The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-10-28
HIRAM HELPED
EBBING OF TIDE
Gov. Cox's Strength Steadily
Growing Since Harding's
Speech at DeS Moines.
COP. DAILY LOSES VOTES
icy MARK SULLIVAN, National Polit.
lcat Corresponocntl

Wy MANN SULLIVAN National Polit-
IVA icnt Correspondcnt.)
Washington, Oct. 2S.--The campaign
has entered new phase. That phase
Is p steady .ebh In the republican strength
ann corresponding growth In the DEM
ocratic strength. The day when It be-
Fan can he liked with almost mathemat-
icai certainly.
Cox returned to Dayton from his long
tour west Of the Mississippi on Monday.
oct. 4, and began his campaign In the
east on the following Thursday. II was
on that same day that Harding made
sissippi and delivered his Des Moines
speech.
Coxs trans Mississippi tour had been
devoid OF results. At that sine II was
possible TO say. and II was A,id In this
correspondence, that Cox's for weeks
IN the west had not changed the condi-
ton N any state. and that he would
not get more than one-fif h OF the cleo
toral votes in the eighteen states west
OF the Mississippi other than those
But the date have mentioned marked
The high tide OF republican strength.
whatever may be the exact result next
tuesday. the republicans must know II
VIII not be as favorable to them. either N
terms or the popular vote or the cleo
toral vote, or In terms of the number
OF states carried. as 1t would have been
three weeks ago. From that week
when Harding crossed the Mississippi
westward and Cox crossed eastward.
not only has Cox made guins wherever
he has appeared In the east. but also the
echo OF those gains has reflected itself
IN betterment of his fortunes west of
the Mississippi. I have expressed 1t in
accurate. But II should be additionally
expressed In terms Of the republicans
making losses.
johnson Helped the Ebb.
! have spoken as II II were Hard
ing's Des Moihes speech that started
the ebb of the republican tide. That |
Is true. But that event alone would |
not have been so marked in It's effect
il 1t had not been followed by the |
speeches of Senator Johnson. in--which |
Moines utterance and pins Senator
Harding down to It. On this point /
there Is testimony from western
IA somewhat critical condition arose !
in the minds OF large numbers of peo-
pie when Senator Harding appeared to
make an outspoken declaration against |
all leagues OF nations at Des Moines.
That was partially corrected by his
Omaha speech and has been largely
thirty -one prominent republicans"
The observer who expressed this |
judgment 10 In a position to know |
what Is true of his community. But
speaking for the country generally the
original impression created or the Des
Moines speech is kept steadily alive
by the speeches of Senator johnson,
who specifically refers to the state
ments of the "thirty-one republicans"
and flouts them. II
There are several other communi-
ties In the west where the revulson
from Harding, due to the suspicion that
his position and Senator Johnson's are
identical, Is not necessarily statewide,
but might yet be sufficientts strong
to affect states heretofore considered
safely republican.
What the degree OF this revuisioR
is we shall never know, because there !,
is no record of how great the repub-
llcan victory would have been had the
election occurred the day preceding the
Des Moines speech. The revulsion. OFF,