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Show CAMPAIGNS OF BOTH PARTIES j SLOWING 001 G. 0. P. Is Concentrating Efforts Ef-forts for Intensive Drives to Elect Congressmen DEMOCRATS LOOKED TO 'WETS' FOR AID ONCE Sullivan Asserts Leaders Are Now Seeking Favor of Pro gressives in West Ry M ARK SI I LI V AN National iiiini. nl correspondent of ihe New Vork Evening Post. WASHINGTON. Aug. 21. It Is no news to say that the presidential campaign cam-paign Is lagging The reasons for this lagging go straight to the heart of conditions in the two parties One reason lies in the- personalities of the two candidates neither Cox or Hard.lng hos as compelling personality person-ality a-s we have become accustomed to in presidential campaigns. In ever?" presidential campaign for 24 ye.ire past either Bryan or Rouse-1 Rouse-1 velt or Wilson has been a candidate sometimes two of them have been can- didJatCS Each of tliege men had a t larger quantltv of personality than 'either Coat or Harding and we have accustomed 1 1 1 the "perso - Jty standard ' so to speak, of thesi re. men h is not in either Har- Mtik 01 Colt to focus the public eye J dff. or t.. Inject m much excitement into, a presidential campaign ns was Injected bv each of the other three during every campaign within the I rnemory of most voters. 1 That alone might be explanation enough, but there are others (. O P. IJTV DI S Di Til The Republican party management Is perfectly willing to see thc eain-palgn eain-palgn seem to lag. I say "seem to ' hi? ' l-'rom the Republican point of ! view the campaign is not lagging at all; there is an abundance of activity J organized on B local basis, which the ', public as a whole does not notice For example, the entire lower house of congress Is to be elected this fall 43" members In each of these 4Lr- congressional districts. Lxcept In the : solid south the Republicans are con- ducting an aggressive local campaign. I n fact, they are conducting nggros-' nggros-' slve campaigns in a few districts in the solid south 111 well, where they I consider they hae some chance of 1 making a breach in that wall The Republicans anticipate that they aro goinK to Klve the Democrats a surprise sur-prise In some southern congressional districts. DONE IN THOROUGH WAT Tills congressional campaign of the Republicans is organized much more thoroughly anrl is being conducted much more aggressively than is realized real-ized either by the country as a whole 1 or by the Democratic partYj-managc- ' msnt Tr" I Hardly any standard of efficiency could excel the minuteness with which I the Republicans are handling this congressional con-gressional situation I know of d'.s-I d'.s-I tricts where Ihe Republican national I management has eliminated one Rc-! Rc-! publican contestant for congress bs- cause he was ,0 slow going and substituted sub-stituted for him a candidate who Is 1 more- of a live wire. The aggreg.-i'e of all these congressional congres-sional campaigns odded together Is one of the chief things the Republicans Republi-cans rely upon. Naturallv. every voter who is stimulated to come out ami Vote for a local Republican for con- gress will alro. presumably, vote for the Republican candidate for president presi-dent BRINGING pi T OTE j This and b multitude of other agencies. agen-cies. Including a small army of speak-I speak-I ci functioning in smaller communi-l communi-l ties, which the country, as a whole I docs not know about, are among the ' means which the Republicans rely up- on l" get out a max! muni party vote, j It is not In the Republican scheme of ! things to have the presidential candl-; candl-; dote do the bulk of the campaigning i at least, not yet or be the chief reliance re-liance for getting out the vote, j The Republican campaign is being j conducted largely according to schedule. sched-ule. The Democrats tray gibe at Ilar- ding for staying at home, and may get 'as much pleasure as they choose out ! of Jokes about the "sleeping porch campaign," the "rocklngchalr cam-pu.gn" cam-pu.gn" and the "hammock campaign " the Republicans are quite willing for the Democrats to get as much fun out of that as they can The Republicans Republi-cans have all along Intended to do it just that way, and they are proceeding proceed-ing according to a schedule which may or may not turn out to be successful, suc-cessful, but which is not at all accidental acci-dental or casual, and was worked out with intelligence. MORE TI V LATER 1 f course, the Republicans do Intend In-tend that things shall be a little more active later on Their schedule contemplates con-templates a gradual acceleration or discussion and activity A little later Continued on i'ag.? Two.) 4. Campaigns Of Both H . Parties Slowing Down J (Continual from l'nc Ow H Jn. If the Republican campaign con-j iinuoa to go according to schedule, you frill sor Mm inn the center and fpun-?alnhead fpun-?alnhead r politics and utteranoeau Lrefully worked out, which will be Jnore impressive and inur? attention Llchlng than the recent outgiving! l! was never the intention of the lie-; publicans to make the campaign ex-J-ltlng. but a little later on then- will an effort to make It Impressive in b serious way. The fact Is, U was and Is up to the j lemocrrfts to irsftke the campaign cx-citing; cx-citing; to be aggressive, and to make' ChlngS lively. Things were running in I iaor of the Republicans. Rvejrybod might as well admit that. The success' H nf the Republican congressional am-H am-H palgn two years ago was abundant evi-1 H dence of it 'and the Republicans have always considered there Is no reason to doubt that the trend of 191k con-B con-B Unties to be the trend of 1910 The only factor that has Intervened is the league of nations, ns an Issue, and the, Republicans are fully confident that by the time the election comes they will have that if sue in such shape that H they need not fear Its reducing their j strength below what was their strength in DEMOCRATS CHANGE POMCY H The Republicans had things going H their way, and It was up to the Di I , i rats to reverse It. It Is apparent the H Democrats haven't created enough ac-B ac-B tlvlty yet. ns they must create. If they I are to H One reason why the Democratic: B campaign Is not going actively is a H baffling i hange made In their pro- . H gram some time between April and Before the Democratic convention fl met. It was the theory of the Demo-H Demo-H crats, and particularly of those very! H Democratic managers who nominated H Cox. that their bet opportunity in, H 1920 lay In taking advnntage of the, M "wet" and "dry" Issue. They believed that the drastic enforcement of pro-i K. hlbltion was unpopular, and !h.- pro-Hj pro-Hj posd to capitalize that unpopularity: Hi to their advantage. In certain local I Hc elections noticeably In Xew Jersej B they had a mdldatc for gov-1 ernor running on "wet" issue, win B- v remarkable it ory under otherwise BBH adverse circumstances. It was New Bj Jersey In fact, that gave them their BBH cue for this "wet" line of campaign. TAJ K MILITARY TERMS BBI Th- plan of these national Demo-, BJ cratli 'i to 'ak. advantage ofJ Bl this condition was an intelligent and I Bl promising bit of strategy. They had it I i 1 worked out Thcj used to talk of their plans in terms of a military ! Bj campaign, and they talked famlllarl) BB of capturing the eastern salient" of B the Republicans. By ' eastern salient H Uiey meant New Jersey, New Vnrk BJ runl "omo other eastern slates which i BJ went Republican In 1!1R. and where BJ a- larjf.- element of the population aro u'nv, restless under prohibition. BB r i In detail the original strategy of BBV the-- Democratic forces that noml-BH noml-BH nuted Co was this that they knew H ' ftiev had the solid south anyhow. With j the eleven southern states that will go El' gemot rat under any circumstances H rh would have r.'.'. electoral votes I ; b I i DRAWING POWER Hf lu addition to these they believed H r ha: with a wet" Issue they would Ba , have a good chance to carry f o , ' flbrtant eastern mul mlddU ' ' .Jtates. namely. Massachusetts, with H eighteen electoral votes; Xew York, B fflth forty-five 'cw Jersey, with fcurieen, and Ohio, with twenty-four B fHie.se 101 electoral votes, added to the H W5 southern ones, would make 226. H They would still need forty electoral B t5tes for the number ncctKS.try to ) win Is L'f.s I Z. To get these forty additional votes. Be Acj-'beiieved they had a better chance j thnuiKh appealing to the wets than BJ tlj an other way In the first place rtiei e are three border states, namely I Kenttickv with thirteen otes: Mary-I Mary-I kind, with eight, nnd Missouri, with I flghteen. All three of these Would j! Salnarlly be expected to he hard-I hard-I feughi contests. The balance might I Sadlly he swung one way or the other j: Maryland and Kentucky, being two of B t-he largest whisky manufacturing Bites In the union and Missouri, he'll he-'ll i iX)K on of the largest beer manufac-. manufac-. ing. It Is entirely Intelligent to an-I an-I , (Jclpaie that the "wef Issue might 1 I n'p to carry these states. T SURE OF FNOlt.lI I All these gtntes mentioned so far ;; . 4Kouid give the Democrats within one t 0(t enough electoral votes to win. To c t that ervtra electoral vote, as well , - lo take the place of any of the states as to which they mlrht have mis-calculated, mis-calculated, they relied upon a number! of other states In which they felt the' 'Wet" Issue would have considerable popularity. One was California, where the wine industry Is Important Cal-I IfornlS lias thirteen volos. Another' was Connecticut, with seven votes; another an-other Indiana, with fifteen votes, an-1 other Rhode Island, with five votes That WHS the Democratic strategy for this year a i orbrlnally conceived. Apparently It has all been changed. I Why It has been changed your correspondent corres-pondent can only surmise, and ho hoi not as yet. sufficient assurance in the correctness of that surmise to give it to the public. In all likelihood the motives mo-tives that caused the change of strategy strat-egy will be clear later. The one thing that is now clear is that the plan of campaign has been changed Neither Cox himself nor the Democratic management is doing anything any-thing along the line of the "wet" Issue Is-sue whlohi according to the original plan, was to have been the burden of the campaign. PROGR1 ssn I 6 l WES1 fine p.rt of the strategy as originally original-ly conceived. Included putting a "wet" plank In to the Democratic platform that was prevented by the vigilance ff Bryan end the other "drys," but that alone would not account for the apparent i hange in . trateg-v Another element that disrupted this plan of campaign was the fact that a split arose In New York state between the "wit" Demoorats, who helped to nominal.- 'ov and the "'drys," who were friends of McAdoo. Whatver the motives, Governor Cox. since his nomination, seems to have changed ei Mr. ly tho plan of campaign j iik originally outlined by those who nominated him. Instead or making the, Democratic drive for the "wet" vote and winning the eastern saiint, Governor Gov-ernor cox is apparently making his dr.ve for the p. ogri -ksIvi-s In the wvst ROOS1 I I T Is BUSY The vbe presidential candidate. Franklin D Roosevelt, is making his long campaign tout there, and Is maif-J h g his .-ippeni to the progressive I ot rs, who are Important In that section sec-tion Governor Cox also expects to ' make a long tour in the wes' and he, too, Is laying more and more emphasis empha-sis on the progritsl vo issue Your correspondent rather expects before the campaign !s much older to see Cox putting less emphasis on the league of nations and thrusting fot w i I'd his appeal to the prop-i M -, on the basis of his own record while governor of Ohio as his chief weapon , against the Republicans If he can sue-I oee( in getting the campaign Into this field It w ill he a lively one. for Cox I Is unhllstakabh aggressive almost to! the point of ruthlessness, In making this sort of attai k. Copyright. 1020, by N Y. Evening Post Syndicate ) |