The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-07-21
Committeeman Claim He
Said 81 Was Enough
for Wheat
~,
CONVINCED THEY
ARE GOING TO WIN

Break iron WliSoA f
Will Look Un Cox's Record On the
Liquor question.
By DAVID LAWRENCE.
Snecial Despatch to The Reformer
Copyright 1920
COLUMBUS. o., July 2l.-This Is a
miniature convention and not merely
meeting of the Democratic national com
mittee. For there are log members OF
the committee instead of 90, the women
holding equal rank as the representa-
tives of their respective states and terri
tories and the atmosphere here is one not
unlike a national convention, for IN the
first place there has been contest over
the selection of a national chairman
which has tended to bring to the surface
some of the arguments for and against
tho Wilson regime which circulated on
tho convention floor and in the lobbles III
San Francisco and there is moreover
mil;tancy and a determined air whlch
NAV surprise Republicans when they en-
counter it for mquestionably the MAJOR
itv of the Democratic leaders are non
estly convinced that they are gong 70
win with Cox.
There is no doubt of the confidence OF
Democrats gathered here, but whether II
ia going to be indicated on election day
Is another question, but admittedly the
leaders think their. chances have I'M
proved in the last three months from an
almost hopeless outlook to good
chance. The nomination of Harding at
Chicago and Cox at San Francisco are
he sole reasons for the change from
despair to hopefulness. The Democratic
leaders saw the country was impatient
for a change from the Wilson admlnistra-
ton and that the Democratic convention
satisfied that craving by selecting man
who will select a new cabinet and give
the country a new deal but mostly the
Democrats who are going out to wage
the campaign in IS states point TO the
Republican nominee as one of their chief
assets. 1t was somewhat amusing TO SEE
| the committeeman from far away agrI
cultural states looking up Hardings rec
| ord. This visit to Ohio gave them q
| chance to verify rumors which they hac
heard concerning Senator Hardings stanC
on public questions. For instance, San
| Amidon, national committeeman iron
| Kansas, state which has had griey
ance against the Wilson administration
| for fixing the price of wheat and not fix
ing the price of cotton, discovered ami'
j great glee that Warren Harding hat
/ made a speech in the senate when h'
i voted for the food control act, declarin:
1 in effect that dollar was enough for ;
bushel of wheat This speech was printed
1 and sent broadcast bvt Reptibli M Sppon
/ ents of Senator Harding in the presiden
1 tial primary campaign this year in whicI
| Harding ran behind Wood, Lowden ant
Il johnson. The Democrats collected am
Il muniton eagerly. Another committee
4 man discovered that there had been
divorce in the Harding family whic
/ would offset in his judgment any hest
tancv on the part of women voters t
cast their ballots for Governor Coz
whose divorce suit had been discusse
from political viewpoints at San Fran
cisco and had been mentioned as a pos
sible weapon by Republican party work
ers in the precincts where word of mout
! argument is supreme.
Another committeeman had copy c
Il Senator Harding's record of attendant
at the sessions of the senate which tende
to show that the Ohio senator was absen
a good deal OF course the value of thi
argument may be questioned for a grea
many people who don't think the tall
tests of the senate are worth attendin
anyway, may argue that the Ohio senate
showed rare judgment by staying ava.
! Before the week is over the Republica
executive committee and the Republica
hosts will come here en- route to Marion
80 miles away, where the notification {
! Senator Harding will be held ON Thur
day. The Republicans will dig into Co
ernor Cox Is record and make use of the
presence in Ohio to follow out the rel
! facts about the governors attitude {
the liquor question, which will such
! vital factor i'm Democratic strength in IL
J populous eastern states. Already OF
4 hears suggestions that the govern,
j shifted considerably ON the liquor issl
] and of course if his record is vulnerabl
4 the country viii hear about it throug
D the Republican ammunition gathere1
J Ohio; is certainly the political center
4 the country, full of politicians, commi
teemen and conmitteewomen office-see
ers, would be speakers, correspondent
4 and the usual caravan which follows
the wake of presidential nominees