The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-10-30
BREAKS FAVOR.
DEMOCRATS now
Last-Minute Changes in Po-
iticaI Line-Up Aid Cox and
Roosevelt.
G. Q. P. STRIVES TO HOLD
teY JOHN D. ERwIN.)


washington Correspondent The News
Washington. Oct. 3O.--With the end o
the big political game OF 1920 only few
days distant, observers IN Washington
see the best omen OF democratic victor,
In the consistent manner In which th'
breaks" are favoring the democrats II
the closing days Of the campaign. The
breaks" count az heavily In a polit.
icai campaign, past events show. as IN
an athletic contest. Reports reaching
administration circles from all sections
show that the morale OF the democratic
workers il higher now than Mt any time
since the San Francisco convention.
This IL due, II Is plain. to the steady
swing OF public sentiment toward the
democratic position on the paramount
issue OF the campaign.
Republicans freely conccde that the
democrats are having tho hest OF II In
the developments OF the final days, but
they maintain that no advantage that
may now accrue to Gov. Cox nc this
late date will be sufficient to overcome
the early lead which has been claimed
for the republican ticket.
In a desperate effort to offset the de-
lection OF prominent republican, on the
league issue, the republican leaders are
now trying TO find a basis for the
charge that there In n rift between Will
son and Gov. Cox on the leaKne. OF
nations. The fact that the president
did not mention Gov. Cox's name IN MS
address TO the Hamilton Holt delega-
tion OF proleague republicans has been
seized ON In an absurd effort to bolster
up this slender hope OF frictlon In the
democratic organization and every
straw that holds the faintest sncour-
agement OF division among the hackers
OF the democratic ticket In being eagerly
Erasped. There Ia nothing in the rec
ord or outside Of II. so far as the most
careful observation shows, that gives
any justification for such hopes.
started at Des Molnes.
The republicans do not deny that
things have been breaking badly for
their presidential ticket. Their Ill luck
dates from Senator Harding's pes
Moines speech. where the nominee
seemingly in panic over rrmnlings o.
johnson. fatty rejected the league. The
candidate was Smoked out" Mt most
lnopportune time, ns events nave
shown, And the reports OF detection
among republicans dating IRON tnat
time have been matched by CORE
spending increase OF optimism, ana con-
fldence on the part of the democrats
This accession OF confidence and. cn-
thusiaHm among democrats has been
manifested In the most practical SORT
OF way, namely, In a steady Flow OF
money TO the formerly empty pemo.
Candidate Hafding's change OF front
on the League made its appearance
simultaneously In all parts or the
country and popular subscriptions 70
the democratic campaign fund multi-
piled accordingly Within the PAST
democratic fund have averaged more
than Ss0n00 n majority OF the donors
expressing themselves emphatically IN
support OF tho league In their letters
of transmittal. The Increasing flow
or popular contributions 10 tho cam
paign fund has perhaps done as much
as anything else to stimulate. confi-
dence among party workers who felt
the democratic tagging six weeks ago:
II Senator Hardlng's blunders OF
speech have discouraged those In
charge OF the republican campaign,
Gov. Cox's driving campaign. his clear
and frank presentation OF his case
and the rouslng response which ne has
received may have been the Inspiration
OF the democratic organization. Re-
puhlican politicians are frankly
alarmed AZ tho drift OF the Irish vote
hack 10 the democratic party. An espe-
cIal appeal was made to irish Ameri-
cans by the republicans, In connection
with the fght on Article X OF tho
league covenant. The dishonest hasls
OF this effort 60 align irish voters for
Harding once exposed reports from
nearly all the important states espe-
carry in New England and New
Jersey. show this movement hack to
the democratic party ia on In earnest.
senator Borah. who was one Of those
sivkn credit FOR alignlng the Irish for
Harding, has expressed himself to
friends very frankly about the causes
which broke this llne-un. He N said
10 feel that Senator Harding's state
ment that ''thc Irish question is one
with which official America can have
nothing 20 do" was n capital political
hlunder, The republicans are consolnE
themselves with the thought that tho
Irish vote Is taditionally dcmocratIc
anyway and claiming they can win
without a.