The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-19
GERMAN SUPPORT IS CAUSING OTHERS ID SUSPECT HARDING
Straw Vote Among Women In Midwest Show Remarkable Unanimity for League
 of Nations
Ky LUTHER l.. HELLER

ployed by the republican campaign speak- CTS in Iowa, Nebraska and South pa-
 kota whenever they visit a German community. The result has been a turn ing of all Americans from the repub- lican ranks; Bismarck, Neb., and Ham, burg, la., are good examples of this type | Of propaganda. A straw vote taken Tn both places early in July showed Cox | in the lead 800 to 100 Cox can hardly get vote now from the German con-
 stftuents
 1 The effect has been anything hut bene- l ficisl to the republican party in the up- i per Missouri valley. Mothers cups ,n many cities and towns In these three states are coming out for the League ] of Nations. In many instances the women leaders are wives of men who ] are stauuch republican standard bear CTS.
 At Edgemont. s. D. the women of the community refuse to do their shopping with any merchant who displayes the pictures of the republican candidates in his windows. In all it's history Edge mont seldom knew a democratic office 1 holder. The same thing has proven true | in many towns in western Nebraska. REPUBLICAN STRAW VOTE Straw votes taken by the Sioux City
 Journal, paper of strong anti-league and republican proclivites, over their 1 territory in the three states where they | have a large circulations shows the fol- lowing:
 Harding (republican) .........,....... 500 Cox (democraO ......,.........,......... 797 Debs (Socialist) .......................... 106 Christensen Garm-labor) ,.........,,... 4s Watkins (prohibitionist ................ II Four years ago the straw vote returns
 made by papers in the upper Missouri valley favored Hughes to l. The fact that the straw vote Is gathered by pa per that goes principally into republican homes counts for something. In those days neither Iowa, South Da- kcta or Nebraska had woman suffrage and the first two states went repub- lican In the national election. The en- tire territory from which the ballot is taken is normally republican All po- liaical leaders admit that the votes for Debs, Christensen and Watkins are drawn from the republican ranks. These votes are to be found among the workers who are dspleased with the candidacy of Coolidge because of his attitude relative to the "no strike law and among the farmers who blame the replibliesss frv dropping the bottom out of the corn mar lket
 Ii Is noted in every instance where a
 woman marked straw ballot she voted l for Cox. With the majority of the women voting this way and one-third of the men taking the same stand, while 1 the laboring classes and the farmers vote for their candidates the democratic possibilities in this section are taking or a brighter aspect.
 h Harding county. S. D., place that hoe 1nv, n aan lthe ballot. a straw vote shows three times as many citizens favering Cox as those for Harding. The reverse was true in the Wilson Hughes campaign four years ago.
 NEGROES FOR DEBS Socialists will poll huge negro vote this year if predictions are fulfilled. h. C. Jones' a negro lawyer, making an address here to the colored people stated: {: "You can't vote the democratic ticket; they wanted to keep us n slavery You dare not vote for republican capitalists who win work and starve you to death. Eugene " Debs represents true democ- racy and the sweeping aside of all social and racial barriers"
 Many local colored people have the pi ctures of Debs in the windows of their homes. Most of the straw vote for Debs
 in Sioux City came from the negro dis trict This tendency means that many less votes for the republican candidates.
 Throughout South Dakota small towns are organizing League of Nations clubs for the sole object of studying the value and worth of the document. Republican leaders in meetings per sist in refusing to discuss issues and tell their auditors that they hear Okla |homa and Georgia will go republican. and that the people of Mississippi, disgusted with the democratic leadership of former Governor Bilbo may also fall. This pronaganda is used in the smaller rural centers where attempts are made to ma Iign the character 10 Wilson as well as the league.
 ATTITUDE OF WOMEN
 One thing common in all other cam paigns throughout the middle west is missing this year. When. men meet in homes and public places they do not discuss politics Half of them will tell won they are for the league and the other half say they cannot understand it well enough to pass judgment on 1t. On the other hand practically every woman de-
 clares herself for the league. some or them adding that they do not care to vote for a candidate who owns brewery stock.
 A rock-ribbed republican lawyer told an ipterviewer the other day that he did not fully understand the league, but since the democrats had originated IL he would not vote for it. although he favored It.
 The minor candidates such as Debs,
 Watkins and Christensen are drawing their votes from the republicans, while the democrats in this section stand to- gether.
 Mrs. Wallace Lawrence. Eales, S. D.. who is touring in the interest of the league. stated recently in an address; .srhe democratic party is the woman's party because 1t enancipated her from inc shackIes that denied her political freedom. The democratic party gave us a dry nation and saved many tears from the eyes of future mothers and wives and now that same party wishes to
 anancipate you from the horrors of
 var "This sentiment expresses the opin ion of the majority of women in this section.
 Mrs. Hattie Harl. Council Bluffs. la, who is candidate for United States c.cngres from the Ninth Iowa district. and the only person who ever dared to trv for an office on other than the re nuhlican ticket in that district, finds her support growing remarkably fast be- cause of her attitude toward the League of Nations.
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