FINAL STAGE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 November 1940, Page 5

FINAL STAGE

AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION VERY CLOSE POLL EXPECTED. EXCITEMENT AT FEVER HEAT. The United States Presidential election has entered its final stage and excitement is at fever heat throughout the country, the 8.8. C. states. It is generally agreed in New York that polling today will be very close. Mr Wendell Willkie, the Republican candidate, has engaged fin one of the most strenuous tours in history, speaking in 34 States. President Roosevelt has been tied to Washington and has spoken in only a few States. MARGIN FOR ROOSEVELT SHOWN IN “FORTUNE” POLL. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) WASHINGTON, November 4. Both sides are prepared for an intensive election eve effort to clinch the presidential campaign, in which 60,000,000 people have the right to vote, including 25,000,000 women. The magazine “Fortune,” in an elev-enth-hour pre-election survey, shows that 55.2 per cent of the nation’s popular vote favours President Roosevelt. The New York “Daily News,” on the basis of a fortnight’s poll, predicts' that President Roosevelt will carry the important New York State with a small plurality. The leader of the Committee for Industrial Organisation, Mr John L. Lewis, issued an eleventh-hour appeal for Labour support for Mr Willkie and characterised President Roosevelt as "an erratic, warmongering politician.” Mr William Green, leader of the American Federation of Labour, urged members to vote as they honestly and sincerely thought would be best in the interests of the masses of the nation.