The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-10-04
NOTED men PRAISE
WORK OF jim cox
SENATOR BoRAH, PROGRESSIVE
LEADER, PLACES o. X. ON
DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE.
COMMENDS HIM
Hon. w. J. Bryan Says the Man Head.
Ing the Ohio Democratic Ticket Is
An Ideal Public officer A Con-
aressman Who Has Worked and
Achieved.

sressman Who Has Worked and
Achieved.
By his work in the lower house Of
the national law-making body in
Washington, Congressman James M.
Cox of Dayton, Democratic guberna-
torial candidate, has won unsolicited
Communications from Hon. William
Jennings Bryan, United States Sena-
tors Robert S. La Toilette and Will
liam Il. Borah of Idaho.
1t is seldom that a Republican will
praise the work of a Democrat, but so
we'll did Congressman Cox serve the
people and the progressive cause
while in congress that he was thus
honored. Senators La Toilette and
Borah are two of the most influential
leaders in the Republican party, as
well as being pioneer leaders in the
Progressive movement, The Demo
cratic gubernatorial candidate is no
experiment in public life. His capabil-
ity to serve as a public officer has been
demonstrated in the greatest law
making body in the history of the
world, and he has proven to be of the
right stuff--Bryan, La Toilette and
Borah never endorse men who are not
on the side of the people.
Shortly after the Toledo conven-
tion, when Congressman Cox was Sc
lected to be the Democratic standard
bearer in Ohio, Mr.. Bryan, in the
Commoner, congratulated the Ohio
Democracy on its choice and stated
that Mr.. Cox would make an ideal
& ernor.
While campaigning in Ohio last
spring, Senator La Toilette, who had
watched the work of the guberna-
torial candidate in congress, COM
mended it as being truly progressive
and he announced that if he were a
voter in the Third Ohio district he
would vote for Congressman Cox.
Senator Borah, in recent inter-
view, averred that there is no truer
in congress than the Dem
ocratic gubernatorial nominee. Sena-
tor Borah was one of the leaders in
the fight against President Taft at
Chicago national convention.
In that interview he said:
at is but fair to say that the pro-
gressive movement is not confined to
either party. Some of the most loyal
of these principles are
found in the Democratic party.
Congressman James NJ. Cox Of
Dayton, o., was one of the most effec-
tive and tireless friends of the cleo
ton of senators by popular vote and
the children's bureau bill. He gave
his untiring efforts to 10th, and was
especially helpful in the passage of
the latter. There is no truer progress
sive in congress, in my judgment"
Mr. Cox entered congress four years
ago as a Democrat. Congress at that |
time was Republican, with Joseph G. |
Cannon as speaker. Yet within three |
weeks after he had been sworn into
office Mr.. Cox was recognized and de-
Iivered a speech upon the subject of
the tariff, which was then pending.
From that date until the last ses-
sion of congress adjourned he took an
active interest in all legislation, and |
in many of the debates.
Within the first year of his service in
The house of representatives he was
as one of the dependable
leaders, upon the Democratic side
He obtained for the city of Dayton,
Turing his first term, an appropria-
ion for new postoffice-something
which the city had needed for a long
line, but which it had been unable to
secure. He also secured for the
Miami valley a weather station at
Dayton, and the reports and warnings
ssued from the Office serve wide
scope of country.
He brought about a thorough reor-
sanization of some of the government
ZONES for aged veterans, and i'm
proved the conditions in all of them.
When the civil sundry appropria-
ion bill, as it is called, was under
discussion during his first term, Cox
ound that an item in it increased the
appropriation for subsistence for the
.nimals in the geological garden at
In advocating the pas
age of the additional appropriation
or the animals, the gentleman in
harge of the bill said it was neces-
airy because of the high cost of liv-
ng But little farther down in the
ill was an item for subsistence at
oldiers' homes, and it had not been
increased.
The committee had considered the
Ugh cost of living for monkeys at the
co. but had overlooked the old SOL
iers.
Cox had already made an investiga-
ion of the food furnished the sol
iers He had found that in some in
tances it was costing only II cents
day. In no instance was 1t greater
han the cost of the food for the ,
onvicts in the federal penitentiary.
[ere was class of men whom the
oliticians had lauded as the nations
eroes, but they were being fed upon
sss than the convicts were allowed.
The sundry civil bill gave Jimmy" /,
is opportunity. He was recognized !
nd made the point that he thought ,
1e old soldiers were az much en-