Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-24
DEMOCRATS CLAIM
KENTUCKY is WON
Republicans Making Des-
perate Efforts to Elect Ernst
to the U. S. Senate,
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Sfeeiai Oispatch to The Star.
!! ..r LOUISVILLE, KY, October 90
~ s Here is no limit to the democratic
msJor1fy in Kentucky"
Zen days before the election. this
.ne statement made by John l..
TTL.ayot, state campaign chairman.
ne tioe, the democrats are confident.
mas turned their way.
IN mat .a kentucky will again be found
~ me democratic column as far as
tne presidential ticket is concerned
practlcally admitted by the repub-
iicans, and some of the campaign Off
Gals are said to have conceded this
truth privately. But desperate efforts
are being made to get r. P. Ernst in
as republican senator,
Unbiased and experienced po1;tjcal
observers, however, assert that this
cannot be accomplished Senator 7 G.
w; beckham. it is conceded, will run
ee ann no ms ticket. but not more than
ures in the ffty-eight cities and
towns in Kentucky give the demo-
Gratis a majority of some 40O0-
something they never enjoyed in re-
cent years; The cities are largely re-
puoiican because of the big negro
cept the mountain sections arc dom
ocratlc. comparison of registration
ny ures or this year and 1916. if car
. req out proportfonately, should make
.ne heuaucky democratic majority
a a $4,000: IT the women in the
country districts turn out in larger
proportions than did their city SIS
strs. me majority will be larger. The
stTength of the national ticket. il is
caicuia1ea, will more than carry Sem
ator Beckham along.
Republicans Not Making Claims.
Republican leaders, who q month
ego saia Kentucky was doubtful, are
Tbi, 1ak!hg any claims at all now.
tnat gained when the Harding spe-
clal was here. The feeling then seem
60 10 be that the republican candi-
uate hao reached his zenith about Oc-
tooer l. but that he had been slip
ping since that time,
An air of victory pervades the dem-
ocratic headquarters. The party man
ayers declare that the rank and file
are aroused as never before and that
sneIr enthusiasm is an unfailing in
ulcation OF what may be expected at
the polls on election day
On the other hand those at the re-
pupncan OFFICES plainly portray their I'M
easihess as election day approaches
One OF the republican prophecies is that
,. laIr weather prevails and there is no
vember in the mountain districts
thereby making the streams fordable,
the eleventh district will turn out 80 900
or more majority and cut big figure in
aeciolng how the state shall go. This
Is regarded in the nature of an alibi by
the democrats. who presage victory no
matter what the weather.
The Independent Vote.
Though both parties are claiming the
independent vote, the indications are
Enthusiastically that the democratic ticket
VIII receive the preponderance of the
votes or those who do not recognize
classes of Independents, one the think
ing class, which scrutinizes men and
measures. and the other that sidesteps
the two dominant parties for other rea-
sons; The democrats claim that they
should poll IS per cent OF the former
class and get an even break with the
latter. There is no question that the
league of nations is a most popular
issue with the bulk of the independent
Kentucky is on fire politically this
year. An Indication of it is the regis
tration figures. There were 1l2.000
voters registered here this year Louis
ville,s population is 100000 in round
less. In Detroit there were 200. 900 reg
lstered voters in city of nearly 1000
600 persons. New York registered lit
tie over 900,0 voters, eight times as
many as Louisville, wirife its population
Everybody wears a button and eyery-
body talks politics.
The Irish Question.
The only fly in the democratic ONT
ment in the fifth U4ouisville) district
has been the attitude of some of those
favorable to the recognition of the
independence of Ireland. but this was
in great measure allayed by the
speech of w. Bourke Cochran of New
York, a noted leader of the Irish
cause. in Louisville last week. Mr..
Cochran drove it home that the
Friends OF Irish Freedom have moth
ing to expect from republican adj
ministration at Washington, since
Senator Harding had washed his
hands of the matter. and that their
only hope is in Gov. Cox. who had
promised to champion the Irish cause
before the league Of nations
Ernst, the republican senatorial
nominee, is coming in for a large
share of unfavorable comment for his
refusal to reply to the query pro-
pounded to him by the Irish -Ameri-
cans as to his position with regard to
the recognition of the so-called Irish
republic in the event Of his election,
MALCOLM W. RAYLEY.