Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-29
GOV. COX'S CHANCE :.
NCOLORAD0 UPSET
BY N0N-PARnSANS
Dissension in Democratic
Ranks Has About Ruined
His Prospect.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

DENVER. Col. September 29.-Dis-
senson in the democratic party and
the intrusion of the Non-Partisan
League in state affairs by capturing
the democratic primaries have just
about ruined the chances of Gov. Cox
in Colorado.
Although the democratic nominee
for governor has Endorsed Cox. the
rank and file of the Non-Partisan
farmer-labor ticket. and many of
them will. This will cost Cox more
votes than the republicans. Similarly
the regular democrats have been SO
antagonized by the Non-Partisan
League forces that many of them
were not at all pleased when Gov.
Cox received the leagues nominee for
nobbed with him while in Colorado.
Drive on Non-Partisan.
So much more attention, however, has
been given to the bitter fight on state
affairs that the effort to drive out the
Non-Partisan League overshadows all
else. Thus the Denver Post, hitherto
democratic paper and one of the in
fluences in the 1916 campaign for Will
son, is lukewarm on the presidential
business. 1t has developed a more or
less neutral attitude on the Cox-Harding
controversy and is devoting all it's eff
forts to a fight on the democratic
Non-Partisan League ticket.
Similarly the Denver Times. although
.. strong advocate of the league of ma
theory evidently that he win abandon
Senator johnson after the election. Any
way, there is not a newspaper of large
influence in Colorado that is helping
Cox. The Ohio governor is up against
a difficult proposition-the democratic
organization is disrupted and disor-
ganized.
The audience that greeted the gov
ernor on his arrival in Denver was
enthusiastic and cordial. Some of
those who heard him said the gov
ernor showed the effects Of his IA
tiguing journey.
Sympathy for Fighter.
I find considerable sympathy for
Gov. Cox for his gallant fight against
big odds. The feeling here seems to
be that Cox is struggling alone and
unaided. For instance, today the
Denver Post has a cartoon displayed
prominently on it's first page with
Gov. Cox standing in an imploring at
titude before a row of sphinxs-in-
Guiding Bryan. Clark. McAdoo and
other democratic leaders-and asking
them, Aren't you ever going to say
anything"
Even democratic chieftains who
know Colorado's politics very well
talk discouragingly about the outlook
for Cox They say nice things about
the governor and think he is making
a good campaign. but they don't
How different things are from the
1916 campaign! When the writer
reached Colorado in his swing around
the circle four years ago the friendli-
ness to Wilson was unmistakable.
Every straw vote in this vicinity
in 1916 told me privately they couldn't
carry Colorado and would lose the
state by 10000 majority. President
Wilson carried it by 10000, and this
time the democrats who ought to
know predict a Harding victory by at
least 10000.
Impatient for Change.
The league Of nations is not a con-
trolling factor in the election. There
is only one factor. the Impotence for a
change of administration.
Furthermore, the democratic label
has gotten a black eye by it's asso-
citation with the Non partisan League.
In the desire to vote against the dem
ocratic state ticket many old-line
democrats will vote for Harding and
the whole republican ticket. Some
farmer votes that are ordinarily re-
publican would go to Cox if it were
not for the farmer-labor ticket to at
tract the radicals. The outlook for
Cox is gloomy. Many of my friends
here who are going to vote for Cox
don't think he has a chance to carry
Colorado. and they know the state like
a book.
Copyright, 1921