The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-27
OUTLOOK GROWING BETTER DAILY FOR
 COX AND SENATE
RibaId and SacriIegiouS Car toon In Harding's Weekly Latest Cause of Demo-
 cratic Optimism
By LOUIS sEIBoLD.


 New York, October 2s.--tspe- ciaL )-Dcmocratic chances for
 winning the control of the United
 States Senate and making q sur
 prising showing in the president
 tinI contest have steadily Improved
 during the past week. The repub-
 hcan managers admit that they
 have been compelled to put up
 more vigorous fight for supremacy
 in the senate than they anticipated
 month ago.
 They entertain no doubt of their ability to win the presidential contest despite the unmistakable slipping of their candidate and a marked shift of voters hitherto responding to repunli- can propaganda designed to create widespread prejudice against the Will sen administration generally and Cox's championship of the League of Ma lions
 The latter issue has become the one ortstanding and almost sole conten- tlcn between the two parties The re- publican managers, who are thorough ly satisfied with the result of their alignment of nationalistic groups against the democratic party for grievances, real and imaginary. have been considerably worried by the manifest approval indicated by voters in the eastern part of the coun- try to whom Governor Cox has ap- pealed. They do not deny that the movement away from their own candi- date evidences the readiness of .hs people to change their original opa- ions regarding it.
 HARD TO ESTIMATE
 Whether this movement has ap- rroXimated the volume claimed by the dcmocratic managers is problematie. Surface indications and close scrutiny Of conditions and figures prepared by the managers of the two parties do rot justify the democratic claim that 1t will be sufficiently large to over- come the lead which Harding secured early in the campaign, and which his supporters assert he has not lost, though they admit falling away from him.
 There is no question but that the vigorous ba tile which Governor Cox is heading against the confusion that obs scures the mind ,of Harding regarding the League of Nations has caused a lot of trouble in the republican camp. l This has not only caused the republic can managers to discard their previous claims of landslide" in the presi,len- tial campaign and to admit that it is a fight" but has compelled them to
 
 erwise, to their candidates for the Son. late in New Hampshire, cionnecticut. Kentucky Indiana. Utah, Missouri. Iowa, Colorado. Idaho and California. | The swing toward Governor Cox has also caused mild paiiic regarding tho state tickets in New York. Ohio, West Virginia Indiana, Illinois and several of the lesser important states in the west AS a matter of fact the de'no- cratic chances for electing their stats ticket in New York and all of the ,ther states to which republican aid has ,een sent recently are very much improved.
 TIDE TO GOV. SMITH | In New York. expert republican i judgment and the betting reflects a | tremendous stride toward victory or Governor Smith. The republican 'uan- agers who are counting upon majosI~ lity for Mir. Harding of from 200, 00o 70 450,0o0 in the Empire state frankly concede an advantage to smith over Miller and in fact over Governor Cox. 1 one of the most conservative of tho republican managers estimates that Smith is 100000 votes stronger than Cox, and will be elected if the Harding majority falls below that figure That which is true of New York also applies to other states in the middle and far west
 IRISH ARE RELENTING Here In New York and over in Boston and Chicago and other large cities. where the vote susceptible to Irish in- fluences Is very large, the intense pre- judice among them against the League 1 of Nations seems to be evapord ing. Two causes have contributed to tbe marked change of sentiment among voters of this type. One was claa ,iy l illustrated by the friendly reception with which eastern audiences ad- l ldressed by Cox received his pledge 10 l put the full moral power of his admin- 1 istration back of the demand for thu 1 Irish rights of elf-determination in the event of. his election. The cheers with which this announcement was res ceived is regarded as q very hopeful sign by the dmocratic managers. SHOCKED BY CARTOON The other cause for democratic ops