Republican farmer., 1920-07-02
cox HAILED AS COUNTRIES
 BEST CHOICE

San Francisco. July 1.---The De- | mocracy of Ohio, the home state Of | urged the national convention today l to select Governor James M. Cox as 1 the Democrattc candidate for Presi- l dent.
 With Cox as your candidate. Ohio l is Democratic, and with Ohio Demo- | cratic. victory is yours" declared Judge James a. Johnson. of Spring field. Ohio. in formally presenting Governor Cox's name.
 The election this year will fix the status of America for a generation" 1t decide whether we shall take our rightful place at the very head of the nations in a united effort for civ1ltAa- ton. or shall lapse into sullen ostra- cism in the face of opportunities for service to humanity which no people ever had; but it will also decide whether the domestic progress and vast productive energies of this con tinent shall be turned back into re- actionary channels after a period Of splendid achievement in Dem ocratic administration.
 When this country was forced into the great world war, our people in common with their fellow countrymen in all Of the states were thrilled by the cab of the great man who sits in the seat at Washington and Lincoln and who with superb spirit and match less phrase interpreted the highest as- pirations and the invipcible purpose of the free peoples of the earth. If envy, hatred and passion shall deprive him of bis just recognition now, and deprive his country and humanity of Ia if1 of hiS St sory1Ca 1T, their behalf, succeeding generahons will pay increasing devotion to his honor. | The mighty appeal he made to the resistless forces of civilization will place him among the colossal figures in the history of mankind.
 AS we enter the great contest now impending, our opponents fan every flame of discontent- They pool every | discordant element, in order to carry the election. Unmindful and regard
 less of the effect on the welfare of the Republic, and on the orderly processes
 of society, they arouse bitter preju- ] dice and set in motion forces which 1t
 is easy to see may become absolutely
 uncomfortable They do not hesitate to cast a cloud on the glory won for
 our country by the millions of our
 boys who grandly carried the flag to the battlefields of Europe and with Iunconquerable spirit placed it at the very front of the columns of civiliza-
 ton.
 "An the world felt that Democracy. freedom and friendship had a now
 meaning in the earth.
 l The American people must now de- eide whether that proud position which our soldiers and our people won shall be abandoned or whether we
 shall show ourselves worthy of the | inheritance we have enjoyed.
 The Democratic party needs a can
 didate who holds in his heart the
 memory of the glorious record of the
 incomparable American boy and who looks forward with courage and ca pacity to grasp the opportunities and to meet the difficulties and dangers yet to come He must know the be- ginnings and the reasons for the Re- public. He must know its spirit; and the spirit of the wise men who found ed it He must know that American lization Is not an idle ceremony, that 1t Is not a thing to be gained in a. day.
 or a year, but that it is the result of
 the slow processes of education and
 of the influence of association and
 contact with those who have enjoyed
 and appreciate what enlightened lib
 erty Is. He must know that America cannot hold herself away from the rest of the world, that ecience and in-
 vention and genius have removed all
 barriers on land and sea and have
 brought together all the races wheth-
 CT they will or not He must realize
 that the huge debts imposed upon al the nations joy the bloody struggle make 1t imperative that the Amei<car President shall be man of great bus. tness and executive capacity; thai l this debt can only be paid by wea.ltt produced in the factories and mines and on the farms of the country, anG
 that there must be the devoted, united
 and harmonious work of every cap 1 italist and every worker to accom- plish the mighty task. The taxe'
 must be intelligently paid to the ;ens that this capital and this labor ma! .. be, as far as possible, unfettered. . The great State, of which I hav' : spoken, presents a man who has thes , qualities in full and rounded meas , ure- His strength is not the passing fancy of a mere lucky turn on tn
 political board. It Is the solid strengti , and power that is slowly fixed in tn [ judgment of the people after actua r performance and service. His friend t do not generalize, they specify. Flo D eight years he has been under tn e searchlight of our state. In each o y the years new problems were met, ne, = difficulties encountered, new demand t made upon his dre1ess- industry an upon the resources or HIS led0oTSn1 and sfatesm anship. He has constant e 1y grown with the severity of the tes
 At every crisis and at every ne1 f trial, he has developed splendid re !. serve force and capacity.
 "An saw and admired the resolut y. stand he took for the impartial en u forcement of the law He demande ofevery subordinate executive off u Ger in every county and in every mu y | nil, fitv the m A7finnine~ Cf
 servance of equal and exact justic as His spirit was so high and his sens l. of fairness so even and manifest ths le no soldier was ever needed to marc ,f between capital and labor.
 r. Recognizing the right of ever
 man to his opinion on every prt
 posed public measure, after the di
 cussion was over and the judgmel
 of the people had been written i'm
 the law of the State, he has, with u