New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-10
BY William Howard Taft

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 9.-Gover NOR
Cox has begun the real campaign. The
academic League Of Nations Issue was
good enough to attract a considerable
body of high minded persons who sim
cerely cherish the league as great
advance and who hope that in some
way or other the block Of holdover Re
publican Senators can be removed. But
Governor Cox realizes that the votes
of such persons cannot control the
election. He must make available for
the Democracy the industrial unrest
Of the country. He must stir class
feeling. He must mass the labor vote
behind him. He must cause a radical
uprising against capital and business.
He must fasten on the Republican
party and candidates plan to give
the government over TO selfish CAPT
talistic interests to be used to Cypress
labor.
That is the real issue Governor Cox
proposes to push into this campaign.
The Wilsonian issue--"The league with
Article X or no league"-may be good
enough to catch q number Of "high-
brows," but the masses are to be moved
by sterner stuff. He has secured a
lot of circulars and publications pur-
the Republican National Committee
charged with the collection of funds,
and he produces paper which on its
face is statement of how much is
expected from the large cities, which
makes total of over $8,000000. AS
this does not cover the rural districts.
he assumed that nearly double eight
millions is to be raised. He introduces
bulletins, issued by the bureau TO
surbordinates, encouraging them by re-
ports Of quotas raised to renewed vigor
in making collections.
No one can be mistaken as to what
these documents evidence. The silly
words used in them are the lingo of
the professional publicity man Of the
war drives. They revive the memory
of those days when no language of
appeal could be too extreme or fam
tastic, SO that now the success which
for other reasons attended those drives
has fastened on the present suffering
generation the infection of having the
same outrageous methods Of publicity
adopted in every public movement in
which money is sought from any con-
SiueIaDie DOuy VI people,.
Do these papers establish that $751;
100000 or 100000 will be collected
or that the Republican committee ex-
poets to collect such sums? OF course
not. The use of so-called quota is
as stimulant only, not an assurance.
Mr.. Hays and Mr.. Upham. Republican
chairman and treasurer, say there was
no such quota to their knowledge.
That might we'll be, for quotas like
this were part of the property of the
histrionic machinery Of those profess
sional "Whoopcr-Uppers" to whom the
work of collection was assigned. Mr..
Hays and Mr.. Upham say under oath
that the general plan was to make
collections not exceeding $1,000 from
each subscriber; that in only thirty
eight cities out of $4,000 had that plan
been departed from. and that of the
thirty eight only one subscription ex-
ceeded $4,000.
In other words, they do not intend
to rely on large subscriptions from q
comparatively few men to carry the
ampaign. They wish to avoid placing
the party or its candidates under heavy
financial obligation to any men at the
head Of great corporate enterprises
having axes to grind in the next four
years. The plan Of campaign. expert
menting and silly as its methods and