Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-10-31
REAL CONTEST
Of CAMPAIGN
IS TERMINATED
Confident of Victory
Wit h Congressional
Support for Candidate
Claimed by White.
Phenomenal Popular and
Electoral Majorities Are
Assured Republicans.
Will H. Hays Says.

New York, Oct. 3O.-(By The
Associated Press) The presi-
Dental campaign Of 1920, waged
principally around the League of
Nations, formally closed Satur-
day night.
. Tonight the leading figures on
Republican and Democratic tickets ad-
dressed audiences in the east and mid
die west. Monday they will rest. Mon
day will bring the last toot of campaign
horns and the last flare of red lights.
Tuesday will come the voting
But although, on Monday there will be
staged the final skirmish for votes, the
real battle ended Saturday night. It
was marked. as every political campaign
is marked, with expressions of conf
dence in victory from rival headquarters.
Hays Claims 36s Votes.
"The evidence of the overwheIm.
ing Republican victory hourly In
creases," was the statement of Will
II. Hays, chairman of the Repuhli-
certain that the Republicans will
have minma total of 368 electoral
votes. We will have greatly In
creased majority in the house and
substantial majority In the senate"
White Says Winners.
This from George White, chairman
of the Democratic national committee:
@Cox and Roosevelt will win.
They will have party majority In
the senate and house."
z mn nm SoeiaIIste
Socialist headquarters. while making
no claim of electoral votes, predicted
that the party would poll the largest
vote in its history-3,0OoO0 some
leaders claimed. While asserting that
many Of these ballots would represent
party converts, Socialist advocates also
prophesied that many would represent
protest vote against Imprisonment of
political prisoners Including Eugene
V. Debs, their own presidential candi-
date, now in Atlanta penitentiary for
of the espionage act.
All parties took into consideration
women casting their first ballot for
president.
States for Harding.
tor Harding and Governor Coolidge. Mr..
Hays laid claim to the following states:
California, Colorado, Connecticut, Del
aware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Kansas. Maine, Massachusetts. Michi-
gan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana,
Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire,
New Jersey. New York, North Dakota,
Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Is
land, South Dakota. Utah, Vermont.
Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin
and Wyoming.
G. o. P Chancs in Others.
I'm addition" said Mr. Hays, "the Re-
publicans have very much better than an
even chance to carry Arizona. Kentucky,
Maryland and New Mexico, with y addi-
tional electoral votes. This makes 359
Republican electoral votes almost GER
tain out of the total of 531.
THE Republican victory in Kentucky
is certain, provided the weather is such
that it is physically possible for the Re
publican majority in the mountains Of
eastern Kentucky to get to the polls.
That same element enters into the re-
suit in Tennessee where there is splen-
did chance for the Republicans. We
also have a splendid opportunity to carry
North Carolina and Oklahoma. This
makes the probability of an additional
"a votes.
''The only states certainly Democratic
are Alabama, Arkansas, Florida. Louis
lana, Mississippi. South Carolina. Geor
gia, Texas and Virginia.
Election is Protest-Hays
'The electorate of America which is
for America first, is simply waiting for
All opportunity to voice protest against
nefficieney. extravaganza and autocracy
in government and to express its COM
plete confidence in the constructive abil-
ty of the Republican party in manner
that will be heard around the world
Mr.. White, who declared that he had
spent the last three days checking up
detailed reports from all state chairmen,
asserted he saw mo reason to alter my
former forecast in which / predicted a
certain victory for the Democratic ticket.
Victory Over Dshonor-White.
Mr.. White referred to prediction
made Friday
"But in perfect fairness I want to say
that this will not be alone a Democratic
victory 1t will be the victory of Amer
lea, victory over disloyalty and parti-
honor, a victory over the counsels OF
sefishness.
This nation wants to establish and
those nations which were our allies in
the struggle against imperialism and
It wants to extend the Mon
roe doctrine to the world 1t wants to
secure peace in .ke eastc.a hemisphere
A., in the western and to spare future
generations of Amacic,us from the neces
sity of laying down lives abroad to save
mankind from military do:aination.
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