AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18076, 26 October 1920, Page 5

AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

THE RIVAL CANDIDATES. WOOING THE WOMEN. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, October 23. How the women -will vote at tho Presidential election continues to bo an enigma. Prominent women are campaigning for both parties. It is known that women have been busily organising throughout the nation. Leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties declare that the women are silently but effectively examining and estimating tho situation, but how the women will vote is unknown. Governor Cox has been making a special appeal to the women on the ground that tho League of Nations will prevent future wars. Senator Harding is stressing the claim that tho league will cause wars. The women everywhere, save in some of tho Southern States, haive registered in large numbers. Georgia, which has not jxassed a law enabling women to register under %ho suffrago amendment, will not have any women voting at this election. What a powerful part the women will play in tho election can bo seen from the following figures. It ie estimated that nearlv 2,000,000 women and 2,000.000 men have registered in New York State, approximately 350.000 women and 550,000 men in Chicago, 2,325,000 women and 2,539,000 men in Pennsylvania. 25.000 women and 55,000 men in New Orleans, 68,000 women and 129.000 men in Boston, IO'XOOO women and 150,000 men in Detroit, 127,000 women and 185,000 men in St. Louis, 500,000 women and 750,000 men in California. No one can vote without having registered.—A. and N.Z. Cable. CAMPAIGN'S CLOSING STAGES. A BITTER BATTLE. NEW YORK, October 24. (Received Oct. 25, at 9.55 p.m.) Interest in politics at the present moment overshadows all other events. Tho campaign is drawing to a close, and the battlo between both parties is becoming more bitter and more active. The Senate elections, by Teason of cross currents and regional factions in certain States, axe privately conceded as uncertain by both parties. Thirty-one States will elect one senator each, and one State will elect two senators. The seats now occupied by 18 Democrats and 15 Republicans are to be filled. Openly the Democrats claim that they will control the Senate during the next term, but privately they admit that tho Republicans have more than an equal chance to retain their present control.—A and N.Z. Cable. UNITED STATES ELECTIONS. WOMEN'S BID FOR OFFICENEW YORK, October 23. (Received Oct. 25, at 9.55 p.m.) It is interesting to note that there are five women candidates for the United States Senate and more tfyan a dozen women candidates for the House of Representatives. The States of Arizona, New York, and Connecticut have women running for the office of Secretary of State, and women are candidates for minor offices in many States, especially the State Assemblies. New York has eight women candidates for the Assembly. All the indications are that tho Socialist vote for Mr Eugene Debs will show a large increase over 1916. The Socialist leaders claim that the increase will be due to the imprisonment of Debs, the high cost of living, the agitation over profiteering, Federal control under the war regulations, and the Radical-Labour agitation.—A. and N.Z. Cable.