Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-10-09
League OF Nations
Issue Over Heads OF
Many, Says Lawrence
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sippi but he has lost his hold on the
voters. His failing health has
aroused here and there considerable
sympathy but the knowledge that he
is not a vigorous leader in his party
has caused the voters to examine
carefully the. new leadership. They
do not attribute to Governor Cox the
same high ideals that they ono did
to Wilson. They see no Bryan going
from state to- state preaching and
c%rusading as he did in 1916. They
see a sulky Nebraskan calling Cox
a wet" and charging that he was
nominated by the bosses in the DEM
ocratic party. They see, too, many
original Wilson and McAdoo men go
ing about their business without po-
litical emotion. Most of these d M
ocrats will vote for Cox but they are
not throwing themselves into the llan.
! as they did in 1915 though in some
states like California it is the. Nc
Adoo organization which is putting
up the fight for Cox and doing we'll.
Unquestionably William Gibbs Nc
AdOo would have carried more west
| ern states than Governor Cox will
The Democrats out west were for
him as the numerous ballots at the
San Francisco convention will show
Furthermore, McAdoo has been and
I is bone dry and the a%nti-saloon league
endorsed him. There isFdoubt about
Cox and while he will benefit to some
! extent by a spirit of wetness thai
still prevails in some parts of the
west, his stand on the liquor question
a not been sufficiently clear-cut tc
make the voters believe thai
ne will stand with them absolutely
in whatsthey regard as the big mora,
issue of the day. Governor Co,
in the west a crusade by taking the
bone dry side of the argument anc
! emphasizing the League Of Nation.
to the exclusion of criticism of tht
Republican candidates supposed reac.
tionary views. To call a man a reac,
tionary is one thing, to prove that he
is may be quite another. Governor
Cox made some Roadway or this issu,
but it is not vitality controlling Thu
progressive and "reactionary' hav'
been lost in a maze of %irritations, al
of which yield only the one cry-let't
get back to normal no matter whethel
we do it by a reactionary or anyhod.
else. Taxation is a sore spot. TIL
Democrats have failed to show hov
negfectful the last Republican con
gress was of the demand of the presi
+, dent for a revision of the tax laws
Most people hold the Democrats re
sponsible. So poor are the Demo
cratic organizations, so weak in pub
!. licity and funds that the mass of tn
voters have not been told anything
abouttAthe two years just passed il
which the Republicans had the OPP
portunity to pass remedial Legislation
The tariff is bobbing up again i
many states but is not being intalli
! gently argued. Nor is much bein
sire of certain Republican interest
to change the federal reserve syster
as soon as a Republican administra
ton comes into power. Some under
currents of apprehension are to b
found even among western Republi
cans that the eastern wing of tn
party may attempt again TO put cor
troll of the nations credit in a fe,
eastern hands but the same wester
Republicans are confident of the:
own power to Illustrate such a plal
1t would have been a, big issue in tn
west Ifs this, Democrats had been awak
to it's possibilities. If the Demo
cratic campaign in the east is no be-
ter thar it is in the west, the Jig
up, the campaign Is over. But tn
month of OCTOBER is the time whe
drifts set in and desperate efforts al
made, sometimes successfully. Cha
E. Hughes was elected early in Octt
Der, but was defeated at the end {
the month despite an eleventh hou
drive. The Democrats have learne
{ from sources unquestionably tfriendl
! to them that there isn't a chance
winning the campaign by a combine
! ton Of western and southern state
as four years ago and that the b
, electoral votes in the east alone ca
/ avert defeat. T,
The writer will visit in the orde
t named the states Of Maryland. Ne
Jersey. Connecticut. Rhode ISLAM
: Massachusetts,, New York, Michigan
! Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky. Ind
i ana, West Virginia and Ohio and wi
} present a summary in the four da,
81 preceding election day.
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