Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-31
HARDING ONLY SURE
BET IN WISCONSIN
Count of Votes Will Be Need
ed to Determine Results
of Other Contests.
Special DISPATCH to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MILWAUKEE,, Wis, October 30
The state campaign closed in Wis
consin today with leaders of all
parties in virtual agreement that ex-
actual count of votes will be requir-
ed to determine the result. Party
headquarters have issued the usual
statements, but the men who have
been doing the work admit that they
mean less than usual.
Nothing has occurred to give re-
publican managers uneasiness as to
the Harding victory. Democratic man
ayers have been unable to break
into the republican ranks effectively
and unless they can attract some 50,-
600 votes the democratic case is hope
less. Cox and Roosevelt will poll a
small republican vote on the league
of nations issue, bat the republicans
will gain much heavier vote from
the former German democratic terri
tory, which quit the party because of
war resentment. The real factor in
reducing the republican presidential
majority will be the large protest
vote which will be polled for Eugene
V. Debs. This vote is anti-democratic
and would be cast for Harding and
Coolidge were Debs not in the field.
Republican leaders say that despite
the movement for Debs they will be
surprised if their majority falls under
100000.
Bitter Senatorship Fight.
The senatorial fight between Sem
ator Irvine L. Lenroot, regular repub-
lican, and James Thompson, indie
pendent candidate backed by Senator
La Toilette and the Non-partisan
League, in the closing hours reached
stage of intense bitterness.
Paul S. Reinsch. the democratic can
didate, has been supporting the
league of nations and attacking the
Esch- Cummings bill, his stand being
such as to offer only half induce
ment to La Toilette voters who are
searching for a candidate to defeat
Lenroot
The Reinsch campaign is so staged
as to assure him the regular demo-
cratic vote, augmented by few
thousand republican believers in the
league of nations. His chances for
election depend upon the way the re-
publican vote divides between Len
root and Thompson. Frank ]. Weber.
socialist, the fourth candidate in the
field, is making hard fight. Social
list leaders say they will surprise the
state. as they did two years ago. when
Victor Berger polled his huge vote
for United States senator. They say
the fight really is between Lenroot
and Weber, and that Reinsch and
Thompson will trail in the order
named.
Republicans Bolt the Nominee.
The rapid enrolment of republican
clubs in every county to support Col.
r. B. Mccoy, democrat, against John
J. Blaine, republican. Endorsed by the
Non-partisan League. has changed the
public estimate of this contest quite
as much as the independent candidacy
of James Thompson altered the sena-
torial outlook Mccoy is regarded as
likely winner, despite the handicap
In MANY parts of the state the Nc
Gov campaign is being managed and
directed by local republican leaders.
The break in republican solidarity
has endangered number or repub-
lican congressional seats. Three
months ago any serious attempt by
to go to Congress would
have been regarded as idle. At the
present time democratic candidates
believe their prospects are falr IN
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tricts.
In the fifth (Milwaukee) district.
which Victor Berger has repeatedly
carried. all signs point to the defeat
of Berger in the present campaign by
former Representative w. II. Stafford,
who is the only other can
didate. Stafford was defeated two
years ago because of his vote against !
the war, and as a result of some of
his speeches on war issues. An at |
tempt to elect democratic supporter |
of the war resulted only in an in
creased majority for Berger. In the !
present campaign the district has
been allowed to go its own way and |
make its own choice between Stafford
and Berger.
Election wagers on Harding and
Coolidge show that plenty of even !
is to be had that the repub-
lican candidates will carry the state
by 100000 to 100000 AT the start
of the campaign odds were two to one
in favor of Lenroot and Blaine. AS
the campaign progressed the odds |
dwindled, until now even money is
offered. J. c. RALSTON.
EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS
BY THE LANDSCAPE CLUB,