Show CAMPAIGN H HOT HOTIN 1 IN CONNECTICUT I I RHODE ISlAN I t i rt i By BYRON PRICE Press Staff Writer NEW NEW TW IIA HAVEN VEN Conn Oct 31 AP r Habitually later than most of ot their neighbors In opening the seison season of ot active campaigning the s southern thern New England st states tes of ot C Connecticut Connecticut and Rhode island are ta taking their politics In co concentrated concen concen- cen portions as the n national lonal dis- dis over ovet Hoover and Smith nears neara end E As they make the tho feverish round of ot conferences and rallies the tho leaders lead or ors ers of ot both parties are aro claiming I victory lor When these predictions predictions' are mado made In public they are cheered ch cheered red noisily on both by sides by large assemblages of the Connecticut cut AntI ami Rhode Island voters them them- lefes Tho Tho- stander bystander r can can pay his money and make his own wn forecast t whether these twelve electoral electoral elec elec- toral Loral votes votes votes-Connecticut's Connecticut's seven saven and Rhode Islands Island's five will five-will will go eventually to Smith or to Hoover l or be 6 split 1 between them G G. 0 O. P. P STATES Moth Both th states have ha been voting tor for Republican presidential nominees for tor years years' and each eh Is the stamping stamp stamp- ing ground of 0 a compact and ex- ex experienced ex ex- d Republican organization Yet let both oth lie He LI that c coveted eted eastern bloc of 0 electoral votes votes' for which the Democrats ale aro making an an Insistent appeal in 1928 They Thay are the only two states in the theu u union llon that never r ratified the prohibition prohibition pro pro- amendment Each has far tar above tho national average of ot Cl Catholic population and each Is the the homo of large 6 colonies sprung from Immigrant stock from conti conti- continental continental continental Euro Europe Nowhere are the racial considerations considerations considerations consider consider- that mingle in the present national campaign more moro persistently persist persist- discussed Politicians who talk Static 0 of at the the- prospects of November 6 veer around quickly to the probable able ablo disposition of what they call th the tha lt rote ote the Polish vote the French vote the the German German vote vete or oi the tha negro vote Nearly all of ot these racial groups have been la In recent years Republican Re Re- publican This year both parties are claiming them on one ground or another R. R I. I SINGLED O OUT T TOt Of Ot the two states Rhode Island was t singled out from the beginning of of the campaign by D Democratic m leaders who argued that it would be one of the most likely of all of 01 the tl e eastern group to go for Smith They based this hope not riot only on the the- known wet sentiment of ot the state but on the further fact that Senator Peter Peterr G Gerry a Democrat had twice e overturned the Republican lI Mean lican in normalcy and Is this year year 8 candidate for tor reelection Senator Gerry Is chairman of the advisory committee e bf ot the Democratic naS national na na- S l campaign organization and h has s' s snot not overlooked his his' home h I le state In his efforts to garner garner in an van el electoral elec elec- ct c- c toral t college maj majority r t for forSmith or Smith m t I |