Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-05
'OHIO DEMOCRATS
ARE MADE UNEASY
Cincinnati Enquirer Comes Out lin Sup
port of Harding Political History Re-
n called-New Voters Welcomed.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

0Dec3I U1spAtcn 70 Inc Staf.
COLUMBUS. Ohio. September IA
pronounced rift in the democratic sup
port Of Gov. Cox in this state this
week is causing the democratic lead
eH . little uneasiness. The Cincin-
natl Enquirer. nominally a democratic
newspaper, though never regarded en-
tirely reliable as such by the party
leaders, after having given intima-
tions for some time that it could not
support the league Of nations issue as
espoused by the democratic presiden~
tial candidate. came out last Monday
with a leading editorial in which it
declared that Senator Harding had
taken the position that craftsmanship
and patriotism suggested and that the
Nsenator was entitled to commentator
for the Statesmanlike manner in
which he announced and defended his
opposition to the peace league plan
proposed by President Wilson.
With an organ now to support them,
and a substantial one, too, it may be
that the democrats in the state who
do not indorse the peace league will
find their voices and speak out, even
as the republicans who are for the
league have been speaking out. 1t
is probable that there are Ohio demo-
Gratis who are not for the league as
presented by their presidential candi-
date and are able to defend their po-
sitionS. If so we may expect to hear
from them now.
An Incident Of six Years Ago.
The republican state campaign COM
regarding his charges of the reck-
less use Of money in the nationaII
campaign with a little piece of po.|
litical history in which the sayerpcf
IL I'll
they say indicates that his conscience
has been wonderfully quickened as to
this evil in the last six years. The
facts referred to are from the state
campaign Of 1914 when the governor
was defeated as a candidate for re-
election to the office of governor.
The state constitutional convention.
largely through the influence of the
governor. had put civil service re-
form into the constitution and the
controlled. had provided legislation
of q drastic nature to enforce that
amendment.
The democratic state campaign that
year was under the direction of Will
lem L Finley. close personal and
who, were he not an invalid. would
in all probability now be the national
chairman of the party instead of
George White. In raising funds for
the campaign Chairman Finley adj
dressed letters to state officials and
employees who holding under civil
service were protected against such
solicitation. The letters fell into the
hands OF the republicans and the
governors state campaign manager
was indicted. When the case came
to trial the chairman pleaded guilty
by arrangement and accepted punish
ment by fine. The campaign was then
OVER. the democrats mad been defeat
,ed. and the entire matter was per-
United to drop. Probably the demo-
Gratis would have lost the state any
how, as there were many dissatisfied
democrats-the result of radical reor-
Eanization Of the state government
along progressive lines.
welesninE the New Voters.
Both party organizations have re-
eeived the element of new voters Gre
aaed by the Nineteenth Amendment,
With enthusiastic approval. even those
leaders on both sides who were
known to disapprove the amendment
when pending. choosing to makes a
virtue Of q necessity, and women have
been placed on the party state com,
mittees. The democrats have added
a woman member to the state central
committee for each congressional dis
trict so that the women will have
equal power with the men in the
management Of the campaign. The
republicans have by immediate action
added women members to their al
ready existing state campaign COM
mittee.
Apparently. however. the state cleo
ton authorities are not expecting
anything like as full a representation
Of the eligible woman vote at the
polls as there usually is Of the male
vote, for in the arrangement of the
voting precincts to take care of the
increased vote they are making an
increase of but little more than 20 per
cent in the total number Of precincts.
Republican State Canpaign.
The republicans have announced
that their candidate for governor,