Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-10-30
,Fe,D States Can Be Considered Safe
By Governor Cox, Says Laurence Ii
Summing up Recent Dissertations

the writer visited was able to produce
a canvass Of the =; feminine which
GOULD be considered complete. Time
and again the eAcanvass Of the mascu-
line vote has been accomplished with
such accuracy In advance OF the cleo
little from the official result. Most
editors and political leaders agree,
however, that the women will merely
double the Republican or Democratic
vote or increase 1t by at least 80 per
cent. AS the husband votes, so votes
the wife. That's the theory ! West
serners who have had more experience
with woman. suffrage for many years
uphold that view, vet in Indiana, Ken
lucky, West Virginia and even Ohio it
has been admitted by. politicians that
perhaps the League Of 8 Nations has
made more women voters Independent
of party lines than at first expected.
In West Virginia. Indiana, Ohio, New
York and New Jersey there has been
"a noticeab BILE revival of interest among
men and women in the League Of Ma
tions, a wider reading of the cove
Enant than was believed possible on a
question that has so often been dis
missed by the professional politicians
as dead" Or without the statement
that, the people are sick and tired Of
the thing.
4. Vt # Antd-W ilsonim1.
Fourth, another remarkable thing
Ills that while the street talk and club
talk and smoking car gossip and
newspaper talk has constituted an ap-
parent wave Of anti-Wilsonisn1, tho
casual mention Of the name of Wood
row Wilson In meetings held by the
Democrats has not .been met with
silence or a few scattered handclaps
but by spontaneous outbursts of an
plause. The Democrats themselves
nave been pleasantly surprised by tho
demonstrations and don't know
whether to Interpret it as a feeling
of sympathy for the man who has
broken down in health in his, en-
thought Best or whether to regard it
as n an indication of Democratic
strength at the polls.
Fifth, the economic situation has
had so many puzzling developments
IN the last three, or four weeks, prices
have dropped so materially and ,ln-
employment has come so suddenly in
many cities that in more than one case
are suspicious expressed that the shut
down has something to do with the
oft-heard conspiracy of intimidatins
labor. On the other hand, in the
rural districts the fall in the price of
wheat and the general decline of live
stock prices has stirred up the tariff
issue and made friends for the Repub-
lican tariff program. The reader him
self has probably noticed that Senator
Harding has evidently been told of
this sentiment for he has devoted two
or three statements to 1t. lately. More
over, the rising tide of interest in the
League of15Nations has been met by
the Republicans In the last two weeks
by campaign speeches from such
friends Of the league as Herbert
Hoover, William Howard Taft and
Elihu Root. The attack has been
against Artille * and in the cast, at
least nobody Including Senator
Harding, has 5se1it messages in the last
fewdaysato Senatora ohnson. or sBorah
telling them tf1kS,s were. Interpreting
the Republican platform correctly.
Indeed, the restiveness displayed by
William Randolph Hearst, who calls
on Governor Cox to repudiate the
league and at the same time criticises
Harding for wiggling and wobbling''
is another indication of unrest in the
camp ofssNthe ''irreconcilables" and
others who favor the rejection of the
treaty and any League of Nations.
Want Explanation.
p With a growing sentiment in favor
of the principle of a League Of Ma