Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-24
/ EMOCRATS hopeful; re-
publicans sure.

EMOCRATS hopeful; re-
publicans sure
Such is the estimate of
the political situation
ten days in advance of election
which N. o. Messenger sends from
New York. where both national
committees have Headquarters.
This estimate is supported by
dispatches to The Star from it's
special political correspondents in
all parts of the country. The tide
toward Cox, which was discerned
to have set in two weeks ago, has
demonstrated that it is, in truth,
a tide, and not merely a back
wash. But it does not seem pos
sible that between now and No
vember ? it can rise high enough
to wash Harding from the secure
lead he undoubtedly holds today.
If the turn of the tide had come
a few weeks sooner there might
be different story to tell. But, if
time and tides wait for no man.
neither do they hurry themselves
situation as it is, and not as it
might have been. which we are
called upon to scrutinize.
x x y
1t generally was agreed. even by
democratic politicians. when they
talked in private, that Gov. Cox's
western trip was more or less of
a failure. He drew big crowds,
but didn't seem to make much of
an impression on his audiences.
His prospects were neither ma
terially better nor worse after he
had gone on. The results of his
trip east and through border
states are far more encouraging,
from a democratic standpoint. He
appears to be growing stronger
where it was expected he would
grow weaker
The same seems to be true of
his home state of Ohio. A dispatch
from Columbus says that while
Ohio republicans are not alarmed.
they are very decidedly "sobered'
by the increasing sentiment for
Cox. This correspondent, who has
been conspicuously fair and ac-
curate. does not think there is any
chance that Cox can carry the
state, but he doesn't look for as
big a plurality for Harding as
seemed probable few weeks ago.
An overwhelming number of the
women registered. he figures. are,
going to vote the republican ticket.
and this, taken with the demon
strated switch of men from the
democratic to the republican ranks,
is expected not only to give Hard
srd ~rir hut IN
the entire state ticket through.
The Ohio democrats have been CEN
tering their fight against Mayor
Davis of Cleveland. the repub-
lican candidate for governor. but
the charges that he was too lib
eral' in mind and too tolerant of
vice do not seem to have had the
expected effect. It was hoped to
array the women and the rural
not appear that this is being ac-
comp1ished.
New York state furnishes an IL
lustration of how quickly political
conditions and issues can change.
They have a paramount" issue
all their own up there. so far as
the national tickets are concerned.
1t arises from the declaration in
the national democratic platform
in favor of construction of the St
Lawrence ship canal. New York
ers have been convinced that con-
struction of the ST. Lawrence canal
would put their own barge canal
out of business and would kill the
project of making Albany a sea-
port through which the traffic of
the great lakes would find an out
let to the ocean. Gov. Smith and
other candidates on the democratic
state ticket and for Congress have
declared themselves against the st.
Lawrence project, but it is writ
ten into their party platform and
is bound to influence many thou