The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-10-27
DaUid laurence
Is PeSSimiStic
Says Despite Swing to Cox,
Harding VIII Carry Ohio.
Wilson Unpopular.
CONFIDENCE IN PARTY


Cleveland. o.. Oct. 27.--(Copyright
for The Chattanooga News) .--Senator
Harding win carry Ohio by decisive
majority, but Il looks as II the state
viii elect democratic governor.
II James Cox were running for gov
ernor again he probably would carry
Ohio.
As a presidential candidate. Cox still
has host OF friends, but the demo-
cratic party on national affairs is I'M
popular.
The vote is not so much for Harding.
4 but against the Wilson administration.
II 4 not against Wilson. the man, but
the Wilson cabinet and acts OF the
Wilson administration. No other con-
rliislon seems possible after careful
Survey of this state. Indeed there Is
! swing on toward Cox at the present
moment. Senator Harding has been
Headily losing ground since his Des
solnes speech and and his unfortunate
ncounter with President Wilson on
ne difference betwee a representa-
I've" OF France and a spokesman"
lut the drift toward Cox while notice.
BILE has not approached the sweeping
roportiohs OF tide or even a wave.
IS surface drift.
Upstate for Harding.
Northern Ohio Is for Harding. This
hty, which Is normally democratic and
which helped Wilson materially when
40 carried Ohio. Is doubtful. The coun-
ty Is also doubtful. The word "doubt-
full" In those instances In the differ
ence between narrow majority for
Cox or Harding and an overwhelming
majority for Harding Most people ex-
pect the latter. The reader who is not
familiar with Ohio politics can judge
for himself what che situation Is when
he discovers that in democratic centers
like Toledo and Cleveland, the two
principal northern Ohio cities, the adj
vantage lies with Harding. Moreover.
Cox cannot expect anything In Hamil-
to county, which icludes Cincinnati, a
district that helped him win the gov
ernorship In 1918
II seems TO be case OF anti-Wilson
and not anti-Cox 10 far as this section
OF Ohio Is concerned. The expectation
of q change Is scarcely less strong
than the desire for q change In govern
nent personnel at Washington.
Democratic Admissions.
Some Of my democratic friends here
whose Judgment In the past has been
sionate and whose acquaintance Is
large, insist that the whole thing Is n
reaction from the war.
II am more partisan than have
ever been" said one prominent demo-
win than 1 was for Wilson go win In
19i6--and you know how hard worked
for that---but I can see no chance for
the democratic national ticket in Ohio
this year--I am afraid the majority
will not be less than 100000 for Hard |
Ing"
From every source, republican and
democratic, tho writer obtains infor- |
nation that Vic Donahey. the demo- |
cratic candidate for governor. is much
stronger than former Mayor Davis, OF |
Cleveland, the republican nominee.
This merely proves the point that II |
isn't a vote this time against Cox 80 |
much as against his party In Wash
ington.
One can hardly say that Senator
Harding Is any more popular In Ohio |
than he was when he was nominated.
He has never held an executive POSI-
tion IN the state. and the folks know
ten strong men II he selects them for |
his cabinet. He has a reputation, for
rugged honesty and simplicity. He may |
not be intimately known even in hrs |
own state, but he Is by no means un-
popnlar n any section perhaps labor labor
ing hostile. The farmers think well OF |
him The city people think more OF |
the personnel In the republican party |
NJ a whole than the one individual |
who has been selected to lead tho
party.
Confidence In Party.
There. Is peculiar confidence that |
the republican party will run the gov
nrnment and do a better Job than its |
Almost nothing has been |
said by the democrats about the re- |
publican party's failure 10 produce
leaders or remedial legislation In tho |
last two years in congress. They have |
permitted thought to be concentrated |
entirely on the executive side OF the |
government. Congress In expected 10 |
develop leaders and tackle troublesome |
legislation such as the excess profits |
tax under the Harding leadership. The |
democrats on their part have not been |
able 10 convince the voters hereabouts |
that they have any better leaders. Tho |
whole burden Is being placed upon the |
next executive and his cabinet. Ohm |
Is voting for a new party and a new
cabinet In Washington. Harding Is the |
symbol or exponent OF the whole move |
ment. Ohio would 80 republican II |
almost any other member OF the |
United States senate or republican |
party were running for president. It's |
republican year In Ohio on the presl- |
DENTAL ticket.