New-York tribune., 1920-09-28
ess Says Ohio
viii Repaldiate
Cox by 100000
REPRESENTATIVE Declares the
democratic Candidate Is
8 aAIl Things to ALI
{ Men, to Get the Votes
Sees. Inroads i'm South
fnunfs Several States for
Harding i'm Which Foes
Claim Fighting Chance

sGox will be defeated in Ohio by
.sre than 100 1000 plurality" said Rep
,esentative Simeon D. Fess, chairman
"A the Republican Congressional Cam
nign Committee, at National Commit
Zee headquarters yesterday.
aAs matter of fact, if it had not
heen for political disaffection among
psuublicans in the city of Cincinnati
IN 1918, causing marked slump in the
Republican vote, Cox would be politi-
al nonentity to-day. In 1912, as every
me knows, any one on the Democratic
Hrket could have been elected. We
I were trying that year to elect two Re-
aubliean governors. In 1914 Cox was
aessated By 10000, while Harding was
elacted that year by more than 100000.
ain 1916 Cox was elected by 5000,
Aut he ran $4,000 votes behind Wilson.
rox is wet in wet localities and in dry
iaeaIities he is dry. He is all things
10 all men so long as he can get the
votes. 1t is a matter of record in the
slics Of the Ohio Secretary of State
chat the vets supported him in 1916.
lust what the vets contributed. He
conference attended by Charles F.
Murphy, Thomas l.. Taggart, Brennan,
tha Illinois boss; James Nugent and
Judge Edmond Moore, the Cox cam
paign manager. The people of Ohio
Enow just what those men stand for
IN politics. Colonel William J. Bryan
kaows what they stand for, and that is
awhy he Is not lifting a hand to help
SEox and Roosevelt. Colonel Bryan in
speaking of Cox, said: After disgrace
ing the state he aspires to a position
where he could disgrace the nation. His
saeetion, if such thing were possible,
would turn the White House over to
shose who defy the government and
bold law in contempt
sThose are the words of Colonel
Bryan. He has not repudiated them
- could not add to the strength of such
IN utterance. Bryan knows Cox and
/ fhe men who decided on his nomination
at French Lick.
Y "Speaking as member of Con-
gress. it is my judgment that the
Swets have no chance whatever to bring
fsrcement law. There are plenty of
democratic Congressman who, while
voting wet, are secretly glad that the
liquor question has been taken so far
out of politics. There will be no
change in the Volstead act The
change desired by the advocates of
beer and light wines would mean the
esvlva. of the saloon. The American
people have had enough of the sa-
I. Representative Fess said that there
.fs q good fighting chance for the Re-
sAublicans in the 7th District in Ala
4ama, where in a special election last
sfs!l the Republican candidate lost by
S4niy 400. In North Carolina, Mr.. Fess
:Aaid, there is more than q fair chance
9t carrying three districts-the Sd, the
ssh and the 10th. In Tennessee also
the Republicans, he said, stood to in
grease their delegation.
Z John Hays Hammond, one of Chair
man Hays's callers yesterday, in com
nenting on the efforts of Samuel Com
pers IN aid Of the Democrats, said:
= Ain urging labor to vote for Cox
Gompers is playing with a two-edged
sword Fortunately for labor, neither
Gompers nor any other leader can de-
liver the labor vote. The American
wage Garner is q level-headed man
who does his own thinking and realizes
That his welfare depends upon the gen
eral prosperity. That being the case,
eae wage earners of the country will
rot forget the bread lines and soup
aouses of 1913, necessitated by wide
spread unemployment, following Dem
oeratic tariff tinkering. 1t requires
But little imagination to visualize the
great industrial calamity that was
syerted only by TIE World War, which
prevented the dumping of European
Products into our home market"
. Former Governor Whitman of New
1erk will speak at the Vermont State
Convention to-day.
Former Representative in Congress
1ooers Bonynge will speak at Kayser
". Va, tonight and in Parkersburg
". Va, tomorrow night.