The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-10-30
HAYS AND WHITE BOTH
SupREMELY CONF|DEN
Of SUCCESS ON TUESDAY
Republican and Democratic Managers Predict Vic
When Largest Vote in History Will Be Cast
BY WILL H. HAYS.
Chairman Of the Republican Ma
tional Committee.

III WILL II. HAYS.
Chairman of the Republican Ma
tional Committee.
written for the United Presst)
New York. Oct. 30.-At the close
Of every game the country hears of
political drifts. Sometimes they are
real and more often mythical. The
close of the 1920 campaign, how
ever, reveals a drift so monumental
and overwhelming that there is no
mistaking its portent.
1t is a drift toward America and
Americanism. and is in evidence
from coast to coast and lake to gulf.
1t is confined to no state or sec
ton. 1t means that the nation will
speak on next Tuesday as it has
seldom. if ever. spoken before in all
our political history. 1t means a
sweeping condemnation and popu-
lar rebuke of the Democratic party
for its misdeeds and maladministra-
tion these past eight wears and the
restoration to power Of the Repub-
lican party by large and, in many
states, unprecedented majorities.
l believe all this. and believe 1t
implicitly, because l have 100 per
cent confidence in the discernment
and common sense of the American
people and because l have 100 per
cent evidence that this mass intelli-
gence and intuition will not mis-
carry at the polls.
~America First"
The American people know that
America first" means more than
the preservation Of free republic
against the over-lordsbip of super
government at Geneva where ou.
sovereignty would sing to ratio
F., OF one to six in comparison with
Britain, a ratio of one to, forty OF
fifty in comparison with the balance
of the world. They know that
America first" equally means that
there are scores of domestic prob
lems-intimately related to Amer
ican life and livelihood to
every American hearthstone-which
, must have constructive and pro-
gressive attention if "America
first" is to last, and they are fully
awake to the fact that the Wilson
party and the Democracy in the
challenging presence of these prob
lens. has stood impotent and il
confused bankruptcy.
Apart from the orgy of waste anC
extravaganza at Washington, witt
the spectacle of padded payroll!
and official .incompetency and gov
ernmental incapacity presented OF
every side and which have bur
dened the people with taxation, thu
written and spoken record Of broker
promises spells the defeat OF vii
sonism and all it's works. Eigh
years ago Woodrow Wilson, candi
date for the presidency. indulged il
rhetorical flights about the higl
cost Of living and promised immed
late relief. If elected. Tell-tal
Photographic discs, to this day, il
the face of steadily mounting price
from the time he entered the Whit
house. speak forth his broken prom
ises. All that the Democratic ad
ministration has ever done abou
E the high cost of living has been L
put its cabinet officers on the plat
form and stump to talk about it.
In all Democratic convention
prior to 1912, Thomas Jefferson wa
lauded as the Democratic patro
saint. In the platform Of 1900 hi
historic words were quoted and tn
Democratic party irrevocabl
pledged to avoid foreign entangle
ments.
Mere Wilson Party.
In the present campaign Demo
cratic spellbinders, from Candidat
Cox down, have not dared to mer
ton Thomas Jefferson's name.
What was once the Democrat
! party-the party of Jefferson. Jacl
son and Grover Cleveland, has i
these past eight years been trans
formed into the Wilson party. wit
,, not a vestige Of its former self rt
naming; and even the bulwark {
the party Of the past, the "soli
SOUTH" il 1t were today to vote il
. honest sentiments would join wit
the north in making the election
Harding and Coolidge unauimou
Candidate Cox. camouflaging fact
with cunning phrases and rockies
rhetoric, may swindle history |
being recorded As a presidents
! candidate, but neither her or hi
I followers have fooled the America
4 people, who are going to vote ovel
] whelmingly for = complete, respor
| sive and responsible Republican al
ministration OF national affairs.