The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-29
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tevery minus end we feel certain that
they will carry lsew Jersey, Connecu'
cut and New Hampshire.
! In the west, reports from Montana,
F! Colorado, Arizona, Idaho, New Next
/ CO, Washington, Nevada, South Da-
/ kota and Utah are that they are GER
tainly democratic, and we believe we
/ viii carry Nebraska, California and
| North Dakota. In Minnesota. Oregon
and Wisconsin, our prospects are
| hourly improving, and q great swlns
toward us is on in Kansas, Illinois and
even in Iowa. The republicans are
demoralized from the Canadian border
| to the gulf, and from the Atlantic TO
the Pacific. Their forces are In fuii
retreat everywhere.
Fighting From Underneath.
| TThe following article by George
/ White was written in response to re-
quest made by the United Press OF
i the chairmen of both the republican
| and democratic national committees
Will H. Hays article viii appear To-
morrow
IBy George White, Chairman OF the
Democratic National Committee,
Written for the United Press.l
Copyright 1920 by the United Press.l
NEW YORK, Oct 29.-We began
this fight well underneath. For two
years the republican party had SLOW
lily poisoned the country against the
eight years of the present adminlstra-
ton, the greatest legislative record
in Americas history, crowned by the
amazing triumph of our war machine.
,aia NJ
been furnished with limitless funds
with which to build an organization
and to spread propaganda against the
democrats.
The country was emerging from the
unusual conditions of the war. Taxes
were heavy, and the unthinking blam-
ed the party in power for their bur
dens, ignoring the fact rat the re
publican party had already been IN
control of congress for two years and
had submitted do-less record, which
for lack OF leadership. for political
scowardice, for obstruction OF the pro
cesses of honorable peace, is q lasting
blot upon that party's history.
Under these handicaps, we began,
after the nomination of Governor Cox
| and Mr.. Roosevelt to try to awaken
the American people 70 the issues and
to attempt to bring them back to q
realization of the facts about the is
sues Deliberately group OF senators
/ had nominated at Chicago colorless
candidate whose very lack OF conyte-
ton they were sure would provide q
channel for all the COLLECTING repuoli-
can elements TO flow through into vic
] tory. Deliberately their platform had
been nhrased to straddle on the league
| OF natioas-lt-s
! In the spirit of that dishonest plat
form the candidates have made their
campaign until daily in the press half
! OF the republicans contend that the
| candidate is a proleaguer and the
other half assert that he has scrapped
! il
! We lacked money at the beginning.
and We lack it now. AT least two mil
lions OF 6olla-s we required effectively
to put before the people through ora
/ tors and general publicity and organi-
| cation the facts I have touched upon
above In addition to this the league
/ of nations proposal had been subject
/ ed 70 more misunderstanding and
downright nisstatement than any
great cause before the American peo-
Die. Fer had read the covenant, the
j demagogy about article I and the
"sfx-yotes- to-Engiand~ had been Per
sistertiy indUlged in: and large por-
/ ton OF the less reputable republican
newspapers declined 10 permit dS
forum for discussion
/ But the best laid plans of managers
go awy The greatest political ma
chine ever set up In this country Is
no harder for the American people TO
smash than the smallest township or
gamzation.
All that was needed waste prove
the truth and justice Of our cause, TO
present the truth about the covenant
to nail the lie that Governor Cox in
sisted upon about accepting the
league as il came from Versailles, TO
brand the attacks on article p-In 2
word, to arouse the moral conscience
lof the people and to show them the
certain avenue TO world peace.