The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-10-26

SWING BACK
To HARDING
G.. o. P. NOMINEE WILL GET 20 PER
CENT OF RAILROAD VOTE
IN OHIO
City OF willard, Ohio, Cited Az Ex-
ample Of 3. & o. System
in Ohio.

| willard. O., Oct. 25.-Thcre has
been swing back TO Harding, of about
, twenty percent Of the railroad men on
! the baltimore e Ohio system in the
! last two weeks.
Trend among -ailroaders is back 10
almost normal. but time IS too short
| to undo the extensive propaganda worK
of Samuel Gompers' force before the
: national campaign got under way.
! If the present drift keeps up this
week one of the widest and hottest
campaigns in OhiO's history, raiiroad
workers. including shopmcn. Will di,
vide about sixty percent for Cox and
/ forty percent for Harding. Ninety days
ago. Cox had the railroad vote almost
! solid in some spo.s in his home state
This was because T Tsch.Cumm SM 'u law
which Gompers' forces, including
! Brotherhood officials. had painted as
! vicious and wholly inimcal to inter-
| ests OF railroadcrs. The attempt, nov"
/ ever, Of Gompers TO deliver organlzeu
! labor cnmasse TO the Wilson regime
has resulted in SOME resentment.
Republicans also finally have got
| busy, although sir." days TOO ialG' anu
have been making 'adway with iltcra,
lure and speakers who have gone 10
| bat on the Esch- Cummins law without
| apologies, but in defense OF IL.
This town is named after Daniel
! Willard, president OF the Baltimorc q
! Ohio. Perhaps no town on the entirc
! system thinks so kindly of Willard as
! this one. That's why few years ago
the citizens decided to change us name
| in honor of him. ~
Five divisions Of the Baitino[e O.
! Ohio center here. Chicago. Toledo, New
Castle, Cleveland nd Newark 1t IS
! Il railroad town s.. rounded by a rich
farming district. But the notlceapie
thing is that older railroad men VINO
own homes here arc pretty sehera4's
Shonmcn' where a more radical ele-
| mcnt ~ found. are strong Tor cox put
the town itself is one of the pest IN
northern Ohio of IT'S class, and Will go
n, least two TO one for Harding. Even
among younger railroad men there Is
| an Indication that they in the w!ndup
will vote about as their iathers anu
grandfathers did. Some OF the strons,
est Harding men are young railroad
rIen whose fathers were Mckinley men
in 1896. There is no caste system
here. railroad men, particularly ths
| older men. are prominent IN CIVIC anu
! lodge life of the city. Despite PoIitl-
! " and not at all excited: Discussions
are friendly: no wild Cox sentiment
| among them, but large number pelleVe
/ the Esch-Cummins bill has some ter
Willard has the best railroad Y. NJ
! Z. A. building in Ohio. Secretary Jen-
| kins served in France and he's me
strongest Harding man IN the "hole
! state. ., o-
| trainmen became marked after Con-
gressman Cooper NJ Youngstown spoke
here. That was the first time thcy
! heard one Of their own men explain
| the Esch-CumminS bill from start to
finish. But Cox will get cq psn Tbms
the best Of the railroad vote here, whiie
/ Huron county will so 10 Harding in
! a landslide vote. w
There is comparatively little Demo
/ n farming
| trirt in this section where new women
voters are strong for Harding because
! they believe him to be a good man.
! clear across northern Ohio in the farm
! inr districts and small villages Hard
| ing will get vote comparable to Nc
! K:nley's strength N 1895. Outside OF
! Industrial ccnters campaign sentiment
! IS almost a duplicate Of Mckinley days.
! Cox has no chance whatever with Inc
| agricuIturist and villagers. he VIII
: have to rely almost wholly on lndus'
trial ccntcrS and organized labor dis
! tr.cts for his big vote.