Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-26
Party Managers Complain Cannot
THE WEEK IN POLITICS
Summary of National Developments, Based
Reports From The Stars Special Core
spondents and Staff Writer'S

Wilson 1916 plurality of $4,000, but
continuance of the preponderance of
women declaring for Harding would
give him the state by about $4,000.
Not very much Importance, of course,
can be attached to these straw
votes. but at least they are inter-
esting.
Just what ails the women of
Ohio is rather hard to understand.
in view of the fact that in other
states the party managers are sur
prised, not to say flabbergasted at
the numbers of them who are quail
flying for suffrage. In Maryland,
for instance. fully SO per cent of
the women have registered already.
and it is evident that they are de-
termined to make their weight felt
at the November election. Mary
land democrats are little uneasy
over the fact that proportionately
more negro than white women have
qualified, and there seems to be the
same general tendency in Virginia
and other southern cities. Even in
Florida, where it is inconceivable
that the republicans have hopes of
negro women are being systematical-
ly rounded up and their names
placed on the registration lists.
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All this, no doubt, is a part of
the republican program of break
ing up the solid south" Even if
nothing can be gained this year in
such southern states as Florida, the
grand total of republican votes
south of Mason and Dixon's line
is counted on to improve future
republican prospects in North Car
DINA and Tennessee and in scat
tered congressional districts IN
Alabama and elsewhere.
Just another of the many peculiar
angles of the present campaign is
the way the woman voter is view
ed in the adjoining states of Ohio
and Indiana. In Ohio the republic
cans are counting on the women to
carry the state for Harding,
Whereas. in Indiana. according to
a dispatch from Indianapolis, the
only danger the republican man
agement sees is that the women
may swing to Cox on the league of
nations issue, Thomas Taggart, the
democratic candidate for. United
States senator, has squared him
self with the women by declaring
for continuance and enforcement
of the Volstead prohibition law,
and is making straight-out nght
for the Wilson league of nations.
Even republicans concede that
Taegart is a shrewd politician who
knows the sentiment of Indiana
folk. and they are made not lit
tie uneasy by the ardor with winch
he is championing the league OF
nations as the only way to prevent
war in the future. And he is max
ing this appeal directly to the
women, to whom the thought OF
war always is abhorrent.
Nowhere else, perhaps. is the
league of nations issue cutting up
such capers as it is in California.
The republican managers in Cali
fornia were uneasy for fear hiram
Johnson would not make an ag-
gressive campaign in behalf of the
rational ticket. Now they are
afraid that he will become too ag-
gressive. Senator Johnson is
stronger with California voters
than any other man ever was. He
has taken off his coat for Harding
on the supposition that the candi-
date is ready to scrap the whole
league of nations project, and II
SO happens that the league of ma
lions idea is more popular with
republicans in California. probably.
than it is in any other state. AS
between johnson and the league,
it is a case with California re-
publicans of howthappy they could
be with either were t'other dear
charmer away. and the party man
ayers can only guess as to winch
charm will be the more enduring
and efficacious. They would be de-
lighted if Senator johnson would
support the ticket on general prin-
ciples, and soft-pedal the league
issue-but Senator Johnson won't.
and when Hiram won't he won't.
Copyright. 1920. by The Washington Starr