Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-23
Test Ballots Continue to
Pile Up in Favor of Re-
publican Nominee.
GREAT SHOWING
IN CHICAGO LOOP
Harding Leads by More Than Two
10 Ono in Business section-Demo-
crat poll in Ohio Gives Harding
Ie.d in State - Ohio Women
stronqer For Senator Than Men
pyrotechnics Greet Cox.
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Chicago, Oct. 23.-Straw votes con-
tinue to pile up in favor of senator
l4arding as opposed to Governor Cox,
reports from widely differing circles
ali giving the republican leader the
rreponderance Of votes. The vote be-
ing taken in the loop district OF this
CITY. which includes both the business
and shopping district. shows total
of 35,s57 votes for Harding to 1868
tor Governor Cox. Students in the
Hyde Park high school took poll
t,,day. showing Harding leading with
62S to 106.
e. w. Law, assistant manager OF
the western department Of the Royal
Insurance Company, with headquart-
ers in Chicago said that a straw vote
tstIxen among the company's agents
IN the western central states, fifteen
ns,rthern states and Kentucky gave
Harding a g. to lead over Cox. he
declared that the vote in his opinion
was fairly indicative of the general
Sentiment among insurance men.
"a vote taken by the Cincinnati En-
qilirer (democratic) and published to-
dssy shows that Harding is leading
! G,,Yeror Cox with a wide margin in
4 the home state Of the rival >candi-
II al ates The total to date shows Hard
init with 9,054 to tCox's $3.50. The
4 wt,men's vote was oil to 594. showing
4 tn cir vote to be more favorable to
tfse Republican candidate than the
A ln1isn by q small majority.
Most Comprehensive Poll.
j One Of the most comprehensive OF
the polls, taken by 5000 drug stores
lin every one of the forty eight states,
shows that of nearly 100000 votes
cast Senator Harding has 56S,255 and
+ fCcx 3T4.366. Only in the solid south
where preponderance Of Democratic
Votes is to be expected, do the re-
turns indicate that Senator Harding
5is running behind.
Two encouraging indications of
this poll show, according to- Senator
-siH;lrdings managers, that the senti-
mtnt for the Republican candidate
insitead Of slumping during the past
two weeks, has actually increased to
. the point where it reaches a 2 to l
majority for Senator Harding.
.A straw poll of the women vote,
one OF the most uncertain factors in
tho whole campaign, shows, as taken
the largest poll, 90,463 ballots for
4 Cox :.nd 147,976 for Harding.
S,uinmoning up the situation, as
8 indicated by the straw polls, it is
4 siieywn that the republican candidate
would receive SS1 electoral votes to
]. 10 for Governor Cox.
Noted Women Disagree.
Noted women leaders are finding
themselves arrayed against each
other for the first time in twenty nve
years after working side by side all
that time. .fhe leaders are Mrs
Carrie Chapman Gait president OF
he international Woman Suffrage
lance, and Mrs. Harriet Taylor
ion, vice chairman of the republi-
national executive committee. In
lie Of their working for opposing
MS ties remain friends, not
anies. ir.c. Gait says she will
IT.. for Cox because she believes in
le league of nationp, but that she is
OF a democrat. Mrs. Upton says:
I ann a repa1 .ican, but l am not a
republican because ! am against the
league. I believe the republican
party by the ratification of the
suffrage amendment, thirty-republi-
can states out of thirty-seven ratify-
ing, shows that the place for women
to fight for the great human meas
ture is in the party which expressed
progress and shows Visions"
incidentally Mrs. Upton says thai
if the wording Of the league is sucf
that honest women of the same age
same beliefs, like environment ant
the same life work can give it such
direct opposition it surely ought not
TO be adopted without revision o
words and reservation Of it's consti
tuition. She believes the league
means war. She is for peace and il
sure Nov. will find a majority o
neace-loving women voting for Hard
ing and Coolidge.
Harding Preparing Final Appeals.
By associated Press.
Marion, Oct 23.-Back in his office
at he adquarterS mere TOT tne HrSt ] ull
day ,f~desk work In weeks, Senator
Harding began today whipping into
shape the public utterances with
which he will close his campaign
next week in four leading Ohio cities
II was indicated that the nominee
would phrase these speeches with
greet care so as to lay his case finally
before the people in diligently pre-
pared form.
Many subjects are expected t
scome In for discussion. The four de
liyerences fitting together in such {
way as to attract public attention t.
Iall the high spots of his platform
The sfrst OF the speeches is to be de-
Slivered in Cleveland "Wednesday
night and on the remaining nights
of the. week he will speak successive
iy In Akron, Cincinnati and Colum