New-York tribune., 1920-09-15
Ohio Will Follow
Lead of Maine i'm
Election, Says Fess
Illinois Representative Pre-
diets Cox Will BE the
Worst Beaten Candidate
i'm Country's History

"The result in Maine points to Cox
as the worst beaten man in the hds-
tory of elections,~ said Representative
Simeon D. Fess, of Ohio. at Republi-
can National Committee headquarters
yesterday. Mr. Fess is chairman of the
Republican Congressional Committee.
He added:
"The Governors style of campaign
ing indicates his own fears as we'll as
the inevitable results of the methods
followed. Ohio this year will follow
Names lead, as she did in 1895. A
survey of the field at this time war
rants the prediction that the general
gress Republican majority in the
Senate Of at least ten and in the HouBe
of at least fifty-three."
Representative Nicholas Longworth,
of Cincinnati, also a caller at Repub-
lican headquarters after a strenuous
fortnight in Maine, in commenting on
the landslide in the Pine Tree State,
said:
Wilson League the Issue"
There is no mistaking the causes
which led up to the overwhelming re-
suit of the Maine election. During the
last week of the campaign l spoke in
all four of the Congressional districts,
and | am positively sure of my ground
when 1 say that the election was de-
cided on national issues solely. First
and foremost Of these was the Wilson
League Of Nations. The President had
his wish. A solemn referendum was
had in Maine and the league was re-
pudiated in the ratio of two votes to
one.
at will not do to say that the Dem
ocrats did not conduct an active cam
paign. During the last few weeks the
candidate for Vice-Pres dent travelled
extensively throughout the state. as
did a number of Democratic spellbind-
ers, including Secretary Daniels, ex-
Secretary McAdoo, Bourke Cochran and
several Senators and Representatives
They worked just as hard as the Re-
publicans did.
The issues, and particularly the
Wilson League of Nations, were laid
squarely before the voters, and they
rendered a decision with no misunder-
standing of any of the details.'
George White, chairman of the Dem
ocratic National Committee. issued an
explanation yesterday Of the Republi-
can landslide in Maine.
The charge, he said, that Democrats
were weak in organization and feeble
of resource was true.
Continuing, he asserted:
Party "Poor but Honest"
I'VE are honestly, but desperately
poor. The poor man must pick and
choose his expenditures. Lacking the
price of luxuries, he confines himself
to necessaries. He cannot afford
steak and mushrooms, so he subsists
on bacon and beans. The result often
is that he outlives the rich man across
whose table seven indigestible courses
pass in nightly procession before a
jaded appetite.
maine was a luxury to US in state
election. We couldn't afford it and
didn't organize it. We did not fill its
tables with literature and its ears with
oratory because we couldn't afford lux
uries. The Republicans knew this and
with a conventional sense OF political
psychology, they set out to roll up
the biggest majority possible for its
effect on the country. 1t cost them
tens. maybe hundreds of thousands,
but they can afford it. They are not
only welcome to what profit they can
get, but we do not begrudge them a
particle of their banquet of JOY.
Our Kingdom is a-coming. and the
crossing of Jordan is near at hand"