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Show 9 1 BIG GUNS BOOM I FOR POSSESSION I OE OHIO VOTE Rush Also Made to Elect Senators Sen-ators in Other Doubtful States EACH CHAIRMAN IS . ! PREDICTING SUCCESS Socialists Claim Their Party Will Poil Three Million Votes NEW YORK. Nov 1 With J opening of the polls loss than twenty-four twenty-four hour-, away both Republican and H i'.mocratic headquarters early today H i -onfUlehtK took up the stride which cSrtv them to the finish of tbe H -idcjtial conteyt tomorrow. B "Cox (and Roosevelt will win." de- B lared GeorKC White. Democratic na- JBV chairman HBBj Will H. Hays, leader of the Repub- HBpJ llean forceat translated his expecta- tions Into figures, expressinlg the con- BVBl victlon that Harding wll have no less HBVJ than 368 probably 395 electoral HBV votes out of the possble 331. The num- HVHl ber of electoral votes necessary to elect Is . . J DOUBTUT, STATES Interest In the last day of the grca: fight renters In the final, desperat 1 H attempt to bring over the "doubtful H states with lurge elertoral votes to de- H liver or to eave United States senatori H in other doubtful states whore the H electoral oe not vlarge -nough lo Ve Indispensable. Th s&Ueo eiamp! of stales in the first category is Ohio H liome state of the two principal- can- H didate. with 2i rotes, while the out- H standing case Lh second class, is H Nevada with onlv three. H Other states when the eleventh hour H contest is intense with both partie H inpilne ,,f success are Arizona, Ktn- H tucky, Maryland. New Mexico, Tennes H North Carolina, and Oklahoma. H All these, as well as the buckeye state. H are claimed by both Republicans and H Second only in interest to the out- H come of the voting is the subject "what H will the women do?" LH WOMEN VOTERS Leaders of both major parties dls- claim possession of advance informa- H tion on what is to be expected of the new . lass of voters exercising then franchise in all the states for the first time H Speculation in ordinarily well-in- H formed political circles centers about H the commercial proportion of women H 'who will vote tomorrow in comparison H with the male vote, sectloual distriEu- tion of the women's vote, and the pos- H Nihility of its being as a whole lnde- Pndcnt enough to overturn tables of H 'election probabilities compiled over a period of years In which certain states I have been "normally' inclined lo one H ; political faith or the other. sin Ml isr CLAIMS The Socialist party has made claims H 'for the largest proportionate women's H vote.' With the new voters properly H ; be longing to the party added to nor.- H 'Socialists who, they say, will vote the H j ticket In protest asalnst the imprison- 'ment of the party's presdentlal nomi- H Eugene V Debs, the Socialists H 1 predict a vote of at least C.mOO.000 In 1916 the Socialist vote was l?ss than GOO.QOU. If any of the six national parties start out to break electoral college rex ords tomorrow they must aim at that H leet up in tbe election of 1912 by Presi-dent Presi-dent Wilson. His majority of 3oi wa-the wa-the greatest in the record of Alherii elections. H oO iSBsssTi |