The evening world., 1920-07-31
COX XHOLDS.BACK
PART OF SPEECH
FOR BIG SURPRISE
One Section viii Not Be
Mailed to the Newspapers
in Advance.
By DdUid Laurence.
Especial Correspondent OF The Eve
nioo WORLDLY

! Especial Correspondent OF The Eve
ming Worldly
DAYTON, o.. July 81 Copyright,
is2o).-Gov. Cox. Democratic oandi-
date for the Presidency. and Jimmy"
Cox. Newspaper reporter and editor.
are merged into one personality. but
az the writer visited the Democratic
nominee and watched him work on
his speech of acceptance there seemed
no doubt that Jimmy" Cox. active
newspaper man. was predominant.
Seated in his study on the upper
foor OF his country home whero he
could rest his eyes on a landscape N
transcendent beauty. tho Governor
had spread around him catches OF
COPY poper. clippings. documents and
records In exactly the same disorder
that ono hnds on any newspaper desk
before editions go 20 press.
The Governor was writing long
hand In pencil on the rough news
print paper which is used every day
by reporters. He had been writing
rapddly--as ~ the ncxt edition OF his
newspaper demanded his copy. Az
. the writer entered, the Governor
swept aside a mountain OF copy paper
and talked Enthusiastically about his
lsubjects. He wished he did not have
to make formal speech Of accept
ance, but could make a stump speech.
He wanted 20 get into the fray with
out the studied formalities that must
accompany a speech OF acceptance
He told me he was saving n good deal
OF material for speeches 70 be made
on the stump later on.
GOV. cox APPEARS TO BE HAPPY
/ AND CONFIDENT.
ThcDemocratic nominee gave tho
appearance OF happiness and conf
dence. He didn't say anything about
the result next November but he said
a good deal about the Ger rbainty which
he felt In the rightness OF the course
nc had chosen. Much of his speech
will be an answer TO Senator Hard
InK's speech of acceptance and much
Of II win be the exposition OF con-
structive policies which Gov. Cox
pledges hAmself TO carry out in the
: event that he Is elected.
OF course, Mr.. Cox has pledged
everybody here in the newspaper
| corps TO secrecy about tho topics
, which viii be discussed in the sDoech
and there's one passage IN particular
|, which he Is guarding with the utmost
care. One reason why the writor
couldn't help thinking It was
Jimmy" Cox. the newspaper man
rather than tho candidate who was
working on that speech was the
Governors reference 10 the mystic
rious paragraph which no plans 10 In
sert in his speech at the last moment
by giving II 20 the correspondents
, next Saturday TO send by wire.
! Ordinarily a speech OF this kind IL
, prepared a week in advance 80 thai
Il can be mailed TO all the news
papers from coast 20 coast and thus
get the widest publicity. To hold 4
ttil the last minute and then put II
on the telegraph wires would burder
those wires and keep other news O'
the day from being distributed in IL
usual proportion. So with a speect
like thls-eight colurnnS long-th'
author must finish It a week aheat
Of time 10 catch all editions on tn,
Pacific Coast.
TAKE STEPS TO PREVENT PREM
AZURE REVELATION.
A small insert can readily be sen
by wire. and one reason why Gov
Cox doesn't want 70 put the par
tioular paragraph in the speeol
ahead OF time Is his certainty tha
1t win be promptly carried back L
Republican headquarters. Sending
speech TO hundreds OF newspaper
means having It pass through count
less hands.
There isn't much secrecy abou
speeches given out in advance so ia
as conversation about them In con
cerned though TO be sure they ar
never published in newspapers be
ly fore the date OF delivery unless b
m accident or misunderstanding.
Va Gov. Cox has proposed some
W thing which he wants TO be the firs
c 20 lay before the country. Mayh
VI Senator Harding will think well OF
and initiate the Democratic nomine,
e Maybe he viii not. Anyway, the Dem
~ ocratic nominee doesn't want to <,
70 "scooped" by the Republican nominC
lu and he Is holding his announcemeI
ih tin the last minute, Jimmy" Co
the newspaper man. is responsible {,
nc that caution and strategy and whe
the public reads that particular NT
nouncement OF bipartisan poliC
which he proposes, perhaps the reaso
for his action will be better undel
stood.