Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-26
DECISION Of LABOR
TOAD DEMOCRATS.
CAUSES PONDER|NG
Cox Leaders EIated, But Re-
pubIicans Hope 1t Will
SoIidify Opponents.
BY n. O. MESSENGER.

NEW YORK, August 26.-Organized
labor is to come out in support of
Gov. Cox and the democratic ticket
next week, and the politicians are be-
ginning to figure on the effect of that
action at the polls next November.
Democrats are elated and calculate
that the declaration will bring to the
ticket an element of the electorate
which can be listed as valuable as
|set. They think that in addition to
the confidently expected support of
the men and women of the union they
will have the reflected sympathy of
the laboring classes generally and
will be able to pick up many votes in
!the great mass of unorganized work.
lerS.
Republicans are sorry to see any
considerable group of the voters
!aligning in the way contemplated, re-
eardless of the many great issues in
Ivolved in this campaign, but it is diff
cult to perceive how the leaders can
They can only take comfort in the
feeling that there is another side to
the shield and that if organized labor
officially takes a stand against the re-
publican party, it will solidify other
groups Of voters who may feel dis
|of labor to one political party.
Coolidge Won Over Opposition.
In this connection it is recalled that
the candidate for the vice presidency
on the republican ticket, Gov. Cool
idge, has been through the mill once
on just such a run, and came out vic
torious. In his reelection to the
governorship of Massachusetts, when
the main issue was the opposition to
!, lal, n nf
preston of the policemen's strike, he
increased his vote notably in the in
dustrial towns of Massachusetts,
where labor predominates. The fig
ures are extant and eloquent in their
talking. 1t would be tiresome to
recapitulate them.
Many thoughtful men in both parties
here are dubious of the benefit to ac-
crue in the last analysis to the demo-
cratic ticket by the overt hostility OF
organized labor to the republican
party and say they see possibilities
of a lineup of sentiment which is
already very sensitive over labor
problems, strikes and all that sort of
thing.
All interest today centers in the
speech of Gov. Cox tonight at Pitts
burgh, when he is to produce the
goods on the alleged attempt of the
republicans to boodle-iZe the presi-
dency. 1t may be whispered, as an
aside, that the democratic managers
are somewhat anxious themselves as
to how their man is going to make
out. and whether he makes aIry
breaks.
Cox Going Lively Gait.
Tn republican managerial circles the
feeling obtains that Gov. Cox is go
ing a pretty lively gait, for such an
earlv stage of the campaign, in the
radicalism of his attacks on the oppo-
sition. They say that he is applying
the line of talk now which is usually
rdesorted to only in the last days of
the campaign. They prophesy that at
tbis rate he will be seeing red'' with
in thirty days.
Democratic national headquarters
here. despite Chairman Whites put
ting up a poor mouth on the small
funds. are going ahead on plans for
a mammoth campaign. There are
more outward signs of activity at the
democratic headquarters than at the
renublican. OF course there is diff
ference between hustle and industry.
real work 1 understand that the
demncratic. national committee has
taken twice the space in magazine
and newspaper advertising contracted
COR by the republicans. for one thing.
Campaign TO he "Gabfest."
THAT the coming campaign is to be
more of a ''gabfest" than its prede-
cessors begins to be appArent. That
is to say, more attention is to be
Maid to public speaking than ever
before. The great battle for sound
money in 1896 was fought largely
with printers ink-the dissemination
Of carefully prepared literature to
educate the people on finance.
This year the contest over the
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from the stump. Senator Pat Har-
rison of Mississippi is now just about
the livest wire around democratic
national headquarters. planning the
campaign of speakers. He says he
ia going ito lay it all over the re-
publicans" on the size of the ora
torical campaign he is to put up. He
has organized a carefully selected
STAFF of speakers in every state. He
will assemble these men at times
at appointed places and have them
Instructed in the arguments they are
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