PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3616, 1 November 1920, Page 5

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

AMERICA AND THE LEAGUE.

ELECTION NOT A TEST OF

OPINION

Ik Received 8.55 a.m.

i NEW YORK, Oct. 29. ' s| Non-partisan observers are of opinion that the election will not be an honest test of opinion on the League of Nations, though it will be so misconstrued. The League has a powerful appeal of real strength, but Democratic campaigners failed to realise this at the outset. They have now begin* to appreciate it, and have the issue forward with vigour during the past week, resulting in a reaction favouring Mr. Cox; but this is apparently too late. .Mr. Harding's party had money and organisation for skilful and effective campaigning, which" Mr. Cox is lacking. The Democrats accused Mr. Harding of conducting a campaign of millions, but it is with envy that they watched money flowing into the Republican exchequer. Mr. Harding is also favoured by a ' reaction against so-called Wilsonism. It is thought Mr. Cox's heritage from ) President Wilson has been a burden . rather than a help.

REPUBLICANS CONFIDENT.

FOEECAST OF STATE VOTING. ANOTHER "STRAW" VOTE. /V. > .-'.;••<!? j- NEW YORK, Oct. 30. : tfnlike the 1914 campaign, the- <-tit- ] come of the election is generally considered as a certain Republican v'cRepublicans ?.ra .confidently prodicting a so-called landslide in fa- , vour of Mr Harding. Republicans claim that it. is not any one issue that -will give them victory; they say the people are tired of the Democraflc one-man rule and desire, above all /things a change! There is a great .deal of similarity between, this campaign and the 1916 contest. Mr Bryan, then a remarkable leader, championed the silver issue, and made it the paramount question of the cam-. * paign. It was widely and i-itensely / discussed, as the League of Nations *g now, Mr Bryan was overwhe'tninglj ; defeated. * '"''",''. Rhode Island is safely Republican, Kentucky, and possibly Michigan are probably Republican, lowa- is doubtful. Arizona will probably go to Mr' Cox. Missouri is doubtful. .Dakota is wholly Republican. Pennsylvania !s voting on Harding by half a minion-. Maine is for Harding. Delaware is* doubtful. The women's vote will decide. New Jersey is overwhe'raiagry Harding. Connecticut is Republican, New Hampshire is doubtful, but probably Republican. Ohio is for Harding. Nebraska, Monis and New York State are Harding? The New York Times? Washington correspondent states: Only a Democratic landslide for the President, it Is believed, can dislodge Republican control of the House of Representatives, although . even here there are many elements r it < difficult to predict accurately the result of the , elections. Republican, candidates .have 1 f had opposition from" Labour, while ' Democrats nave had-opposition from the anti-saloon league. • One i Republican leader estimated that the Republican majority in the House would be 50.. Chairman Flood, of the Democratic Congressional Committee, said as--eociated Democrats would gain control of New York. A nation-wide straw vote shows 634,701 votes for Harding and 541,352 for Cox. The female vote totalled 292,550, of which 180,631 was for Harding. The male vote was 848,497, of which 504,070 was for Harding.

SLANDER AND VITUPERATION,. AMERICAN PRESS ACTS UP TO TRADITION. Received 5.40 a.m. NEW YORK, Oct. 31. As if to fulfil tlie dictum that no American .political compaign is complete without considerable slander and vituperation, the newspapers finally came out with accounts of a so-called ''whispered campaign", which had been conducted. for some time concerning Mr. Harding's ancestry. Certain irresponsible persons have been furthering stories concerning the candidate's Wood, with a hope of stirring up racial feeling. Republicans admit that no responsible Democrats had any connection with this campaign. One Republican periodical, on the other hand, published a saeriligious cartoon, which shocked the sensibilities of a number of no matter what their political faith. Both Harding and his campaign managers dishaving furthered the dissem- ' ination of the cartoon. These two incidents are typical of old-time campaigns.