The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1920-09-30
REPUBLICANS ARE GRATEFUL TO
GOVERNOR COX.
New York Sun and Herald)


Let us inspect another of the rapid
ly accommodating reasons for gratitude
on the part of the people OF the Unit
ed States to the sly gentleman who is
trying to persuade them to vote for
him for president
At San Diego and again at Los An
geles on Monday Governor Cox pro-
duced a brand new charge against
the senate oligarchy" He has turn
ed for the moment from the matter of
the fund for the purchase of the Am
erican electorate with bride money
variously computed by the governor
and his running mate at from $4,000.
600 to $32,OOOOOO according to ora
torical impulse of the moment or the
supposed credulity of his audience.
His latest discovery is that "one of the
deliberate plots of the senate oligar-
chy has been to control as many news
papers as it cam" and to attempt to
defeat him by keeping out of print his
statements and arguments on the
stump. Thus the senate oligarchy
supplements it's deliberate plot to buy
the American people with dollars of
corruption money by another deliber-
ate plot to deceive the American peO-
pie by the suppression of news con-
corning his utterances.
This astounding accusation seems to
have been directly primarily at the re-
publican press of California; but it
will be evident to the meanest intelli-
gence that cOnspirators so astute, so
INSCRIPTIONS and so desperate as Gov
ernor Cox represents the senate oil
garchy to be would no more dream of
combining their news suppression plot
tings to a single state or section than
they would limit the operations of
their 100000 corruption fund to a
particular region. Mr.. Cox's charge
must be intended to apply to the re-
publican newspapers of the whole
country If there is any foundation
for it in California the same founda-
ton must exist elsewhere.
Now, so far as the Sun and New
York Herald is concerned, and so far !
as our interest in the success of Sen
atOr Harding is involved, we violate |
no confidence when we announce that |
nothing is further from our desire and |
purpose than to suppress any remarks
of his which have news interest or any
Information about his campaign move
ments which is worth recording.
This disposition to assist Governor
Cox to all the publicity that is posi-
Die is. we believe, general among the
newspapers of the cOun-
-ry. 1t proceeds from two causes. one
common at all times to honorable
journalism with a proper appreciation
If news values, and the other excep-
icnaL if not unique. Never in the
history of political campaigning, so
ar as our experience and memory go,
las there been a case where the stump :
ffOrts of a presidential candidate !
ave counted so largely and so obvi-
usly in the way of procuring votes
or his competitor The Cox campaign :
as been a prOdigious success if what u
he occasion called for was self exhi- +
ition-the fullest revelation of per-
onal qualities and personal calibre d
laine proved it,
Nobody could have done for Gov
rhor COX what ne has done for him
elf since he started out from Dayton <
n Pittsburg. No possible expenditure IL
campaign money by the republican "
ational committee no possible con- q
wings by the conspirators of the Il
mate oligarchy for his disadvantage q
'uld have given the great American u
lblic, outside of Ohio, that thorough
of what sort of person oi
really is which they lacked at the ie
'ginning and now. thanks to himl 70
'ssess in perfection. They are now al
ying everywhere: fe
"Sly jim? What! Vote for him?"
Conspire to suppress the utterances
this Incompatible vote maker for
lrding and Coolidge? Oh, no.