Omaha daily bee., 1920-10-04

For COP.
Predicted
Indications Point to Election
OF Harding and Coolidge by
Big Majority, Four Weeks
From Tuesday.
Demos Losing Ground
BY ARTHUR SEARS HENNlNG.
Chicago Tribune Omaha Bee Leased Wire.


Chicago Tribune Omaha Bee Leased Wire.
Washington, Oct. 3-Four weeks
from next Tuesday the American
people will elect the next president
of the republic, and more than ever
does it look like a landslide for
Harding and Coolidge.
Varying his advocacy of the VIII
son covenant of the league OF ma
tons with sensational charges Of re-
publican corruption, now exploded
by official investigation, Governor
Cox does not appear TO have begun
to tenn the tide of popular sentiment
setting in favor of the republican
ticket.
The most reliable reports obtain
able from all parts OF the country,
forecast on the basis of present con-
ditions, the election of aHrding by
at least 800 votes in the electoral
college, which would give him
majority of approximately 20 votes.
So little Roadway has the demo-
cratic organization made up to date
in the campaign that several states
classed as doubtful a month ago
now appear safe for Harding while
several other states ordinarily car
ried by the democrats, are now in
the doubtful list.
For Harding.
California, Is; Connecticut, I,
Delaware. 3; Idaho, 4; Illinois, %;
Iowa, 15; Kansas, 10; Maine, s:
Massachusetts,, l8; Michigan, IS;
Minnesota, II; Nebraska, 8; New
Hampshire, 4; New Jersey, IA; New
Mexico, 8; New York, IS; North
Dakota, S; Oregon, S; Pennsylvania,
38; Rhode Island, S; South Dakota,
S; Utah, 4; Vermont, 4; Washing
ton, 7; Wisconsin, Is; Wyoming, 8.
Total, 29S.
For Cox.
Alabama, II; Arkansas, 9; Florida,
E; George, IA: Louisiana, 10; Mis-
sissippi, l0j North Carolina, ";
South Carolina, g; Tennessee, II;
Texas, 20; Virginia, y. Total, l2o.
Doubtful.
Arizona, 8; Colorado, 6; Indiana,
IS; Kentucky, l3; Maryland. s:
Missouri, lS; Montana, 4 Nevada,
8; Ohio, "a; Oklahoma, 10; West
Virginia, 8. Total, liz,
If Governor Cox should carry all
Of the states here listed as doubtful
he would hse2 a total of 238 cleo
toral votes, 28 short OF the 266 ma
jority. The chances are. however,
that Harding will carry both In
diana and Ohio. as we'll as West
Virginia, while landslide conditions
probably would give him several
other states now ciassed as doubtful.
If the Ohio governor should
carry New York as we'll as Ohio
and ali the other doubtful states, he
would be elected. The fact is, how
ever, that it is a mistake to class
New York as doubtful. To begin
with, il would take an extremely
forceful democratic candidate, ruiz
ming on a popular platform, to carry
a state which President Wilson lost
in 1916 and carried in 1912 only be-
cause of republican disruption.
Landslide Expected.
Reports of the canvassers indicate
that upstate New York will give
Harding perhaps the largest plural
ity of any republican candidate since
the Roosevelt landslide of 1904, and
that Cox may consider himself lucky
if he carries New York City. The
curious thing is that Tammany is
finding it uphill work to make. votes
for Cox on the assurance that he is
wet" and will help restore wine and
beer. The trouble is that the Irish
Americans are clear off the demo-
cratic reservation on the score of tie
league of nations issue and have not
been appeased by the Ohio govern
or's promise to bring the Irish ques-
ton before the league. They are con-
vinced that the league would ignore
the issue as British domestic ques-
ton, but would not hesitate TO in
woke all the power of the league to
help Great Britain repel external
aggression dedicated to the cause of
Irish independence.
In addition Tammany is chiefly
interested i'll re-electing Governor
Smith, and it would not be surpris-
ing if Tammany should sacrifice the
democratic national ticket to make
votes for Smith. 1t has happened be-
fore.
Democrats Disorganized.
The state of disorganization in the
democratic party is such that on..v
an irresistible issue could carry it
to victory this year. 1t is evident
that the league of nations so far
from being irressistably, is weak is
sue in the east, and even in the solid
south, where an increase OF the re-
publican vote. il not decrease IA
the size of democratic pluralities, is
a prospect. The democrats are still
hoping that the league will prove r.
fesistable in the west. particularly
among the women voters. The most
optimistic note sounded at demo-
cratic national headquarters in the
last week is III statement that "thc
de is turning" in favor OF Cover
nor Cox.
So alarmed over the situation did
the Baltimore Sun, democrat) be-
come that it sent Stephen Bonzal to
New York to investigate. He re-
ported in the columns of the Sur.
hat the democratic national Conf
nittee is so hard UP for campaign
cash that motion was made in the
executive committee to close the
New York headquarters-and al
most carried.