Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-12
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LANDSLIDE LIKELY
T0H|T MICHIGAN
tHarbingers of a Smashing
Republican Victory
Are Found.
STATE AND NATIONAL
TICKETS BOTH MAY WIN
Cox Fund Charges Create Some Dis
content, But People Demand
Substantial Proof.
BY n. o. MESSENGER.

By n. o. MESSENGER.
DETROIT. September lin this
state. where you cannot throw stici
into . group of men around bulletin
board without hitting republican head
politics seems to be running true tt
form. and form in Michigan means q
smashing republican majority in No
vember. Michigan has proved In the
past that it can depart from normal. az
in 1912, when 1t went Overwhelmingly
for Roosevelt against Taft, but that
vote was not a revolution within the
party it was a vote of protest agains,
what Michigan republicans deemed un-
fair treatment of Roosevelt by the re-
publican national convention.
But all those Roosevelt republicans
are back on the job now. They will
vote the national ticket. because it is
republican and because they detest the
democratic party, all its works and all
its policies proposed for the future. The
governorship will probably go along
with the presidential ticket and in that
event A. ]. Groesbeck will be elected
over w. n Ferris, democrat. who twice
before carried the state for the gov
srnorship.
May Rebuke Dictation.
Detroit is expected to furnish one
striking instance of rebuke to or
ganised labor for attempted dicta-
tion to union labor in behalf of the
democratic party. At a meeting of
the Detroit Federation of Labor last
week officials of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor asked support for
the farmer-labor ticket, but it is cal
culated by politicians that the work.
inEmen generally will go to the polls
Nsssmbsr 2 and vote their regular
party pfedflections. -
When Senator Hiram johnson
eenes to town he is -expected-~to.
elinch the vote Of the labor men who
su5Dort4d him for the presidential
nomination. Wayne county. which
includes Detroit. gave him over 10000
votes for the nomination. They like
his radicalism here and they support
his stand on the league Of nations.
Labor claims to have exerted in
auance In the defeat for renomina-
tion .of Representative Currfe in the
tenth congressional district. Labor
biacklisted him and indorsed the man
Who was nominated. Roy o. Wood
ru6. Mr.. Currie was sin bad" with
the miners Of his district. a result of
his course in q recent strike, and the
blacklisting Of organized labor put
tho finishing touches to his candidacy.
LooAu Like Solid G. O. p. Delegation.
II looks now that Michigan will send
. solid republican delegation to the
House Of Representatives, including
the drst district. DetroiG. so long rep
resented by Doremus. democrat, who
held his place by sheer force of per.
sonality and in recognition of his
services to the district and the state
Judge George p. Codd is the repub-
fican candidate. and Francis Murphy
the democratic. In the thirteenth dis
trict. Detroit. which is normally re.
publican by 5000. two young Irish.
men, both employed in the same mu.
nicipal ofhce. are contesting for the
election-Vincent NJ. Brennan, repub.
1ican, and James H. Lee, democrat
After his nomination Brennan found
he lived outside his district, and hi.
opponent IL playing that fact W
against him.
Detroit has grown so amazingly
that besides the two congressiona
districts within the city limits the
rftv has vno ch al ont ;nto tho ,aco,d
sixth and seventh. in part.
Newspapers Are Independent.
The newspapers of this great city
are remarkably independent in DO.
litical spirit, Notwithstanding the big
republican vote. The newspaper.
treat the politicians on their merits
praising or condemning, or ridiculing
and the readers like it.
OF course, an inquirer's question
would naturally be directed to wha
effect the campaign fund investiga
tions is having hereabouts. Well, t,
begin with, campaign money is a sor
subject here, since the Newberry trial
Gov. Cox realized this when he cam
INV 14iSAiSou ~ dSCcHtudIe nj
charges about the republican fund b,
pointing out the Newberry "horribl
example," and seeking to establish al
analogy. He then went his way, re
pnarking: "Now guess that will holt
you for a while
People in a position to test the sens
Of the community say that IL Gov. Co.
makes good his charges it will defiec
some OF the floating or Independent
votes to the democratic ticket, but tn
impression is that he has not substan
tiated them yet The people are dis
guste5 with the whole thing an,
growing impatient over it. 1t is no
thought by careful observers here tina
the election is in any danger Of beinl
lost to, the republicans by what ha
been developed thus far.
Takes Republican View OF League.
Michigan seems to be pretty well Sc
on the league Of nations question, an,
Is taking the republican end Of i,
That was evidenced in the johnson
vote for the nomination. and has bee]
accentuated since.
The one element Of danger whicl
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