The Washington herald., 1920-11-02
SO-CALLED THIRD
PARTIES MAKING
SLENDER SHOWING
com :NUED FROM PAGE ONE.


by a small majority. The Farmer
Labor party has an electoral ticket
in the field and will get a protest
vote, but not enough, il is believed,
to offset the declaration of the
league for the Democratic State
ticket. In Washington the league
and the Farmer-Labor forces have
been successfully welded. and the
effect may be to overturn past po-
litical results. At least it has
frightened many Democrats into
swinging over to the Republican
candidate for governor, Louis F..
Hart. as the one chance OF beating
radicalism. A Farmer-Labor Rep
resentative in the First district is
confidently expected.
1t cannot be said, however, that
outside of these scattered sections,
and limited number of candidates.,
the lesser parties are going to exert
much effect on the election. and
such effect as they will have will
be on State rather than national re-
suits. There are several States in
which the local contests, though
not hinging on third party activity,
have special interest.
The Michigan Outlook.
One of these is Michigan. where
the Democratic nominee for gov
ernor-Woodbridee N. Ferris-has
based his whole campaign on avow-
ed opposition to the league of ma
tions. So frank an attitude of an
tagonism to the position of Gov.
Cox does not lead observers to eX-
pect much of a Democratic vote in
Michigan for either the State or
national ticket. One issue there
that has been fought with much
heat is proposed constitutional
amendment prohibiting the main
tenance of parochial schools. 1t is
naturally bitterly fought by the
Catholic Church and has introduced
d depIorable amount of religious
antagonism into the whole State
campaign.
Georgia will be true to history
by electing a Democratic governor
and Senator, but adds novelty to
an otherwise commonplace program
ter opponents of the Democratic
national administration - Thomas
w. Hardwick and Thomas Z. Wat
son. BY way of emphasizing the
fact that she Is out Of touch with
the nation, Georgia Furthermore
proposes to refuse the right to vote
to women, despite the constitutional
amendment, which was ratified too
late to comply with the State law
for registration. Whether this at
tempt will be successful is yet to
be proved.
The New York State election de-
rives its chief interest from the
effort of Tammany to put over the
present popular and efficient Gov.
Al Smith, despite the assured Re
publican landslide in the state. Al
though Smith will get thousands OF
Republican votes and run far ahead
Of his ticket, few expect to witness
his election. Prohibition, even in
adequately enforced, has reduced
Tammany u a mere shell. and it is
not likely that all the trading which
could be practiced in Manhattan
can overcome the Republican ma
jority upstate. The Farmer-Labor
candidacy of Dudley Field Malone
who cannot by any humorous
stretch of the imagination be class
ed as either a farmer or a laborer-
will further cut into the Smith vote
As to the New York Senatorship,
nothing but a Presidential year
with a ahandslide could have carried
Wadsworth through.
1t will be interesting to,see how
heavy will be the protest vote which
the women of the State are going
to cast for Mrs Boole, the prohibi-
tion nominee. 1t will be interesting,
too, to watch the effect in the So
cia!istic districts of the lower East
Side of the action of the State as
sembly in repeatedly refusing to seat
Socialistic assemblymen. though reg.
ularly elected. Many expect to see
a heavy increase OF the Socialist vote
as a result
These are in the main the points
OF interest in States affected by third
party movements or abnormal politi-