The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1920-08-20
Tennessee Ratifies Suffrage Amendment
The POLITICAL BATTLE GROUND
Each of the Great Parties Reasonab.
Iy Certain to Garry 18 States
Democrats Most Have 81
More Electoral Votes
to Win


horoscope of the impending political
struggle:
He says that the battle ground will
be in II states but the storm center
will be in Ohio, New York, Indiana
and Illinois, waxing hottest in Ohio.
Each party is reasonably certain to
carry IS states, giving the democrats
1s5 electoral votes and the republi-
cans 1876. The democrats must have
| 81 more to win and the republicans
| II.
Hottest Fights
Illinois is placed in the republican
column by both democratic and G. o.
P. dopesters, but the democrats will
carry the big fight into this territory,
if for no other reason, to try to break
the G. o. P. ranks and to keep the
Illinois crowd out of the common bat
tleground.
The party that can carry the three
doubtful states, New York, Ohio and
Indiana, can win. There are "a cleo
tors in those three states, three more
than the democrats would need to win
and 13 more than the republicans
would require, provided both parties
hold the states here conceded to them.
California is considered doubtful be-
cause Wilson carried it against
Hughes by less than 5000 votes. The
state is strongly progressive. The
pep" that Hiram Johnson puts into
his anti-league campaign may have
a bearing on the outcome in Califor-
MIA.
Colorado has gone democratic in
five of the last six presidential cleo
tions but is now considered doubtful
because a republican senator and
three republican congressman won by
heavy majorities in 1918 despite Viii
sons request that democrats be re-
turned.
Progressive States
Idaho is doubtful for the same reas.
on that California is-dissatisfaction
to suit the progressives.
Democrats and republicans agree
that Indiana and New Jersey are ex-
ceedingly doubtful.
New Mexico was carried by Wilson
and is considered doubtful for the
same reason that other western states
are.
On New York both parties are go
ing to make the fight of their lives.
How the state goes will depend large
ly on how labor up state" swings its
strength.
But Ohio, home of both candidates,
will be the hottest battle-ground. The
republicans are claiming it by 10O,-
900 votes Cox has been elected gov
ernor three times and lost the state
once. Wilson carried it in 1916. When
Cox was elected governor in 1914,
Harding was elected senator by 103,-
600 majority.
other "DouhtfuIs"
Both parties put Utah in the doubt
full column. Wilson carried it against
Hughes by 10000 and Bryan lost it to
Taft by 10000. It is pro-league and
progressive. Washington the same.
wisconsin is normally republican,
but it is doubtful now because it isn't
known what Robert La Toilette will
do.
Wyoming was carried by Wilson by
5000. The republicans think theyn
carry it this time, but they do not
count it certain.
If the republicans hold their con-
ceded strength. and fail to carry Ohio.
they will have to get New York, Cal
ifornia, Colorado. Wisconsin, New
Mexico and Utah to win. Then #
the democrats should steal Illinois
from them, they would have TO take
in addition Idaho, Washington and
Wyoming of the doubtful states to
! get over.
It isn't necessary. for either party
to have New York to win. Here's the
lineup:
! Democratic
States. Electors
Alabama -. II
Arizona -. 3
Arkansas -. -. -. 9
Florida -. -. -. -. -. :. s
Georgia ..... -. -. ...... Il