Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1920-07-14
COX, OF OHIO, is DEMOCRATIC
Nominee for TT'esident-Ifranl1lin D..
Roosevelt His Running-NInte.

San Francisco, Cal, June g..
Governor James M. Cox, OF Ohio, Is
the choice of the Democratic Ma
tional Convention for President. He
| received the nomination as the par
| tvs leader to-day on the 44th bal
J lot, and a telegram Of notification
was Immediately dispatched to him
at Dayton, Ohio.
Receives Information Mt Office.
| Dayton, Ohio, July 6.-Governor.
James M. Cox, who was nominated
for the Presidency by the Democra-
tic Convention at San Francisco to-.
day, declined to make statement
regarding his victory, until after he,
has absenS oficiall sxsd Term 0tts.
We'd sofS Shis nom fiftlt On 4 .lis effiof
received the news 'of 'his nomination
at his newspaper office, the Dayton
News, surrounded by his follow
newspaper workers and q few ,.rela1
tives and intimate friends.
Roosevelt His Running-Afate.
San Francisco, Cal, July 6.-F.
K, Roosevelt, Of New York, assistant
Secretary of the Navy, was to-day
nominated for the Vice Presidency
Of the United States by the Demo-
cratic National Convention, and be-
came the running-mate Of Governor
Cox, Of Ohio, who was earlier in the
day nominated for the Presidency.
Cox Three Times Successful.
James Middleton Cox has been
three times Governor of Ohio-an
honor enjoyed by only one other Oht-
oan, Rutherford B. Hayes.
Born on farm, educated in the
public schools, printers devil, a
school teacher, newspaper repor-
ter, private secretary to a Con-
gressman, owner, manager and pro-
prietor of two newspapers, member
of Congress for three years, and
three times Governor of his State,
is his record to date.
Business success paralleled his po-
litical achievements and through his
own efforts Cox has amassed for
tune. Mr.. Cox became the leader Of
the Democratic party in Ohio in
1912 when he was nominated for
governor. AS one who had brought
radical changes in the State Con-
stitution, he took the field in its be-
half. His first term as governor
was devoted chiefly to forwarding
the enactment of laws to put the
new State Constitution into effect.
But Ohio evidently was not pre-
pared to assimiliate all the new laws
for Cox was defeated for reelection.
But his party renominated him In
1916 and he was reelected for a
third term in 1918, being the only
Democrat to win in Ohio.
Legislation for which Governor
Cox Is best known includes model
workmen's compensation law and a
child labor law which have been ex-
tensively copied by other States.
Educators of the country say the
Ohio school code, enacted under
Govorner Cox's direction, will live
as monument to his achievements.
Mr.. Cox was born in Butler coun-
ty, Ohio, in 1870. He attended dis
trict schoo and held his first posi-
ton as teacher of the school in
which he took his first lessons. He
spent evenings and holidays in a
printing Office. In few years he
received his first assignment on tho
reportorial staff Of the Cincinnati
Enquirer.
After ten years with the Enquirer
he went to Washington as private
secretary to Congressman Paul Sore,
OF Ohio. At the close OF this SER
vice he purchased the Dayton Daily
News, borrowing most OF the money
to pay for it. Later he purchased
the Springfield Daily News. He was
first elcted to Congress In 1908.
He recently purchased the farm
near Jacksonbor0 upon which he
was born and is making it into a
modern farm home where he expects
to 1.-Two on retirement from public
office. He Is married and has four
children.