New-York tribune., 1920-08-19
. oman Vote
Expected to
Aid Harding
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based this on the moist appeal which
COX has been making and the spec
tacular enthusiasm for Cox amonr the
Jersey delegates at San Francisco.
democrats who have been privately
counting New jerseys fourteen votes
TOR Cox on this issue were asked to.
night how they thought the women
voting in New Jersey would affect this
The women of New Jersey. lust az
the women in other wet communities
are Just rs wet as the men," replied
one OF these hopeful Democrats. "You
VIII tipd them marching to the polls
and voting for Cox in droves. in the
hope that we will get a modification
of this Volstead act"
Wet Republicans, who have been in.
dignant at the policy of the Demo
Gratis in trying to appear wet in New
York and New Jersey but bone dry out
in the Middle and Far West were
chuckling tonight.
they started this moist appeal in New
Jersey" said one of them. "They
won't fool many men among the Re-
publicans with any false hope about
the Volstead act. They know that Cox
VIII be just as powerless to help them
as is Governor Edwards But they
have made the women sore by their
promises to bring booze back, and the
Jersey women are going to swat the
whole Democratic ticket in New Jersey
Mark my prediction
On the Senate situation, however,
there is real concern in Republican
circles. Without this added Eomplica
tlon the situation was that the Re-
publicans were cock-sure of the House
OF Repre- esentatives, fairly complacent
about alecting Harding, but worried to
death about the Senate.
The present Republican margin in
the Senate is just one Senator-that t
is, the substitution of one Democrat
for Republican would result in a
tie. And the cold facts are that Re-
publican Senators are in danger of
being beaten by their Democratic op-
number of states, where the reasona-
bic chances OF Republican Senatorial
gains are few and far between.
Two of these states in which Repub-
llcan Senators are in danger of defeat
are New Hampshire and Connecticut,
in which Senators George H. Moses
and Frank B. Brandegee are battling
for reelection. Both have been strong
anti-sufragist
On the other hand, if women vote as
the prohibitionists think they will
voting dry than wct-it may aid SEN
ator James E. Watson, of Indiana, in
his uphill fight against Tom Taggart,
one of the wet bosses, who put Cox
over at San Francisco. Watson voted
for the prohibition amendment and also
to pass the Vo4stead act over President
Wilson's veto.
1t might aid the Republicans to gain
a Senator in Missouri, where Senator
Spencer, Republican and dry, is bat
Ting for reelection against Breckin-
ridge Long, Democrat and non- COM
initial on the liquor question, although
with we'll known moist leanings
But, again, it would work against the
lucky, as Senator Beckham whom they
hoped to defeat, is an ardent dry.
Those who contend that women have
always in the states where they have
voted for some time been more rcgu-
lar so far as party ties are concerned
than the men, say that voting by wom-
en- will insure the election of Demo
cratic Senator'S in Kentucky, Missouri
and Maryland, as those states are nor
mally Democratic, and will aid the cleo
ton of Republican Senators in Indiana
and Illinois, Gin Illinois women voted
for President four years ago, but they
WOuld not nave voted Tor senator ana
members of the HI H0Hss 5 year had
in other normally Republican states
Even those holding this view do not
make the contention as to New Hamp-
shire and Connecticut, where it is pos
sible that the cutting of Moses and
Brandegee by ardent suffragists may
be heavy.
The final victory Of the suffragists
is not expected to affect the New York
Senatorial campaign, although opposi-
tlon to Senator Wadsworth, on account
Of his votes against the suffrage
amendment, has been made one of the
issues against him by George Henry
Payne, his opponent for the Republi-
can nomination. But the women would
have voted, anyhow, in New York, sc
the only effect on the New York fight
is that the woman suffrage fight has
passed into history.