The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-30

necessary.
 lint these figures are those of tnree weeks ago before the "brcaks" began to go against the republican party and to mark the turn of popular opinion toward Cox and Roosevelt. Blundertng by the republican management at . stage when 1t seemed they could not lose and q surprising recrudescencc of popular interest and approval of the League of Nations the two most important fundnmenta causes for the improved democratic chances manifest among voters in all parts of the country. The turn Coward developed afte- the Des Moines speech of Harding, and became even more emphatic as the re- publican candidate was enmeshed in a confusion of ideas that no amount of explanation has succeeded in dssipat- ing.
 The discomfiture of Harding was aggrevated by the success that at tended the efforts of President Wilson and Governor Cox to arouse the moral conscience" of the country to the sup port of the League of Nations. plus splendid team work of party organi- a tions.
 The democratic managers declare that the movement away from the Harding Coolidge ticket has assumed the proportions of crusade. The re- publican managers while admitting that which is obvious 10 an impartial ob- server declare that they have not lost anything like the vote which demo- cratic judgment saysh as been slipping away from the republican presidential and senatorial candidates.
 The republican explanation is that the democratic management has been forced to make a show in the closing hours of the campaign, but that the Improvement hailed by the latter .s more apparent than real This state ment is refruted by evidence of a most substantial character
 MARSH'S REASONS
 Democratic Treasurer Marsh. who's faith, which is of the sort that moves mountains, provol1es him to declare: We are going to win because tie r.oral sense of the country will not let us lose" He has received q larger volume of contributions during the last two weeks than came to hand in 1916. That is good augury, principally be- cause it points to growing confidence when non existed month ago
 Coupled with this irrefutabIe
 reasoning are many other circum-
 stances that nre held to show the
 swing away from the republican,
 candidates. the deep impression
 made by the IenRuc of Nations
 fight the voting mind. the ~our-
 sgcous campaign conducted by Governor Cox, President WfIs0n's
 highly impressive appeal to the wis
 dom of the people. the nFront to
 devout religious fervor of voters
 of the Catholic faith, evidences of
 panic among state leaders smugIy
 confident of s'landsIide" a month
 ago, unexpected demands for
 money from quarters that scoffed
 at the suggestion that any would
 be required, the restless shifting of
 views that presagcs the readjust-
 ment of precOnceived desires and
 the sense cf civic duty. finaI awak-
 enfnE of women voters to the in-
 estimable benefits of the demo-
 cratic programme, the resentment
 of white voters against the set
 ting up of eHtrnvagant rnec dis
 tinctfOn.
 All of these things have. combined to make for decided improvement in democratic chances.
 Whether it shall finally crystalize into permanent voting value is a mat ter of individual opinion. They have established beyond intelligent dispute the fact that there VIII be no land. slide" predicted by the republican man ager a few weeks ago.
 SOME FIGURES
 Now as to figures: The republican statistics; those of the opposition de- statistics: those of the oporrition de- tect glarng discrepancies in discussing them. The concessions made by the rival managers are far apart There is partial democratic assent to the e iaims Of the republican managers that they will carry: