ROOSEVELT IS FAVORED AS VICTOR IN NEW YORK

...Ever since he began his term, Gov...

...Tuttle is accentuated because Wads-worth was at the recent state convention and did more than anybody else to get the wet plank through...

...Lawrence and make a report January 15, 1931...

...Smith, however, who is enthusiastically supporting his successor, publicly admits that the Governor has been able to carry along his fight for state development farther than he himself had been able to do...

...This policy, in large measure, appears to have turned the disgruntled drys either to support Roosevelt or to vote for the prohibition candidate, Professor Robert P. Carroll of Syracuse university, running for a party designated as the Law Preservation Party...

...Nicholas Murray Butler, and their associate wets...

...So startling a change in party policy angered the drys with the result that the party seems now to be hopelessly split for some years to come...

...A Startling Change Professor Carroll was nominated by petition after the Republican state convention, for the first time since prohibition went into force, adopted a repeal plank and nominated an out-and-out wet for governor...

...Outranks Others It is conceded that if Governor Roosevelt is re-elected for a second term of two years next Tuesday, he will easily outrank all other aspirants of his party for the presidential nomination in 1932...

...He promises to have re-introduced the minority bill at the coming session of the legislature...

...a compromise meaiwre, was pasfled requiring that the farts be heard before injunctions are issued in labor disputes...

...The Governor also has won high favor by initiating many other progressive measures...

...It is calculated that Caroll will poll from 200,000 to 250.000 votes in the state, nearly all coming from Republicans...

...among prohibitionists', "Elect Tuttle and the Republican party in New York state will once more revert to the control of Wadsworth, Dr...

...Alfred E. Smith, during the eight years he was governor, successfully blocked the private power monopoly although the reactionary Republican legislature did its best to hand over to it the water power amounting to over 1.000,000 horse power...

...Notable among those was the old-ace security bill which, although not what he wanted, he .signed because it is a start, in that direction...

...When the campaign began a month ago, it was feared by his friends, that the governor would suffer from the graft disclosures in New York city when it was freely predicted that the contest would be a close one between the governor and Charles H. Tuttle who resigned his office of United States District Attorney to be the Republican nominee But during the last two weeks it became evident that Tuttle by his extremely wet stand, demanding repeal of the 18th amendment, and his refusal to pledge himself for a state enforcement law, had estranged great masses of the rural voters usually Republican On the other hand...

...Upon his recommendation the legislature appropriated $100,000 for experiment road construction contemplating the improvement of remote rural roads to better facilitate the transportation of farm produce to market...

...Reorganized Commission Governor Roosevelt also has brought about a complete reorganization of the public service commission which for many years had been functioning for the utility corporations instead of for the public...

...The state organization has chosen to follow the advice of former United States Senator James W. Wadsworth, defeated in 1926 for re-election by Senator Robert F. Wagner, when the drys nominated State Senator Franklin Crist-man as a third candidate...

...He also approved a bill for the consolidation of rural schools and Improvement of transportation facilities for rural school pupils...

...Roosevelt has pleaded earnestly for a generous old-age security law and says he will continue to ask for improvements to the one now in force...

...He caused to be created a legislative commission to survey the work of the public service commission...

...Wadsworth's name is anathema to New York drys, hence the existing feeling against Mr...

...Governor Roosevelt for the last two years spent his summers visiting every corner of the state speaking on the needs of farmers and had espoused legislation for agricultural relief in various forms He did this by early appointing a commission consisting of practical farmers of both parties to investigate and recommend needed legislation...

...Hits Power Trust By JAMES MALCOLM ALBANY, N. Y.—On the eve of election it seems certain that Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic candidate for a second term of two years, will be overwhelmingly re-elected by pluralities ranging from 200.000 to 250.000...

...Lawrence river which the power trust has been endeavoring for at least ten years to grab...

...Under his administration the first law...

...He was referring to the commission which the legislature last spring allowed the Governor to choose to investigate the whole subject of public developments In the St...

...And, again, his record for the past two years, in the opinion of all fair and nonpartisan judges, will make him the most formidable candidate in opposition to President Hoover...

...The attempt of the majority members of the commission, selected by legislative leaders who for ten years have done everything possible to give away the valuable water power, was made the subject of many speeches by the governor during the campaign...

...The cry has gone out...

...This resulted in a maojrlty report upholding the work of the regulating body and a minority report, whose members were named by the governor himself, condemning regulation in the state as having broken down and recommending a drastice change In the law in the interest of utility consumers...

...This is regarded as especially true because of his able and persistent advocacy of state development of the tremendous water power in the St...