ing weeks of intensive campaigning will be furnished tomorrow by the voters.

Sweeping claims of victory continued to come today from the rival camps - Republican and Democratic, wet and dry - but the key to the great biennial election puzzle rested with the millions who had manifested few outward signs of interest and given little hint of how they might be expected to vote.

The big prize in the election from the national party standpoint - the control of the Seventieth Congress - was claimed by both sides, with many Democratic managers confident that they had better than a fighting chance to control at least the Senate, and with the Republicans apparently equally as confident that any threat of such a result had been removed. State Issues Mixed.

Issues in the State campaigns had become so badly mixed that national party managers did not undertake to make any general estimates.

Interest in such campaigns naturally centered in New York, where Gov. Smith is waging a fifth battle for election; in Maryland, where Gov. Ritchie's tenure as chief executive is at stake, and in Ohio, where another Democratic presidential candidate possibility might emerge - Gov. Vic Donahey.

While locking horns in many senatorial and congressional battles, the wet and dry leaders had their eyes focused on eight States in which the question of prohibition was to come to a direct vote on repeal of State codes or on some other form of the wet-and-dry problem. These States are New York, Illinois, Wisconsin, Colorado, California, Nevada, Missouri and Montana.

Behind all of the claims of victory from the hostile camps there appeared a certain apprehension resulting from reports from political canvassers in various sections describing a state of public mind concerning the election that might be interpreted as little short of apathy. President Appeals for Vote.

Partisan and non-partisan campaign organizations have joined in last-minute drives to get out the vote, to which President Coolidge has added his voice through an appeal to his fellow citizens to exercise their suffrage, and to stimulate the movement to the polls Mr. Coolidge will go to his home town, Northampton, Mass., to cast his vote. Hopes of the Democratic managers to obtain a majority of the new Senate are pinned to contests in 16 States where they have concentrated the bulk of their effort in the senatorial campaign. These States are: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, which is to elect two Senators; Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah and Washington.

Seats in dispute in all of these States are held by Republicans, and while the Democrats express confidence in obtaining the necessary nine to give them control of the Senate, Republican leaders assert that with few exceptions these 16 States are normally Republican and can be expected to remain so this year.

To capture the House the Democrats must overturn the Republicans in 36 districts. Some Democratic managers assert this will be done, predicting a Democratic landslide, but the G. O. P. managers practically dismiss this as a rather idle dream indulged in by their opponents.

In approaching the polls to register their final conclusions from the campaign the voters have to consider a maze of issues - National, State and local - for out of all of the weeks and months of the battle there has emerged no great National question which might be expected to swing the pendulum to popular decision.

Some of the old National issues have been reburnished for the campaign, but the real issues have been local, or at least have been made local. Prohibition and the World Court once gave promise of furnishing real campaign material, but the National party leaders have been silent on them, for candidates in each party were split on both questions.

In some States disclosures before the Senate campaign funds committee furnished the fighting points. Purity in elections became an issue in Pennsylvania as a result of the huge expenditures on behalf of Senator Pepper and William S. Vare. Prohibition Important Issue.

Public utilities campaign contributions started a row in Illinois which eventually led President Coolidge to declare a neutral attitude, but in that State, as in Pennsylvania, the wet-and-dry issue formed the real basis for the campaigning.

Prohibition also was a foremost question in the Massachusetts contest, in which President Coolidge's personal friend, Senator Butler, whom he chose to conduct his campaign for the presidency two years ago, is a candidate against former Senator David I. Walsh.

In Indiana, where both Senators Watson and Robinson are seeking reelection, charges of a corrupt Republican-Ku Klux Klan deal and of Klan control of politics created an eleventh-hour ruckus, with charges and denials flying in almost all directions.

Besides the 32 seats in the new Senate involved in this election, there are four in the present Senate - one for Indiana, one for Missouri, one for Massachusetts and one for Iowa. Senators Robinson, Indiana; Williams, Missouri, and Butler, Massachusetts, seek popular approval of their appointment by the governors of their States, while David W. Stewart, Republican, is unopposed for the seat left vacant by the death of Senator Albert B. Cummins.

ing weeks of intensive campaigning will be furnished tomorrow by the voters.

Sweeping claims of victory continued to come today from the rival camps - Republican and Democratic, wet and dry - but the key to the great biennial election puzzle rested with the millions who had manifested few outward signs of interest and given little hint of how they might be expected to vote.

The big prize in the election from the national party standpoint - the control of the Seventieth Congress - was claimed by both sides, with many Democratic managers confident that they had better than a fighting chance to control at least the Senate, and with the Republicans apparently equally as confident that any threat of such a result had been removed. State Issues Mixed.

Issues in the State campaigns had become so badly mixed that national party managers did not undertake to make any general estimates.

Interest in such campaigns naturally centered in New York, where Gov. Smith is waging a fifth battle for election; in Maryland, where Gov. Ritchie's tenure as chief executive is at stake, and in Ohio, where another Democratic presidential candidate possibility might emerge - Gov. Vic Donahey.

While locking horns in many senatorial and congressional battles, the wet and dry leaders had their eyes focused on eight States in which the question of prohibition was to come to a direct vote on repeal of State codes or on some other form of the wet-and-dry problem. These States are New York, Illinois, Wisconsin, Colorado, California, Nevada, Missouri and Montana.

Behind all of the claims of victory from the hostile camps there appeared a certain apprehension resulting from reports from political canvassers in various sections describing a state of public mind concerning the election that might be interpreted as little short of apathy. President Appeals for Vote.

Partisan and non-partisan campaign organizations have joined in last-minute drives to get out the vote, to which President Coolidge has added his voice through an appeal to his fellow citizens to exercise their suffrage, and to stimulate the movement to the polls Mr. Coolidge will go to his home town, Northampton, Mass., to cast his vote. Hopes of the Democratic managers to obtain a majority of the new Senate are pinned to contests in 16 States where they have concentrated the bulk of their effort in the senatorial campaign. These States are: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, which is to elect two Senators; Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah and Washington.

Seats in dispute in all of these States are held by Republicans, and while the Democrats express confidence in obtaining the necessary nine to give them control of the Senate, Republican leaders assert that with few exceptions these 16 States are normally Republican and can be expected to remain so this year.

To capture the House the Democrats must overturn the Republicans in 36 districts. Some Democratic managers assert this will be done, predicting a Democratic landslide, but the G. O. P. managers practically dismiss this as a rather idle dream indulged in by their opponents.

In approaching the polls to register their final conclusions from the campaign the voters have to consider a maze of issues - National, State and local - for out of all of the weeks and months of the battle there has emerged no great National question which might be expected to swing the pendulum to popular decision.

Some of the old National issues have been reburnished for the campaign, but the real issues have been local, or at least have been made local. Prohibition and the World Court once gave promise of furnishing real campaign material, but the National party leaders have been silent on them, for candidates in each party were split on both questions.

In some States disclosures before the Senate campaign funds committee furnished the fighting points. Purity in elections became an issue in Pennsylvania as a result of the huge expenditures on behalf of Senator Pepper and William S. Vare. Prohibition Important Issue.

Public utilities campaign contributions started a row in Illinois which eventually led President Coolidge to declare a neutral attitude, but in that State, as in Pennsylvania, the wet-and-dry issue formed the real basis for the campaigning.

Prohibition also was a foremost question in the Massachusetts contest, in which President Coolidge's personal friend, Senator Butler, whom he chose to conduct his campaign for the presidency two years ago, is a candidate against former Senator David I. Walsh.

In Indiana, where both Senators Watson and Robinson are seeking reelection, charges of a corrupt Republican-Ku Klux Klan deal and of Klan control of politics created an eleventh-hour ruckus, with charges and denials flying in almost all directions.

Besides the 32 seats in the new Senate involved in this election, there are four in the present Senate - one for Indiana, one for Missouri, one for Massachusetts and one for Iowa. Senators Robinson, Indiana; Williams, Missouri, and Butler, Massachusetts, seek popular approval of their appointment by the governors of their States, while David W. Stewart, Republican, is unopposed for the seat left vacant by the death of Senator Albert B. Cummins.

ing weeks of intensive campaigning will be furnished tomorrow by the voters.

Sweeping claims of victory continued to come today from the rival camps - Republican and Democratic, wet and dry - but the key to the great biennial election puzzle rested with the millions who had manifested few outward signs of interest and given little hint of how they might be expected to vote.

The big prize in the election from the national party standpoint - the control of the Seventieth Congress - was claimed by both sides, with many Democratic managers confident that they had better than a fighting chance to control at least the Senate, and with the Republicans apparently equally as confident that any threat of such a result had been removed. State Issues Mixed.

Issues in the State campaigns had become so badly mixed that national party managers did not undertake to make any general estimates.

Interest in such campaigns naturally centered in New York, where Gov. Smith is waging a fifth battle for election; in Maryland, where Gov. Ritchie's tenure as chief executive is at stake, and in Ohio, where another Democratic presidential candidate possibility might emerge - Gov. Vic Donahey.

While locking horns in many senatorial and congressional battles, the wet and dry leaders had their eyes focused on eight States in which the question of prohibition was to come to a direct vote on repeal of State codes or on some other form of the wet-and-dry problem. These States are New York, Illinois, Wisconsin, Colorado, California, Nevada, Missouri and Montana.

Behind all of the claims of victory from the hostile camps there appeared a certain apprehension resulting from reports from political canvassers in various sections describing a state of public mind concerning the election that might be interpreted as little short of apathy. President Appeals for Vote.

Partisan and non-partisan campaign organizations have joined in last-minute drives to get out the vote, to which President Coolidge has added his voice through an appeal to his fellow citizens to exercise their suffrage, and to stimulate the movement to the polls Mr. Coolidge will go to his home town, Northampton, Mass., to cast his vote. Hopes of the Democratic managers to obtain a majority of the new Senate are pinned to contests in 16 States where they have concentrated the bulk of their effort in the senatorial campaign. These States are: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, which is to elect two Senators; Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah and Washington.

Seats in dispute in all of these States are held by Republicans, and while the Democrats express confidence in obtaining the necessary nine to give them control of the Senate, Republican leaders assert that with few exceptions these 16 States are normally Republican and can be expected to remain so this year.

To capture the House the Democrats must overturn the Republicans in 36 districts. Some Democratic managers assert this will be done, predicting a Democratic landslide, but the G. O. P. managers practically dismiss this as a rather idle dream indulged in by their opponents.

In approaching the polls to register their final conclusions from the campaign the voters have to consider a maze of issues - National, State and local - for out of all of the weeks and months of the battle there has emerged no great National question which might be expected to swing the pendulum to popular decision.

Some of the old National issues have been reburnished for the campaign, but the real issues have been local, or at least have been made local. Prohibition and the World Court once gave promise of furnishing real campaign material, but the National party leaders have been silent on them, for candidates in each party were split on both questions.

In some States disclosures before the Senate campaign funds committee furnished the fighting points. Purity in elections became an issue in Pennsylvania as a result of the huge expenditures on behalf of Senator Pepper and William S. Vare. Prohibition Important Issue.

Public utilities campaign contributions started a row in Illinois which eventually led President Coolidge to declare a neutral attitude, but in that State, as in Pennsylvania, the wet-and-dry issue formed the real basis for the campaigning.

Prohibition also was a foremost question in the Massachusetts contest, in which President Coolidge's personal friend, Senator Butler, whom he chose to conduct his campaign for the presidency two years ago, is a candidate against former Senator David I. Walsh.

In Indiana, where both Senators Watson and Robinson are seeking reelection, charges of a corrupt Republican-Ku Klux Klan deal and of Klan control of politics created an eleventh-hour ruckus, with charges and denials flying in almost all directions.

Besides the 32 seats in the new Senate involved in this election, there are four in the present Senate - one for Indiana, one for Missouri, one for Massachusetts and one for Iowa. Senators Robinson, Indiana; Williams, Missouri, and Butler, Massachusetts, seek popular approval of their appointment by the governors of their States, while David W. Stewart, Republican, is unopposed for the seat left vacant by the death of Senator Albert B. Cummins.

ing weeks of intensive campaigning will be furnished tomorrow by the voters.

Sweeping claims of victory continued to come today from the rival camps - Republican and Democratic, wet and dry - but the key to the great biennial election puzzle rested with the millions who had manifested few outward signs of interest and given little hint of how they might be expected to vote.

The big prize in the election from the national party standpoint - the control of the Seventieth Congress - was claimed by both sides, with many Democratic managers confident that they had better than a fighting chance to control at least the Senate, and with the Republicans apparently equally as confident that any threat of such a result had been removed. State Issues Mixed.

Issues in the State campaigns had become so badly mixed that national party managers did not undertake to make any general estimates.

Interest in such campaigns naturally centered in New York, where Gov. Smith is waging a fifth battle for election; in Maryland, where Gov. Ritchie's tenure as chief executive is at stake, and in Ohio, where another Democratic presidential candidate possibility might emerge - Gov. Vic Donahey.

While locking horns in many senatorial and congressional battles, the wet and dry leaders had their eyes focused on eight States in which the question of prohibition was to come to a direct vote on repeal of State codes or on some other form of the wet-and-dry problem. These States are New York, Illinois, Wisconsin, Colorado, California, Nevada, Missouri and Montana.

Behind all of the claims of victory from the hostile camps there appeared a certain apprehension resulting from reports from political canvassers in various sections describing a state of public mind concerning the election that might be interpreted as little short of apathy. President Appeals for Vote.

Partisan and non-partisan campaign organizations have joined in last-minute drives to get out the vote, to which President Coolidge has added his voice through an appeal to his fellow citizens to exercise their suffrage, and to stimulate the movement to the polls Mr. Coolidge will go to his home town, Northampton, Mass., to cast his vote. Hopes of the Democratic managers to obtain a majority of the new Senate are pinned to contests in 16 States where they have concentrated the bulk of their effort in the senatorial campaign. These States are: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, which is to elect two Senators; Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah and Washington.

Seats in dispute in all of these States are held by Republicans, and while the Democrats express confidence in obtaining the necessary nine to give them control of the Senate, Republican leaders assert that with few exceptions these 16 States are normally Republican and can be expected to remain so this year.

To capture the House the Democrats must overturn the Republicans in 36 districts. Some Democratic managers assert this will be done, predicting a Democratic landslide, but the G. O. P. managers practically dismiss this as a rather idle dream indulged in by their opponents.

In approaching the polls to register their final conclusions from the campaign the voters have to consider a maze of issues - National, State and local - for out of all of the weeks and months of the battle there has emerged no great National question which might be expected to swing the pendulum to popular decision.

Some of the old National issues have been reburnished for the campaign, but the real issues have been local, or at least have been made local. Prohibition and the World Court once gave promise of furnishing real campaign material, but the National party leaders have been silent on them, for candidates in each party were split on both questions.

In some States disclosures before the Senate campaign funds committee furnished the fighting points. Purity in elections became an issue in Pennsylvania as a result of the huge expenditures on behalf of Senator Pepper and William S. Vare. Prohibition Important Issue.

Public utilities campaign contributions started a row in Illinois which eventually led President Coolidge to declare a neutral attitude, but in that State, as in Pennsylvania, the wet-and-dry issue formed the real basis for the campaigning.

Prohibition also was a foremost question in the Massachusetts contest, in which President Coolidge's personal friend, Senator Butler, whom he chose to conduct his campaign for the presidency two years ago, is a candidate against former Senator David I. Walsh.

In Indiana, where both Senators Watson and Robinson are seeking reelection, charges of a corrupt Republican-Ku Klux Klan deal and of Klan control of politics created an eleventh-hour ruckus, with charges and denials flying in almost all directions.

Besides the 32 seats in the new Senate involved in this election, there are four in the present Senate - one for Indiana, one for Missouri, one for Massachusetts and one for Iowa. Senators Robinson, Indiana; Williams, Missouri, and Butler, Massachusetts, seek popular approval of their appointment by the governors of their States, while David W. Stewart, Republican, is unopposed for the seat left vacant by the death of Senator Albert B. Cummins.

ing weeks of intensive campaigning will be furnished tomorrow by the voters.

Sweeping claims of victory continued to come today from the rival camps - Republican and Democratic, wet and dry - but the key to the great biennial election puzzle rested with the millions who had manifested few outward signs of interest and given little hint of how they might be expected to vote.

The big prize in the election from the national party standpoint - the control of the Seventieth Congress - was claimed by both sides, with many Democratic managers confident that they had better than a fighting chance to control at least the Senate, and with the Republicans apparently equally as confident that any threat of such a result had been removed. State Issues Mixed.

Issues in the State campaigns had become so badly mixed that national party managers did not undertake to make any general estimates.

Interest in such campaigns naturally centered in New York, where Gov. Smith is waging a fifth battle for election; in Maryland, where Gov. Ritchie's tenure as chief executive is at stake, and in Ohio, where another Democratic presidential candidate possibility might emerge - Gov. Vic Donahey.

While locking horns in many senatorial and congressional battles, the wet and dry leaders had their eyes focused on eight States in which the question of prohibition was to come to a direct vote on repeal of State codes or on some other form of the wet-and-dry problem. These States are New York, Illinois, Wisconsin, Colorado, California, Nevada, Missouri and Montana.

Behind all of the claims of victory from the hostile camps there appeared a certain apprehension resulting from reports from political canvassers in various sections describing a state of public mind concerning the election that might be interpreted as little short of apathy. President Appeals for Vote.

Partisan and non-partisan campaign organizations have joined in last-minute drives to get out the vote, to which President Coolidge has added his voice through an appeal to his fellow citizens to exercise their suffrage, and to stimulate the movement to the polls Mr. Coolidge will go to his home town, Northampton, Mass., to cast his vote. Hopes of the Democratic managers to obtain a majority of the new Senate are pinned to contests in 16 States where they have concentrated the bulk of their effort in the senatorial campaign. These States are: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, which is to elect two Senators; Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah and Washington.

Seats in dispute in all of these States are held by Republicans, and while the Democrats express confidence in obtaining the necessary nine to give them control of the Senate, Republican leaders assert that with few exceptions these 16 States are normally Republican and can be expected to remain so this year.

To capture the House the Democrats must overturn the Republicans in 36 districts. Some Democratic managers assert this will be done, predicting a Democratic landslide, but the G. O. P. managers practically dismiss this as a rather idle dream indulged in by their opponents.

In approaching the polls to register their final conclusions from the campaign the voters have to consider a maze of issues - National, State and local - for out of all of the weeks and months of the battle there has emerged no great National question which might be expected to swing the pendulum to popular decision.

Some of the old National issues have been reburnished for the campaign, but the real issues have been local, or at least have been made local. Prohibition and the World Court once gave promise of furnishing real campaign material, but the National party leaders have been silent on them, for candidates in each party were split on both questions.

In some States disclosures before the Senate campaign funds committee furnished the fighting points. Purity in elections became an issue in Pennsylvania as a result of the huge expenditures on behalf of Senator Pepper and William S. Vare. Prohibition Important Issue.

Public utilities campaign contributions started a row in Illinois which eventually led President Coolidge to declare a neutral attitude, but in that State, as in Pennsylvania, the wet-and-dry issue formed the real basis for the campaigning.

Prohibition also was a foremost question in the Massachusetts contest, in which President Coolidge's personal friend, Senator Butler, whom he chose to conduct his campaign for the presidency two years ago, is a candidate against former Senator David I. Walsh.

In Indiana, where both Senators Watson and Robinson are seeking reelection, charges of a corrupt Republican-Ku Klux Klan deal and of Klan control of politics created an eleventh-hour ruckus, with charges and denials flying in almost all directions.

Besides the 32 seats in the new Senate involved in this election, there are four in the present Senate - one for Indiana, one for Missouri, one for Massachusetts and one for Iowa. Senators Robinson, Indiana; Williams, Missouri, and Butler, Massachusetts, seek popular approval of their appointment by the governors of their States, while David W. Stewart, Republican, is unopposed for the seat left vacant by the death of Senator Albert B. Cummins.