South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-10-31
BATTLE FOR
PRESIDENCY
NEARS CLOSE
Campaign Managers of Both
Parties Confident of Vic
tory Tuesday.

NEW YORK. oct. 3O.-CBy The
Ass'd Press The presidential cam
paign of 1920. waged principally
around the League of Nations, for
mally closed tonight
Tonight the leading figures 'on re-
publican and democratic tickets ad-
dressed audiences in the east and
middle west. Tomorrow they viii
rest. Monday Will bring the last foot
of the campaign horn and the last
flare Of red lights. Tuesday viii come
the voting.
But although on Monday there
Will be staged IN the final skirmish
for votes, the real battle ended to-
night 1t was marked, az every po-
litical campaign is marked, with eN-
pressionS of confidence in victory
from rival headquarters.
Predicts Victory.
The evidence C the oVerwhelm-
ing republican victory hourly in
creased" was the statement of VIII
r. Hays, chairman Of the republican
national committee. 1T is now Ger
tain that the republicans Will have
a minimum total of SOS electoral
votes We viii have a greatly in
creased majority in the house and a
substantial majority in the senate"
This from George White, chairman
of the democratic national commit
tee:
Cox and Roosevelt viii win. They
Will have a party majority in the
senate and house"
Socialist headquarters. while max
: ing no claim of electoral votes. pre-
/ dicted that the party would poll the
/ largest vote in its history 900, 900
some leaders claimed. While assert
/ ing that many Of these ballots would
/ represent the party converts, social
/ ist advocates also IrOphesied that
many would represent d protest vote
against imprisonment OF political
prisoners" including Eugene v.
Debs, their own presidential candl-
! date, now in Atlanta penitentiary for
\ violation of the espionage act
All parties took into consideration
1 swelling of the vote by appearance
I of women casting their first ballots
/ for president
Whites Statement.
Mr.. White, who declared tonight
! he had spent the last three days
! checking up detailed reports from
/ all state chairmen, asserted he saw
/ mo reason 10 alter my forecast in
/ which 1 predicted a certain victory
/ for the democratic ticket Mr.
/ White referred TO d prediction he
made yesterday
But in perfect fairness, ] want
to say that this Will not be alone
/ a democratic victory. 1t VIII be the
! victory of America, a victory over
disloyalty and partisanship, a victory
4 over disunion and dishonOr, victory
over the Counsels OF selfishnesS.
This nation wants 20 establish
and maintain world Ieace in cOncer,
with those nations which were our
allies in the struggle against inn
perialism and mihtarism. It wants
/ TO extend the Monroe doctrine tC
] the world. 1t wants 20 secure peace
I in the eastern hemisphere as in the
western and TO spare future genera
tons of Americans from the neces-
sity of laying down lives abroad 10
save mankind from military dOmin-
alton.
We have won the argument for
peace. We have won IL despite the
fact that an absolutely clean and
fair campaign on our part has been
. conducted IN the face of campaign
that bore every other semblance
but fairness and cleanliness
Review TaCtiCts.
The democratic campaign leaders
then reviewed tactics our candi-
dates have been forced % meet,
. CONTINUED Or PACE FOUR)