PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

Hokitika Guardian, 28 October 1920, Page 3

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

fAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ABSOOIATIOnJ THE PRESIDENTIAL FIGHT. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 27 Special interest is shown in the campaign in California and Ohio. It will be recalled that California decided the 1916 election for Mr Wilson, but due to a lack of protective tariff during Mr Wilson’s administration California has suffered from th% importation of foreign fruits. It is now conceded in California' that Mr Harding will win California. He promised a strong protective'tariff. Canifornians feel Mr Wilson is waiting to see whether Mr Harding is elected before taking up the Japanese question seriously with Tokio. Ohio is now the battleground of both parties. The most strenuous efforts are being made to swing the State to the respective candidates. The fight is exceedingly bitter. Partisians of both camps are not pver scrupulous concerning the means employed. A large number of Negroes flocked to Ohio during the war. They were working in the munition factories. The Republicans are strenuously organising these. This movement is antagonising portion of the whites which did not desire the franchise to be extended to the Negroes.

RIVAL FACTIONS. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) 'NEW YORK, October 27. Speaking at Marion, Ohio, and referring td Mr 'Bourgeois’s, statement, Mr Harding said it can only mean that even if 'Article Ten be limited, its effect would still be preserved in /other alrtidep. It tall ilfrustrates the utter inipossiblity of getting an agreement concerning the Covenant’s meaning. It is a complete demonstration that the only safety for United States is to remain outside until we may unite upon a. plan for the association of a national meaning of the same thing for everybody.

Speaking at Middletown, Ohio, Mr Cox, stated: “I .believe McSweeneys mai%rd|pm will enrage tlie English people alga in. What exists now as an English people, were enraged against the injustice which King George visited on the American Colonies at the time of the American revolution. It is claimed England will never consent to an independent Government so close to her gateways. No matter how close a Government lies to her gates, England’s territory, Ireland’s territory, or 'that of every nation in the League, will be heldi free from external aggression. Thus England, under the League could not maintain that a free Ireland would menace her. Hie “New York Herald” prints despatches from the capitals of nine important pivotal States concerning the probable outcome of 'elections. The “Herald”' is a Republican i.ewspaper but emphasises the fact that it asked its correspondents to be absolutely non-partisan. Indiana, is said to be unquestionably for Mr Harding. Republican will elect the State Govern-

or, and .at least eleven or thirteen members of the. House of Representatives, but the result of the senatorial contest is extremely doubtful. California, will vote for Mr Harding and for Republican Senators. Maryland is fdr Mr Harding and probably will elect a Republican Senator. Idaho is doubtful, concerning the President, and the Senator wdl probably be a Democrat. In Wisconsin, the senatorial fight b made complex by the fact that two Republicans and one Democrat are running, and the Democrat nominee is not expected win. One Republican is a a regular party nominee and oihers are independent. fThe Presidential veto will be for Cox and the Democratic Senator. New York will .give .Harding half a million votes majority, and return a Republican Senator. Missouri will probably vote for Mr Harding, and a Republican Senator. South Dakota is completely Republican. Kentucky will vote for Mr Cox, but the Senatorsbip is doubtful.