Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-10-04
DEMOCRATS INSIST
REPUBLICAN TIDE
IS At THE PEAK
While Democratic Trend is Now
On Upward Move and VIII
Keep Going.
FEEL SURE OF GETTING
INDEPENDENT STATES
sr-~cial Dispatch to Every Evening
Nv IouiS Seibold.

Nav, Work Oct. a-Democratic and
p.n,,hbcan managers have already begun
a. revise their original estimates OF the
results of the Presidential contests ex-
nected by them-the former upward and
,he latter downward. The Democrats are
mreh more optimistic than they were a
couple of weeks ago.
The Replblicans are quite as confident
that there will be no developments during
the remainder of the campaign To change
the prospects, which are wholly gratifying
10 them TO be on the safe side, the
more conservative leaders, like hays,
Daugherty, Weeks. Hllles and Hert, who
constitute the board of strategy, have set
about scaling down the estimates made
hy the leaders Of State organizations;
II is even possible now to secure hitherto
unavailable admissions that there are
weak spots IN the Republican situauoh
that NAV help the Democratic Presl-
dential candidate. There are apparently
nome in tho grcup Of States along the At
lantic seaboard north of the Potomac
River: that is, as far as the Harding ticket
q concerned.
NocHaNar IN THE FAST.
Popular sentiment as reflected by the
Democratic and Republican leaders and
IN the newspapers seems 90 make reason
ably certain the delivery to MIR Harding
II the lal electoral votes Of Name, New
Hampshre, Vermont, Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey,
Ntw York and Pennsylvania
Thu impressive total Just about bai-
arce. the electoral votes Of the Southern
States which Governor Cox IS sure To
land. The ''weak spots" in the Republican
IL ~ nj Eae
States. at lenst, affect Senatorial, guberna-
tnr,sl and b. some extent local candidates
n MINOR importance. Local conditions IN
which there enters n great deal of un-
certainty regarding the actual influence
~ the League of Nations issue encourage
the Democrats 90 believe that they can
hcat Moses, Brandegee and Wadsworth,
che Republican candidates for the Senate IN
New Hampshire. Connecticut and New
York. with n very fair prospect OF &C
complaining the defeat Of Miller, the other
Republican candidate for governor IN
Ahe latter State.
The Dsr,ocrstic managers, who assert
that the campaign has Just started, IN
s,.t that the Republicans have reached
the reak Of their activities and prospects
and from tins time on the breaks will
h. with Governor Cox. They insist that
the Dernocrxt,c Presidential candidate
has won the support of most Of the Far
Western States. and that he VIII clinch
h,r hold on Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia,
Kentucky and Missouri during the tour
he Is 10 inAngIrate the coming week
purA SIDES SHIFT GUNS.
IA i. manifest from the attitude of both
ncmocra,ic and Republican managers
that barring the unexpected, they do not
look for any radical change IN the Indi-
Gated results Of the Presidential contest
IN the East. Both SIDES have shifted their
heaviest financial and verbal gun to the
clump Of States IN the middle section OF
the country between the Alleghanies and
the Mississippi. Ii is there that the final
conflict viii take place.
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