The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-01
Vile Calumny Cinches n
otal States Heretofore
Close or Doubtful.
OHIO 100000 FOR G. o..
Tumulty at White Hq
Spurned a Pedler Of
ciOus Attack.
PROVED FALSE BY KEl
Senator Harding Serene in
lief That Libel Will No
Deceive the People.


MAEroN. Ohio. Oct. 31.-The vic
libel OF the Democrats on Send
Harding's' iIneagc has proved n bod
erang in Ohio. Indiana and Kentnd
the very States in which it was m
widely circulated in the hope II
could be won for Cox on the "a
issue.
Exposure of the plot 10 defeat ~
tor Harding in the last days OF
campaign by such methods has
10 swell the Republican vote in O
Telegraps flooded into Mariois
day expressing the anger and di7
OF men and womeA who had no
lieved that the DemA Acrauc nv
even in desperation ToaId
slander ard scurrility. These
sages represented the deep resentfI
or persons that had Intended 10 vJ4
for Gov. Cox. but who win now cad
their ballots for Senator Harding
Z From every county teiegrams has|
been received BY Republican part
expose has made new votes FOR m
G.. o. =. State Chairman George Cia
at Columbus is in receipt of hu
! dreds Of similar messag ges. all tondi&
To prove the existence OF this ,sacti|
ot truth and decency.
Ohfo's Harding Figures Grovv{
Yesterday il was estimated thai Tf<|
ding would carr his own State
100000 Tf-day .hs hclief i> tha41\
wis have q majority cf no. sczz
zoe, 900 and that The figure may II
higher. Similar Information from d
two ncighboring states Indicates ~
Cox will pay bitterly for the -.lethodt |
his party leaders Whatever chance
may have had OF making ixht in +
state, OF emerging With soifs perso1
prestige. of retaining. in fact.,the lead
ship OF Tho Democratic party, seers~(
have been thrown into the gutter.
There is disposition here to co
ciude that Gov. Cox might have block
L llif NhdIlttI AS J1NrtIt dlu
former occasion. Certainly Hardin
friends cannot help but assume that
proposition 20 circulate story Il
there is negro blood in the HARDY
| family must have been put up to 4
| before anything vas done.
| So far az one can estimate. the pub
reaction has been something like tn
| The feeling was instantly generated n
! Democratic desperation II back Of :
circulation Of the SANDER that the 81
was stupidly ard chlldlshly false. x
| insly erroneous even in collateral det
as wcll as IN fundamental matters;
the family history of the Hardings 10
we'll known. 90 clearly traceahle II
| there in not now and never has beer
/ shred o; fact TO support a curious
! SANDER bred OF neighborhood spitq
ness seventy-fvc years ago and
alive all these years by bitter perz
| family enemies OF Senator Hardint
Senator Hard!ng's father and OF
! Harding.
! Tie information that the story
an outrageous lie was no nows to u
In Ohio. This phase OF the matter
! little Impression. What makes rneYs
women lighting mad and resentf,
proof that tho methods of the n
cratic party can sink 70 level :,
PRAYED.
1 n ~ no violation of confidence
state that Senator Harding. aware
! many weeks that the slnrder We
/ ing whispered. whispered. whiao<
| all over tho United states. and "
especial Intent "a the border ~
( where race feeling runs high. had N
I less uptef than most or his fricn4
Tho senator was subjected light
3 M ohio % y similar attack whs,
vas q candidate sor L,eutena~t I'd
nor and fof United states senator.
same SIS. furiirc. Whispering atf|
( nobody darling 60 sponsor tho char
a newspaper. lie was perfectly a
4 that the people Ia Ohio had met
I punished tho charge on previous od
: ions. lie has been and Ia confident
severe punishment VIII DC meted o,f,
tho people all over the United 81
on this occasion.
There waF. however. iust one a.
he wanted TO take, one thing lie was
I to do.
| lie would have liked To have me
\ the public street IN Marion Will
: isstabrook Chancellor, formerly PRO
/ sor of Political science in Woo
College, Wooster. Ohio. and TO
! thb ashed him within an inch Of his
: His friends intcrposcd and manl
Z to- diFsusdc him from taking the al
Z course that ua'urai, rormai men sns
60. They showed him to nlt -
ton that there were reasons
Chancellor should BE heid perso
lmmure.
AZ matter 81 fast. Il appears
I ithanecllor. who wns oustcd from
facui,y Of Wooster College r'rida
The trustaes, who had satishcd
scives taat he had uttered an afro
faeehocd. was more ~ tool than
thing else. While he originated
open letter TO the nlcn and womd
America" thoroughly vicious
ment. and while he undoubtedly pu
name to similar documents that
used by the Democratic manage
appears now as II he had been inz
and encouraged 20 do this thing
Democratic managers themselvc~
that his name wss attached 20