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Show BBBBT K" BEFEJtT OF " COXlS I . PREDICTED BY OFFICEHOLDERS Hfl' L i"a- ' H , WASHINGTON, Oct. 3. The na- BH ' tlonal capital Is tt poor place to sire H ' .up sentiment thioughout tlio coun- H try, uccoiJlng to somo Judges; ac- H r co'tdlng to others It is one of the H ' , bofct places to gyt n "Blunt" on sun- H $ tluiciit gcneially, becauso Washing' H loh Is the one point toward which BB dividers from nil points concentrate. H The value of Washington's viewpoint BH u a matter of Judgment, and bo that BB tig it may, somo political opinions H guthcicd here recently regarding tlio BH ' political outlook aro given for what HB i they are worth. BB )n one uspect It may tiuthfully H . be Mll that the opinion of public BBT " nicclioldurs not tho civil scrvlco H ilats, but tbo class appointed by tho BB administration, in not at this tlmo BBl -wurpul In luvor of Ilepubllcans, for B the ollktholdcrs of this typo aro of BY I t tie present administration, and their BY continuance In ofuco In many Instnn- BBg ccs depends upon tho result ot tho BH election. Below aro given wlthont BB oinmcnt some opinions expressed BB here In Washlntgon during tho last BBp BY, ' By the solicitor of ono of tho gov- BB! i eminent departments: BY : '"When Cox was nominated In Cht- BBY 1 cngo I thought wo stood a good BBS tchancu ot aweeplng the country this fall. Then 'Cox committed the fatal BY "blunder of coming to Washington, BBb ' visiting the White House and pledg- H8fl . J ing himself to' carry olit tho Wilson BY 1 policies. That minute Cox threw -away his best clinncu of winning. BY "Then howont on tho stump and BBS -demonstrated to 'tho country what it iliiiH 1IJ nnl saox before, that Jjo was BB, l not a big enough man for the prcsl- BBV'i j' dency. I've completed my plans for BBBBBBBB1 . l ' i going back homo on or about tho llh of March." A Domoctatlc member of the United Unit-ed Slates senate: "I did not favor tho nomination of Cox and was disappointed dis-appointed when his nomination caino about.' His campaign tour has been pathetic from our party standpoint, for ho has demonstrated to tho satis-l satis-l -tlon of thinking people that ho U not big enough to bo president. Personally, Per-sonally, ufte- reading his speeches, I question If '.in Is governorship size" "At any i He after committing hlniBelf to tl. league of nations, he has shown o woeful' lack of understanding under-standing of t o leaguo and Its purposes; pur-poses; ho has "hotfn art amazing lack ot Informatlo about government affairs af-fairs consider g ho ecned two terms In congress a 1 his eternal dealing In Uttlo thlnri nnd playing ward politics has destroyed wnatever chanco ho had of being elected. Tho private secretary to ono of tho biggest officeholders In tho Unit' cd States: "The boss Is going to get Into tho campaign next week that Is, If there la a campaign this year. Ho has been In oulce now for nearly eight years, and he owes tho party something. He would bo ungrateful Indeed If he did not contribute his bit on the stump even though he feels tho cause Is lost." A high official In tho department of Justice: "A Democratic friend ramo to mo today and offered to tell riie In strictest confidence what the administration thinks of tho Cox campaign and ot Cox's chances. I shooed him away with tho nssuranco that It was not necessary to tell mo that In confidence; I had henrd'lt so many times lately spoken right out In tho open.'1 ' ' A newspaper odltor Just In from the Pacific Northwest "A month ago I was for Cox, although I have been a Republican of tho progressiva stamp since I became of voting ngo under Roosevelt's administration. Then Cox came to our state nnd I heard him speak at Seattle. Now I'm I BBBBBBBBJ ,ot. 3!5iBiil for Harding." , An Importarit olllclal of the treasury treas-ury department "Wo'vq got il coming com-ing to us and we" deserve It. Wo've been hero In control for moro than seven years and thcro hasn't been and Democratic party; H'n been a Woodrow Wilson party and the people peo-ple havo gotten tired of It ond aro going to turn us out. That's all there Is to It." A Texas newspaper correspondent Just back from a tour of tho west, Including Ttxa's: "Cexhas Just one chance.' If he.can'inakoa whirlwind campaign through Indiana, Illinois, nnd Ohio tho last4 two weeks In October, Oc-tober, and can convince the women, voters that the league of nations will keep us out of war In the fututo, ln may pull through; today Cox Is badly bad-ly defeated. A Democratic congressman who personally Is wet: "Cox Is wet and nothing he says or does will disabuse tho country ot that Idea. He made n mistake when he dodged that Issue Is-sue whllo on the Pacific coast. He would havo boon far better off If he had frankly stated what so many of us know to be tils personal views. The people may oppose -a man because be-cause he Is wet, or because he Is dry but they have no use for a man who refuses to answer blunt questions, bucIi as were put to Cox In tho state of Washington." Ono.of the oldest political writers In Washington: "When tho country Is confronted with such Issues as aro Immediately ahead or the United States, no man can expect to be elected ' president who talks about a mythical senate oligarchy, about the mythical Itepub- llcan Blush fund ,of flist, fifteen million mil-lion dollars and then thirty million . dollars; who takes advantago of the vory queer support given him by the Scripps nowepaper outfit whllo com-plnlnlng com-plnlnlng that Republican papers do not give him tl square deal, and who almost entirely Ignores tho real Issues Is-sues on which the attention of the people U 'being centered. Especially is this truo when his opponent Is conducting a dignified campaign, delivering de-livering speeches that ileal altogether altogeth-er with tho big lssucs,and Js Ignoring Ignor-ing small things and refraining from mud slinging." ' ', A Republican correspondent .who had crossed tho continent since Cox was nominated: "Cox will be lucky If he carries anything outBldo of trie solid south. The solidly Democratic south Is the only thing that will prevent pre-vent Cox from being as badly defeated de-feated as Taft was In 1912t" m t. |