Evening star., 1920-10-18
DEMOCRATS HOPE
FOR MIRACLE TO
HALT HARDING TIDE
Will Flood Country With Ap-
peaIs to Hearts of
Woman Voters.
BY n. O. MESSENGER.

Ne" YORK, october 1S.-DemOcratlc
expectations of the outcome OF the cleo
ton are to reduce the republican victory
from the proportions foreshadowed
thirty days ago. Their hope is for a
miracle in the eleventh hour which
might pull them through to victory by
the skin of their teeth
Democratic confidence rests only in
regaining the United States Senate.
Upon that score they, entertain sub
stantial feelings of certainty that the
drift is their way and they are pushing
their fortunes to the limit
Republican confidence in winning the
presidential election remains unabated
and all signs continue to point to that
consumnation. Investigations of neu-
trail observers back up the republican
expectations. Reports continue to reach
headquarters of both political parties
OF swing to Cox in the past ten days
But the democrats themselves know
that the pendulum has too great dis
tance to traverse before it can swing
them to victory. save through the in
tervention Of the aforesaid miracle.
G. o. r. Foresees Landslide.
Republican leaders are conscious of
the peril besetting their senatorial
ticket. The conditions in each state
where danger is recognized are local.
and have been discussed over and
patches. They count upon the great
Harding vote to pull the Senate ticket
through.
1t is realized. however. that should
Gov. Cox continue to nibble away the
Harding vote. as it seems he is doing
now-though not enough to destroy
1.-THE nibbling process might be
sufficient to undo the republican SEN
ate candidates in states where for
local reasons the vote on the sem
atorship Will be close.
Whence Miracle Is Expected.
The miracle which the democrats
are hoping for is the final disposition
of the women's vote. 1t is contended
that in the straw tests being taken
the women do not show up. The DEM
ocratic leaders believe there is a
great self-restraine but determined
women's vote which has its heart set
upon the league of nations. and Cox 8
appeal is to be to the .women's hearts.
Naturally the leaders are somewhat
abashed when they consider what
happened in Maine-how the women
which was absolutely overwhelming
but the democrats comfort them
selves with the thought that the
Maine election occurred before Hard
ing made his Des Moines speech.
The republican leaders do not take
any stock in this democratic reliance
upon miracle at the fair hands of
women in the light of their reports.
They think that the fair hand men,
toned is more likely to give the
democrats wallop in the face.
Republican Query.
The republicans ask this question:
In view of the admitted existence,
country wide, of a sentiment hostile
to the democratoc party and favor
able to the republican ticket, why
should it be expected that only the
| women should take the other angle
and be found responsive to senti-
ment which it seems now a majority
of the males reject?
But reliance upon this very out
come is the democrats last hope, and
they intend to push the campaign for
sentiment. The statement made in
! these dispatches from New York city
two weeks ago that such was to be
the democratic campaign has been
supported by subsequent develop
mentS.
Sunday was a day of busy confer
ences among the democratic leaders
at headquarters in the preparation of
plans to fairly swamp the country
for the two weeks with appeals for
the league of nations and the peace
of the world.
Senator HarrisOn's Program.
Senator Pat Harrison, chairman of
the democratic speakers bureau, and
really one of the directing forces of
the Cox campaign, who is working
twenty hours a day. said he intends
to throw more speakers into Ohio, In
diana and close states within the next
ten days than the halls can accom-
modate. They are to expound the
democratic doctrine of the league of
nations and keep it before the public
until election day.
! 1t might be added that the demo-
| Gratis may have to resort to cave
man STUFF in reaching for that fair
hand which is to administer either a
miracle or a wallop, for they are de-
! termined to get it.