A general tone of optimism pervaded the three rival camps in the University on the eve of the presidential elections. With the active campaign a thing of the past, managers of the three parties await demonstration of the success or failure of their efforts in the balloting today.

L. R. Brown '26, of the La Follette-Wheeler Club, was the only one who did not share the general confidence of each manager in the election of his candidate.

"Senator La Follette will not be elected, of course," he said. "No one expects him to be. But in his fine campaign in which he brought real issues into an otherwise empty fight on the question of 'Common Honesty versus Uncommon Dishonesty,' he has laid the foundation of what will become the permanent Progressive party of the future. It will be for this work of lasting value to the United States that this election and Senator La Follette will be remembered."

The head of Mr. Davis' campaign in the University, C. P. Morehouse '25, lamented the division of Progressives between La Follette and Davis, but predicted victory for his candidate.

"It is unfortunate," he declared, "that the eve of the election should find the forces of progressivism still divided. There is no question that this division within the liberal ranks between supporters of Mr. Davis and Mr. La Follette will cause the loss of several really progressive states to the forces of reaction. Nevertheless, the rapid spread of liberal principles, though it can be delayed, must triumph in the end.

"We are confident that John W. Davis will be the next president of the United States."

No doubt as to Mr. Coolidge's continuing his occupancy of the presidential chair exists in the minds of leaders of the University Republican Club.

"Throughout the country sentiment is strongly in favor of Mr. Coolidge," said Julius Wadsworth, chairman of the Republican Club. "The union will demonstrate its faith in the silent man of the White House tomorrow by an ever whelming majority.