Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-09-13
GOLD D|cGERs' PREDICT
sweep FOR HARDING
i'm the Vest Pocket of
VIII Hays.
CLAIM $40 ELECTORAL VOTES
! Kindly Conccdc South to Cox, Dcs-
pitc Slcmp, and Arc Worried By
- What Newly Enfranchiscd Women
May Do 10 Gamalici.
ny }. rpEDEnIc,< EssAur.

WASHINGToN, Sept. 12.--The sea-
son OF big claims. OF dead certainty
and without a shadow OF doubt is
upon the country and voters will be
RECALLED for the next two or three
weeks 10y political cNaEgerations in
NIL directions.
This sort a thing is Inevitable six
weeks or TWO months before each
presidential election OF course, as
the day OF voting draws nearer. the
champion claimerS become more and
more conservative, and this will hap
pen in this campaign. but meanwhile
: party morale viii he played upon
by .he leaders and high hopes raised
on the part OF the crcdulous.
The fa!Test sample OF this sor; OF
claim the-carth propaganda that has
proceeded for either camp is that just
put out by the gold diggers" OF the
Republican National Committee in
which it is asserted in AN absolutely
IA, and nnal fashion that Harding.
and Coolidge viii be elected on
November : by a majority so over-
whei'usas as 10 estound the opposi-
ton and all Ju; destroy the Demo-
cratic party
-Even the cxac; majority by which
tho Republican ticket Will be swept
Into power has been fixed Tho
states which are to produce this ma
jorl;y arc listed and everything put
down except the names OF the voters
themselves.
Election All Settled.
: According to the initial claim of
Nthe Republican committee based upon
a nationwide survey made by
Chairman lays. the Harding ticket
viii go across by u majority o: not
less than lGl electoral votes. In
other words the vote will be 346 for
Harding. and lS5 for Cox This IS 4
bigger electoral vote than Roosevelt
received in the race against Parker.
ana bigger than any candidate has
received in modern times except VIII
son in 1912 with the Republican party
split in TWO.
All the Western States, which or
dinarily 80 Republican. but which
jumped mystcriously to Wilson In
1916, will be back in the G. q. T..
column. ii is declared. In addition.
certain OF, the border States. vir-
tually all the Middle Western states
and all the Eastern States will 60
Republican,.
= Six States west of the Allegheny
Mountains, which went Democratic
four years ago. it is promised. will go
Republican this year beyond all Gucs-
lion. They are Colorado with votes:
kansas, 10; Kentucky. -: Missouri,
LIZ; Nebraska. s, and Ohio, "a.
=. Then too. California is placed
bodily in the Republican camp. II
lis set down cor something like $780,
1000 q. o. l. majority this year. not
---~'iths landing the fact that IL went for
: Wilson four years ago Tha; was a
.@"Guke" pure and simple, 1t Is pointed
t-out. rs shown by the size OF Hiram
tJohnson's majority OF more than
. 200, 900 AZ the same time
Enroll All "Douhtful" states.
-, or Indiana. Illinois. Iowa. Minnc4
-.sota. Wisconsin and Michigan. tho
-Eepublican managers n, this stage
entertain no doubts Whatever. The
@only question to be considered. they
-aver. is the size of the Republican
Smajorities in those s ucs.
- New York, New Jersey, Delaware.
and the whole OF New
England are placed securely In the
--Repub!ican. column.
SinSularLy enough. the South Is
+ awarded TO Governor Cox this year.
anotwithstanding The repeated assur-
-.snces tina, il Is about 10 be broken
The southernAepartEcnt OF ;hc Re
publican Ngi!o;.tl Committee under
,cthc management 1f Representative
,..Siemp. Of Virginia. is very active. and
.ls prepared TO spend considerable
1money 10 drive wedge into the
Democratic phalanx there. but Mr.
.-Siemp's associates. who made the re-
cent canvass. now hold out little or
.spo hope OF making much OF a dent.
- Also one or TWO Of the smaller
western States are placed in the
democratic column for good measure
--Dnd SINAI! handful Of States. includ-
-'lRG Maryland ana West Virginia. are
---still regarded as doubtful
-. II is aGruit,ed by the Republican
yromin!itcemen that the ba!iotlng OF
The women this year makes 1t dim
.t.nli TO determine, TOO far ahead OF
Zine. the approximate mujorl,tes
~'*hich Senator Harding VIII receive.
~IoId the Democratic committee be.
Aiieves that the vote OF the women of
-the country vii. knock the Harding
CALCULATIONS sky nigh" ana elect
Cox.