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A Pen Picture Of.Jimmy. Cox
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tion has been eXcellent-honest. Ell
ticient, charterized with a hlSh re
gard for the rights OF the peoplt
and their liberties, and n0nparIlsdL
in some respects. His appointments
with one or two exceptions, they say
nave Decn excellent.
| There are a few Things with the
Governor himself looks on as stand
| ing out in his administration. one
OF these is the Workman Com
pensation Law, wrhich was made pos
! siDle bv the new constitution, to1
which he stumped the State prlo1
10 his nomination, and which is look
f! I'd on as having been largely feSpon
sible for his election. In 1872 there
were fifty thousand suits brought d!
| EMPLOYEES against employers which
| found their way into the Ohio courts
| In 1919 there were only fifty.
! AS soon as the Governor took OF
| flee he served notice on the leglsla
ture that the mandatory provisions
of the new constitution must be pu
| into effect. The Legislature obeyed
Various boards and offices which hac
! been elective were merged and mad'
appointiye and the license system
! was adopted for saloons, thus glVln&
| the Governor the power Of enforc
ing the liquor laws, which he hat
| never before had.
And that the Governor did en-
| force the liquor laws, particular tn
| Sunday closing law, is generally a
! greed among fair-minded people II
| Ohio. This applied even to Cincln
natl where it had previously beer
| held that Sunday-closing was i'm
| possible.
Prison reform has occupied a lo
of the Governors attention. Whe1
he came into office he found thouS
| ands of prisoners who were idle. He
! appointed a non-partisan admins
| trative board for the prisons, saw &C
| if that State farms were provided
| for every institution whether for the
criminal or insane, and to-day the
i State of Ohio is raising most OF TN
produce which her charges CONSUME
and is the largest single breeder o.
pure-bred Holstein cattle in the
world
Upon the new constitution a bud
| get system was put into effect, Whlcl
| has worked so successfully that DIES
pite the constantly rising cost o.
| everything during and since the wal
not a single new form of taxation
has been adopted; nor has the tax
rate been increased. Any raising o
the latter is prevented by L pc
| cent. law, for which the Republl
| cans say that former Governor Jud
son Harmon is responsible. 1t l:
true that there has been an increase
| in assessment valuations to meet thu
rising costs of government but The
Governor says that these have beer
no longer than the natural lncre
ments property values have expert
| enced.
Governor Cox is also immensel,
proud of what he has accomplished
in giving Ohio, even in her countr!
districts - modern up-to-dat'
school system. Prior to 1912 thu
little old red schooIhouse" with it
| one teacher had prevailed. The
Governor asserted that lack of edu
actional advantages was one of thu
| things which was driving the boy
from the farms to the cities, and call
ed an educational congress,to Whlcl
| the parents in each district in th'
| State were asked to send delegates
With the motto, Let the LAM
| burn in every schoolhouse, i've
| thousand delegates were assembled
| and the Governor laid before them ;
| comprehensive plan which he hat
prepared based on a survey which
had been made by the New York In
stitution for Public Service.
Out of this came Ohio's system o
| community schools, large moderl
| buildings to which the children ar
| taken in automobiles, and where
| side by side with classical courses
preparing for the State universities
| the boys are taught stock-raisin;
and the girls home economies.
| Governor Cox has been accused o
| playing into the hands of the brew
| e1S and distillers. He has been bit
| terly hated by the Anti-Saloon Lea
| que, and in every one of his cam
paigns since 1914 his attitude OF
| liquor has been an issue. And yet ;
World representative who went int
| the matter rather carefully was no
able to find that the Governor hat
| assumed anything except a strict.
| logical position on the liquor ques
I ton. 1t has been, Let the majority
rule"
That appears to be what he ha:
done on the liquor question. IL
1914 he lost a lot of wet" vote:
because in 1912 he had enforced the
Sunday-closing laws. His opposition
| to the Anti-Saloon League was franz
and outspoken because he regarded
it as a mere adjunct to the Republi
| can party. He refused to be dictat
ed to by it's leaders. The 1918 re
suit in Ohio, when he was elected
| although the State voted for prohibi
| ton, is indicative of the approva
with which his liquor attitude ha'
been met.
The Governor has been twice mar
ried. His first wife to whom he wa
married in 1898, was Miss Mayne L
| Harding the daughter of a Cincin
natl lawyer. To quote from MI
| Hopkins chronicle:
Three children were born of tn
marriage-James Cox, Jr., who i
now seventeen years old; Helen, VIII
is now the wife of D. ]. Mahoney, o
Dayton, and John, aged twelve. Tel
years ago the couple were divorced
after Mrs. Cox had filed petition il
which she alleged cruelty.
The divorce is scarcely remember
ed in Dayton to-day, and the friend
of the Governor look on it principal
ly as a. case of incompatibility o
temperament. The Governors mos
bitet political enemies in Ohio hav
never sought to make political cap
tai of the matter, so far as appear
from reading numerous records.
After the divorce, John, who wa
an infant, continued to live with hi