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Show BOSTON POLK STRIKE IS ISSUE IT BALLOT BOX Gubernatorial Contest Reflects Re-flects Recent Trouble ; Coolidge Asks Reelection. Elections Elsewhere Tomorrow; Tomor-row; No National Questions Ques-tions Involved in Results. (By Universal Service.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 2. Although there are no rational questions directly involved in Tuesday's elections, several of the contests have attracted nationwide nation-wide attention. This Is especially true of the Massachusetts gubernatorial contest, con-test, in which the recent strike of the Boston police has been made the principal prin-cipal issue, with tho result, that party lines have been almost eliminated. Gov- . ernor Galvin Coolidge, Republican, who is a candidate for re-election, has sustained sus-tained the police eomnilsslonor of Boston i in the dismissal of the 600 or more policemen police-men who joined the strike. Richard H. Long, the Democratic candidate, on the other hand, is pledged to reinstate the dismissed policemen and remove the police po-lice commissioner. The attitude of organized labor in the Massachusetts contest is problematical. An atlempt by the Democrats to align the labor vote against Governor Coolidge has not met with any enthusiastic response, re-sponse, mainly because the governor signed the 4S-hour bill this year, and has always had a good labor record. The close of ' the campaign finds both sides confident, but there is little betting on the result. Prohibition an Issue. Prohibition will be an issue in seven states. In six of these legislators are to be elected tomorrow New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, Ken- tucky and Virginia. In these states the "wets" expect to block the enactment of prohibition enforcement laws. In Ohio the question will come up' in the form of a referendum on four questions, the. 'ratification 'rati-fication of the federal amendment, the Crabbe prohibition enforcement act, statewide prohibition and a proposal to classify 2.75 beer as non-intoxicating. In New Jersey, State Senator Edward I. Edwards, the Democratic candidate for governor, is an out arid out "wet," and is running on a platform which denounces emphatically both state and national prohibition. pro-hibition. He is supported by union labor, as well as by the saloon and brewery interests. His Republican opponent, SLate Comptroller Newton A. Bugbce, lias the backing of the A nti-Saloon league, but only to a limited extent. He has been accused of being a "wet" in one part of the state and a "dry" in another. He is also hampered by a split In his own party and by the fact that the state committee com-mittee has not seen fit to follow the Xtemocratlc example of endorsing woman suf frage. In Ohio, there are three referendums on prohibition, one on the question of enforcement, another on ratification of the federal amendment, and a third on state prohibition. The expectation Is that the state will go "bone dry." Fight in Kentucky. In Kentucky, where Governor James D. Black, Democrat. Ih running for re-election against Edwin P. Morrow, Republican, Repub-lican, the campaign has been unusually (Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) ISSUE AT POLLS I Continued From Page One.) strenuous and it is conceded that the deciding de-ciding factor will be the vote of Louisville, Louis-ville, which the Democrats claim by 7000 and the Republicans by 10,000. The race for the governorship In Mai-viand promises to be very .close. State Attorney General Albert C. Ritchie is the Democratic candidate. His Republican opponent is State Attorney Harry W. Nice, of Baltimore. Passage of prohibition prohibi-tion under a Democratic administration has been made a strong card by the Republican Re-publican campaign speakers, who have also charged the prevailing labor troubles and high cost of living to Democratic mismanagement of national affairs. A split In the Democratic ranks also militates mili-tates against Ritchie. There are no congressional elections lo be held tomorrow. Mayoralty elections are to be. held in Philadelphia, Cleveland, and some smaller cities. In New T6rk, where legislative and judicial positions are to be filled, the campaign has been very bitter, Governor Smith taking an active part In support of 'the Tammany candidates. |
