Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1920-10-21
COx'S Statement TO
LABOR PROVED TO Be
GROSSLY INACCURATE
Claim He Had "Never Pressed a
Soldier Into an Industrial
Controversy" Not True.
USED OHIO MILITIA TWICE
Question Not About Merits Of
Strike or Need for Military,
but as to TruthfuIness.
BY WILLIAM HosrER.

| BY WILLIAM HosrER.
Columbus, O.-Governor James n.
Cox's boosted labor record has been
shattered by his own official act.
Claiming that he had "never pressed
q soldier into an Industrial controver-
~" the record Of his action as gov.
ernor Of Ohio in mobilizing the Ma
tional Guard Of this state for service
II the steel strike Of 1919 has been
produced In fat contradiction Of his
assertion.
Not once, but on two occasions was
the Ohio guard, ut an expense Of $23.-
600 to the people Of Ohio. called into
service and sent to Akron and held in
readiness for action In nearby Canton.
The question Is not az to the merits
Of the strike or as to the necessity for
the presence Of the guard within strik-
ing distance Of Canton, but concerns
wholly the truthfulness Of Governor
Cox's statement, obviously made to win
favor among the workingmen. The
facts as brought out In the speech Of
Republican State Chairman George a.
Clark, formally opening the campaign
ct Columbus, are as follows:
Ordered Guard Out Twice.
After the steel strike had progressed
for some days, with more or less ,lsor-
der. Governor Cox on September %,
1913. suddenly ordered the mobilization
Of the guard at Akron. A period Of
quiet followed. and the troops were
withdrawn. And then again suddenly
on October Is the guard was once more
mobilized and sent to Akron, and while
It lay there at that strategic point
awaiting summons into action staff
officers representing Governor Cox kept
close watch on the situation In Can.
ton.
In his speech at Wheeling, ". Va,
on the night Of August IA Governor
Cox said:
+" For six years have been In execu.
tive authority in the great Industrial
state Of Ohio. During all this time |
have never pressed soldier Into an In
dustrtal controversy"
The question is. did Governor Cox
tell the truthi Answering this ques-
ton. Chairman Clark 10 his Columbus
speech displayed to his audience pho.
tographic copy Of Special Order No. So
issued from the Adjutant Generals de-
partment Of the State Of Ohio, dated
Columbus. October Is. 1919, which des.
ignated certain officers for immediate
active service and paragraph 4 Of
which reads: ,tts..;
I Facts Presented.
I'm anticipation of the development
Of a rioting condition at Canton, o.. the
| Governor Of Ohio has deemed It neces.
sary to assemble a sufficient number Of
state troops at Akron, o., to be held n
readiness to render aid to the civil au,
thorities at Canton, o., and has SO di.
rected the Adjutant General Of Ohio,
who, pursuant to such order. directs
Colonel Benson w. H6ugh to proceed
without delay to Akron. O., to take
command OF all state troops upon ar
rival at Akron, o., and to hold them in
readiness for duty. awaiting further
orders"
The order IL signed by the Adjutant
General and counter-signed In these
words. "ey command Of Governor Cox
| Did Governor Cox tell the truth Il
the workingmeni
Supplementing this documentary
proof, Mr. Clark produced photograph
ic copies Of headlines from vanton, O.
newspapers Of concurrent date which
read: State troops mobilizlng for duty
here. All available. companies are or
dered out" And. Governor order,
troops for duty here, Ohio soldiers 70
porting to armories following trouble
Truth Should BE Known.
The surprising thing about 1t all Il
that Governor Cox in his Wheeling
speech should have made 50 fiat m; az
sertion when all of the facts with 70
gard to his mobilization Of the guard
were still fresh In the public mind, a
least in Ohio. O. course II ID not 10 II
expected that workinglnen elsewher,
In the United States would be famiiial
with the circumstances, and Il was TO,
that renson that State Chairman Clnrl
In his speech stressed the necessity fol
the people all over the country To b,
informed that Governor Cox's assertion
that he never pressed soldier int
an Industrial controversy" was ALSO
lutely at varience with the truth.
Publication Of these official facts hal
utterly confounded the advocates d
Governor Cox election. who have beef
making a special plea to the working
men on the basi: OF his West Virgini,
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