New-York tribune., 1920-10-20
DemOcratsAdmit Forecast
of Party's State Chair
man Is Reasonable: Ma.
jority May Be 100000
Most of l25,000
Women for Senator
Raking Up of Old Attacks
ON nLincoln byNewspaper
Stirs the Colored Voters
By Charles T. White

HARTFORD, Conn.,, Oct. 19.-"COn-
necticut for Harding and Coolidge by
more than 50,00O." That is the terse
summing up of the political situation
in the Nutmeg State by j. Henry Rora-
back, chairman of the Republican State
Committee.
A surprising thing about it is that
we'll informed Democrats around the
state concede that Mr.. Roraback's fore
case is entirely reasonable.
William J. Bryan in one of his cam
paigns lost the state by more than 5O,-
600. With 125,O00 women, prepon-
derating percentage of whom are be-
lieved to be Republican, voting for the
first time, the Republican managers are
confident that the winning margin will
be nearer 100000 than $4,000, but they
adhere to the lesser figure in order to
be conservative.
The real fight in the state is not so
much against Harding and Coolidge as
against United States Senator Frank B.
Brandegee, whose candidacy has
aroused the hostility of the extreme
suffragists. The Democrats and many
" 0ne sun dslStS are supporting Rep-
resentative Augustine Lonergan, of
Hartford, who has represented the
Hartford district three successive
terms.
Humorous Features Developed
The battle between Brandegee and
Lonergan has developed features both
intense and humorous. Never in the
history of Connecticut politics has
there been such a demonstration of the
truth of the old saying "Chickens come
home to rooSt"
The Hartford Times, the official Dem
ocratic organ of the state, is owned or
controlled by Willie 0. Burr. He is q
son of Alfred E. Burr, who pubIishe ed
the paper during the Civil War. Like
most of the Democratic papers of the
period, The Times in the campaigns OF
1860 and 1864 indulged in the coarsest
abuse of the Great Emancipato tor. When
Senator Brandegee was renominated by
the Republicans this summer The
Times began abusing him. The Repub-
ican State Committee last week began
running full-page advertisements in
The Hartford Courant, reproducing the
editorial attacks on Lincoln in the 1860
and 1864 campaigns, giving parallel col
umns headed BY pictures of Lincoln
and Brandegee, with The Timess at
tacks, all under the heading "Can the
Leopard Change His Spots %
This is a sample of what the Demo
cratic Times said on May 21, 1860:
"The Courant says: The people will
hug honest Old Abe to their bosoms
What hug! How gracefully he will
lie on their bosoms-that awkward
raw boned, crooked, green-l looking Old
Uncle Abe. Day loves him and don't
care for Bates. He's brimfull of mig
ger, too. That improves him for q
hug"
Attack on Brandegee
On the Brandegec side of the full
page advertisement is a quotation from
The Times attacking Brandegee.
Brandegec's whole record proves he
Connecticut's sentiment with fidelity
on any question:" says The Times
Under the parallel column run three
lines of black type saying:
unfair and unAmerican methods
did not deprive the Union of Lincoln S
services in 1860 and 1864 nor will such
methods affect Brandegee In 1920"
The result of the casting up is that
the whole state is laughing over the
discontinue of the Democrats, and
the attacks on Brandegee are discred-
l'cu. CHdl IiHaI MI dpdCk III oIueT 10
rub it in to The Times sent the full
page advertisements to The Times and
received assurance that they would ap~
pear in due course, as ordered. But
they did not appear. When the Demo-
Gratis read the text of the advertise
mcnts they refused to handle them for
"obvious reasons" the publishers
said.
The raking up of the old attacks on
Lincoln has aroused the colored
voters of Connecticut. The colored
clergymen of the city and state have
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