The Washington times., 1920-11-01

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Halt OF the hundr and nve
millions WI vote more or less
from habit One quarter viii vote
against something they do not like.
The fourth q9artsr VIII cast votes
based ON As6tits convictions.
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Tho psopls br, quite free In
;criticising cnisdetss and candi-
dates shortcuniAss. Some day,
between elsctbas, thsy might. for
. change. sssthisS themselves.
They need ita.FX
The last fs&kaze Of tks NcHm-
paisn is unpisassnt and sushN 70
cost Mr.. Cox many votsa EsESs-
lcially in the South. DsmocrsIts
spent large sums. secretly eirdu-
lating printed matter carrying ~
false statement that sseAtor
Harding, several generations Haeh,
had African blood in his fsIAilI.
The statement Is false andA y
proved to be false.
What about the action goe W
Democratic party, howev( de5t
Iperate II may have been, facing
sure defeat, in circulating at great\
expense, and most thoroughly. a.
lie calculated to appeal to ths low
est prejudice and q lie defaming Q
woman in the family Of an hcnof
able man? %
How many Americans will vots\
for man, Mr.. Cox, in whose. boz
half those working for him circu-
lated a most shameful and lfbslr
,ous attack on women? ~
So far as the Republicans are
concerned, the campaign has been
clean. It is not in Mr.. Hardings
to make any other kind
of fight
1t happens, and there is no rea-
son whatever for concealing what
is court record, that Mr.. Cox -
divorced man. The Republieansb
have not exploited that fact, either
In whispers or openly. 4
! Yet the fact that Mr.. Cox -
divorced, and is now married -
his second wife, would have ~
its effect in certain quarters h. (
the Republicans chosen to expio
NE Cox divorce.
Many clergymen in this ceuh-
try, failing to understand the
League OF Nations, have advises
women in house-to-house cam
paigns to vote for Mr.. Cox. They
would not have done that had the
fact of Mr.. Cox's divorce been
generally known. - -, |
Now, of course. the voting Is
settled and the result will not be
changed. But what q manly re-
turn the Cox supporters have
made for Senator Harding's clean
methods.
Mr.. Cox.is q divorced man. That
fact used through the campaign
would have cost him hundreds OF
of women's votes. And,
as all readers can testify. the sub
ject was ignored by Mr.. Harding
and every man working for him.
Mr.. Harding is the dependant
of earnest white men, and OF good
white women, and the Democrats
descend to the infamy OF secretly
slander against some
named-of the good
women from whom Mr.. Harding
That ID a little more
than anything that has
since Lincoln was ac-
cused in New York Of living with
an African woman and compelled
TO answer that he was able to live
without making a black woman
either his mistress or his slave.
Coz, Of course, did not originate
this slander. But for weeks he p
must have known 1t, and he has
not stopped it or denied it. That
ought to cost him few Of the
votes that he has left, even at this
late hour.
It is all unimportant, however.
for Mr.. Harding, a decent man and
the next President Of the United
States, Is filled only with thought
OF the deep responsibility that the
people will put ON his shoulders
tomorrow. His ancestors are be-
yond the reach of slander, as he is.
Nothing is important except
this:
TOMORROW THE LEAGUE OF
NATIONS WILL BE KILLED AND
BURIED.
The war hysteria will be re-
placed by constructive common
sense. A man, we'll and strong,