The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-24
WILSON CHUCKLES OVER COX TELEGRAM
 WHICH UPSET ROOT
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Just closing, there is certainly no reason
 Tor democrats anywhere to hang their heads. The situation is much better at
 this stage of the campaign this year than 1our years ago, and Woodrow Wilson won There is no question but that Cox is
 much stronger in the east than Wilson
 was in 1916.
 THE WEEKS RESULTS Like the little boy who whistles as he passes graveyard, Will Hays, chair
 man of the republican national commit tee, still indulges in predictions which are obviously impossible. But they are sim ply predictions, and as the democratic chairman, George White, declared, the hgures of the republican chieftain are ] less by 10 than the figures of the repub- | lican leader in 1916.
 In that year, gas is recalled, the official pre-election prediction gave Charles E. Hughes 405 electoral votes. He got 14 and lost the election. In the present cam-
 paign Hays says Harding will receive Syo votes. White declares that the indications
 are that Harding will receive PA, and in- inmates this figure just about corresponds
 to the figure which is in republican nead- quarters under lock and key.
 The week has witnessed the rebuke Of Elihu Root, the ''big gum of the re- publican party, by Governor Cox for hay ing indulged in artless efforts to deceive the electorate; the assertion of the re- publican party by many former leaders, | and their alignment. with the democrats; 1 a notable appeal by sixty women progress sives, headed by Carrie Chapman Catt. fsuffrage leader, for the support of the league and the repudiation of Harding
 and trickery; the continuation of the far cicSl debate between Borah and Johnson on the one hand. and Taft on the other -.-J. e. .z.< Ilxr fAc nn
 Harding brain, and a reception with un- puralleled enthusiasm of Governor Cox i'm the east.
 PRINTING THE DEBATE The eastern press of republican per- suasion prints in different sections the conflicting reasoning of Taft and John
 son; but the eastern press which supports Cox, prints the different contentious in par allel columns. Thus it has happened Yoften this week that on the front page in large type, Johnson is quoted in one colu- lumn as having said that Harding had scrapped the league and Taft in the next column as having said that Harding was warm advocate of an amended league. 1 Johnson, further, repeatedly contending 1 that the so-called friend of Harding, who l rel presents him as friendly to the league,
 dces him real disservice, has proved l himself a thorn in the party side. John son, it is pointed out, may in the end prove to be as effective disruptionist as he was in 1s6, when his indirect sup port of Hughes cost that candidate the state of California.
 The appeal of the women, headed oy
 Mrs. Catt to all people to support tho League of Nations for the peace or the world, was effective. It was addressed primarily to the women of the country, and democratic leaders have reason to believe that it will result in many thou sand votes falling into the democratic column.
 ANOTHER G. o. P. LOSS Of all the effective statements or ior- mer republicans who aligned themselves
 with Cox during the week, proba ply the
 most effective was that of Morton P
 Hull, former state senator in Illinois, ana
 erstwhile leading light in republican cir
 cles He authorizes the following: Z
 Tn none of his utterances has Mir
 Harding given an idea as to what his
 convictions are except in the one partic-
 ular that he favors the complete reJec-
 tion of the Versailles covenant. He has
 sidestepped. and wobbled until be admits
 that he has no constructive plan to or
 fer.
 Such confession from a member or
 the foreign relations committee of the
 Senate, who is supposed to have been liv-
 ing with the subject for the last four