Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-29
NATIONAL BATTLE
Continned from pare !


/ can managers have sounded a note a
/ warning IN their Instructiors 10 State
/ leaders against 0vcr-cOnfdence. Condi-
/ tlons IN some Of the larger States are ad-
| mttted by the Republicans 10 be "dis-
turbing and likely 10 result IN mischief
unless closely watched III the Demo
cratic leaders are 70 be believed, the open
/ hostility which the leaders Of the ITsh
/ cause have directed against Governor
/ Cox shows signs Of modifying. Men who
are presumed to reflect the real views Of
voters Of this class have been returning
/ 70 the Democratic fold, according to the
leaders Of that party.
Several Of the most active Of these
1 spokesmen in New York, Boston, Chica-
20, and other centres where the Irish
vote il politically important have al
ready taken the stump for the Demo-
cratic presidential candidates. While by
no means reconciled 70 the attitude Of
their presidential candidate on the League
/ Of Nations. men of this type apparently
/ experience little difficulty in iussifyfnv
/ their support Of Mr. Cox on other grounds.
/ The Democratic National Committee
/ IL preparing 70 send these men into States
/ where the Irish-American voters have
I clearly revealed their unfriendly attitude
/ towards the Democratic ticket The Re-
+ publican view Of the problem does not
/ harmonic with the Democratic conten-
I ton that the Irish opposition 10 Cover
nor Cox has modified N the slightest
:; degree.
HARDISGs BAD BREAK.
| Some Of the Republican leaders ad-
NIT. however. that Senator Harding has
/ alienated support Of some voters Of TIN
| class by his failure satisfactorily 70 *
plain his opposition TO the Senate resolu-
F ton asserting the right OF the Irish people
/ TO self-determination.
i The more conservative OF the Demo-
/ cretic and Republican leaders admit the
4 probable division Of the so-called Irish
/ American voter, rather than its delivery
/ en- bloc TO either side, a concession that
! the Democrats argue VIII help them. The
/ friendly attitude Of organized labor to the
/ Democratic candidate may prove q great
/ help in switching the Irish vote TO Cover
/ nor Cox, or at least IN modifying the in
+ tensity Of the bitterness with which he
! has been assailed by the spOkesmen for
voters of Irish origin and ancestry. Here
in New York City the attitude Of the
Irish voters probably viii affect the Demo
eratlc presidential ticket TO some extent.
though Governor Smith and the local
candidates of tomorrow probably VIII
benefit because Of the openly expressed
sympathy of the Democratic State agd
city candidates with Irish aspirations.
SUSPICIOUS OF TAM MANY.
The attitude Of Tammany towards the
Democratic presidential ticket Is not
wholly gratifying to the national leaders.
They do not make any charges that the
Murphy organization intends TO '1Snife
Governor Cox. though reports persistently
crop up that Tammany, realizing the
depth of feeling against the Democratic
presidential candidate among the great
mass of its adherentS, viii try to save its
State and local candidates
The leaders IN both organizations de
MED that any deal viii be countenanced
by them. Yet there IS a suspicion OF it
among both the Republicans and Demo
Gratis that the results of the balloting in
| November viii prove the contrary. For
! two or three weeks Tammany and Re
publican leaders have been called on 20
deny the existence of a deal BY which
Republican votes are TO be obtained for
Governor Smith and the Tammany local
candidates in exhcnage for votes for
Harding and Wadsworth.
Some of the Republican leaders who
very earnestly desire the election Of
Judge Miller, the party candidate for
governor, feel justified in making the
covert charge that the Republican Ma
tlonal organization IS not according him
the amount and character of support TO
which he is entitled. Judge Miller is BY
no means popular with several of the "Old
Guard of pronounced reactionary ten
denotes. These men appear TO regard the
Republican gubernatorial candidate as
another Hughes" and predict recur-
renee of the troubles that the organiza-
tion had IN handling" the latter.
HERE'S BASIS FOR TRADE.
Judge Miller urged the nomination Of
MIR Hoover at Chicago, IN the face of the
opposition of nine-tenths of the other
State leaders. Since his nomination for
governor he has displayed unmistakable
tendencies toward independence Of
thought and action that does not wholly
square most OF the party leaders. The
chief thought in the mind Of these men is
Harding and Wadsworth
Their concern for Judge Miller is of
secondary Importance. 1t is, therefore,
not surprising there should be greater
confidence on the part of the Democrats
regarding the chances Of Governor Smith
for reelection than over the outlook for
carrying the State for Governor Cox.
/ While hopeful that conditions may Inn
prove to bring about a reversal 10 existing
conditions, even the Democratic national
leaders are not as confident as they would
like TO be regarding the prospects for
| their presidential candidate in this State
They have not abandoned hope, and
| appear to think that Tammany viii