The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-15
is AF TER VOTES
FROM WOMEN
Senator Harding Has Opened
Fight to Capture This I'm
portant Branch Of
Ballot.
cox AFTER BULL Moos7
Democratic Candidate Hopes to
Up Prosressives Who Have
BoIted Old
Party.
COX AFTER BULL Moos7
l[By Raymond Clapper, United Press

by Raymond Clapper, United Press
Staff Correspondent
4 MARION, Ohio, July 15.-Senatol
Harding has opened fight to capture
the woman's vote in face of the re
cent refusal of Vermont's republican
governor to call special session oi
the legislature to act on the suffrage
amendment
/ Plans of militant suffragists. to
make anti-Harding capital out ot
Governor Clements action have been
thwarted by the republican candi
dates warm defense of his party's
suffrage record in public statement,
his friends believe.
Harding's action, his advisers
hoped, would put the party and the
nominee SO clearly on record as
favoring suffrage that militants would
find little reason for picketing the
/ Harding front porch July %, as
PLANNED.
Republican leaders apparently haze
given up hope that republican
I state will be thirtv-sixth to ratify,
but Harding displayed impatience
with extreme suffragists who over
look the party's record.
! Harding is finding it difficult to
keep down his appointments. He will
continue to work in seclusion as much
tof the day as possible.
Cox After Progressives.
| by Herbert w. Walker, United Press
! Staff Correspondent
! COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 49,
! James NJ Cox, democratic nominee,
in his campaign tours, plans to direct
"a strong appeal toward the progress
sive elements Of both parties.
Cox and Franklin d. Roosevelt
probably will have an early confer
ence with cambridge Colby, now
secretary of state, and Victor Muir
dock, of the federal trade commission
former bull moosers, to discuss plans
ito bring remnants of the old progress
Isive party into the democratic fold.
Colby, Murdoch and other bull moos-
iers. now lined up with the demo-
!crats, will be asked to take promi
nent part in the campaign, it was
Learned.
Another feature of the Cox-progres-
sive campaign will be an attempt to
paint Senator Harding as a reaction
ary, as indicated in the democratic
nominees statement yesterday.
Just as Senator Harding appar-
emily is trying to split the democrats
on the league issue, Cox seems to be
bent on causing row in the repub-
lcan ranks over the senator's pro
posed front porch campaign by de-
nouncing it as non-progressive.
Harry M. Daugherty, Harding's con-
vention manager, in statement re-
plying to Cox declared that eat no
time has decision been reached to
adopt the front porch campaign"
There will be no final decision reach
ed until the national committee
meets, he said.
Cox today declined to indicate his
preference for the Craftsmanship of
the democratic national committee
which is to meet here to formulate
campaign plans next Tuesday.
To Compare Labor Records.
WASHINGTON, July 15.--A COM
parison OF the labor records of Gov
ernor James M. Cox and Warren G.
Harding, democratic and republican
presidential candidates. will be
issued by the American Federation of
Labor soon it was expected today
The data on the candidates follow
ed the federation's statements on
both platforms. The statements on
the democratic platform issued yes
terday says that the democratic plat
form marks a measure of progress
not found in the platform Of the re-
publican party"