The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-07-12
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Cox and Roosevelt,

In nam mr. Govern@ James LIZ Ton
of9Ohioo for their standashbcaefp1lte
peifociAty have Ndeihsif worst foot,
forward, II they haA asked tie Rep
pbiicans whfch laspitsfft % hatne The
Republican party ah2dGS' ID Have the
weakest poasihls candidate opposed 70
Harding and GoOlidgaowpuld have. car
drly sugEe 9ted gthe, maze of GogegpoG
Cox. But this WAS spot necessary,
With fatal ,Yilipgngss y acEifiee
4 possible victory for 4 release from
deadlock, tho Democrats have placed
upon tho.n~elges Il Handicap which
hard y can De 'Qrcttonic 90" Govern9r
loX has elements OF week.-Mrs. Which
practically assure him Of defeat be-
,bre DO begins TO rum np0W T2h
For one thing, the Ohioan was the
hoice Of Tammany Hall after It had
paid the compliment of a ballot or two
20 Governor Smith, one OF its members
md officers. Tammany Hall has not
elected a Pre1ident or a Vice Presi-
dent since the days Of Aaron Burr;
md It's opposition has always been
counted preferable to It's support.
Samuel J Tlden, Grover Cleveland,
md Woodrow Wi son, the only Demo
rats since the Civil war who have
been elected to the Presidency or come
near election we're ardcntly hated by
he New York organization. But Gov
2rnor Cox was the second choice of
h New Workers; indeed, lie was the
,irst choice Of many of them.
Besides, it is difficult to name any
hing Governor Cox has done to mark
him as man OF presidential stature
True, he has thr &c becn governor Of
Ohio; but many an Ohio politician
has attained to the goyernor9hip of
lis state Governor Cox Is a good pol
tcian. With his newspapers and his
machine, perhaps the most relentless
md perfect in the middle west he has
been power in that commonwealth.
But no one ever heard of his being
1alled into nationa party councils. He
is local celebrity pure and simple.
To make him President would be to
cave the greatest office in the land to
experimentation
It Is the custom among politicians
t the Cox type to 'pussyloot' on quees
on3 upon which to take sides means
outrage and possible risks Of popular
pty Governor Cox was once consider
I'd the leading wet in the middle
west, Since his name has been men
TONED for the Presidency he has be.
ome silent on the matter, leaving in
/ dense fog his views on this subject,
Most mon would rather have an out
ipoken opinion from candidate on
such subject, even If adverse to their
personal views, than the studied sill
ence Of the Ohioan
One might so farther and recall the
tact that Governor COX's nomination
was made possible largely through the
combination of Charles e. Murphy
and Tom Taggart of French Lick
Springs fame. Those that like the
candidate of such mon as these are
welcome to him. There are other
counts against Governor Cox which
can not but weaken him with the
voters. He is vulnerable on so many
points that 1t is difficult to under
stand how even a tired convention
could bring itself to nominating him.
Second thought was a little better.
Franklin D. Roosevelt is real man,
with the respect of enem es and the
Of friends. But one can
not vote for a President because one
likes the candidate for Vice President.
Mr.. Roosevelt bears an honoced name.
But the attempt to repeat The coup Of
1900 when President Mckinley was