AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3620, 5 November 1920, Page 5

AMERICAN PRESIDENCY.

REPUBLICANS AND THE LEAGUE PROBABLE REPUDIATION. Received 9.10 a.m. WASHINGTON, Nov. 4. Irreconcilible Republican Senators assert that the election ends the light to have the United States join the League of Nations. This, view is not. shared by other Republicans, who say ! that 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 President Wilson will return the Treaty to the next session of ; t,he Senate, beginning in December, with an intimation that Senator Lodge's reservations will be acceptable. Some friends of Wilson say he is undaunted, and will press for ratification of the Treaty before he leaves office. His j pointed out that the Senate will be , well able to say that the people re- ' pudiated Wilson and his handiwork, , and refuse to consider the Treaty further, i

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. WORK OF THE FUTURE. Received 9.50 a.m. NEW YORK, Nov. 4, Republicans who seriously analyse the election results say that Harding and the Republican Party will enter i into control in March, committed/ to great tasks and facing serious responsibilities. Harding was elected president by the whole people, and above all the electorate shows that it is no longer so loyally attached to party as in times past. This latter symptom of the election is giving 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.

I THE WOMEN'S VOTE. Received 9.50 a.m. NEW YORK, Nov. i. Political experts have begun to analyse the vote to determine the exact position of woman. It is self-evident that the women, like the men, voted for the Republicans, but the cause of this is considered complex. Mr. .Cox's plea on behalf of the League of Nations was expected to attract women, but failed to do so, not because of the men's influence on the women's vote, which appears to have been predominant. It is predicted, that women may be expected, during most elections, to vote like the men, giving during socalled "landslides" great pluralities to the successful candidates. It is felt that on few issues can it be expected that the women will vote contrary to the men, and the belief that the women cau be depended upon to cast an independent vote is regarded only as an illusion.

j HOW" OTHER PARTIES FARED. i Received 10.10 a.m. WASHINGTON, Nov. 4. None of the minor parties figured •urominontly in the Presidential results. Marion Lang, the first woman Socialist (elected to the New York Assembly, was a-successful candidate.