Evening star., 1920-06-18
WOMEN MAY TURN
T0HARD|NG TICKET
OUT IN WASHINGTON
Four Years Ago They Gave
Vote to WiIson-Other
Names Are Discussed.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

IA IL La" nEN&ts
sPokANE, Wash, June 1S.-War-
rem Harding is little known out here,
so the first reaction toward the man
chosen by the republican national
convention is one of surprise mingled
with nope This part of Washington
contains not few progressves,
though the aggressive number who
are willing to be characterized as
such Is dwindiing. Some disappoint-
''ieht over the failure of the repub-
mean convention TO name either as
PRESIDENT or Vice President some one
around whom the progressves could
rally is inevitable.
four years ago the women of this
state gave the electoral vote to Will
son rms year women seem to have
made themselves vocal only with re-
spect to Herbert Hoover. and. now
.hat he is eliminated in the presi-
aentlaI contest. the feminine section
OF the electorate has no definite OBJ
JectlVe. Senator Harding is being
,11piesenteo ,,1a as good citizen, sim
PIE american, born on the farm and
seif-made man. If his managers
are skillful in their approach to
states like this they will win votes
for Harding
Harding New to Voters.
for. broadly speaking. the repub-
i'cahS mere would have preferred Gov.
LoWden or Leonard Wood. Indeed,
mere was substantial confidence
leit IN the capacity of the Illinois
governor But Harding is all new to
the voters. The people are fayorably
inclined. however. They want to vote
against the mistakes of the Wilson
administration. but mostly they want
an executive in whom they can have
absolute confidence
II the campaign managers can in
sun such confidence with respect to
the Harding personality. the result,
even at this early date. is not difficult
to conjecture.
Lean Toward McAdOO.
But on the democratic side there is
pronounced leaning toward McAdoo
and as one republican of prominence
expressed It the nomination of Nc
Adoo Would give the democrats a
hghting chance hereabouts. He was
hold which McAdoo has upon the rail-
road brotherhoods and organized labor
and their families
Gov. Cox has been very little known
out here, but since the newspapers
have been telling how he carried
Ohio three times during the same pc
riod that Harding served. the people
are beginning to wonder if the demo-
Gratis, too, are going to nominate
man from Ohio. Curiousiy enough,
however, there is vital interest in
whether or not Cox and McAdoo are
dry on the liquor question. McAdoo
has the Endorsement of the anti
Saloon League, while Cox is believed
BY local democrats to have moist
aeanlnGs- -. = -''ss
Tired Of Liquor Question.
So far as this state is concerned, the
dry would have better chance The
people of Washington are tired of the
liquor question, but what they are
mostly tired of is the liquor question
need not apply for votes in the state
of Washington on the basis of wet
ness alone. He had better count on
some of the populaus eastern states,
where the advantages of prohibition
are still imaginary.
nings Bryan is looked upon by the
farmer as teacher of agrarian gos-
pei. and this is the country where he
is by no means held in such light es-
TEEN as in certain parts of the east.
To be sure, this is an entirely different
part of the world from New York.
New Jersey and Massachusetts, For
instance. while republicans dislike the
Wilson administration as matter of
principle, they do not dislike with the
bitterness or depth of feeling that the
average republican in the east re-
leases when engaged in political con-
versatfons.
State on League.
Perhaps it is distance. but the state
of Westinghouse at least this end
of it's not afraid that the league of
nations or the pending peace treaty
will work the harm that Senator
Johnson says it will Even the repub-
lican newspapers in this section are
willing to take chance on the treaty
of Versailles and the league with res
ervations. They think it better than
nothing and if there is any concrete
disappointment about the republican
convention, it is about the platform
rather than the candidate.
A straight out-and-out declaration
about the peace treaty with reserva-
tions would have been very welcome
to look upon the plank about the
league of nations as "a superb piece of
pussy-footing," as one republican ex-
pressed it.
Disnppointment May Fade.
1t is pretty early yet, and such dis
appointment as prevails may dis
appear, but the main thing for
narty and a candidate to do to get
the votes in the state of Washington
is to inspire confidence.
This is the task that Senator
Harding and his campaign managers
Lava hefore them And there are
good many progressives who will
have to be coddled if they are to en-
hrace heartily the platform and can
didate by the time November comes
around.
Copyright, 1920)