The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-10-18
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I0IE' GOING.
10 HARDING
GERMAN CRY
ID Democrats Inherit
no Much Trouble to
Garry New York.
n DAVID LAWRENCE.
fanecial To The Argus

~ lbpeciAi 10 Inc AZ so0''
ufalo. N. Y, Oct. 1S.-Western
! York has so much to do always
|vDtA the cutting down Of the Demo-
a,de majorities gained in the Tam
,aay districts that one need not
saasch further than Erie county for
n reasons why New York state
mi 70 heavily Republican this
~.
Germans, Italians, Poles, Slovaks,
| uuasarians and Russians make up
/ foreign born population that ex-
csds tho native born. 1t is easier
b ,,sume that some Of these groups
Vii be affected by foreign issues
h vhich the Wilson administration
IN become involved for or against
~ home countries, but investiga-
| In among the leaders Of thought
! i these foreign born units brings
y conclusion that domestic ques-
b, especially the high cost Of
Htng, have had and will have as
much to do with the exercise of
| ths ballot on election day as the
rissances growing out of the
Iuropsan war.
The campaign among the foreign
born has not been extraordinary.
Certainly 1t has not been as intense
u Il was in 1916. On the other
had, The Democrats have inherited
nua more trouble than the Repub-
leaas haze acquired and it is hard
y MSxAsgeration to say that the
bslk athe German vote. the Ital-
II vots and even the Polish vote
sll % to Harding.
Y wilson we're q candidate, q
Isl9 q thes1 - tald the writer,
b bslieved the Polish vote would
h Democratic this year, as there
b . feeling Of appreciation for the
NJ The president played in estab-
haAing the Polish republic. But
As high cost OF sugar and the we'll
cultivated belief that the Republi-
GA administration will somehow
lehg relief from economic ills of
3ohy, will turn the Polish vote to
Republicans.
Somewhat the same idea was ex-
ksesed to me by the German
American spokesman here who pre-
lcd confidently that the pendu-
!m would swing two years and
losf years hence to the Democrats
Y ths Republican party failed to
wing relief. On the other hand. the
issling against the Wilson adminis-
tnsion and Governor Cox himself
On purely German issues has de-
lffved the Democrats of any chance
NY might have had this year even
une idea Of Democratic prosperity
osld have been convincingly pre-
sentsd. For instance. a big display
:avertisement appeared in the Buf-
ulo volksfreund two days ago
H0sd BY the Cleveland Wachter
sad Ahieiger, and the Cincinnati
!ree Press, in which Governor Cox
noeaoanced for the part he played
y iorbidding the teaching Of Ger
nan u Ohio schools. The adver-
Msment 10 first an appeal for Ger
asa nattonalism and then declares
~.t icur months after the armistice
april !. 1s19-Governor Cox in
'a!ement or message said:
y assert without reservation that
~ tesching of German to our chill
ssa. no matter where they are be-
~ educated during their impres.
sonaole years. is not only a dis
a menace to Americanism but II
ssM OF a conspiracy formed lone
&oy the German government II
lnen the advertisement signed By
Two Ohio daily newspapers goe!
70 tell the Germans of othel
- mat when an attempt wal
~. [ to exempt the parochia
aols from this prohibition Of thu
sams OF German, the same Gov
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