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OCTOBER 26, 1920 E 1 TO THE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, DEMOCRATS if. Other Midwest States North of Ohio River for Harding.' UNION LABOR OUT FOR COX Mark Sullivan Reviews at Some , Length Situation in Hoosier ' State as Ue Views It. (Continued From First Page.) lost some popularity in Indiana by what many consider to he just as virtuous a thing as the Cummins-Each bill. Indiana, under a republican governor, Goodrich, revised the whole system of taxation in the state. A 'Ktranger passing: through hardly has time to pass judgment on the merits ot thenew tax system, but Governor lioodrich is an able, hard-working business man, and it' is probable that the change in the taxation system was meritorious. Nevertheless taxation is a field in which the most meritorious things are frequently the least popular. The fact is that there is widespread re sentment against the republicans. I heard of one great business concern in Indiana whose basis of taxation was raised from $1,600,000 to $17,000, 000. Naturally this concern and the community in which it exists feel the change. . State Ticket Declared Weak. Further yet, the republican state ticket here is very weak. One of the republican candidates for an import ant state office is more or less openly charged with some extremely unde sirable conduct in a former official career. . Finally, the .remiblican. senatorial cunuiuaie in inaiana. vvatson, who 19 seeking re-election, is pretty gener ally recognized as a weak brother. Many substantial persons, including some republican leaders, say that AVatson is not of senatorial .caliber, ought never to have been sent to the senate, and that it is an injustice to Watson as well as to the state to put a man in the senate whose personality and natural abilities are not up to the office. If this were a normal year without a presidential contest there isn't a doubt in the world that Wat son would be badly beaten. TnKEart Stronger Than of Old. His opponent is the dd time demo cratic leader. Thomas Taggart. Tag Bart, by comparison with his opponent as wel as by the passage of the years, seems to have measureably elevated himself in the opinion of the Indiana people. He still has a considerable way to go, but he is thought of very differently from what was the case ten years ago. Many people in In dianapolis w'ho were rigidly opposed to him years ago are now disposed to give him some support or at least to default in supporting Watson. The sum of all this is that the re publicans will carry Indiana, if they carry it at all, by only a slender margin and by means' of assets which they must recognize as neither very dependable nor very durable. Republican Asnetn Three. The three assets that may carry the republicans through are: First, dislike of Wilson and of the demo cratic administration, second, a large German vote, which years ago was polidly democratic but now is equally solidly republican; and third, the con siderable npgro vote in the state. Indianapolis is probably the largest negro city of the north, and they are all republicans. Considerably more than half the white citizens of In diana will vote the democratic ticket. The state of things in lndianais pictured in the words of a strong re publican, who said: "We are going to elect Harding in order to get rid of Wilson and we are even going to elect Wnton, because we want to run no risks of a democratic senate. But on the dav nftrr election you watch us. if SEVEN hundred and fifty thousand pur chasers of Overland Motor Cars have created the volume of business which enables you to secure the New Triplex Spring Overland at its new low price. Con sult the Overland dealer in your community for' details. Willys - Overland Pacific Company, Inc. Broadway and Davis Broadway 3535 i UiMrnhflifrinH i fmrrr 1 1 i -nH--" '" t i wirii it i nn iki fiiiT i " r r - --,n "We are g-oing to start a house cleaning- that will raise some dust." BOURBONS GAIN MARYLAND Race Question in Border States to Prove Democratic rAid. BT MARK SULLIVAN. Copvright by the New York Evening Ptft, inc. Published by Arrangement) BALTIMORE, Md Oct. 25. (Spe cial.) Today wltnin a week of the eve of the election there can be no doubt that there is a measurable trend away from the strength that the republicans have had. This trend, to whatever degree it exists in other sec tions, is due, insofar as it is connected with dny one issue, to the increased prominence of the league of nations and the appeal which that issue un questionably makes to considerable elements of the community. Hut here in the border states this trend is also and more markedly due to the race issue. The zeal of local republicans in organization and stimu lating the registration of negro women has reacted. When the regis tration which is recorded separately for sexes and color in Baltimore showed a heavy intention to vote" on the part of negro women who will vote the republican ticket, democrats were stimulated .to an amount of organiza tion and work which is in contrast to the apathy that the democrats suf fered from during the early part of the campaign. Democratic KeRitrnio n Falli Off. Four years ago the registration fig ures of Baltimore showed a demo cratic majority of about 30,000. With the addition of the women this year a democratic majority of about 50,000 ought to have appeared. Actually the democratic majority in the Baltimore reg-istration is only about 16,000. Maryland has one of those sena torial elections in which the republicans-are trying to capture a seat from the democrats. The sitting democratic member. John B: Walter Smith, is very popular. Formerly he would be hard to defeat, but the republican sena torial candidate, O. L. Eller, . has maneuvered himself into a position where he has the advantage of the wet vote. The wet vote In Maryland is good for 20,000 votes and it was the 20,000 votes which at the election four years ago gave the republicans their pres ent senator from Maryland, France. Woman Vote Hiss Factor. The present democratic senator, John Walter Smith, voted for the pro hibition amendment. This ought to insure the "dry" vote, but a large1 part of the "ary" vote here as else where consists of women and it hap pens that Senator Smith, while he voted for the prohibition amendment, did not vote for the woman suffrage amendment. There can be no doubt whatever that the democrats are gaining- stead ily in Maryland and with a week yet to gro they should be able to make a showing far better than would have been predicted three weeks ago. Since Cox's speech here in Baltimore and also since Harding's Des Moines speech the league of nations has come to the front as an issue and has to a considerable degree supplanted the "wet" versus "dry" issue. At the present time there Je no room to doubt that Cox will get a normal democratic vote. On the sen atorship, the democratic candidate, John Walker Smith, is sure to run even better than Cox. That .this, judg ment is correct is proved by the fact that the friends of the republican senatorial candidate, O. K. Welier, are plainly worried. In the other border states West Vir ginia, from being regarded as reason ably certain republican three weeks ago, is now conceded by the repub lican leaders to be doubtful. Also in Kentucky, for the same reason given as to Maryland, the trend has been favorable to democrats lately so far as the presidency is concerned. But Kentucky has also a senatorial race and it is the firKt state in which the Judged by the Bank Account He Keeps m A MAN'S ability to accu mulate money is one of the standards by which the business and financial world determines his worth. . Therefore, one's best bit of evi dence is his bank "balance. . - One whose pocket is his bank vcan only have the temporary ' sort of prosperity. ' - On the other hand, the thousands who bank their earnings at the United States National have every opportunity and incentive to per- manently prosper. One of the Northwest's Great Banks C4 United Stales National Bank Sftth and Stark In the Name of Quality I BELIEVE there is nothing too good for American men. I also believe that Hickey-Freeman are America's Best Clothes. In support of that theory I submit that the most exclusive shops in New York and the country over are featuring them. These shops do not use the word "Economy" much in discussing these garments. Yet as a matter of fact they are talking economy all the time. Only they call it Quality. It has fewer syllables and more sense. Right now at my store you can buy Hickey-Freeman $80 Suits for Sixty Dollars In the name of Quality, I ask you to see the new Hickey-Freeman models. BEN SELLING Leading Clothier Morrison Street at Fourth -:j u republican candidate for senator, whose name is Richard Ernst, is ex pected to run stronger than Harding. The sitting: democratic senator from Kentucky, Beckman, voted for the prohibition amendment. That alien ates the question of the "wet" vote and Kentucky, like Maryland, Is one of the Etatec ia which the wet vote is a principal factor. Leg Broken In Auto Smash. CENTEALIA, Wah, Oct. 25. (Spe cial.) J. C. Slusser of Tenino suf fered a broken leg: and other in juries late Sunday afternoon, when his automobile was bit by a Great Northern passenger train, south bound, at Bucoda. His son. who waa in the car with him. received minor bruises. The car was demolished. Slusser and the boy were placed on the train that hit them and brought to Centralia, where they were re moved to a local hospital. salary law that will permit of an increase in the palary of the county treasurer from $o00 to $900 per year. The petition, calling for the measure was generally signed, and it is be lieved that the salary increase will he voted by a heavy majority. Salary Increase Proposed. HOOD RIVER, Or.,' Oct. 25. (Spe cial.) 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