The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1920-09-23
White And Hays
Give Estimates
OF The Election
Only 10 Southern States
For the Democrats,
Says Hays While
White Says the Doubt
full States of the Mid
die West Will Decide
the Issue Reasons
= For Their Estimates.
By Floyd MacGriG)


SCopyright 1920 by the International
News Service-)
New York, Sept 23--The cam
palgn chieftains of the two old par
ties talked "brass tacks" today. In
clnsive, thoroughly frank interviews
hEhey told the International New Serv-
ace, not what they hope for, but what
they expect Both were specific
( cling statistics and figures.
/ VIII Hays, chairman of the Re-
- publican National committee, sees the
/ whole country, with the possible ex-
tcephon of ten southern states, going
Republican He said the Republi-
\ cans this year would break into the
/ Democratic solid SOUTH
Kentucky, Hays predicted, would
4 go Republican by 100000 While
North Carolina and Oklahoma and
;.Tepnessee were Republican possibil-
!Stits," Maryland, he asserted, would
7be Republican this year.
why do you claim Kentucky,
MARYLAND and Missouri" he was
Because in Kentucky and Missouri
, .the Republicans won two years ago
4 an the state and we only lost Mary
land by less than 500 votes"
why do You consider North Caro-
Il lima and Oklahoma Republican DOS
sibilities
-Because the people in those
states, as elsewhere are determined
\ that n responsible political party can
mot afford responsibility for eight
years of maladministration, and be-
cause, too, there, as elsewhere, they
Phold America first ~
4 George White, chairman of the
Democratic National committee on
the other hand claimed Oklahoma,
Kentncky, North Carolina and Mary
/. land would be Democratic as usual
AS to Missouri, he said:
We don't term Missouri doubtful
hut the Democratic majority there
Y nnay be cut down"
Chairman White claimed 15T
votes, of the solid south while Hays
conceded but no
ing 13 states as ~doubtfuF7,
ET1ltnois- Washington, Idaho. CALI
foTnfa- New Hampshire AsassRchu-
ware and North Dakota
Chairman Hays claimed all of
GAese STATES as positively Republican
Thus 1S9 electoral votes which the
Democratic campaign chief Considers
doubtful are claimed outright by his
Republican opponent
While not exactly concedfn- then,
10 the Republicans, Chairman White
sndicated that the Denocratiq
chances were not good in these
Btates-
KanSas. Nebraska, Michigan. Wis
Wyoming, South Dakota Connecticut
Maine. Pennsylvania, Rhode Island
and Vermont
These states have a total OF 14a
Eelectora1 votes.
Chairman Hays was emphatic in
asserting that New York will be Re
1--WE pfopose to make an active hgh-
no win California said Chairman
White. 1.-The same forces that SWUNG
s1he state for Wilson in 1915 are op-
Grating now There is dissa tisfactior
with the Chicago Republican conyen.
stiDn,s presidential choice and Gov
Cox has had an unprecedented recep
-tion there"
Chairman White said the fgh
would be very close in that state. The
Democratic chief declared that Gov
Socks record and local issues had spill
t1he Republicans in West Virginia
rI1lfnoiS and Indiana, and that the spill
would swing those states. possibly il
zad dition TO Ohio. for the Democrats.
The Republican a1npaign pilot re
ported that Ohio was positively goin'
Reps balcam. and that the local issue
Y in the adjacent states would not affec
, the national issue in the least.
Y The Democratic National Chairman
said ~Prin arily. the doubtful state
I'm the presidential election this yea
are Ohio. Indiana an6 West Virginia
waaSle Illinois witnln' the past tsz
4 weeks because of the Republican spill
y there. has placed Itself in the doubt
, fua list
\ ~1f we car carry these four states
(, II have no hesitancy in saying tina
y Gov Cox will be elected president
Ia, 1he tSSpd1DnbSdI1 NdA1OuAl cLalr
man said
! LAS to Ohio, Indiana and I1linof.
i the local issues in those states anon
sRepub1icans are not serious, and wi
Y not even seriously affect the stat
elections and they certainly will nc
influence the national issue at all"
Chairman Hays listed all the fou
states called ~doubtful'' by Chairma
I'd White under those that were "ce1
tafn'' for the Republicans.
Chairman White said the West wa
SEkeenly for the League of Nation
\ while <he East was apathetfc."
washington and Idaho are doubt
fri states both being very strong fc
the League of Nations" said til
n Democratic chief.
Chairman Hays counted bot
y Washington and Idaho in his '-pos
lively Republican" list.
Chairman Hays included Californ.
n I'm his positively Republican" list.
& There is doubt" Chairma
~ White continued, "about the Dem.
Gratis carrying New Mexico and AR
zona nor of Montana, Nevada ar
" Utah, which went Democratic in tt
n 1915 election. Colorado normally
Democratic. My reports indicate "
4 will carry It,"
New Mexico, Arizona, Montan
< Utah and Colorado are going Repul
u 1ican.v was Chairman Hays answer
his Democratic rivals claim. "Nevat
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