The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-10-27
HARDING WILL
SWEEP OHIO
Prominent Democrat Fears
His Lead Will Exceed
100000
FEELING AGAINST
WILSON IS BITTER
:;E-cuce Predicts State VIII Elect An
ether Democratic Governor Hard
N Lends In Democratic Str0ngholds
Ike Toledo and Cleveland.
Ry DAVID LAWRENCE.

nc ACIeQ0 ana cleveland.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
Special Despatch to The Reformer.)
Copyright 1920.
CLEVELAND. O., Oct. 27.-Senator
Harding will carry Ohio by decisive
lajority. but it looks as if the state
gill elect Democratic governor.
If James NJ. Cox were running for
governor again he probably would carry
)hic. A. a presidential candidate Cox
till has Il host Of friends, but the Dem
cratic party on national affairs is I'M
'opular The vote is not so much for
Harding, but against the Wilson admin
station. 1t is not against Wilson the
aan. but the Wilson cabinet and acts
the Wilson administration.
No other conclusion seems possible
tic" careful survey of this state. In
Iced there's swing on toward Cox at
he present moment Senator Harding
aas been steadily losing ground since
his DeS M0ines speech and his unfor-
innate encounter with President Wilson
IN the differences between a represent
tive of France and a spokesman"
Sut the drift toward Cox, while notice
bic. has not attained the sweeping pro-
sortions of tide or even a wave. 1t is
surface drift. Northern Ohio is for
Harding. This city, which is normally
Democratic and which helped Wilson
materially WREN he carried Ohio is
doubtful. The county is also doubtful.
The word doubtful in these instances.
the difference between narrow ma
'ority for Cox or Harding and an over
vhclmine majority fer Harding. Most
people expect the latter, The reader
Who il not familiar with Ohio politics
AN judge for himself what the situation
when he discovers that i'm Democratic
enters like Toledo and Cleveland, the
w0 principal northern Ohio cities. the
advantage lies with Harding. Moreover,
OK cannot expect anything in Hamilton
ounty. which Includes Cincinnati. dis
riot that helped him win the governor
hip i'm 1918. 1t seems to be Il case of
IntI-WilSOn and not anti-CoX 80 far as
his section of Ohio is concerned. The
Expectation of change is scarcely less
strong than the desire for a change in
government personnel at Washington.
Some of my Democratic friends here
whose Judgment i'm the past has been
accurate, whose viewpoint is diSpasSion-
ate, and whose acquaintance is large.
INSIST that the whole thing is a reaction
from the war. Il am more partisan
han | have ever been" said one promi-
or Cox to win than | was for Wilson
% win in 1916-and You know how
hard / worked for that-but. / can see
10 chance for the Democratic national
ticket in Ohio. this year, ann afraid
the majority will not be less than 100
)O0 for Harding"
From every source Republican and
Democratic. the writer obtains informa-
ion that Vic Donahey. the Democratic
'andidate for governor is much stronger
than former Mayor Davis of Cleveland
the Republican nominee. This merely
proves the point that it isn't a vote this
time against Cox so much As against his
party in Washington.
One can hardly say that Senator
Harding is any more popular in Ohio
than he was when he was nominated
'Ic has never held All executive position
n the state and the folks know very
title about his ability 10 manage 10
strong men if he selects them for his
cabinet He has a reputation for rugged
honesty and simplicity. He may not be
Intimately known even in his own state,
but he is by no means unpopular in
any section. Perhaps labor is the only
group that considers Harding hostile
The farmers think well of him The city
1eople think more of the personnel in the
Republican party as whole than the
me individual who has been selected to
lead the party.
There is a peculiar confidence, that
the Republican party will run the gov
eminent and do a better Job than its
predecessor. Almost nothing has been
said by the Democrats about the Re-
publican party's failure to produce
leaders or remedial legislation in the