AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 20, 19 October 1920, Page 7

AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

4 PROMINENT REPUBLICANS SUPPORT COX BECAUSE OF HARDING'S STAND REGARDING LEAGUE ByTelwraph-Prai! Asaooiatlnn-OopyrlfM (Rec. October 19, 0.35 a.m.) New York, October 18. One hundred and twenty-one prominent Republicans have announced that they . wilL voto for Governor Cox because Sena* tor Harding repudiates the best tradition of the Republican Party owing to . his stand regarding the League of Nations. According to a Chicago telegram, Air. Will Hays, chairman, of the Republican National' Committee, has predicted that Mr Harding will win the .Northern and Western States, and a considerable number of Southern-States, which since the Civil War have been notably democratic. Mr Harding will probably receive bc- ! tween 378 and 395 electoral votes of the 531 total. Tho American voting system 'piovides for citizens in each State voting for a college of electors, which in tura chooses the successful candidate.— 1 Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. MUST BE BROAD~iOUGH TO COVER THE WORLD HARDING'S YIETfoi? THE LEAGUE. St, Louis, October 17. Air. Harding, in a speech here, said: "France has sent her spokesman to me, informally asking America- in its new realisation of the situation to lead the wav for an Association of Nations. If there is to be a League of Naticns of the world it ought to be one big enough and broad enough to take in all nations of the world, or else one group will organise and be arrayed against another."—Aus.1 N.Z. Cable Assn. " FOUR YEARS' REACTION " IF HARDING ELECTED PRESIDENT (Roc. October IS. 7.25 p.m.) New York, October 17. Mr. Gorapere (president of the American Federation of Labour), in a statement, said that America 'would pass through four years' reaction if Mr. Hardin? were elected President. Mr. Harding had not taken a stand for progress on any one of the great issues—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.