The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-11-01

CLAIM VICTORY
SURE TOMORROW
Harding's Campaign Ended,
Cox Will Close Tonight
CLOSING DAY SENSATION
Story Circulated in States Along Mas
on and Dixons Line that Hard
ing Had Negro Ancestor

New 1OrK, NOV. l.-lne fTbSlueHt-
ial campaign has practically closed
and the workers of both parties are
preparing for tomorrow's strenuous ef-
fort to get out the vote.
Senator Harding finished his speech
making Saturday night and is resting
today at his home in Marion.
Governor Cox believers a final adj
dress in Toledo this evening and will
not reach his home in Dayton until
tomorrow morning.
The final sensation OF the campaign
was the circulation OF printed circu
lars in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, West
Virginia and Pennsylvania claiming
that Senator Harding had a taint OF
negro blood
This attack was promptly proved
false and absolutely without founda.
tion and prominent Ohio Democrats
have taken the lead in branding the
story as an eleventh hour roorback,
In some back districts the falsehood Is
expected to hurt Harding a little but
when the facts become known the re-
action is likely to prove in Harding's
favor.
Will II. Hays, chairman of the Re-
publican National Committee, summed
up the case OF Senator Harding in
statemen in which he de,ned the is.
sues Of the campaign. These issues
he declared, necessarily are personl-
fed by the candidates"
Frank lin ID Roosevelt, vice presi-
dental nominee of the Democratic
party, made public a statement re-
viewing the campaign as il has been
waged and predicting that election
day will bring only cne possible re.
su't-the Reputation of Senator Hard
ing as the representative of reaction
at home and abroad"
Mr. Hays statement says:
The issues are plain
Upon the Democratic side Won have,
1-lnternationalism. Involving the
United Stetes contrary to its tradi-
tions and for the FIRST time In its his
tory in a military alliance with four
other great powers TO superimpose
Their will upon all other peoples on
earth.
wisconsin, comprising the truly
dreadful effects of unDreparedness for
both war and peace. an unprecedented
orgy of waste and extravaganza a
wholly unintelligent and ruiuous tax
at'cn and an aggregation of executive
heads notoriously matehless for inef-
| fciencv.
3-Campaign methods.
4-James NJ Cox.
Upon the Republican side you have:
1-Amerlcanism. comprehending the
preservation of the Independence of
the Republic. the faith of the Fathers.
the integrity of the constitution and
an earnest desire to ioin with all 9th.
ar fee nations in an honorable as
sociation designed without impairment
~ self-control of self respect to main.
tain universal peace upon the endur-
ing basis OF Justice established under
aw rather than of authority asserted
by force
2-Comprehension OF vital domestic
problems and determination TO solve
them through intelligent and sympa,
thetic corporations OF all depart
ments instead Of BY the arrogant dom
nation of one. .t.u
| ga campaign worthy OF the party's
traditions and the .country's honor.
Warren G.. Harding.
! g. Calvin Coz lidge. ..o-
Isonify the issues, ! would ask for nc
contrast more vivid. ..,.
Even as chairman of the Republican
National Committee. therefor, / make
no appeal specifically or exclusively t
Republicans. My few plain words arr
addressed to all true Americans, II /.
not a partisan appeal. It is an appea
of patriotism.
simply ask them to vote without
fail, conformably to the admonitioni
of their conscience, their patriotism
: and their common sense.
The final prediction statement o
Mr. Rooseyent was as follows:
Four months of a lcng uphill fgh
have come to a close Seldom befor,
in American political history havv
candidates on one national ticket hat
/, to face such a carefully organized OF
position. 1t has been an opposite
appealing to all that is negative ant
most that is sordld din human nature
We started out against fearful odds
The nation was in state of unrest
letdown following the tension o
- war. This state of mind was capital
zed by Republican campaign mainag
lers. In addition to this, they hav
sought to inHame the prejudice of fol
eign born citizens. Finally, II is wei
: known that the whole support of tn
present Republican machinery come
I from the group of interests and pol
}. toians in the United States, which a
/ ter twenty years. can still best be dl
/ scribed as the executors and legatee
4 of the political will of Mark Hanna.
k Starting with the Chicago conyel
o tion. the Republican manager ha
/ shown a cynical and contemptuous di'
@ regard of everything that progressive
have stood for In both parties.
It 1t has been difficult to bring bot
1t sides of the campaign before the vo
I. ers because of the simple fact that
II large majority of the newspapers hay
n passed into Republican control.
r Governor Cox and have made
e very sincere effort to point out tn
IS basic rather than the superficial I
II sues of the campaign If the voter
y realize that this is a deep.seated stru
1t g'e between two different conception
d of government-that is II is the o.
p tight between the progressively min
* ed and the reaetlonists the results q
election day will furnish an owe