The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1918-03-01
No Time Now For Politics
Or Criticism Says Chief
b Executive
PRAISES OHIO SOLDIERS
AND PREDICTS VICTORY
Good Roads Session OF Coun-
ty Roundup Institute
Is Big Success

This is no time for debating so
cieties among ourselves" declared
Governor James NJ. Cox before an
audience that packed the court room
al the court house Wednesday after
noon at the second session of the
Knox county roundup farmers insti-
tute. in this time of the nations
peril we can find no time or should
find no time, for criticism the gov
ernor continued. IF the American
boys wearing the khaki in France are
lined up before President Wilson, we
at home should line up just as firmly
behind him.
I'VE must have no time now to diff.
fer over religion or politics. We have
the great problem of winning the war
before MS and it must be won. by
June Of this year we will be flying
from Newfoundland TO ireland and
we will have 10000 more airplanes
for service in France. With these
airplanes the allies will gain mastery
OF the air and when that occurs Wen
whip the kaiser and whip him to his
knees
Il once knew OF a priZehghter," de
clared the governor, who held the
championship for years because he
picked the men he fought and it's the
picking the nations he's fought and
driven back If not conquered but
he's got TO come back to the western
front and when he does he'll find
America there and the times coming
when the American troops viii
march into Germany and | hope down
the streets in Berlin spreading the
gospel OF freedom.
MUST SUPPORT ARMY
Let me say 10 you, however, that
with our splendid army of American
boys--boys who know what they're
lighting for and who are eager to
fight for their principles even were
they led by such military genius as
Alexander. Cromwell Napoleon,
Washington, Lee or Grant, we can't
win the war unless every man and
woman and child at home is behind |
them.
"We are In the war because we
couldn't keep ont OF II with honor. I /
have no patience with the man who |.
now says he wishes we had stayed |
out. Some persons think that when !
the Lusitania was sunk was the prop |
or time TO have declared war. II may !
have been, but no historian writing
with fairness in years to come can !
accuse America of having rushed in.
10 this conflict without just cause, or
Of having hesitated TO get into It
when she should have got In"
Governor Cox described President !
Wilson, whom he saw only two weeks |
ago. as burdened down with the cares /,
and worries OF his duties AZ Il war
president. His face IL sad" he said |
"lie knows when the transports leave /
our shores with American soldiers |
and he prays for their safety"
The governor paid tribute TO the |
clared thar while he was at Camp
Sheridan al Christmas time the gov
ernor OF Alabama informed him that /
he was more proud of the Ohio sol |
diers AT this great training camp than /,
he was Of the native sons OF Ala. /
bama.
BOYS ARE GENTLEMEN
Every soldier from Ohio at that
camp the governor declared lis a .
gentleman, II Is fact that among
$4,000 Ohio soldiers there In 100 days
time there We're only 50 reported for
insobriety--s record that seems al. /
most beyond belief and surpasses all
records in military history"
In speaking of German propaganda
In the United States. Governor Cox
said: II wish that ships could be Sc.
cured and every foreigner In this
country whose sympathies are with
some nation other than the United
States In this war could be forced to
embark and be taken 10 his native
country. want the people OF Ohio
10 stand by me In striking down trea-
son wherever It raises it's ugly head
until our boys come back from
France victorious.
We've run boarding house in
This country long enough and after
the war we should have law that