Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-10-03
LEADERS
PREDICTING VICTORY
IN FALL ELECTION
BY ROBERT T. SMALL
Ueased Wire Service to The Journal.)
fCnuvrfphf 1900

ming to make Roadway in the various
states, the Republican managers
here in Washington are assuming a
| confidence which q few weeks ago
would have been thought inchedible.
1t is not that they have found any
new merit in the record Of the con-
gress just closed nor that they are
unconscious of the blight that
tariff bill generally leaves upon Q
party in power.
Tho Republicans believe they are
going to achieve victory this fall
because of the prosperity which is
sweeping the country.
"Give us good times and to hell
with the record Of congrcssr' declar-
ed vigorous and vlrulent leader
of the Republican inner councils to
the writer a few weeks ago.
/ Today the Republicans believe the
good times are here and they feel
that the rest is easy sailing. Not
that the cold winds of defeat are not
expected to blow and to blow hard
in a good many localities, but by
and large the grand old chiefs Of
the grand old party are rather in,
clined to inform the universe that
they are "settin' pretty" at the mo-
mert.
Outlook Was Gloomy
It is no secret that National Chair
man John T. Adams and lot Of
other Republican leaders six months
ago were much worried over the
outlook for the coming election.
Nothing seemed to be breaking right
for the party. Congress was in g.
jam, reports from the country in.
dicated that the administration was
losing ground. the Washington arms
conference had been seven days
wonder but apparently had left no
permanent impression upon the PEG
pie, so far as political considerations
were concerned, and a lot of social
ed "Progressives" were threatening
to run ANYWAY with all the party
contests.
Chairman Adams, of a remarkably
eouable disposition, found solace In
the conclusions which were reached
at not one but many conferences.
"If business conditions are good
in the fall we will sweep the coun-
try" said the leaders, "if business
continues bad, we will lose. That's
all there is to it, tariff or no tariff.
foreign policy or no foreign pOlicy,
congress or no congress. ="
This is the philosophy of the Re
publican chieftains, and it is the ex-
PLANTATION of the optimism which has
taken hold of them during the last
ten days.
They have seen unemployment
virtually wiped out: they have seen
hundreds of thousands Of men on
strike return to work. The condi.
lions of the return may not have
been in all cases all that was ex-
pected, but the men ere back never
theless and producing. The business
revival from one end of the country
to the other seems limited at the
moment only by the somewhat Grip
pied facilities of the railroads to
handle the flow Of commerce.
Word has gone forth from head
quarters here that "the full dinner
pail'' shall once again be the slogan
of the Republican speakers.
To Take Credit
Faced a short time ago with
| purely defensive campaign, the Re-
publicans feel now that trade fig
ures and business reports from ev-
cry section of the country give them
positive platform upon which to
build for the ballots of November
Z. With becoming modesty the Re-
publicans will claim that returned
prosperity is entirely due to the
wise policies of Republicanism, and
the confidence of the people in Re-
publican management.
AS OSlIiOC1dIS Will IGply IIldI
| prosperity has come back to tho
country despite the Republican
| party, and not because of it. - They
will claim there has been a break.
down of government; that congress
was never at such a low ebb as it
has been during the past four years
of Republican control. The Demo-
Gratis will say they are justified in
/ this latter conclusion by quoting ex-
| piicit statements to the same effect
made by the secretary of war. Mr..
John w. Weeks, one of the most
stalwart of all stalwaft grand old
! party men.
The Republicans have decided to
ignore all such things and preach
| prosperity from beginning to end.
Lest some of the Democrats get too
obstreperous about the ubiquitous
tariff" however, the Republican cam
paign managers have prepared a lit.
tie booklet which gives the tariff rec
ordS of Democrats in the senate Who
voted with the Republicans on Ger.
tain of the tariff schedules. The
Democrats already have been claim.
ing that the dney-McCumber tar
iff act is a political rather than an
economic tariff. The Republican
book counters with this charge:
Democratic members of congress
themselves furnish the best proof
of the fallacy and inconsistency OF
the Democratic party's position on
the tariff. Their party may seek to
make political capital out of the is
sue, but individually they seldom
fail to seek the needed protection
for the industries of their respective
states"
The Republicans claim that 38S
per cent of the Democrats in the
senate voted for amendments to in
crease the rates of duty in the Ford
ney bill, while AZ per cent voted