The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-25
COX SATISFIED WITH
 EFFORTS ID EXPOSE
 EMOTIONAL FAKE
Both Parties Worried Over the Problem of Whether Nation Can Be Aroused to Sup
 port League
By LOUIS sEIBoLD

By LOUIS SEIBoLD
 New York, October 24.-- Especial. )-The most perplex- ing problem that confronts the democratic and republican na- tional managers is this: Can the moral conscience of America" be sufficiently aroused in SUD- port of the League of Nations during the next eight days to nullify the apparent success of the republican propaganda which is designed to convince the greater number of voters that it is desirable for the well fare of the United States?
 Governor Cox, the democratic candi- date, told me in the Waldorf hotel a few minutes before he departed today of his mission to convert the doubtful states of the middle west, that he be- lieves that an intelligent study of the problem has provided an antidote 10 hich the voters are responding. lie expressed complete satisfaction Wlth tie result of his efforts to expose "she emotional fake" which the republican rarty has built up with the support or various nationalistic groups, hltner-o deceived by republican propaganda.
 X few minutes later Republican Na- tlonal Chairman Hays told me within e10 feet of the apartment in sWhlch Governor Cox was conferring with ms mana gers that nothing the democratic party can do will change the advant- age which the republican party mas won by exposing the incompetency or fba 'democratic administration and the Gsngere of the Wilson League of Na- tons"
 Governor Cox is quite certain that ne has succeeded in dissipating the los which the republican party has createu to obscure the vision of the lrisn, the Italian and to some extent, the iess refractory German mind regarding. the tr,,a meaning and inestimable status q the League of Nations to nationallstic ambitions reflected by them.
 EXPECTS REAL FIGHT
 He expressed the opinion that he De lieved the awakening of the people would transform the contest for the asidency into a "realsIight Delors ses ss,ssi, Y, x NskInnNE CSlals'sssssks 5s sSs zA&f< a4s ~ 5t'sstA lrt sE s*sss'a ' 9 x s sS,s5s sft VI 1ssf fF v z 35ks ss '; s;,ss Z gts fitS .ss $ 2 f,i pa;ss essAsa 15 stss4 cosaf Anaa lisA sfs0 sa s'asof fnsf w54i SAu< tae alhNF {fe a a.ei1g durias He sN<N seAt A5tN We have every reason to believe that we wilt win" ,.,.
 The retort of MT. Hays, who, While < always optimistic, nevertheless IS ,h cIined to conservatism in the matler a O, any fight the democrats can put up. We have been ready for one ever since the campaign started. We expecteu that there would be an improvement In democratic chances and are ready TOT it. But the tide set against the ueho- ci attic party months ago ana "h,ie is nav not prove an irresistible flood, tho reslllts will show thatfthe voters or the |, country. men and women. are delighten to substitute competency for efficiency IF the government for incompetency' autocracy and inefficiency.
 These two authorative views ciea!iy reflect the conditions that exist nlns days before the 25.o0oo0 voters or the country are to render their declsion between the two parties That there has been a vast improvement in demo- < cratic chances is not disputed py the more important managers Of the repuo- lican campaign.
 This improvement Is attripute0
 by them to three causes; tD tne
 wabbling and evasion of
 Harding, the republican presiden-
 tIaI candidate. aggravated by fac
 ttonai rows in some of the most
 tmuOrtant parts of the eounIr!;
 foN the aggressive and effecuve
 team work by President WILSON
 and Governor Cox, plus thorough
 cooperation of the party organina-
 tion Eeneraify. and ssl .M a,s-
 mendous interest recently dis
 ul.yed by voters, particularly
 women. in the League of Nntions.
 REPUBLICANS UNEASY
 The improvement noted infdemocratie chances has been sufficiently marker 10 wake republican leaders of several states express concern over the state senatorial and congressional candidates, eausins many of them to run up signals TOT fnancjal help and to revise their ob- viouslv extravagant estimates as to ma iorities and pluralities for their presi- < dential candidates.
 Surface indications reflected in the re- nort parties that they have not succeed Eraucisco headquarters of the two par tias still noint to victory for MT. Hard- ing There is no question about that But to balance this these same reports nont unrnistakably to the stripping ol MT. Harding himself in popular estima- tion In some parts Of the country tnis retroeression has been so pronotlnced as to encourage the democratic leaders to assert if the campaign had another month to go MT. Harding would oe beaten. and the emotional repuohcan fake fail in it's purpose.
 circumstance that contributes largeiy to this conclusion is the admission of both parties that they have not succeed ed in getting line on the probable dis tfibution of the new women voters. ol which it is estimated there will be apou' 1aNp0 0OO The managers of both parties therefore, make obviously absurd claims which have so far resisted analysis and definite classification. If the democratic theory that women generally favor the League of Nations because of their con- viction that it provides an insurance against war is correct, the greater per- centage of the women vote will go to MT Cox. This, in fact. is the great de- pen6ency of the democratic party all over the country. They believe that they will be able to win enough of the women voters in some of the western states which, combined with the electoral states surely democratic, to give them the de- cision
 NOT CONSIDERED VITAL
 While the republicans also attach great importance to the woman vote, it is not regarded as vital to the candidates of What marty as to the oppOsftion The req