Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-19

WE 1TH the primaries out
M Of the way in prac-
tically all the more inn
portant states, party
managers and political prophets
are taking stock. of the situation
and casting straws aloft to deter
mine the direction Of prevailing
winds. 1t is not expected, of
course, that the party managers
would publicly agree as to the
winds direction, but in special
dispatches which The Star pub
fishes this morning there is sur
prising unanimity Of opinion ex-
pressed by its correspondents that
the blow" just now is very strong
ly in the direction of Harding and
Coolidge.
From only two Of the more Inn
portant doubtful states does
there come any note Of democratic
optimism. New York state demo-
Gratis. having had time to analyze
results of the primary. are repre-
sented as greatly encouraged and
as confident that New. York very
shortly will be c]assed as among
the states comparatively safe for
Cox and Roosevelt Kentucky
democrats, who have been down
in the mouth" apparently have
taken new heart and now contend
that the Blue Grass state may be
expected to remain attached to its
democratic mornings. ~
There never has been any strong
expectations that New England
could be won for the democratic
ticket. but dispatch from Boston
represents Massachusetts, demo-
Gratis as in most doleful, mood.
One of them. says the Boston cor,
respondent. predicts that that city,
a democratic stronghold, will go
republican and that Harding will
carry the state by 100000 despite
the fact that Gov. Coolidge had a
plurality of only $4,000 in his
law and order" campaign last
year. The Massachusetts situa-:
ton results from Irish-Americaf,
disanection on the league. of ma
tions issue. some OF the most active
democratic workers in Boston OF
that extraction being openly for
Harding.
N. O. Messenger, The Stars chief
political writer, who is touring the
middle west. reports that the drift
in that part of the country is very
decidedly toward the. republican
ticket. In a number Of states. from
Indiana westward, he finds that re-
publican state tickets are more or
less imperiled by factional fights
believe that these factional quar-
rels will adversely AFFECT the ma
tional ticket to any serious extent.
Nebraska. home of. Senator
Hitchcock. the Presidents cham
pion OF the league OF nations in
the Senate. and also OF William
Jennings Bryan. the most con-
spicuous democratic opponent of
the covenant as brought back from
Mr.. Messenger says, to roll up
tremendous republican plurality.
Brightness OF republican prospects
in Nebraska and the other middle
western states, Mr.. Messenger be-
lieves, is not due so much to the
league OF nations or any other
specific issue as it is to general
dissatisfaction with the democratic
administration in Washington and
the resultant desire to bring about
q change.
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In Kansas the rival republican
factions are marching shoulder to
shoulder and complete party har-
mony seems to have been restored.
the only major sore spot" from a
republican standpoint, being the
attitude of the coal miners, who
are counted generally as against
the republican ticket. The Kansas
miners are resp nding sympa-
thetically to the sentiment which
obtains among the miners In Illi-
nois. Indiana. Ohio and West Nfr-
ginia, but belief is expressed that
this is due more to opposition to
the republican than enthusiasm
for the democratic ticket ann