PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

Hokitika Guardian, 5 November 1920, Page 3

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

. fAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATIONJ REPUBLICANS PROBLEMS. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) , NEW YORK, November 3/ Republicans who seriously analyse the election results, say Mr Harding and the Republican party will enter into control in March committed to great tasks, and facing serious responsibilities. Mr Harding is elected President by the ) whole people, above all electorates, which shows that ii is no longer so loyally attached to the party, as in times past. This latter symptoms of election is giving the Republicans real food for thought. They see in it a. real national display of political independence and cannot fail to recognise that unless the Republican Party in the next four years justifies the verdict of the voters there will be a decided swing of the pendulum to either the Democratic or some other party. WOMEN’S VOTES. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, November 3. Political experts have,begun to analyse the vote to determine the exact position of women. It is self-evident, that women like the men, voted for the Republicans, but the cause of this is oqnsidejred complex. Mr Cox’s plea on behalf of the League was expected to attract the women, but it failed to do so, not because its influence on women’s rote appears to hare been premeditated. It is predicted that women will be expectfed during most elections to vote like the men, giving during so-called land slides, great pluralities to the successful candidates. It is felt that on a few issues can it be expected that, women will vote contrary to the ’men. The belief that whin en can be deperidnt upon to cat an independent vote is regardd as only an illusion. , QUESTION OP TREATY. (Received This Day at 11.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 4. Irreconciliable Republican Senators assert that the election ends the fight to have United States join the League of Nations. This view is not shared by other Republicans who say the League was not the real issue of the election, and America’s entrance into some form of association was always assured. .The question now agitating Senatorial circles is whether Mr Wilson will return the Treaty to the next session of the Senate at the beginning of December, with an intimation that Mr Lodge’s reservations will be acceptable. Some friends of Mr Wilson say lie is undaunted, and will press for, the ratification of the Treaty before he leaves office. It is pointed out that the Senate will be well able to say that the people have repudiated Mr Wilson, and his handwork, and will refuse to consider the Treaty further. “ various VIEWS. WASHINGTON Nov. 3. None of the minor parties’ figured in the Presidential results. Marion Lang, the first woman Socialist elected to New York Assembly, was a successful candidate. Senator Johnson declared the election meant the end of the League of Nations. No amount of sophistry c< uld obscure the issue that the menacing, en_ tangling League had been emphatically repudiated. The American • ; frit responded to the endeavour to .le-mtion-alise it. Mr Bryan declares Mr Wilson laid the foundation of this disaster, .'and Governor Cox completed the structure. The President attempted to drive from public life every Democrat who dared to differ from him, even on the minutest detail. Henshaw (chairman of the Prohibition National Committee) telegraphed Mr Cox that he believed the League of Nations, as advocated by the Demowould have been victorious if it had not been so inseparably hitched to the booze-wagon by the Administration at Washington, arid the Convention at San Francisco.