Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-03
LURE OF BREACH
IN 4SO[|D SOUTH"
HELDUP T0G. 0. P.
Promise of Electoral Votes
There Not Seriously Con-
sidered by Party Leaders.

In national politics there is noted
at this time the normal quadrennial
recurrence of talk about breaking
the solid south" Every four years.
for a long time now. appear group
of southern republicans. bearing bou-
quets to their northern brethren redo
lent Of high hopes and aspirations of .
republican breach in the solid demo-
cratic phalanx below Mason and Dix
on's line.
To be sure. the party managers will
say that while the one hand holds the
proffered bouquet. the ether is out
stretched for a liberal allotment Of
campaign funds. When it is apple
Itime for the southern republicans. II
the party wins, they reap . dout ie
ercp. for they get the federal efic.s.
but they must have the campaign
noney-that- is. by way zof being q
bird in the hand.
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This year. the politicSI sa1esinen
from the south. are talltng big bar
gains to be had in Tenfessee, North
Carolina' and even Georgia. You ought
to see Clark Howell gin when they
vote Of Georgia Others of them hint
broadly Of a republican look-in in
Texas So it seems that oil stocks
are not the only lures held out to
northern investors by the Lone, Star
state promoters
Occasionally the Republicans do get
sentative in cojGess from. North
Carolina, or PICK up an. additional
ono in Tennessee. Time was when
Virginia furnished more than the
Basoom Slemp district to the repub,
the NhAAYfuI
optimists talk about electoral votes
from the south.
You interest us strangely; proceed"
is about the way the wary old re-
glowing forecasts of latent repub-
lican gushers in the south. but are
said to be finding the expenses of
drilling out of proportion to the pros
poets Of afriking oil.
Basis Of Hope I'm Tennessee.
On basis of republican promise in
Tennessee is said to be the fact
that contests for state and county
offices are so acute in Tennessee that
the iocsi leaders are paying the poll
taxes 81 impecunious voters. indicat-
ing a heavy vote. 1t is claimed that
il thesful republican strength of the
state can be polled some surprises
may be in store.
The republicans apparently are
counting upon the split conditions
among Georgia democrats to help
them gain foothold in that state.
Georgia democrats say they are not
| at ali alarmed on this score; that
| Cox is an acceptable candidate; that
| the Wilson feud is likely to be for
gotten as Cox dominates the cam
paien. and that on election day the
! faithful will have gotten all their
| local grudges out of their systems
| and will walk up to the ballot box
and vote the old democratic ticket
| When Senator Hoke Smith, running
FOR reelection, can stand sQuarely,"
without teetering. ION the platform of
/ strict adherence to the national plat
form and his record in. the Senate
| and state" and If he can get away
with it, they say they see no reason to
think that all elements may not get
! together oh election day. The plat
! form stands for the Wilson league;
Senator Smiths Senate record is for
very strong reservations and his state
records shows that he has made a
group of very bitter enemies.
Texas Prospects Unrevealed.
What the political promoters find
| to encourage republican prospects in
Texas has yet to be shown to the ma
tional managers There is a perfectly
beautiful and entirely normal fac
tionaL fight waging in Texas among
the democrats, but 1t is classed as
running entirely true to form. and ex-
pected to result only in a little need
full blood letting, beneficial in a
democracy of plethoric habit.
The general attitude among the re-