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The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-30
HAYS AND WHITE BOTH
SEE VICTORY TUESDAY
Harding Expected to Equal
RooseueIt's Record.

Campaign managers Of both the lead
ing national parties stated yesterday
their opinion as to the outcome OF the
voting on Tuesday. Will II. Hays.
chairman of the Republican National
Committee, said:
Harding and Coolidge will be elected
overwhelmingly by the largest popular
majority ever cast and by an electoral
majority that will exceed the unprece-
dented Roosevelt electoral majority of
1904
"Thlrty-two States are surely Repub-
lican. seven additional most probably
Republican and only nine at the most
safely Democratic"
George White. chairman of the Demo-
cratic National Committee. said:
Gov. Cox and MIR. Roosevelt will
carry the border States of Maryland.
West Virginia, kentucky, Missouri and
Oklahoma, in addition to the Southern
States. They will carry Ohip. Indiana,
and In the Atlantic seaboard New York.
Massachusetts and Rhode Island, due
to an eleventh hour shift. The situation
Is improving every minute and we feel
that we will carry New Jersey, Con-
necticut and New Hampshire.
I'm the West reports from Indiana
Colorado. Arizona, Idaho. New Mexico.
Washington. Nevada, South Dakota and
Utah are that they are certainly Demo-
cratic and we believe we will carry Ne
braska, California and North Dakota.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-30
PUBLIC Is ROBBED BY
Big COAL CAR GRAFT.
Continued from First Page.

undesirables and its conscienceless ma
nipulators, and that il an enterprise In
which the coal operators OF every pro-
ducing field in the country are expected
10 participate.
THE Department takes the position
that extortionate prices cannot be MAIN
taiped IL the industry Is cleansed OF the
unfair and sordid practices. that have
sharned Il. II holds that these nierce-
nary abuses cannot survive IL producers
In every judicial district will name OPP
erative committees TO work with the
Federal authorities and will adopt plans
similar TO those now effective in north
ern West Virginia, where the cost OF
coal has been reduced In some instances
from s14 to So a ton.
'In my opinion the rank and file of
tho coal operators will be glad to coop
crate with such committees in their dis
tricts. and the primary objective OF the
Department OF Justice. which is to elm
mate excessive prices. will be achieved
by process OF mutual helpfulness. To
take the coal problem out OF the realm
of POLITICS and thus to avert any possi-
pility OF more drastic Government con.
troll and operation certainly is as much
in the interest of those men engaged in
the industry as OF the public generally"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-30
TAFT SAYS HARDING IS
ONLY HOPE FOR LEAGUE
Election of Cox Would Mean
Endless Deadlock.

PHILADELPHIA Oct. 29.--predicting
Senator Har6ing's Overwhelming" cleo
ton, William II. Taft. In an address here
to-day, declared the dominant Issue OF
the campaign was the reputation OF the
Wilson Administration and not the
League OF Nations.
"The issue OF the League of Nations"
said Mr.. Taft. has been lugged into this
campaign by the hair of the head. II
has no place IN the campaign. / am Tor
a League of nations. / have latored
with all my heart for an International
arrangement to do away with war and
assure peace The Democrats are using
my arguments for the league. l must
admit. with due modes.y. they ara the
best arguments the Democrats have.
eff Cox is elected. is the league COM
ing to us? it is not, because in the Sem
ate there are more than enough SEN
ators pledged to defeat the League OF
Nations In its present form. With the
Republican Senators who will be elected
there will be nc league under Cox. There
will be deadlock.
but / want league. ! want this
wal to result in something. l don't
want the parties to continue to make
faces at each other. That's why / am
for Senator Harding. He says as soon
as he Is elected he will open negotiations
to make changes in the covenant-the
kind Of changes this nation wants"
Mr.. Taft declared that President VIII
son wrecked the league" adding: lie
rejected all the Republican advances
He sacrificed everything to preserve Ar
ticle y He insists Il Is Indispensable
/ say IL is not essential"
Mr. Taft left here this afternoon FOR
Wfkesbarre, where he is to speak to-
vi
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-30
LODGE GIVES WARNING
AGAINST ELECTION LIES
Sees World Peace That Suits
American Conscience.

SALEM, Mass. Oct Ex-senator
henry Cabot Lodge told an audience
here tonight that when the Republican
party comes into power. as Senato.'
Harding has promised, II will UNDER
take to make an arrangement for the
Promotion OF the worlds peace which
will appeal 20 and command the con .
science OF the American people"
The arrangement Senator Lodge
said will not involve the sacrifice 81
the independence and sovereignty OF the
nited States
Senator Lodge warned the voters
against accepting az the truth all tn ,
charges made against a candidate dur
ing the last few days Of tho campaign.
They are not honest charges" he
said land they shun the light until II
10 too late TO contradict them
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-30

MILLIONS ARE LOST
ON POWDER PLANT
United States DispOses of $780,
100000 Factory in South
for S3,O3O,OOO.
$4,000 ACRE LAND GRAB
Testimony Reveals Payment
of $4,000 for Parcel
Worth 100000.
10000 ACRE LAND GRAB
Special Despatch 10 THE New YonK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau. I
Washington, ID. c., Oct. go,

Special Despatch 20 THE New York HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
Washington, ID. c., Oct. 90.
Taxpayers OF the country may add
another item 10 the long bill they hold
against the Democratic Administration
after reading the advertisements of a
certain manufacturing company now
offering stock for sale largely on the
strength of the wonderful bargain 1t
got from the Government in buying
the town of Nitro, w. Va. Plant and
property costing the United States
s70.100,000 were Knocked down for
IS. 551 900, most OF which is in deferred
payments.
The next entry in the profit and loss
account on Uncle Sans ledger is a
powder plant at Nashville, Tenn,
called Old Hickory plant. erected at a
cost of s90,OS0,O 900, which was sold
within the last few days for $3,0S0,o00
Incidentally neither Nitro nor Old
Hickory produced n pound OF powder
for use during the war.
Taxpayers also will recall the frantic
effort made after the arnistice 10 COM
NIT Congress In face of It's specific dis
approval expressed in a rider TO an
appropriation bill, TO the purchase Of
over half OF Chattanoochee county,
Georgia. comprising 9G.720 acres. for the
establishment of Camp Benning The
completion of this and seventeen other
camps was later authorized by Secretary
of War Baker
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-30
GEN. WOOD GOING HOME
TO VOTE FOR HARDING
Expresses Assurance of Sue
cess of c. o. p. Ticket.

Being soldier I'm service. Major-Gen.
Leonard Wood has not always been able
to vote in the. past, but this year he
has taken great pains TO come East to
cast his ballot for Senator Warren c..
Harding and Gov. Coolidge lie wants
10 show his loyalty to the man who de-
feated him for the Presidential noinina-
ton. At the headquarters OF the Re-
publican National Committee on his way
to Bourne. Mass, which Is his legal
home. Gen. wood expressed yesterday
the greatest confidence In the success OF
tho ticket
Certainly all OF my friends and all
of Senator Harding's friends understand
Just where I stand" said the General,
after he had conferred with Chairman
Hays and other national leaders. and
they need no reinsurance on my part"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-30
Harding Wings a Vote
With One Quick Shot

CINCINNATI, Oct. 29.-Heck-
lers appeared at the Harding
meeting tonight and the Repub-
lican nominee is credited with
converting at least one of them
to his side. He asked the Sen
ator a question about Article X.
and Mr.. Harding replied:
81 can make that so clear that
you can understand it. If am
elected President of the United
States there will never be a cove
nant submitted to the Senate
with Article X. in it."
The crowd got up and cheered
the reply, the questioner himself
leaning over the balcony rail and
applauding.
you've made Republican of
that fellow" yelled a man up by
the rafters, and another shouted,
you're hundred to one" while
the crowd again broke into
cheers.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-30
H. W. TAFT EXPOUNDS
DIES MONIES SPEECH
Tells Columbia Rally Harding
Did Not Reject Anything
but Wilson League.
HECKLER FORCED no QUIT
Questions About Lodge Reser-
vations Fail to Make I'M
preston on Audience.

Henry w. Taft, speaking last night at
n Republican rally in the Columbia Uni
vers!ty Gymnasium, declared that those
hostile to the candidacy of Senator Har-
ding have grossly misrepresented his
Des Moines speech on the League of
Nations. Mr.. Taft is a member of the
executive committee OF the League to
Enforce Peace. DR. Jacob Gould Schur-
man. formerly president OF Cornell Uni
versity. speaking at the same meeting.
declared that President Wilson's posi-
ton on the League of Nations had been
repudiated by the American people when
they returned Republican House and
Senate in November. 1918.
Mr. Taft said Senator Harding did not
reject a League of Nations plan in the
Des Moinss speech, but rather that he
took a position opposed, to the obliga-
tons that President Wilson has insisted
upon. particularly Article Y.
Clearly Senator Harding's denuncia-
ton was directed not at u league for the
preservati m of peace. but at the league
insisted upon by Mr.. Wilson," said Mr..
Taft
Senator Harding closes his Des
Moines speech with the statement that
he will use every endeavor that we shall
have an association of nations for the
promotion or nnteTnallOnal peace, Dut one
which shall so definitely safeguard our
sovereignty and recognize our ultimate
and unmortgaged freedom OF action that
II will have back of 1t the united support
of the American people,
That Senator Harding would favor
the essential features Of the league
excluding Article X. is sufficiently
shown by his speeches" Mr.. Taft con-
tinued. He has repeatedly declared in
favor OF a policy of a combination with
other nations for the establishment of
the principles of international law and
some method by which war shall be
avoided by league for the preserva-
ton of peace"
Mr.. Taft said that President Wilson
and Gov. Cox are not content to let
Europe tend to her own affairs. "They
insist upon Article Y. being preserved
in Its integrity, and they make that
the chief issue of the campaign. The
Issue between Senator Harding and
Gov. Cox Is Article ~ he added
The meeting was enlivened when an
auditor broke in to ask Mr. Taft if
the Lodge reservations set aside the
moral obligations of Article X Mr..
Taft in his reply declared that Gov.
Cox had not agreed to accept any
reservation to Article X. to which
statement the questioner objected The
audience then demanded that Mr. Taft
be permitted to proceed with his address
and the heckler sat down.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-30
cApPEn SURPRISED M,ADoo.

fIurcHINsoN. Kan. oct. 90. - W. G.
McAdoo. former Secretary OF the Treas
ury and Dircctor-General Of Railroads.
expressed surprise in speech here to-
day that Senator Capper OF Kansas had
voted for the Esch- Cummins bill.
This piece OF legislation Is n corporate
raid on the United States Treasury and
has given the railroad corporations a
chance TO reach into the pockets of Kan
sas farmers and take millions OF dollars
In extra freight costs he declared. 4
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-30
seeds of Future Wars.

Here are the seeds OF future wars
the only release from 'ntolerable condi-
tons This, We like t. think, is a pro-
crossing world. dey looping civilization.
Universal peace mus come not from,
fixed boundaries and unchanging re-
strictions. not from leagued and armed
force. but from enlightened and expand
ed human nature. broadened acqualnt-
ance and understanding.
I'VE need retrenchment in expendi-
ture. We need efficiency In govern
ment. We want to unshackle business
from it's burdens OF taxes. heavily and
inequitably and mechanically imposed.
We want 20 establish our lines OF trans
port and communication on a basis
which will make them adequate to the
ever increasing demands Of our develop
ment md needs. We want an educa-
tional system which will offer free OPP
portunity 10 every aspiring mind we
want policy OF social justice which
viii be n response 10 the Sermon on the
Mount
we want an American merchant ma
fine which will carr American prod
nets in American bottoms under the
folds OF Old Glory TO every port in
The world we want an agricultural de-
velopment which viii furnish food in
plenty and find profit and pleas sure In
tho doing we want high standard of
living based on a high rate OF wages,
honestly earned and reflected IN high
production and protected against UNI
fair competition OF foreign goods pro-
duced under inferior working condi-
lions. We want n FREQ and clean press I;
Nc want n nation OF home owners an :
home lovers We want a religious peo-
pie, free to worship according to their
conscience. We want tolerance rs well
90 liberty We want wholesome rccrc-
alton 10 tighten our toll and keep US in
touch with Gods out Of doors.
"All OF these we have In measure and
all OF those we may have In full II we
viii work as we'll as wish.
"And when we have won them W.
win have given the world our greatest
possible contribution OF good and aided
;hc world toward the millennium
This Ii big programme. realize.
know II Is not TO be accomplished In
any one or perhaps I'm a number OF adj
n Illustrations. but It ls-a programme I
shall work TO In whatever station l may
ba called to serve.
Remember that good government IL
OF the people It Is theirs OF right and
they can command II II they are will
ing 10 deserve IL. work for II and sup
pert Il.
1T r. in this faith that we ask that
YOU place an American government In
rover at Warrington government
which will assemble az Washington men
~ experience and constructive minds /;
government pledged to economy and
efficiency; a government in which the
executive and legislative departments
viii work together in the interest OF all =.
a government which will work for peace
at home and abroad. but which will
enter into no alliances 10 mortgage our
Independence or surrender our heritage.
ITO such a government I am com
r,ittcd In heart. In conscience and IN
patriotism. and 10 is In that committal
ask your SURFACES"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-30
WISCONSIN 100000 G. o. P.
Lenroot winner by 10000, Say.
stntc Committeeman.

Special Despqtoh 10 TINS N=w YORK rtraaLp
CHICAGO, oct. 29.--Carl T. McAsscy.
for many years an. officer OF the Repub-
lican State Control Committee OF wis
consin. after n careful survey OF the DO
litical situation. to-day estimated that
the plurality OF Harding and Coolidge In
that state will be 100000
He thinks Gov. Cox will not carry
I'm Wisconsin. Senator Irvine l..
Lenroot, he thinks, will be reelected by
a plurality OF 10000.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-30
@. O. r. NOMINEES TO SPEAK.

Republican nominees will speak at the
Womens Harding-W adsworth campaign
headquarters. OF which Mrs. John Sher-
win Crosby is chairman. this afternoon
AT 2:So in the Waldorf. The list OF speak
ers includes Nathan l.. Miller, John J.
Lyons, nominee for Secretary of state;
James O'Maney. for the supreme Court;
Senator william NJ. Calder. the Rev. Ed
ward Lawrence Hunt and Mrs Albert
H. Uildreth.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-30
Many N. Y. Service Men
at Camp Pike Don't Vote

T TITLE ROCK, Oct. ga
ballot box containing the votes
of New York service men sta
toned at Camp Pike was for
warded to-day to Albany to be
counted with the votes cast in
next Tuesdays election.
OF fifty men eligible to vote
only eighteen, it is said, took ad-
vantage of the privilege.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-30
Need OF Business Experience.

every nation with few exceptions Is
facing the problems of reconstrr elton
and reorganization following the world
upheaval. Those whose boundaries are
even temporarily secure hnd themselves
fact TO face with questions OF domestic
concern and involving Internal tran
GUILTY.
America is no exception. l have
referred to some of these questions We
must set our own house in order and
also do our part. make our contribution
to tho sta Obligation and rehabilitation Of
world civilization.
"Au Of these require not only high
ideals. lofty principles. assured 'oyalty
ana patriotism ard inspired statesman
snip. but administrative capacity. busi-
ness experience and ability and lar1e
measure OF practical common sense. All
these are not to be found In combination
in the Democratic party leadership Of
to-day.
TT Is a matter OF common knowledge
that a majority Of the Governments OF
the nations are practically bankrupt.
Even among the great nations there are
very few which can be claimed TO be
solvenet In the matter of realizable as
sets. This is of tremendous significance.
Lincoln once said that our nation
could not endure half slave and half
free and BY the same token and in the
same sense the economic world can not
long endure half bankrupt and half
solvent. half subject and half free. This
Is obvious 10 all who consider the sub
iect-status Of hundreds Of millions OF
people under the fixed and practically
unalterable conditions Of the Versa lles
oompnct dominated by the creditor ma
tious Of the world
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-30
DESTROYER REACHES PORT.

CHARLESTON, S. c.. Oct. 29.--The de-
stroyer sherwood. which was reported
I'm distress yesterday off the North Caro-
lima coast. arrived here to-day. She ran
short OF water.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-30
"PsychoiogicaI Depression"

OF living. They made that thn para
mount promise OF thclr 1879 campaiqn.
What OF the fulfilmcntr they lowered
the barriers OF trade threw open our
American market To unfair world COM
petition and brought us 70 the verge OF
Industrial paralysis and commercial
staEnation. which the Administration an
nounced placidly and mistakenly 20 be a
psychological depression--and only the
world needs OF a world war saved VIZ
from economic disaster at that time
They went into Office with a pledge
TO establish governmental economy and
they broke faith with an exhibition Of the
most prcfigate and inexcusable wasto OF
public funds which the world has ever
known.
Il do not refer to the expenditures
necessitated by the war. We do not be-
grudge a cent OF the money properly
spent TO aid in winning the war. We
recognize that In this great struggle Il
was not always possible to Justify all
expenditures or 20 measure needs and
apporiion funds wisely. But e ia % fsct
that from the very moment the present
Administration took tho rcins 4 power
the cost OF government began TO IN
crease by leaps aud bounds. And the
cost Of living went up stop b, step and
leap BY leap In company and in SYM
pathy with Il. And this was before the
war and In the face or that 'psycho-
logical depression 20 which ! have adj
verted
I'm 1912. under a Republican Admins
uation. the total expenditures Of the
Government totallcd s65iopo0oo In 1915
they had risen 20 s7i2. 10000 Now. two
years after the armistice--and in time
OF practical. IL not technical. peace--we
find this Administration asking for ap-
propriations for the current year OF
o. .294. O0C COZ. That enormous, unprece-
cented sum would have been expended
II Republican Congress had not
scaled down the estimates Tho present
administration can make no promise to
reduce the cost OF government. IN the
coming year II continued IN power.
Added 33- 900 once Holders.
"In 1912 they demanded IN their plat
form n reduction In the number OF
Government offceholders. believe
that demand was justified Tho RE-
publican Administration then In power
had started an investigation with a
view 10 bringing about this reform and
had published the partial result Of that
inquiry and It's intention 20 act upon II.
The new party government found $50. 90
civil service employees on the rolls OF
the Government Instead OF reducing
the number from the very start there
was n continuous addition 20 tho civil
list The last estimate OF the civil Ser
vice Commission indicates that the
number Is approximately 6j7.Vo and the
best Information n that the estimate
Is more than 1000 short o. The actual
humber and takes no account 90 the
Almost iimitless boa rGa. commissions
ana specialists and faddist officials.
II want TO be fair. OF course our
world war machine created the need FOR
moro help In nearly all the departments
but since the war the civil list has not
shrunk even approximately TO peace
basis. The administration IN power
seems 70 be utterly incapable of getting
back TO a peace time bnsis OF organiza-
ton, administration and expenditure.
''Tnis not only indicates an unneces-
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-30
Campaign of False Pretence.

You know. beyond all question. that
four years ago the public discomfort
with the conduct OF affairs was already
so great that the party In power would
have been driven out of office except for
the appealing statement that the Presi-
dent had kept us out OF war" And yet
1T that very time the Administration
knew definitely. absolutely, that our
entry into the war was inevitable. Yet
with that knowledge. concealed from the
people withheld from Congress, the
campaign of false pretence was con-
tinued
I'VE do not care to dwell on the costly
blunders and the unspeakable waste of
the war administration. We may Tor
give the aircraft waste and disappoint-
ment in aircraft equipment in the war,
but we hold to strict accounting for the
grievances and failure of two years or
peace We can forget the unhappy story
Of unheard of waste and extravaganza
In seeking shipping TO meet our war
needs. but we do not forgive the utter
failure 10 meet the Opportunities for ship
ping emIence in peace. The failure OF
the shipping board, the astounding IN
ability TO Get the SURPRISING opportu-
nJtv of all time. is the outstanding PROOF
Of incapac.ty 10 meet the call of ting new
order in the world.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-30

sary expenditure OF public FUNDS. but 1t
ts kes out OF the ranks of production and
distribution every unnecessary employee
and adds TO the cost OF living. The
amount asked for the executive depart
ments of the Government this year
means a tax OF $50 for every man.
woman and child in the country-ap-
proximately $3.50 for every family OF
1--WE. No one but tho pauper escapes
paying his share i'll one way or another.
These are home issues which affect
every one and which need no foreign In
terpretations They concern you. each
and all. my countrymen. as vitality as to-
morrow's breakfast, or the winter coal,
or the price OF shoes and clothing. They
are In fact part of the cost of each OF
these items OF the bill OF existence IN
this land Of ours.
Take up the question of government
in any phase and we find upon the part
OF this Administration the same in
capacity or neptitude, the same want or
foresight, the same lack of practical
comprehension OF business as applied TO
government Idealism may be used in
the formulation of policies. but the APP
plication OF policies and their transporta-
ton into actions is business and business
is q matter of systematic administration