Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-05
HARDING CLAIMS OHIO.
q. Q. p. Nominee Informed He VIII
Carry State by 10000.

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Carry State by $4,000.
Columbus, Oct. b.-Ohio is all set
for the finish Of what promises to be
one of the most spectacular cam
paigns In the states history. AS the
situation stands today. the republic
cans are quite distance in the lead
Conditions from practically all sec
tions of the state are not unlike those
which prevailed on the eve OF the
1914 Campaign when Cox was de-
feated for governor by Frank B. Will
lis, Willis is now the candidate fol
United States senator on the repeb-
lican ticket, and is wagins virtually
the same kind of fight he did in his
successful campaign in 1914.
Republican leaders are claiming
the state today all the way from 6o,-
600 to 100000. Many Of the democrat
10 chiefs arc quoted In confidential
interviews as conceding part OF the
republican claims, but are relying on
the last two weeks Of the campaiEn
to overcome the lead OF the Harding
Willis forces.
In preparing for the home stretch
drive the Cox people have mapped
one of the biggest speaking cam
paigns ever attempted in the state
that will have the honor Of sending
another president to Washington this
time.
Practically every headliner on the
democratic speaking list will be
shunted into the state between now
and November 2. Governor Cox him
self Is down on the program for six
teen speeches right at the close
Both men and women spelfbinders
are being mobilized for the mann
mouth drive. 1t is planned to haran-
que the populace not only in the
larger cities, but virtually at every
cross roads In the state. Thousands
Of automobiles are being listed and
the details are being worked out
with q wartime exactness.
The extensive plans being pushed
to completion by the democrats are
taken by the republicans as an ad-
mission that the democrats believe
the state is lost to them at present.
and that is he the explanation Of why
practically the entire force Of the
whole democratic national campaign
Is to be centered in the home state
of the two candidates at the >windup.
Meanwhile the republicans are cog
infant Of the smallest detail of the
opposition plan for the amammoth
drive, and say they will meet them
at every turn and at every cross road
with a stand that will not only stop
the drive, but will result in a coun-
ter drive which will sweep the Cox
forces off their feet.
The Ohio campaign is going to In
crease in bitterness in the next few
days, and what both sides are now
reasonably certain of it that person
abilities can not be entirely avoided.
In that event some rather sensational
pres stuff will be shot out over the
wires in the last two weeks Of the
battle.
But at present the conservative
and fmportial observers put Ohio in
the Harding column. The recent
speaking tour Of Governor Willis and
Col. Thodore Roosevelt has sci
Ohio on fire and has been just the
pep needed to stir the republicans to
a fighting pitch.
Some profess to see in the present
situation a landslide in Ohio, since
the plans for the windup preclude
the possibility of any one going to
selep with apathy. The harder the
fight the democrats make, they say
the greater will be the effort put
forth by the Harding people.