The Washington herald., 1920-07-07
Fate Hurnbled
By DO or Die
Slogan ofOhio
Putting Aver Of Cox at San
Francisco Great Drama
In Politics.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Sopytgat' .V.o, oy Public Ledger So-'
San Francisco. July 6.-'ohio.
Ohio the hitia give bac KIT he cry.
we're here to do or die. Ohio. Ohio.
wen nominate Cox or know the
reason why"
They had their way. the gallaat
stubborn four hundred who lwaged
their long and seemingly hopeless
fight for neaily thirteen breathless
hours until victory vas theirs. the
nomination Of James NJ Cox. gov
ernor Of Ohio. as Democratic candi-
date for President on the forty
fourth ballot at 140 o'clock this 9Th
cf July morning was a triumph OF
bulldog tenacity without parallel in
American politics.
The battle Song which was the un-
tagging inspiration VI the Cox men
and women from the moment the
began was wonderfully
and literally vindicsted. They were
there ito do OF die" They did not
die There was but one burial.
1t was the inter mittent CT the
hopes of the McAdoo men and
the Davis msr. Of the Owen men.
and the Cummings men AID the
Colby men who had faith to the end
that Cox could rot win. They
failed to reckon the
buckeye do or die" spirit. 1t is
the morning after" The pre-Voi-
stead kind for many o sore Beaded
Democrat and in the golden sun
light which bathes glorious San
Francisco. the why and wherefore
of cox's nominas,on can now be dis
cerned as clearly as the shimmering
waters Of the bay itself. Virginia
may be the mother OF Presidents
but Ohio has become the mother OF
nominees. The fact that Senator
Warren G. Harding Is t he Repub-
Iican candidate for President
Jimmy Cox in main degree ewes
his Democratic stan6ardbearership
today.
Keynete That Brings Result.
when James C. Johnson. of the
Buckeye State supreme court in ex-
terror a Roman senator Of Caesars
time came to life again Placed Gov.
Cox in nomination en- June 1S he
uttered this keynote:
With Cox as your candidate OHIO
is Democratic. and with Ohio Demo-
cratic victory is yours"
In that expectation and oeliet
lies the basic explanation Of the Cox
He was primarily taken
because the Democrats think he can
win not only his own pivotal state
as he has thrice won it for the gov
but because they fancy
he will bring West Virginia, In
diana, Kentucky and Michigan into
the Democratic column. too, Cox
made his campaign in San Fran
cisco as the idol of the Central
West 1t is goods from that quar-
ter that he principally is counted
upon to deliver on November 2, and,
of/course, though it is to be whis-
pered softly. Gov. Cox's flexible
views on prohibition bulked not in
in his view.
They outweighed in the conven-
tion's final judgment the glaring in
of a moistened candi-
date standing on a platform, that is
dry as dust.
All else tina. barrened at the con-
vention hall between 10 o'clock on
morning and the wee sma'
hours of today was Incidental. Cox
was nominated because he devel-
oped the most invulnerable staying
powers In the voting and because
the sleepy. homesick, fagged-out.
ballot. worn delegates retained vi
taiity enough to convince them
selves that they, were putting UP
winner.
Choice Of wisdem. :
Even among the diseruntied ana
the shipwrecked In San Francisco
today few are encountered who do
not admit that the convention was
wise in Its waning hours. They
would have preferred their own
man, but they all coneede that a
strong man conquered. With the
single exception Of Bryan and his
dry fanatics. the Cox nomination
commands approval, admiration and
among the Democratic
faithful. There was transparent
in the nullabaloo that
greeted the Ohioan's triumph. .
McAdoo and Davis standards, the
standards Of Oklahoma ana Connec-
ticut, which would have been eag-
erly toted about, respectively in
honor of Owen and Cummings. were
rushed unhesitatingiy into the mad
parade which the ohioans. headed
by the Meteor band Of Piqua or
ganized as soon as Cox's nomination
had become unanimous. II seemed
to me a vastly more demonstrative,.
red blooded tumolt than the one
provoked by Senator Harding's nom
nation at Chicago. But the Republ
lean candidate did not enjoy the
advantsges Of having been
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