New-York tribune., 1920-09-05
Nationwide Canvass by
Chairmen Indicates a
Landslide i'm Electoral
College for Hardin g
Administration of
Wilson the Issue
Many States Carried by
Him in 1916 Swing to
Party Ticket This Year


by an overwhelming popular and elec-
toral vote, according to canvasses made
under directions of chairmen of Re-
publican state committees in every
state in the Union.
The canvass, which was made at the
instance Of Will H. Hays, while not
completed in all the states, has gone
far enough to cause the officials at
national headquarters to predict the
election of Senator Harding and Gov
ernor Coolidge by an electoral vote
of 346 to 1856 for Cox and Roosevelt.
The canvass made in twenty Western
states has been completed. and six of
them which went Democratic four years
ago will go heavily for the Republican
ticket this fall, the figures show.
These six states which will swing
back into the Republican column on
November 2, according to the state
chairmen, are Colorado, Kansas, Ken
lucky, Missouri, Nebraska and Ohio.
Have Sixty-nine Electoral Votes
The electoral vote in these six states
is seventy-nine, apportioned as fol-
lows: Colorado, g.; Kansas, 10; Ken
lucky, 13; Missouri, 1S; Nebraska, 8;
Ohio, "a.
1t is conceded by Democratic leaders
in private talks that California, which
gave Wilson its thirteen electoral votes
in 1916, will go Republican this year.
In fact, in 1916 Hiram johnson was
elected United States Senator by a
plurality of more than 100000. Resent
ment on the part of Johnson's follow
ers at what they considered slight on
Johnson by Charles E. Hughes is what
caused the Johnson followers to knife
Hughes, thus giving the election to
Wilson and Marshall.
The total vote in the Electoral Col
lege is 531. 1t takes a majority, or
that Harding and Coolidge will have
80 votes to spare.
The chairmen of twenty Western
states, including Kansas, Colorado,
Missouri, Nebraska, Kentucky and
Ohio, together with the vice -chairmcn
and other high officials of the state
committee met in Chicago last Tues
day, and held three-days' conference.
National Chairman Hays presided.
They discussed the campaign and the
progress being made in their states,
and told of the methods by which they
made their canvasses. These all were
conducted in the most impartial way
The canvassers were instructed to be
careful, as the figures were for the use
of the national committee, and they
acted accordingly.
The officials of the Republican State
Committee of Kansas were first to re-
port: They declared that the state
would 60 for Harding and Coolidge by
plurality of more than 100000. This
news startled the national committee
0ff1N0rQ IN
Hays, for Kansas in 1916 gave Wilson
majority over Hughes of 5000.
Similar Reports by Others
Other states made similar reports,
showing that the turnover of Demo-
be so large as to insure q Republican
landslide.
with the women voting throughout
the country the vote this year will be
tremendous. The officials at the Repub-
lican national headquarters do not be-
licve that single backward state will
dare to deprive the women of the vote.
They regard the action of the anti
suffragists in the Tennessee Legislature
in seeking to annul the ratification of
the woman suffrage amendment as
puerile.
Mr.. Hays, discussing the conference
of the twenty Western states, said last
night, on his return to New York from
Chicago, that the background Of all the
trend toward Republicanism this year
is the shocking Democratic maladmin-
istration of the last eight years.
"The conferences at Chicago" said
Chairman Hays. "werc attended ~ the
state charmcn, vice -chairmcn and
state department; heads from twenty
states-about two hundred men and
women. 1t was a splendid gathering,
with an unprecedented spirit Of VIC
tory: From everywhere the reports are
the same, all assuring overwhelming
Republican success.
"Thc state chairmen all say that this
grows out of the confidence IN Repub-
lican capacity to meet tho difficulties
and problems ahead, and also out Of
most certain determination on the part
of the voters to end the Dcmocr ratio
Administration. They all insist that
behind everything Is the black back
ground of eight years of shocking Den-
ocratic administration, which has SO
offended all their sense of propriety,
fairness and efficiency that its end is
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