The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-09-20
THE SOLID SOUTH
TO Be BROKEN
HARDING TO CARRY FIGHT INTO
MISSOURI AND OKLAHOMA
EXPECTED THAT ANTI-LEA.
CUE FEELING IN THESE STAT
Es WILL HELP REPUBLICANS.
PREDICT REPUBLICAN CON-
GRESSMEN FROM SOUTH.


will continue through his speaking
tour of next week, that will carry him
into Maryland, West Virginia and
Kentucky.
His schedule for the next seven
days includes dates for West Virgin
ia, Kentucky and Tennessee delega-
tions, Kentucky and Tennessee will
send their quotas to the front porch
Tuesday, and a little over a week,
from that day Senator Harding will
speak in the blue grass state.
Early in the campaign there was
some indication that the Senator was
to deliver an address at "The Gate
way Of the South" and Memphis was
generally selected as the city. This
plan apparently has been dropped.
Instead, Tennessee is to send its dele
CATION here on the day the Kentucky
Republicans arrive.
4 Missouri and Oklahoma.
West Virginia, normal Republi-
can state where there has been Sc
we're factional differences, is to send
delegation next Friday and on
Tuesday of the following week the
candidate will speak in Wheeling.
He will later, it is understood, carry
his denunciation of the Versailles lea
que into the home states of Senator
Reed and Gore. where Republicans
feel there is much anti-league senti
ment.
Senator Harding has announced the
topics Q: none of the addresses he will
make in tte next two weeks, but he is
expected to continue his denuncia-
ton of the Wilson administration and
the league covenant. Aside from the
visit of delegations from other states
group of civil war veterans from
northern Ohio towns will stop here
tomorrow en- route to the national en-
campment in Indianapolis this week
A vanguard from Akron passed thru
today and shook hands with the can
didate. He will receive call from the
Dental Association of Columbus and
from Crawford county, Ohio, citizens
Thursday, according to his schedule
and on Saturday one of the large del
egations of the campaign is to reach
the front porch. It will consist of the
Harding and Coolidge travelling mems
league, 5000 being expected. The
same date is held by the American
defense society.
May Break Solid South.
There is some prediction by party
leaders that the solid south will be
broken in November. Wade H. Ellis
former assistant to the attorney gen.
eral and connected with the Southern
Bureau of the Republican national
committee, was at Harding headquar-
ters last week. He expects plurality
for Harding and Coolidge of from s.
100000 to 100000.
Harding will carry the border
states of Maryland, Kentucky and
Missouri" he declared. "And I be-
lieve he will carry Tennessee also
while there is an excellent chance to
carry Oklahoma. We will gain men,
Der of the house in the Norfolk dis
trict in Virginia, and, of course, win
in the ninth. district now represented
by Bascom Slemp. Republicans will be
elected in the eighth, ninth and tenth
districts in North Carolina and in the
seventh and ninth districts of Geor-
gia. The North Carolina legislature
will be Republican, which will bring
about a redistricting of the state and
wipe out the shoestring districts
which will enable an honest election.
We shall also probably elect a men,
Der of congress in Alabama and
there is strong probability of winning
a congressman in the Dallas, Texas
district.
A statement by Representatives
John I. Nolan, of California and p.
H. Mccarthy, president Of the Cali