The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-20
CAN'T CARRY
STATE, HOWEVER
Dc-rocrats Admit That More Than One
Speech Is Necessary to Do That -
PAINT Senate oligarchy In Con-
spiracy Against Sick Man.
By DAVID LAWRENCE.

Two hours Is almost senatorial length
Of political speech, but Governor Cox
kept 10000 people attentive as he COW
cred in his main speech here practically /
every subject from the Barnes bible, or
Republican textbook, to the troubles of
ireland The crowd liked the speech and |
on two occasions rose to applaud.
Governor Cox is in some respects like |
Hiram johnson in his method of carry
ing audiences into high pitches of en-
thusiasm by a series. of climaxes.
The Democratic. nominee got most of |
his applause in the first hour of his adj |
dress and closed with an emotional APP
plause for the league of nations that
brought tears to the eyes of men and |
women, touched by references to the |
soldier dead.
Judging by the effectiveness of the
governors address with the relatively
small crowd which he faced here, for
two of the Democratic leaders who
have been disposed to be lukewarm
about the Cox campaign, said after
wards that if he d stay in California
from now until election time and carry
his message into every community of
the state he would easily carry the
state.
That, however. is only another way of
saying two things. First, that the
Democratic leaders were convinced that
Governor Cox has a splendid array of
arguments and handles the issues skill
| fully. and second, that because of a
hostile press they fear that Cox doe
\ trine will not be widely distributed in
| California and that, therefore, he may
not carry the state.
The Democratic presidential nominee
covered plenty of ground in his speech.
/ He pledged himself to present the
cause of Ireland to the league of ma
lions if he should be elected He said
| that money now being spent for battle
ships would be spent for reclamation
and irrigation projects, since the league
/ would remove the necessity of large
ornaments. He contrasted his own
nomination after "A ballots at San
Francisco with the selection of Senator
Harding at Chicago Fin a smoke filed
hotel room in the early hour of the
morning "
He praised Hiram johnson as a pro-
n gressive and said he believed Hiram s
voice may be for Harding, but not his
heart.
There was a demonstration of enthu-
siasm when Governor Cox mentioned
the name of President Wilson, who
hspoke in,,the same. hall just a year ago
this week. Later on when Governor Cox
denounced the senatorial ohgarchy,
which he said had engaged in CON
spiracy against sick man and had in
sisted upon admission to the sick room,
the audience applauded vehemently
again.
The Democratic nominee fired the
usual denunciation at the San Francisco
editorial press which, it will be recalled
was the occasion for a somewhat similar
demonstration of approval in the same
hall two months ago when Senator Pat
Harrison of Mississippi said satiriea
things about the San Francisco news
papers as he made the speech seconding
the nomination of Cox.
Reference to the manner in which the
Republicans were alleged to be angling
4 for the German vote, the Irish vote, the
italian vote, and the ballots of the for
eign- born of central and southern Flu
rope, was loudly cheered and when Gov.
ernor Cox pledged himself to look out
4 for California s interests on the Japanese
problem, thus corraling the American
vote, the few Japanese in the audience
looked sheepish and embarrassed. Fol
now that the governor has taken a posi-
tion somewhat similar to that of Sena
tor Harding in promising to protect Cali
fornia. there is no place for the Japanese
vote, though doubtless that is not worry
ing either the Republican or Democratic
parties for the number of Japs born in
, the United States and eligible to vote is
| not considerable enough to bother about
as yet.
| Governor Cox repeated that he was
| willing to make any reasonable conces-
sion to get the treaty ratified and the
| covenant perfected to suit the senate
| Any reservations offered in good faith
would be accepted, he said. This made a
deep impression as did his emphatic
statement that the league of nations
didn't mean sending troops overseas and
that the critics knew it didn't His APP
| peal to take the league out of partisan
| politics was as eloquent as it was emo
tional.
As. the crowd filed out complimentary
/ expressions about the skillfulness of
Governor Cox as a campaigner were min
gled with regards about his foTcefnness
by joyous Democrats who had never
heard him speak before. Several Repub-
leans who heard the Ohio governor said
it was good speech" but did not say
whether they would vote for him.
1t was fair-sized crowd. The audito-
rum wasn't filled as it was when John
son or Wilson spoke, but what might
have been lacking in numbers was made
up in warmth and cordiality. Were it
not for half dozen factors over which
Governor Cox has no control, such as, for
Instance, the preiudices bequeathed to
lI.rn- .