The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-13

ernor's references to big business and
the newspapers which are fighting the
Nonpartisan league are unintentionally,
perhaps, helping Cox by insisting that
his speeches are Nonpartisan league doc
trine OF course, there are two ways Of
looking at that, too, for the foes of the
Nenpartisan league think they have the
upper hand this year and that they are
delivering a blow at Cox at the same
time that they are fighting the radicals
Still, the Democratic national leaders
here are pleased both by the kind Of de-
nunciation given Cox and the praise be-
slowed by Non-partisan league news
papers The friends of Cox believe the
Nonpartsan league is still the dominant
lpolitical force III this state and say that
whoever gets the leagues support will
win the electoral vote of North Da-
kota. s
just now it looks as if the Nonparti-
san league was leaning toward Cox,
though whether the purpose is to com
pei the Republican, national committee
to send funds here to the Nonpartisan
leagues membership on the Republican
state central committee or whether, as
so many Democrats think, it is the nat
ural utilization of radicals with Cox, a
closer friend of theF Nonpartisan league
doctrine than is Harding's philosophy Of
government, is difficult to conjecture.
Even the natives profess inability to
forecast iust what the Nonpartisan league
will do this year. The leaders of the
Nonpartisan league told the writer the
state would go for Harding unless the
Republican national committee "blun-
dered.' which is another way of saying
that any funds sent to North Dakota
must be dispensed by the regular Re-
publican state central committee, which
il controlled by the league, or there will
he n resentment vote against Harding
which. together with the Democratic
strength, would. shift the electoral vote
for Cox
Inside the Democratic organization are
two wings, both united on the subject
Of Cox. but one less friendly than the
radicals have bored within all organiza-
tions in North Dakota and managed to
confuse the issues.
In nutshell, the best information
available from friends of Governor Cox
Is that il the Nonpartisan league ism,
offended by the Republican national
committee. the state win go for Harding.
A good deal of uncertainty prevails
about the women vote. Women have
never voted for presidential electors be.
fore In the rural districts it is doubted
whether the Germans and Russians and
other foreigners will allow their wives
to vote. as they have always been more
or less hostile to generai suffrage Also,
many of the women in the country Will
not be able to travel to the polls if their
husbands want to go away to vote
The Democrats here feel that Cox will
get the bulk of the rural vote and the
majority of masculine votes in the state,
hut that the towns and cities win go for
Harding, and that the city women VIII
he able to get to the nolls and double
tho .Repnblican vote Here's one state
where the Democrats would have pre-
ferred 30 see the suffrage amendment
go unratifed until after the election,
though some of their number insist that
the campaign on the league OF nations
will bring out the feminine vote. The IN
clination Of the state is. toward Hard
ing.