Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-27
|DAHOFOR HARDING.
WANTSANY CHANGE
IN ADMINISTRATION.

CIean-Cut Fight Promised in
State on League of
| Nations Issue.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
BOISE, Idaho, September 27-Not that
they love Harding more or Cox even
less, but because they want change.
That's the way people who know Idaho's
political habits analyze the drift TO-
ward the republican national ticket this
year.
Dissatisfaction and unrest are due to
a variety of reasons, some of which
have nothing to do with the Wilson
cabinet. But, just the same. the demo-
cratic party will suffer because a demo-
cratic administration happened to be
in power when these ills and irritations
came upon the land
I They will be voting one man and
one party OUT said a republican editor
privately, "and they haven't any particu-
lar promise that the next administration
win be any better. but they want to
| turn back. We will have to educate
them up afterward to understand that
they have chosen rightly and we hope
that events will JUSTIFY their votes"
| Harding No Means Popular.
The foregoing opinion indicates that
Senator Harding is by no means popu-
lar in this stronghold of Senator Borah,
| but that the republican party is. More
over, Senator Borah made about twenty
speeches in this state against the league
| of nations, and all factions of the re-
publican party are united behind that
doctrine.
So it's a clean-cut fight between
! thnSa whn favor nd
! those who favor no league. Senator
| Nugent. the democratic candidate for
reelection voted every time he could
to ratify the treaty Of Versailles. He
with interpretatiye reservations and
he voted for the Lodge reservations.
He made his record on the principle
Of a league of nations, and took every
opportunity to try to get America to
join.
The press of the state is predominant
ly republican. Out of about 140 pub
lications only twenty are democratic
and four or five Independent. The
bulk of the newspapers are against
the league and behind Senator Borah.
Nuxent to Rum Ahead of Ticket.
Nevertheless Senator Nugent is con-
fident that when the democrats get
be able to swing the state to Cox.
Nugent himself will run far ahead of
the presidential ticket and unless
there is landslide for Harding. even
republicans concede that he has
good chance to win the senatorial race
Iagain. He defeated two years ago for
the short term the same man who is
running against him now. Practically
the same influences are lined up on
both sides. The Non-Partisan League
has withdrawn its candidate from the
senatorial race and indorsed Nugent.
This strengthens the latter rvery
much and the democrats think 1t also
helps the presidential ticket
2 To this the republicans answer that
the Non-Partisan League vote consists
largely of farmers who are republi-
can on presidential issues. The Nom
Partisan League newspapers openly
declare they will not take sides In
the presidential contest So it would
appear that as a league, the non
partisan membership will be left to
it's own devices and the bulk OF It's
vote is republican for agricultural
reasons. Similarly the Mormon
Church membesshp fsatdl !, Th,fa daSos is sttua
tion. is not being instructed in this
state how to vote. The leaders of
the church in Utah. who are for the
league of nations. kept ands OH, and
unless something unforeseen occurs
the Mormons who have been i'm
pressed in Idaho by the Borah argu-
ment will vote the republican ticket
Uphill Fight for Democrats.
AS matters stand today, even the
| democrats are not over SanSulne,
though they admit they have an up
hill fight and that it all depends upon
the effectiveness in the next few
weeks of the speakers and organizers
who are just being put into the race
The Mormon elders and the Non
Partisan League leaders could swing
the state to Cox without any trouble
I ia sign of aYfrAnYdl-
nary interest on their part in the
success of the democratic presiden-
tial nominee
The republican papers have fed the
and nothing else and the people in
, many sections have been led to be-
, Iieve, for example, that the league
of nations means America must dig
into her pockets to pay Europe's
bills
People liked his campaigning. They
applauded him enthusiastically and
/ gave him a reception that was termed
by a leading republican as mag
, nifcent." But the effeca of the Cox
!, speech was to hold wa ring demo-
Gratis and proselyte scattering votes
All the straw votes taken in this
vicinity show Harding to be much
stronger than Cox. The most con-
, servative estimate in republican
Il
of $4,000, which was about what
, President Wilson got four years ago
Borah Finishes Campaign.
! Among the democrats the estimate
Of few thousand majority for Cox
indicates how closely fought they
.. hope the contest will be. Senator
Borah has finished campaigning here
but will come back If his friends
think the state is in danger. They
? haven't sent for him yet and say
they will let the east have him.
: The state of Idaho would cast its
electoral vote for Harding by a large
e majority if the election were held
this week. AS with other states, un.
less some sensational development
3 occurs to switch public sentiment
everywhere throughout the country
. the result will be unchanged OF
November 2. Idaho is inclined to be
republican.
Copyright. 1920.)