Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-07-11
THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE.

< By the nomination of James M. Cox, the San Francisco convention has giv- | cn it's party leader well versed in I the principles of democracy, candi- date who has the pleasing habit of carrying his own state and man who in high office has demonstrated 4 his capacity to Iegislate and to gov ern, says the Post-Dispatch.
 Three times elected governor of Ohio, being the only successful rep resentative of his party on the state ticket in 1918, the record of Governor ]. Cox in that respect is unique. It was largely through his successful ad- K ministration that Ohio in 1916 gave Wits electoral votes to Woodrow Will 5 eon and thus insured his reelection. Nith Governor Cox at the head of the democratic ticket this year,
  failed the republicans in national election, except as result of the Taft Roosevelt split in 1912, will again become debatable ground. As governor of Ohio MT. Cox has to his credit public service of the highest order. It was largely due to his in fluence that the archaic state consti-4 2 tuition was reformed and 50 or 60 stat utcs needed to modernize the laws and practice of the commonwealth, Especially as regards education, taxa tiOn and the rights of workingmen, were enacted. When he took office all of the old, hard and fast injus- tices that in certain cases practically denied to labor even hearing were E 1nchallenged in the courts. Today Judicial procedure in Ohio on an en- Frightened basis and the old, encrusted rules are only memory.
 
 < aspect of affairs is his attitude to- ward industrial questions. There are great steel mills in Ohio, as in Penn sylvania. During the recent strikes no interference with public assembly was reported in Ohio, whereas in Pennsylvania it was incessant. On one side of the line labor dispute was settled in good order, with no complaint of tyrannous practices. Onl the other side the collapse of the strike left tragic record, with a, bitter sense of wrong which still en- dures Governor Cox insisted upon the right of Americans to meet and discuss their grievances, his only condition being that there must be- no violence. The peaceable result Justified his course in every detail, and in addition to that vindicated a great democratic theory of govern nrent.
 It may be said by extreme prohi- bitionists that Governor Cox is not or laws and that his candidacy is men ace to all who would regulate custom and appetite by the most despotic powers. The answer to this Is that the only time he has suffered defeat at the polls was when he incurred the hostility of the liquor interests by doing the very thing that he will now be charged with refusing to dc. He has administe the liquor laws < of Ohio the same as all other laws. He has made enemies among those < who thought he could be swerved from his duty, but the friends he 7 has gained far outnumber them.
 From what we know of him we ( should say that Governor Cox, if < elected, would enforce the prohibi-
 ten amendment to the letter and all
 laws made in harmony herewith. He
 is not likely, in response to any ex-
 hortation, public or private, to go
 beyond that, as so many zealots are
 now insisting must be the practice. 2 The supreme court and the conven-
 tiens of both parties have left the
 issue with congress, and there no Y doubt, Governor Cox will leave it,
 t1 fient to its decree.
 IT tc the league of nations, he has
 sst its suspose That hs favors