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Show BOLSHEVIKI DISTURBED BY DEFEAT! - A A A A A A A A A A Jbv ' I COX HAS FAIR If - CHANCE IH UTAH, I SULLIVAN SAYS Writer Sums Uo Result of Candidate's Trip Through EAST MORE INTERESTED IN RECENT SPEECHES Views From States Covered Show Difference of Opinion as to Strength Bv M VRK i l LtV I KANSAS I H V. Mn Oct ;--K" v. ernor Cox Is about to recrosa the Mls- i ,p, on r return .Ton. his west - , i ,, our. One his tour he has spen r ' , I s, . v i month and the resuUs must P be measured In one of two wys They ,,( be measured either by the num-u'rer num-u'rer of electoral votes ho may have soured bj his personal presence in Lheee western states, or they nms be mea.-.ured b the results made upon the eaJM by his speeches as telegraphed back to the eastern city PP. Considering the bttcr first I thiol ML, it must be admitted that only 1 .1- 3 , have t tax's hen Ween produt ti 1 LK of the kind of interest that may be LM expected to result in votes in the cast H During the early part of his tour most B if hi Speeches dealt with h.s s ush mk fund charges and wen- colored with a H violence which Included numerous!) . reDeated variations of the roughest Shonym. for falsification id ictlonj LB ,',-v affords. This. Cox now doubtless, LB 'regrets. His recent speeches have not been colored by violence of ut- aV terance. Rl SUITS OF TOl R. Turning to the possibility of h.s LaV having secured any considerable iuim- her of el. -.Moral votes by his tour. It IV .,, donl.te.l whether the tour ha justified the time devoted to it. LH lie began In Michigan which isj positivoh republican. Wisconsin had H never in its history gone Iemo ia,. ,,, , presidential conteal Minni sol n lS noi . irrh d bj w llson even In thi I rfffl - year when he carried all hut foui j IWM state west of the Mississippi. Cox , LB . in harrtlv hope'toTo better this yeai LH lhan Wilson did in 1916. Asa matter H ..f tact the Democrats in Minnesota mor or less thrown up their 1 1 1 1 'da , , , . -Ui th Dakota may be a doubtful state laV 1.1,1 it is doubtful for reasons that have II little to do wlih Cox. In fact Cox's; visit to North Dakota was rot desired Uy the local Democratic organization. '1 hat. however, is lor local reasons I having to do with Non-Partisan league I ..mpllcatlons. Montana is probably, i I Democratic! and the first slate In 1 which Cox's Isit may be said to have been helpful to him. ID lo R PI BLR AN I Idaho is almost surely Republican I 1 ,,n the presidential contest, although it may re-elect a Democratic senator, i Washington is reckone'd to be full 7' I I per cent Republican Oregon is as i surely republican as Pennsylvania. . allfornia only gave Wilson leas than ( 1 SOfJO majority in the year of the great 1 Wilson landslide Jt Is hard to Imagine j Cox doing a-s will in California as Wil- I son did. Of the three small state, I Arizona, Nevada und New Mexico, M Cox may carry two Cox has perhapc ' a Httle more than a fair show in Utah and Colorado. Wyoming Is probably l it, safely Republican. South Dakota It . ' went Republican even In the Wilson landslide year. Nebraska and Kansas will quite certainly go Republican this I year. I Oklahoma Is ordinarilj a safely Democratic Btate The Republicans make confident claims aioul it this year, but a reasonable estimate would, ! probably give it to the Democrat... As to Missouri it has now been 16 years since that Slate was called "A Mysterious Mys-terious Stranger, when It turned up In the Republican column. HOW ill EVTAND6. Forty-eight electorate voles out of1 a total of 26G necessary to elect is the outside number that Cox Is likely to get west of Mississippi, barring always the regular Democratic southern state of Texas, A r Kansas and Louisi ana, lorty-eignt is the most optimistic opti-mistic possible nu ss. The numb. 1 is much more lik.-p, to fall below thirty. For a quick grasp of the impression Cog made by his trip 1 can provide no iii tter evidence than some extracts from letters received by me from editors edi-tors and politicians in the communities communi-ties In which he appeared. The letters let-ters from which these extracts are I taken are anioiiK a large number te- celi ' .1 fr.nii observen who in. lude all k shades of polll i. .1 beliel . Naturally almost even letter re- fiec-is to a degri 1 , political preju W- dice of the writer, bul the whole Is a fair consensus of trie Impression Cox made It should be said that the bulk of these letters come from the territory terri-tory of the eurller part of Cox's trip, lb,- part durUig which he was dealing With the slush fund- charges and wa.-niore wa.-niore lolent and less oonstructtpS than in the latter pari of his tour. )i: OPINION. A fair minded and especially well Informed ..iitoi lu Oregon writes: "Mr. i'ox has Just been hero and attracted at-tracted a large audience. H- mad. a fairly good impression though the general verdict Is thut ho Is of mediocre medi-ocre presidential stature, he is a likc- Hly speaker and has a rather attractive attrac-tive personality Tin' Democrat., at. pleased. ' The only result I should HI) "f his visit is that he has to art extent braced up wavering Democrats, that he made any outright converts may be doubted, c put the ofl p. uai on thi slush fund charges lure ami talked progresslVlsm, his idea be-Ij be-Ij ing th. iregon Is a progresi-- jt'.v, he also 4lscuaaeCi ?ho -Vague of nations but his appeal was to the progressive t, tnenl ..f 1 in t ' From W ashlni ton Th si t .- uhdoubteMlj Harding's w SS matters stand now. Tin league of nations Is not much of an Issue ,,.,- M Otltll d 1.11 Page Two ) Cox Has Fair Change in Utah Sullivan Says (OeaifceaBd i n.m rat, Ow pie generally eeem tired of It and' think we are well our of th league.! Uasut article and league discussion e-m to feate the people eold Then, i loo. Mr. Wl'.ion la a K nulne harden.1 the people seem tired Of him and the! Democratic administration " The editor of an tnSspcaOSel lemo- cratlc newspaper, which has supported Wilson for eight years. wrlte9 "Being opposed to the radicals of the northwest, I personally thought Governor Cox weal ft little too far In excusing them as I heard him ik, but aa I sorted out his words and threshed out his meaning afterward. I do not think It can be said he encouraged en-couraged them. What he said and the h, -.aid It w.i rin.r,. In t)i- v.i of showing that the whole senatorial clique of whom he holds Harding a creature had been responsible for radicalism by Insisting on returning to standpatlsiu." DI8APPOEN n i in- M n The editor of an Independent paper writes. The governor made a poor Impres-slon by his talk here. Appeal to radical Inclinations most decidedly. To me he was mont disappointing." An observer in one of the larger-town larger-town of North Dakota, where Governor Gover-nor Cox spoke, writes aa follows: 'Mr Cox was treated courteously. I think that la the most that can be said. I am iuite sure tliat hlu Insistence In-sistence on making a campaign Issue of the handling of campaign moneys and the personal manner In which he has dealt with that subject liu. impair, im-pair, d his standing in North Dakota. Aa to there being any prop ct of bll Inheriting the Roosevelt tr ngth In the northwe.-t on such thing Is possible. possi-ble. On the of nation QUftft tlon I think that If all th 1 im n were equal the people of North Da kota would be inclined to support the position of Governor 'ox rather than the doubtful and evasive altitude of the Republican candidate and platform, plat-form, hut 1 am Inclined to think that only mild Interest Is taken In that subject by the majority of our people ami wiui i'nviui imi'w uuhm qiiu the prospc-ct of a sound business administration ad-ministration and the defects which have been observable In th.- 1'i-rnc-i ratlc admlidstratlon will be more greatly controlling factor. I think that the attitude of this state aa 1 hav indicated will be governed gov-erned very much more by state aon-sldeniilons aon-sldeniilons than by any other. As It will be iu-rea&ury for voters to vote for one presidential candidate or another an-other my expectation la that the people peo-ple of our state will dlidn cry largely large-ly along the old party lines so far as president Is concerned. That would mean that Harding would carry North Dakota by a tvry substantial majority." ( MI I TH II VI 1 1 I N i . b rum one of the larger cities of I Washington From a vote grating standpoint tne pumic naa railed to re- act simply because Cox was unable to perfect an inoculation. The hope of the Democratic leaders In bringing their nominee to th northwestern states to combat the general .1 pal to wblch has marked the campaign to ' date was shattered. The Voter simpl) , do not farm up Co drew good crowd This was natural. But these crowds were not enthusiaatu How ' rser. It tj safe to predict that Harding would be greeted b tbe same general apathy under the same conditions , which ("OX .on fronted The governor arrive,) in the state' during the heat of on of the hottest I primary election fights ever staged here Voters had no time nor Inclination Inclin-ation to dabble In national politics. They were facing local laftUftft and thc-e occupied all of their time and at-1 at-1 tentlon. Wnrhlngton state went to hear Cox on the league of nations. He failed to make his position clear on this ls.ie. Vx handled his slush fund charges In all his talks. This did not seem to take well a" during the primary cum-; cum-; palgn Hlnnlar charges have been hnnrl-. hnnrl-. ed back and forth between gubernatorial guberna-torial candidates until a point was I gusted. Cox walked blindly Into this situation ami th- psychological reaction re-action was against him." ' The evidence from Montana Is quite ! generally to the effect that Cox made a good Impression. This Is undoubi- edly because the soil was receptive, j ; Montana In a strongly iH-mocra'.ic -tate." AO observer In one of the larg- i er Montana cities nays: HON1 I IKIN lllM ; "From nil report 1 can get. Mr., Cox made a very strong Impression in thl section of the country and a good many votes by his trip through Mcntana. He appealed particularly I strongly to the radical and progressive element In this state by his speeches."! Another Montana citizen who ha ftOOeftft to the highest source of po-lltbal po-lltbal Information says: The plain truth Is tha! very few In Montana feel any particular enthusiasm en-thusiasm for either Cox or Harding, but I nm convinced that the local :t-uutlon :t-uutlon Is such a to make the selection selec-tion of the Democratic electors reasonably rea-sonably assured." I me angle of the present campaign which I a fttrOni factor everywhere and a determining factor In aenril doubtful states s covered by the follow fol-low ,l K "The population of this countr bj -lng largely of Irish birth r descent is very unfavorable to Cox's candidacy candi-dacy Previous to the snivel of C.ix the local organ of the labor league published a number of questions which Cox was asked to answer. One of ' ' ion d, nit with his position on the league of nation and Irish In-' dependence This was the onlj one nf the q'icuilens which he attempted to answer and It would NaTs B)f much better for him and hit support' er had be I ftded it a he did th I He mated thai In th- event of his rdr.-t!on he would refer the Irish question ques-tion to the 1 1 gut of nations, tl.. null was disastrous. " An editor In one of the impnrlnnt "I am supporter and admirer of H i Cox. He mad. a deep Impression here, although he was hi cinniunt- H ty. the apparent m.ijorit sentiment HH and met It sqtiarch 1 1 ix speech here H I ' Would l,i of Ihe people ld H no nerlous exception could bo taken H to it by big husinea. J 1 I old Roosevelt following. I arn also HwaRi gainai I he Ii ,Kt I J The mi are going lo Support Harding. Also there will H j to t ini. league nations C made , ..,,,1 Impression b not eood en,.,,Kh lo . hange H the apparent sentiment am sup- B portln; i the amJ BH local Ix-moc ratio ticket, and I am tl present themselves to me." mWmWm IS Uveiilng MMjMMM |