New-York tribune., 1920-10-24
Harding May
Win Illinois
By 100000
Democrats, Admitting the
Senator Has State, Are
Fighting to Name ]. III.
Lewis for Governor
By Carter Field

CHICAGO, Oct. 23.-Illinois, whose
electoral vote in 1892 put Grover Cleve-
land back in the White House, is so OBJ
viously and overwhelmingly Republican
this year that in q trip over the state,
all the way from egypt" up to Chi
cago, did not meet a single Democrat
who hoped to have the twenty nine
electoral votes of the state in the Cox
and Roosevelt column
Harding's majority in Illinois may
reach 100000, and will almost certainly
be in excess of 100000 | met one Re-
publican, Len Small, nominee for Gov
ernor, who said there would be 180O,-
600 votes cast, of which Harding would
get 10000 He said this to illustrate
his own confidence of election, since it
is generally admitted that no state can
didate will run up anywhere near Har-
ding. However, Smalls claims sound
slightly exaggerated.
The one real battle in the state is
that for the GovernorsNip. TN Demo
cratic nominee, James Hamilton Lewis,
he OF pink -whiskered fame, has en-
joyed an amazing run of luck during
his political life. Born in Virginia and
raised in Georgia, Mr.. Lewis went out
to Washington as young man and
was elected to the House of Repre-
sentatives. Then he moved to Illinois,
became City Attorney of Chicago, and
picked up the choicest plum the Demo-
Gratis in the state have had to parcel
out for some years--a United States
Senatorship. He was beaten for re-
election two years ago by Medill Nc
Cormick, but demonstrated at that time
such an amazing ability as vote get
ter that the Democratic organization
here simply forced him to take the
gubernatorial nomination this year.
Wilson Appeal Hurt Lewis
1t should be recorded in defense Of
Lewis's political judgment that he did
not want to run for reelection two
years ago, but was forced to run by
President Wilson's appeals Strangely
enough, it is generally conceded that
if it had not been for President Will
sons appeal for the election of q Dem
ocratic Congress two years ago, Lewis
probably would have been reelected
That appeal here more than almost
anywhere, due to the enormous Re
publican strength in the state, unlhed
the parties and reduced Independent
voting to a minimum.
Lewis has to aid him the aftermath
of one Of the bitterest primary fights
the Republicans of Illinois have ever
had. Every detail of Illinois politics
is connected and interviewer at the
present time with the feud between
Governor Frank O. Lowden and Mayor
William Hale Thompson. The Lowden
forces won narrow victory IN the
nomination of William B. Mckinley for
United States Senator, but the Thomp-
son forces nominated Small for Gov
ernor Frank l.. Smith, member of
the House Of Representatives was the
Thompson candidate for Senator He
had connections with the Lowden or
ganization, too, as he had been man
ager in Washington for the Lowden
Presidential boom. John &. Oglesby
was the Lowdcn candidate for Gov
crnOr.
Strange as it may seem, there is no
particular bitterness over the nomlna-
ton of Mckinley for Senator. Frank
l., Smith is travelling on the "Har-
mony Special' and is working hard
for Mckinley. This does not mean that
there will be no cutting of Mckinley
Thousands and perhaps tens of thou
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