The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-10-27
SAYS COX WILL
CARRY INDIANA
Republicans Are Weakened by
Party Factionalism and
Union Labor Opposition.
(5Y MARK suLLpgAN, National 20.
lItlcal Correspondent ~

| (1Y MARK SuLLpgAN, National 20
llticai correspondeut.)
Indianapolis, Oct 27.--of the nv,
states in this middle western countr.
lying between the Mississippi and tn
Appalachians and north OF the Ohio
Indiana is the only one that Cox ha
the best chance of carrying. His mex
best chance Is In Ohio.
In one OF the states, Michigan, h,
has absolutely no chance whatever
and In Illinois In spite OF the faction
alism within the republican ranks, Cos
has no chance. Also in Wisconsin,, al
though the factionallsm there is ever
worse than In Illinois. with the regu.
lar republicans trying to defeat the
party nominee for governor. and the
LaFollette republicans trying TO defeat
the party nominee for senator, Harding
will win,
II is In Indiana that Cox has his
best chance. The republicans now, and
for the past three weeks. have beer
claiming the state by about SIS. 900 foI
Harding. with the republican senatorial
candidate, Watson, $4,000 or 20, 00C
less. think these figures represent
really sound investigation and a rea-
sonably conservative point OF view on
the par Of the republicans. But 65,
600 is not an insuperable handicap for
state as large as Indiana, and there
the democrts.
Cox Strong With Union Labor.
First of all, Lake county. which con-
tains the news steel city OF Gary and
other industrial towns, is almost a
state In itself, and the best Judgment
is that Lake county will go strongly
democratic leaders. as wdl as repub-
licans, both groups claim this indus
trial region. But II seems, to me the
democrats have the better ground for
confidence. Union labor is strong in
Lake county, and wherever union labor
is strong Cox Is strong
/ think II can be stated as a gener-
alization, applicable to the country as
whole. that no other man who ever
ran for the presidency will have as
large union labor vote as Cox. The
American Federation of Labor Is work.
Ing zealously for him. fFor example,
have been told that the American
Federation of Labor recently sent
100000 into Kansas to be spent on Or
ganization work for Cox. From the
point of view of democratic success. +
think Kansas is poor place in which
to spend that much money and that 1t
could have been used to better advan-
tage in state less thoroughly COM
mitted to Harding. But / cite 1t merely
as an evidence of how thoroughly union
labor is devoted to Cox's cause. Union
labor will carry this industrial region
of Indiana for Cox
Furthermore, all the thirteen con-
gressmen and the two senators from
Indiana are republicans, and all of them
voted 70 rthe Esch- Cummins railroad
bill. Organized labor is making fight
against the Cummins- Esch bill, and
the aggregate of opposition to these
and senators for. this vote
must count a good deal. Similarly,
both these senators and all these con-
gressmen voted for prohibition, and in
the same way the aggregate of opposi-
ton to prohibition throughout the
state must count for something. 1t
may be conceded that support OF the
Cummins- Esch bill and prohibition was
a meritorious thing. but 1t still re-
mains as n fact In practical politics
that the aggregate Of opposition
throughout the entire state to both
these measures is democratic asset.
Other Hopes for Democrats.
Moreover, Indiana, and especially the
Indianapolis, is as commu-
mites go, rather strong proleague ter
ritory. Both the great papers in In
lianapolis have been strongly proleague.
Still further, Indiana is one of those
states in which the wounds of the pri-
mary contest last spring are still
bleeding. There was a bitter state
vide primary in which Wood. Lowden,
Johnson and Harding all participated. /
Harding ran a very bad fourth. Nat
lrally. when he turned out a winner at
Chicago, the Indiana supporters Of the
'ther three, who had been worked up