Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1920-10-28
cox GAINING GROUND
= WITH HARDING LOSING

In the presidential race over Hards
ing IL expressed in a letter which
w. P. Houseal (the Dutch Weather
Propheo Of Columbia has Just re-
ceived from ''s son. EdwaSd B.sHou-.
seal or Dayton. Ohio. Ine HeettNa
from Mr.. Houseal to his fathsr.s Rs4pE
ed In The Times several wdetsT-As
ne predicted the election Of 6oSnRor
Cox and said that he would sSarrv
Ohio. Mr.. Houseal now writ that
as the contest Is entering the last
lap and will soon he on theE home
stretch. 1t Is going to be a great fin.
ish. with the Democratic donkey
showing his heels to the G. o. P. ele-s
phant; and that 1t could not be 9TH
erwise since Harding has waged a
campaign that was all wrong from
the standpoint OF good politics. II
he had stayed at home he would
have been elected. but he has follow.
ed In the footsteps Of Mr.. Hughes
and will share the same fate"
Mr.. Houseal further SAYS: 'The
round robin Republicans will not
save the day. The public will not
believe Rorah and Johnson on the
one hand. Taft and Root on the other
and moreover. they are not going to
vote for man who does not know
| ask man why he Ia going to vote
for Harding he huns and haws and
finally admits that it Is for no other
reason than that he Is Republican.
But ! find the women In these Re-
publican households are not going to
De- dictated to by their bubbles and
they are doing their own thinking.
Tho Republicans set up a howl int
1916 and said that the women &
California elected Wilson, They Will
have the same story to tell in 1920.
except that 1t will be the women of
America who will elect Cox.
This town is politically dead from
Republican standpoint. On the
other hand the Democrats have bided
their time and have gone to work In
earnest. The first delegation of Re-
publicans which went from Dayton
for the front porch at Marion num-
bcred 1000. This morning October
lS). after three weeks of campaign
Ing to muster q crowd to 60 TO Mar
ion. 223 q counted them) marched to
the station and 35 OF them were ne
groes. On the other hand, 1000
men marched to Memorial hall last
Tuesday night to. hear Bourke Coch-
ran and standing room was at a pre-
MUM. Tonight there will be a torch
light procession preceding Morgen-
thau's speech and the town will cut
loose when Roosevelt gets here to-
morrow night. In every neighbor-
hood Cox rallies are being held every
night. Yet two months ago the Re-
publicans were betting that Harding
would carry the county.
The New York Times correspond
emf said In conversation here Sat-
urday that Friday in indianapolis the
crowd just sat and looked at Harding
as they would freak and manifested
little enthusiasm. On the other hand
the same city went wild over Cox
when he spoke in indianapolis.
ut Is going to be tight race in
this State. Cox Is getting stronger
every day and II the election were a
month off 1t would he q landslide for
the Democratic ticket. l firmly be-
lteve Cox will cary Ohio and Indiana.
To say that he will not carry Ken
lucky Is nonsense and when the @.
o. p. claims Tennessee Is sounds like
the wall Of dying cat
Mr.. Houseal gives significant evil
dence of the trend OF the women TO
Cox when he writes that n Dayton
woman Democrat spent two days In
registering 20 women who will vote
for Cox.
The opinion OF Mr.. Houseal that
the women Of America will elect
Cox Is corroborated by Louis Seibold,
well known political correspondent of
the New York World. who says that
a straw vote conducted In Iowa,
South Dakota and Nebraska by the
Sioux City Journal. rabid Republican
paper. shows 500 for Harding and
797 for Cox. whereas in the same
territory OF the upper Missouri val
ley (embraced in the same States),
where The Journal has n large cir
culation. similar straw vote four
years ago showed Hughes $50 and
Wilson S.
The same correspondent then goes
on to say this about the woman vote
in South Dakota: AT Edgemont, g.
d.. the women of the community re-
fuse to do their shopping with mer-
chants who display portraits Of Hard
Ing and Coolidge In their windowH
In all its history Edgemont never
knew Democratic oficeholder The
same has proven true In n number Of
western towns of Nebraska"
Mr.. Seibold also declared that the
drift In these States is away from
fHrdin4 because the Republicans have
appealed to the German vote on ac-
count OF the opposition (supposed In
many cases) OF tho German element
to the League OF Nations. Bismarck,
Neb. and Hamburg. Iowa. arc cited
by Mr.. Seibold as two German local
tiles in which this type of propagan-
da has been used. straw vote ta-
ken in both places early in July
showed Cox in the lead, 500 to 700.
He can hardly get n vote in either
place now. THE effect. however,"