in being delivered to the press. Franklin to, Roosevelt! Polished sentences and concise fihrases come readily to him, befs of his "brain Raymond Moley, Columbia slty, A. A.

fierle, also of Columbia, New York state supreme court Justice Samuel Rosenman, and United States Senator Key up material and give advice on political and economic questions. The actual writing he does himself. Many of his addresses are written in long hand, stenographers gel- ting this rough copy for typing. The typewritten copy he edits b'ut revises very little. Sometimes he will rewrite the entire speech.

Oftentimes he dictates, but his friends believe his long hand speeches art best. He Is a hard worker, often work- Ing until the early hours. He usually begins preparation of a speech three or four days before delivery. He likes to keep his speeches to himself until the last minute, to give himself the advantage of bringing answers to political opponents up to the last minute. His "brain trust" resent any implication that they write his speeches.

They submit their reports in writing, and he combines them in Roosevcltlan style. Sometimes he lifts a paragraph or two but never more. ILLINOIS CENTENARIAN DIES Morris, 111., Nov. hundred years old last February, Mrs. Mary Brusrtlgham, formerly of Ottawa and Jollet, died Monday at her home, four miles west of Gardner.

'She Is survived by 21 grandchildren, and 26 great grand-children. She was born In County Clare. Ireland, and came to the United States when 24. For the last 30 years she had lived in Gardner. QUALITY SERVICE SATISFACTION Clearing Sale AT Milady's Hat Box Those who know values will astonished at the HATS we have this week at our Clearance Sale.

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