New-York tribune., 1920-07-10
Will Begin Swing-Around-
Circle, Starting in the
West Latter Part of
August, He Announces
Committee to Meet
In Dayton July 20
Candidate Informed He
Must State His Views on
Liquor and the League
spccio, Dispatch to The Tribune

by Governor James M. Cox, Democratic
candidate for President, probably will
begin somewhere in the West and the
time probably will be late in August.
This was indicated by Governor Cox
to-day, although he did not care to say
definitely until his conference with
members Of the party's National Com
mittee.
The Governors decision to open his
campaign in the West followed long
telephone conversation with Charles
Morris, his private secretary, who was
his personal representative at San
Francisco. Morris told Governor Cox
that if he would fire the opening gun
of his campaign in California, the
California Democrats would guarantee
to swing the state for him. Final
plans for the Cox campaign will not
be made, however, until the arrival
here July 20 of members of the Demo-
cratic National Committee. Chairman
Homer Cummings to-day telegraphed
the Governor that he had changed g.
former tentative plan to have the
National Committee meet with Gov
ernor Cox in Columbus.
To See Roosevelt
Governor Cox plans to go to Coium-
bus Monday to remain there several
days. While in Columbus he will con-
fer with Franklin D. Roosevelt, his
running mate, who is expected to
reach the Ohio capital Tuesday. Cox
also will confer with such of the Ohio
Democratic leaders as return from San
Francisco in time. but there is nothing
definite thus far on the schedule,
Those close to the Governor say he
has abandoned all hopes of conducting
a campaign along the lines contem-
plated by Senator Warren G. Harding,
Republican candidate for President.
Governor Cox, it is known, personally
would have preferred not to have made
"swing- around circuit" and has
been cllnging to hopes that the swing
could be avoided.
He is now convinced that one and
perhaps more swings will be needed,
II ne is to make showing in Novem-
ber. BY letters and kilograms leaders
of the Democratic party have pointed
out to him that he is comparatively
unknown throughout the greater part
of the United States. Party leaders
have heard Of him and great many
know him, it has been emphasized. but
the man in the street, from whom Cox
must win support, hardly knows the
name, much less the man.
Where Does He Stand?
Particularly it is recited that no
one knows just where Cox stands on
national issues. The fact that he
served three terms as Governor has
no bearing on issues of national poll
tics, it is pointed out, and the man
in the street must be made to under
stand just how Cox looks at the VOL
tion, the League of Nations and other
matters. In the Governors newspaper,
the editorial policy has been for the
Versailles treaty without the dotting
OF an ii" or the crossing Of "t", and
he has denounced reservations and
caricatured the men proposing them.
But Cox himself has been silent. So
party leaders from all sections of
the country have been urging that he
step out on the platform and let the
people see where he stands. One of
these questions is annoying him not
a little at the present time, due to the
telegram received from Richmond P.
Hobson, the hero of the Merrimac and
Anti-Saloon League leader of Alabama.
Cox to-day again refused to COM
ment on Hobson's demand that he come
out fatty against any attempt to in
crease the alcoholic content of liquors.
When he was asked if he would reply
to the Hobson telegram and if SO
when, he confined himself to the re-
mark that he had nothing to say. He
also refused to make any comment on
the fact that Louisiana had rejected
ratification of woman suffrage, despite
his personal plea that the state "owed
it as duty to the Democratic Party
to ratify.
Farmer Dissatisfied
Cox spent comparatively quiet day
to-day going through his mail and
reading congratulatory kilograms. He
has not had chance to reply to many
of these. The only visitors Of any i'm
portance who called were John A. Nc
Spartan, Of Furniss. Pa, master of
! Blain, Of Mitchell, South Dakota,
McSparran, Democrat, was the first
San Francisco conventioneer to greet
the Governor and stopped off to offer
congratulations. Blain headed a dele
CATION asking Cox to speak at the corn
festival held in South Dakota Septem-
Der 27-October 8. McSparran, although
Democrat, did not mince words with
Cox in telling him that the Democratic
platform was not satisfactory to the
| farmer.
"The farmer wants more than mere
recital Of accomplishments of the past
he said, II am disappointed that the
convention could do no more than boast
about what it had done, and does no,
say anything about what it is going
| to do"
| McSparran, who presented the far.
mers' planks to both the Republican
and Democratic conventions, said he
hoped the day was not far distant wher
farmers would have real representation
lin Washington and a Secretary Of
Agriculture who was farmer. Day
TOMS Chamber Of Commerce reception
for Cox has been postponed to July 80
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