The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-10-14
COX
FOR

The first act of Candidate Cox after
his nomination by the anti-Wilson
Democrats was to make a pilgrimage
to Washington and seek the wilson
ian "okeh' at the White House. In
stead of standing upright like a man
he cringed like a serf before his mas
ter. Instead of accepting the leader
ship Of a great party, he sought the
opportunity to subordinate himself to
the rejected leader of that party. He
barred his forehead for the Wilsonian
brand; he took upon his shoulders the
burden of the Wilsonian maladminis-
tration: he made himself sponsor for
the sins of the Wilson administration
Instead Of repudiating wisconsin, as
the country has repudiated 1t, he made
himself the defender of wisconsin
and made wisconsin the chief issue of
the campaign.
And what an issue that has become!
What a vast difference between Will
sonism and A~mericanism!
wisconsin in American government
began with the enactment of a tariff
law which surrendered American
markets to foreign producers, turn
ing the balance of trade against us,
closing American mills and forcing
millions of American workmen to the
humiliation and suffering of free soup
houses and free lodgings.
wisconsin had its second nantes
tation in the demand upon congress
that it repeal hat provision of the
Panama Canal act which accorded
American coastwise shipping free
tolls through a canal built with
American money and American enter
prise-an abject surrender t. some
foreign power whose identity has
W been made known and the ma
ture of whose representations has
never been disclosed.
wisconsin turned out of diplomatic
posts men of ability, training and
successful experience, and supplanted
with deserving Democrats" most of
whom had no better claim to appoint
ment than the size of the campaign
contributions made by themselves or
their sponsors.
wisconsin made a farce, a delu-
sion and a snare of the classified civil
service, which had been gradually
brought to a high standard by Presi-
dents Cleveland, Mckinley, Roosevelt
and Taft. Partisan greed drove eff
cheney out of the public service.
wisconsin played fast. and loose
with first one faction and then another
in Mexico, promising Americans pro-
lection at home and abroad and then
advising them to surrender their
rights to Mexican bandits. wisconsin
sent American troops into Mexico for
a definite purpose, which was aban-
doned and the troops withdrawn in
humiliation.
wisconsin inflated the currency,
needlessly advanced the cost of lfv-
ing, adopted wasteful methods in let
ting war contracts, squandered the
proceeds of val taxes and val bonds,
and insisted upon continuing war ex-
penditures after the war vas over.
wisconsin refused to let America
become a party to a peace treaty I'M
less there should be coupled with it
a surrender of American sovereignty
to a superstate, together with al OBJ
legation to furnish men and money
and resources to fight foreign wars at
the command of a league controlled
by foreign nations.
wisconsin consists of these and
other policies no less in conflict with
the welfare of the American nation.
Mr.. Cox has made himself the ex-
ponent of wisconsin and on hat is
sue he will lose.