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-r . THE ' MORNING OREGONIAX. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER . 27, 1920 3 HARDING STRENGTH L SI TO BE EBBING Mark Sgllivan Thinks Demo crats Are Gaining. OCTOBER 4 NOTABLE DATE Change in Situation Held Largely Due to Senator's Antl-Lcague Speech at Des Moines. BY MARK SULLIVAN'. tCopyrigbt by Ai New York Evening Post. Inc. Puh'lDftPd by Arrangement. ) WASHINGTON, D. C. Oct. 26. (Special.) The campaign has entered a new prutse. That phase is a steady ebb fri the republican strength and a corresponding growth in tlie demo cratic strength. The day when it be gan can bo fixed with almoet mathe matical certainty. Cox returned to Dayton from his lonjr tour west of the Mississippi Monday, October i, afcd bejfan nisi campaign in the cast the following Thursday. Ft was on that day that ilardins: made his first appearance west of the Mississippi and delivered his Des Moines speech. Cox's trans-Mississippi tour had been devoid of results. At that time it was possible to say, and it waa said in this correspondence, that Cox's four weeks in the west had not changed the conditions in any state and that he would not g-ct more than onc-T'th of the electoral votes In the 18 states west of the Mississippi river other than those classed as southern, nepubliean Peak Reached. But the date I have mentioned marked the high tide of the repub lican strength. Whatever may be the exact result next Tuesday the repub licans must know it will not be as favorable to them as it would have been three weeks ago. From that week when Harding crossed the Miss issippi westward and Cox crossed it eastward, not only has Cox made gains wherever lie has appeared in the east, but also the echo of those pains has reflected itself in a better ment of his fortunes west of the Mississippi. I have expressed it in terms of Cox making gains and that is accurate. But it should be addi tionly -xpressed. in terms of the republicans suffering losses. The change has been due quite largely to Harding's Pes Moines Wiecch and to the distasteful infer ences made by the public from the daily contradictions between Senator Johnson and ex-President Taft. Of the substantial quality of the change there can be no doubt. I can name not fewer than four states and I many smaller communities which on I the day of the Dps Moines speech '. were safely republican, but which now are cither probably democratic or else In the doubtful list. One of these states is L'tah. I tah Slrnnelj for trnenr. Tn l'tah there has been from the beginning a strong league sentiment. When Wilson rirst brought the cove ant back from Kurope a meeting was held in the Mormon tabernacle in Salt Lake City. William It. Taft was the prinoipal speaker, and he gave the league enthusiastic indorsement. At the close of the meeting a vote was taken, and out of an audience of about in.ono it was said that 9999 voted "aye" and one voted "nay." It can be imagined how a community which had once believed in the league as strongly as this, and still believes in the league with niodificat ions, was shocked by the newspaper headlines the day after the lies Moines speech. In I-tah Senator Smoot is having the hardest kind of a fight. He is one senator that the republican party in the nation can least afford to lose. Senator Smoot's knowledge of the governments business is such that the country as a whole can ill afford to lose him. Senator Smoot's atti tude on the league has been fairly acceptable to L'tah. and if he loses he will lose not because of anything he ha said or done, but because of Harding s I'es Moines speech. lohnKon Speerhm Kollow. t have spoken as if it were Hard ing's lies Moines speech that started the ebb of the republican tide. That is true, but that event alone would not have been so marked in its effect tr it had not been followed by the speeches of Senator Johnson, in which .lohnson harked back to the Des Moines uterance and pinned Senator Harding down to it. On this point there is testimony from a. western c u y : "A somewhat critical condition rose in the minds of large numbers ot people when Senator Hardinir an peaied to have made an outspoken uf-eiaraiion against all leagues of na tions at Lies Moines. That was im r tlally corrected by his Omaha speech and has been largely cured 'by the statements made by the 31 prominent republicans. The observer who expressed this judgment is in a position to know what is true of his community. Hut speaking for the country generally the original impression created by the Des Moines speech was kept stead ily alive by the speeches of Senator Johnson, who specifically referred to the statements of the "31 republicans" and flouted them. l.OMKrs Klsevrherr Likely. There are several other communit ies in the west where the revulsion from Harding, due to the suspicion that his position and Senator John son's are identical, is not necessarily statewide, but might yet be suffi , ciently strong to affect states hereto fore considered safely republican. What the degree of this revulsion is we shall never know, because there is no record of how great the republi can victory would have been had the election taken place the day preced ing the Des Moines speech. The revulsion of course is confined to persons who are in some degree pro-league. Here, again, we have un certainty, for there is no means of knowing what the division among the voters is between anti-league and pro-league. It is the misfortune of Cox and the fault of the democratic organiza tion that they will probably not be able to get the full advantage of this revulsion. They have not the mechan ism to bring to the polls every pos sible voter who may have been un settled by the present phase of the' league issues. A voter who at one stage of the campaign has .made up his mind to vote for one candidate only rarely goes wholeheartedly over to the point of voting for the op posite candidate. More usually he merely becomes Unsettled and con cludes not to vote at all, to go fish ing or to play golf. It is these voters that the democrats might get to the polls if they had the machinery. I think it may be said safely that even under normal conditions, omit ting this turn of the tide, there is an average of say five democratic voters and five republican voters in every election precinct who will vote or not vote according to whether or not there is an active party worker on the ground to see them on elec tion day and actually take them to the polls. This margin of voters in cludes voters who are sick, those who are -indifferent or prefer a holi day. An effective worker who would undertake to see them at an hour convenient to them and provide an automobile to take them to -the polls would get just that many additional votes for his party and the aggregate of five votes in each election precinct would make from 10.000. to 25,000 votes in a state and would change the result in many states. - Kor the republicans the individual precinct worker necessary to do this will be on- hand and have his'auto mobile. i'or the democrats in most states this worker will not exist. AMERICANISM ISSUE, SAYS MR. COOLIDGE Plea Made for Government of Laws, Not Men. PARTY IS HELD WORTHY Democrats Declared to. Have For saken 'constitution for Mirage Void of Sustenance and Life. . PEETE REAPPEARS CHIEF WITNESS IX DEXTON MURDER CASE ARRESTED. Woman. Turns l'n at' Tier Hotel Near I.os Anftelcs and Sn Is i L'ndcr Heavy Guard'. LOS ANGELES. Cal., Oct. 26. Mrs. Louis-e Pecte, chief witness in the investigation of the murder of Jacob C. Denton; reappeared at her hotef at La Cresccnta, near here, about 2 o'clock today. She had been missing since yesterday morning. Word of her reappearance was telephoned to Lcs Angeles by newspaper representa- iv-es. District Attorney Wool wine said earlier in the day that she would be arrested when found. Mr. Woolwine later telephoned to his office that Mrs. Peete was "under arrest" at the hotel and would remain there overnight "under a heavy guard." The district attorney, how evei. did not specify the charge under which the arrest was made and. no Warrant had been issued. W. "J. Ford, Los Angeles attorney. announced this morning that Mrs. Peete had communicated with him and arranged for a conference later in the day. for the purpose of engaging him as counsel. WASHINGTON'. Oct. 26. "The re Publican party walks the" high .road to. American government for Ameri cans and the American ne.onlA walk with that party." Governor Cootidge j declared In a final pre-election state ment made public here tonight. The republican vice-presidential candidate said the issues of the campaign, in the minds of most Americans, have, been reduced to one, the question' whether our government shall . or shall not be a constitutional govern ment, a government of laws and not of men. "The republican party." he asserted, "stands upon the foundation of our American constitution. . It will not depart from it. The democratic party, under the spell of a dominating per sonality, has stepped down from that foundation and. points to a- mirage in which there is no sustenance and no life. . "The shores of history are strewn with the wreckage of republics which fell before the ambitions of selfish despots, or which disintegrated be neath the blight of an unwise per sonal exaltation." One Vital Question Raised. Governor Coolidge's statement fol lows: "The' issues of this campaign are so simple and they are so well under stood by the people that there can be no doubt of the verdict which the voters .will give November 2.' These issues may be condensed, and in the minds of most Americans have been condensed into one. That is the question whether our government shall or shall not be a constituted government, a government of laws and not of mayi. "Our own government can continue only upon the basis. upon which it is built. And we can see through the world, and particularly we can see at this time, the penalties exacted-from those who let untrained and unthink ing desires stampede the people from paths of sanity and those who would falsely, in the betrayed name of free dom,!; substitute a personal dictator ship for a government of, by apL for the people. . ; . "It matters little in the final con sequences what may be the profes sions or the motives of those' who; seek by personal aggression to dis place the authority of a free- people exerted through tested a;nd proven channels of representative and con stitutional government. . Kor ''consti tutional government once destroyed. e-iinuui easny oe restored. Korewarit ings or disaster must be heeded, fest they are succeeded by a -cancerous and fatal growth beyond the reach or' cure. Tun Partlfi Contrasted. ' - "The. republican party stands upon the foundation of our American con stitution. It will not depart from It. The democratic party, under the spell of a dominating personality, has stepped down from that foundation and points to a mirage in- which there is no sustenance and no life. - "The republican party demands cor rection of all the ills which have' been bred in the false doctrine of exira-constltutional ' government; it demands removal of burdens placed upon the people through disregard of the sane functions of government. 1 functions which must be directed, with rnmnilerl wisdom and encompassed with thrift. SIiohs 36, 822, 190 Adherents. ; H always has believed, that American -,. ... i labor is entitled to rece've f com. the CHIC A rO, Oct. 26. A census of government such legislation as rhatl Methodists, compiled by Dr. H. H. guarantee a fair retui -. for labor per Carroll, formerly of the census formed and that it is entitled to re bureau, for the centenary ronserva-I ceive constant protection aga.inst ag tion -ommittee of the Methodist ' gressions from a competition b.ised Kpiscopal church, shows 36.S22.1 90 : upon a scale of social existence alien Methodists in the world, according and repugnant to American idea s to figure, made public-today. ' ! of self-respect and American demands There are 9.S32.107 members of the i of material comfort. . church, the remainder being adher- ; "Much has. been said pf Ameriean ents and probationers who are mem: : ism as the need of Amer'ca, and this bers of Methodist families. The in- is a commonplace fact. For no na crease in the total of Methodists dur-I tion can exert either a material or a ing the last nine years is given as j moral leadership in the world or can ".9::5.:UI. . find contentment for its people at MEDICAL FUNDS SOUGHT I'nivcrsitv of Oregon Wants Share of Kix-kcfcllur Foundation Sum. Prospects for the L'niversitv of Oregon medical school to share in the f20.OOU.000 fund made available for scientific medical research through the Rockefeller foundation are goorl. according to-- fir. Richard B. DUIehunt, dean of the medical school, who leaves today in com pany with P. L. Campbell, presi dent of the university. and Dr; Harry B. Torrey of the medical school to lay the case of the Portland in stitution before the general educa tion board of the Rockefeller founxla tion at its meeting in New York No vember 1. - After the New Tork meetinir Dr. Dillehunt will proceed to Boston where lie will study the child hospi tal there and the crippled children's aw. looking . forward to erection of a similar hospital on the campus of me meuicai scnooi. METHODIST BODY BIG ONE World Census .?ut A Great Sale of Suits and Overcoats Heavy indeed are the reductions on these fine ' clothes but it's " making scores of . friends for the store. . . ; $40 Suits and Overcoats $32 $50 Suits and Overcoats $40 $60 Suits and Overcoats $48 $70 Suits and Overcoats $56 $80 s Suits and Overcoats $64 MEN'S WEAR Corbett Bid?., Fifth and Morrison I Rue de la Paix i ; : ; cJ "Merchandise of of Merit Only Mail Orders Filled Charge Purchases Made Today Will Appear on Statement Rendered December 1st i ! For That Hall j oween home unless it keeps alive and fam-l ing the inspiring fires of an honest! . i 1 : ' c. .. 1, .- 1 A rr ri ' need a deeper understanding of Amer icanism and a irm practice of it. v - Constitution.. Vnst Stand. -"For such an Americanism the re publican i-rty star.dslt is the Amer icanism f the American constitution, tbe belief that our government should fulfill the guarantees of our declara tion of independence:" that life, liberty and trie pursuit of happiness should be-as mueb in the mind of modern statesmen- as they were in the minds of the pioneers cf American liberty. "There is but one ark upoSv w hich our national faith may. rest secure. It is our constitution. Departure from that, whatever the profession of mo live, is a journey toward the .precipice beyond which is national disaster. "The -republican party walks the high road of American government for Americans. The American people walk with that party." Clackamas Has. 18.610 Voters. OREGON CITT. Oct. 26. (Special.) The following 'shows the total reg istration for ' Clackamas county if or each party, both inale and female i. Re- r,.Kl I.---. man -71Fifi femal 4"38. total 11,394.,, Democratic, male 2530, female 1664. totaV 167.' Prohibition, male sb, female 170, total 2S.- Socialist, male female '110. total 336. Mince! laneous. male 319. female "168, total 487. Total for all parties, male 10,290, female 6350. total. 16.640. -. . ' . . v . , ; - . IandV Agent Transferred. ? Transfer of C. R. Arundell. special agent of the general land office, de partment of the Interior, from" the Pt.-rtland field division to the bureau of internal revenue, Washington, D.'C, is announced by. the local land office. Mr. Arundell has. been in the east in vestigating cases pending-in the Port land division for about a month.' ' Qial.) SmlthReynolds post. American fe.eglon, will have charge of the cele bration of Armistice day and will be assisted by the Spanish War veterans. the (rand Army and Women's Relief corps. After marching in the business section, the parade will- disband at Thirteenth -- street and Broadway, where exercises w'ill be held on the site to be used for the erection of the legion's permanent home.. Distiller Fined $150 and Costs. VANCOUVER. Wash.i Oct. 26 (Spe cial.) Pete Manolis, v charged with having illicit liquor in -his possession, today pleaded guilty -before Cedric Miller, - justice of the peace,, and was fined H5U and costs. In his room on Fifth , and Main streets -. Manolis had a small still, in operation when- it was raided by the sheriff and police. A jug containing-four or five gallons lornna me container, and a pipe was paraffined into this and came out into a cup. - It is sad Manolis was using sour rape June 10 intiKQ wine. , Read The Oregonian classified ads. Armistice Parade Planned. VANTOUVKR. Wash.. Oft. .26. (Spe- Hood's Sarsaparilla Makes Food Taste Good ' Creates an appetite, aids digestion, purifies the blood, and thus relieve scrofula, catarrh, the--pains' and aches- -of rheumatism, and gives strength to the whole system. "Nearly BO years' phenomenal sales tell, the story of the great merit and success of Hood's Sarsaparilla. II is just the medicine you need now. Hood's Pills help flne cathartic COLONIAL DANCING CLASS Announce Their Opening With a Halloween Party Saturday, October 30 Knights of Columbus Hall Pjm-Ic Street at Taylor. One Mock from He Hi jr. lancins 8:43. Aduusbioii 7oc, including war ta. mm Portland Is Known 3s a Toy Town Happiness comes to unnumbered children through Portland-made toys. Not just to Portland chil dren -but to children throughout the East, and even in f oreigri territory. One might say that Portland toy makers send out happiness by the carload, for carload shipments of these popular toys are not unusual. One concern has already forwarded twenty carloads this year mostly for Eastern distribution. Remember this when it comes stocking-hanging; time ; it is possible to play simultaneously the roles of Santa Claus, who makes youngsters glad, and Loyal Portlander, who patronizes home industries. For it is in such ways that Portland becomes big . ger and busier. , Ladd & Tilton Bank Washington at Third , Thousands of Children are Playing . with Kdnstriicto, Toy Building Blocks - Woods' Indian Dolls and Novelties Junior Engineering 1 Blocks mm mm AVZZZMgm Oldest in the rjv Northwest ckderai BESEBrtS IPS!! ' ' " . ".. - .. 7- : ' I I Frocks, Captivating and Vivaciously Youthful, for the Young Miss of 1 4 to .1 Z Years Party Frocks so beautiful and irresistibly lovely have not been designed even for her elders. Viva v cious youth is expressed in every line, and the colors so gorgeously wonderful outrival the beauty of the rainbow Orchids, Pinks. Blues, Jade, Ameri can Beauty, also Black.' : Fashioned of such ex quisite materials as Chiffon Taffeta Net . Panne Velvet Georgette Cros de Londres These beautiful frocks, for very formal occasions, are made sleeveless, with low-cut bodice, some with tinv sleeves, and for less formal affairs, in square. round or V-neck. ' Girdles or pert sashes, are popular, as well as the little velvet or silk ribbon at the waist line.' . Black frocks are also most popular for evening parties or dinners, made o fig ured net, or tulle, over satin. .,v. Priced from $26.50 to $77.50 Pretty Party Frocks for the Younger Girls, 1 4 to 16 Yeats These fetching little frocks rival sister's in colors and mate rials, but are more simply made Adorable creations of taffeta, georgette, chiffon, or net, in the most irresistible shades ' . Turquoise Flame Peach Mais Pink While Made with short or three-quarter sleeves in ratlter high round or square neck the most adorable frocks for charming youth, ,Y beautifully trimmed w'ith puffings and pleating and rosebud trimmings. r . Priced from $22.50 to $62.50 Girls' Special Shop. Fourth Floor-rLipman, Wolfe & Co. 3z When You Need Notions You can find them in our spacious and conveniently accessible notion department At Splendid Savings to You Our Notion Department is not only replete with all the essential thousand and one tilings called for to take care of the family sewing needs, but is so ' conveniently arranged that purchases may be made by the busy mother or housekeeper with the least possible delay, being reached by two large entrances (Fifth-street or Alder-street entrances). -. -- Here one is gratifyingly pleased, not only withv ' the newness and cleanliness of the merchandise, the courteous attention of the many efficient salespeo ple, but the joy of shopping in a daylight shop, where delicate colored threads may be accurately matched, subconsciously affords unbounded satisfaction to every shopper. FOR HALLOWEEN In our Tip-Top Bakery we are prepare to take care of your orders for those delicious Pies, Cakes, Pastries To insure your orders being completed, however, they should be received not later than Friday night in our Bakery, Eighth Floor. Novelty Candies And otir confectioner Is making the most novel aa well as wholesome confec tions for the occasion: Acorns. Bonbons. O r e a m Wafers, ornamented; also Mellow Dips in Halloween colors. Do not forget your box of Rue da la Taix Choco lates. Sweets Booth. Street Floor Decorations and .Table Novelties Dennison's Lunch Sets. Halloween Table Favors. Black or Orange Crepe Papers, Halloween Pump kins and other essentials for the occasion. Street Floor.' 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