Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-30
DRIFT TO GOV. cox
SECUTED BY c. O.P.
.LEADERS|N GOTHAM
Hear Reports of Circulars
SIandering Harding Sent
Broadcast Over Nation.
BY n. o. MESSENGER.

NEW YORK. October 3O.-Both ma
tlonal headquarters would give a
pretty penny to know what has been
the result of this weeks campafgnins
OF Harding and Cox in Ohio and In
diana. AT democratic headquarters
every one is in state of high ten
sion and expectancy. They say they
near that there has been a drift to
COX. Has it gone far enough to wipe
out the Harding margin which ex-
lsted three weeks ago. is the question
AT republican headquarters is found
nothing but confidence and the drift
to Cox is secuted. The reports COM
ing from every source, they declare.
continue to be reassuring. The re-
publican managers think now they
will carry the Senate as well as the
presidency
Downton the real sports are put
,lng up their money, giving odds as
hlgh as seven to one on Harding
wall street betting has not always
been an infallible indication of the
tendency of the voting, but this year
the bettors are more assured than
IN many years that the conditions of
politics warrant laying such heavy
odds.
Discuss Harding SANDERS.
Around town everybody is talking
ABOUT the campaign of Slander against
Harding. The story now reaches
from coast to coast. In California
$4,000 leaflets were circulated. Peo-
pie are asking who is paying the bill
democratic national managers in
dignantly deny having any connec-
t1on with the miserable thing. The
average citizen who discusses it is
first shocked and then indignant.
The action of Wooster University
faculty in dismissing DR.. Chancellor
for his part in the odious thing is ex-
pected to react to the benefit of Hard
ing by creating sympathy for him.
But there are evidences that the
despicable story has had it's effect in
the border states to Harding's disad-
vantage. 1t may also cost the repub-
licans a senatorship in Kentucky
The best judgment of non-partisan
observers is that the sacrilegious car
toon incident has not damaged the
republicans seriously. While the car
toon outraged every ones sense of de-
cency. the sincere disavowal of spon-
sorship by Chairman Hays has been
generally accepted by the clergy and
there will be no concerted resentment
from the church.
Glad Campaign Is Over.
The sentiment which one hears ex-
pressed most frequently by the men
in the street is qualification that the
campaign is -over.--d Memory would
have to back track long distance to
recall a campaign in which there has
teen more INSTRUMENTATION, more
plain, garden variety Of lying than
this one.
Most of us, who have had to be in
contact with it., feel as if we would like
to, have a moral or psychological bath
with tar soap and scrubbing brush,
The cleanest part of the campaign
has been the state campaign in New
York. Both candidates for governors
are men of high character and both
very much beloved by the people. The
big republican landslide is expected to
carry the governorship with it and elect
the republican candidate, but Gov. AL
Smith is expected to run far ahead of
Cox.
No startling changes are expected in
the Congressional ticket in this state.
The republicans may pick up one or two
districts up state, as result of the land
slide, but Greater New York, the Con-
gress districts. will break along normal
lines.