The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1920-10-19
[ C J5SS;; STATEMENT TO
LABOR PROVED TO Be
GROSSLY INACCURATE
Claim He Had "Never Pressed a
Soldier Into an Industrial
q Controversy" Not True.
USED OHIO MILITIA TWICE
Question Not About Merits OF
Strike or Need for Military,
} but as to TruthfuIness.
BY WILLIAM HoSTER.

columbus, O.-Governor james NJ.
Cox's boosted labor record has been
shattered by his own oficial act.
Claiming that he had never pressed
soldier into an Industrial controver.
sy," the record Of his action as gov.
ernor Of Ohio In mobiiizlng the Ma.
tional Guard Of this state for service
In the steel strike of 1919 has been
produced In fat contradiction Of his
| assertion.
| Not once, but on two occasions was
the Ohio guard, at an expense OF $685.
600 to the people Of Ohio. called into
| service and sent to Akron and held In
readiness for action in nearby Canton.
The question Is not as to the merits
OF the strike or as TO the necessity for
the presence Of the guard within strik-
Ing distance of Canton, but concerns
wholly the truthfulness Of Governor
| Coxs statement, obviously made to win
favor among the workIngmen. The
facts as brought out In the speech OF
Republican State Chairman George II
Clark, formally opening the campaign
at Columbus, are as follows:
Ordered Guard Out Twice.
After the steel strike had progressed
for some days, with more or less dlsor-
der. Governor Cox on September 2S,
1919, suddenly ordered the mobilization
Of the guard at Akron. A period OF
quiet followed, and the troops we're
withdrawn. And then again suddenly
on October Is the guard was once more
modified and sent to Akron, and while
II lay there at that strategic point
awaiting a summons into action stan
officers representing Governor Cox kept
close watch on the situation In Can.
ton.
In his speech at Wheeling, W. Va,
on the night Of August IA Governor
Cox said:
"For six years have been 10 execu.
tive authority In the great Industrial
state Of Ohio. During all this time
have never pressed soldier into an In.
dustrial controversy"
| The question is. did Governor Cox
tell the TRUTH Answering this ques.
tion, Chairman Clark In his Columbus
speech displayed to his audience pho.
tographic copy OF Special Order No ~
issued from the Adjutant Generals de-
partment of the State Of Ohio, dated
Columbus, October 20. 1919, which des-
lgnated certain officers for immediate
active service and paragraph Of
which reads:
Facts Presented.
"In anticipation OF the development
Of a rioting condition at Canton, o.. the
Governor OF Ohio has deemed II neces-
sary to assemble sufficient number OF
state troops at Akron, o., to be held In
readiness to render aid to the civil au-
thorities at Canton, O., and has so d.
rected the Adjutant General Of Ohio.
who, pursuant TO such order, directs
Colonel Benson W. Hough 10 proceed
without delay to Akron, o., to take
command of all state troops upon ar
rival at Akron, o., and to hold them In
readiness for duty, awaiting further
orders"
The order Is signed by the Adjutnnt
General and counter-signed In these
words, "By command Of Governor Cox
Did Governor Cox tell the truth tC
the workingmenf
experimenting tnis uocunheh'u'y
proof, Mr.. Clark produced photograph
ic copies OF headlines from Canton, O..
newspapers OF concurrent date, which
| read Estate troops mobilizing for duty
I here. All available companies are or
dered out" And. Governor orders
troops for duty here, Ohio soldiers re
porting to armories following trouble.
r-.xL cha,,la n. kno,uo
: The surprising thing about II all Il
: that Governor Cox In his Wheeln!
speech should have made so tlni an rs
sertion when all Of the facts with re
. gard to his mobilization OF the gunr'
we're still fresh In the public mind, II
least In Ohio q, course II Is not 10 -
, expected that workinglneD elsewhcr
In the United States would be famIlin
4 with the circumstances, and II was IA
. thai reason that State Chairman CLAIR
. In his speech stressed the necessity 10
. the people all over the country 10 b
Informed that Governor Cox's assertion
. that he never pressed soldier int
. an Industrial controversy" was absC
n Iutely at varience with the truth.
A Publication of these official facts ha
y utterly COMPOUNDED the advocates 0
a Governor Cox's election. who have bee
Y making a special plea to the working
c men on the basil Of his West VlrginI
8 speech. The revelations as to Nj
!. Cox's mobilization OF the troops ar
being compared with the sworn stat,
ments OF liquor league contributions t
d his gubernatorlal campaign fund |
q refutation OF his stetement that 18th
II vets have never contributed one dolla
, to any Of my campaigns" In bot
4 cases the point is made that the issu
Is not as to the merit OF his mobilize
: tion OF the troops, on the one hand,
70 as to the status Of the wet and DR.
i. question, on the other hand. but tn,
r. the real issue 10 rs TO the degree I
Ic truth and accuracy absolutely nece
,s sary IN one who seeks TO be presideI
! of the United States