The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1920-07-16
HISTORY OF GOV.
JAS. M.COX,OF OHIO

Governor James NJ Cox Democratic
candidate for the Presidency. was born
on a farm near Jacksonburg. Butler
county. Ohio. March 81. 1870, the son
OF Gilbert and Eliza A Cox. As a
boy be learned 10 know what II was 10
work early in the morning and late al
night A soon as he was able to lend
hand he passed more time at work
than AZ play.
His earliest recollection, he has told
friends. Is that his mother placed a
big, old fashioned horse collar on the
floor and placed him in il. so he
COULDN'T crawl around while she was
doing fousework. That was before the
days OF fancy. fmodern pens OF cooPs
To purchase such a convenience was
unfhinlabie In the Cox home, and to
make one took too much time for a
busy farmer.
Cox attended county schools and la
ter Was graduated from the Middle
town High School He always was
earning money OF his own By ali sorts
OF tasks. For some time he was jani-
&C. IA a rural school. Later he was
= neNsboy and printers deyiIr in
Middlefown. doing those things TO earn
. few dollars - help finance his Vay
through high school which looked to
him IKE an advanced education. He
never attended college.
After he won his high school diploma
be taught IN q rural school for several
years He liked the newspaper and
printshop better. however After learn
porter on the MiddleSown News Signaf
then and still owned by Johs q Ba-
<eE, coxa brother in-law
one day railroad wreck In which
4 number 81 persons were killed, oeN
CURED At Heno. small village near
Middletown- Cox WAS correspondent
for The Cincinnati Enquirer.
In order to monopoIize the wire M
tore a sheet on the News Signal. gave
IL 10 the telegraph operator and said
send this until return Then he
ran All the way 20 Heno. collected the
Acts and sent a lengthy story Of The
accident over the monopolIzed wire Ia
The Enquirer. This incident landed
for ktzs position on The Enquirer.
The Cox farm and homestead was
sold and for years owned by persons
not related tO the Cox family Il has
been purchanad however by the Gov
ernor. who has restored the sunbaked
brick house he Was born In 10 its orig
inal appearance. 20 far as possible On
ths farm be conducts general agrtcul-
ture and has a ffne herd OF high grade
Hereford cslttIe Cox's secretaryship
30 the hate Congressman Paul J. Sorg
was a valuable experience for young
Cox. and no doubt gave 10 him am
bitiou 70 serve In Congress himself
sQener or later
IFpon expiration o. SIR. Sorg's term
Tax managed 10 borrow sufficient cap
ktal - purchase the run down. wheel
"a for brratk Daily News in Dayton
tils ssrnggies In this undertaking
which nvre than once was az the verge
al = breakdown. but eventually sue
ceed..l are known 20 ali Dayton eiti-
sens 10 this dag they take n deligh;
IN res4iihF how poorly Cox began and
shs success which anaIly become his
Tie purchased The Dayton paper in
1855 Five years later M again went
into the borrowing business Ia order
to purchase the sprin gfi.is PrsSS-Re
public. which was ION Tire rocks.
Overnight Cox changed its name 70
-fha News. its time o. publication from
m0rninS 20 evening and its politics |
fron Republican 10 Democratic. and
from that time on IL gradually return
"a 10 sound basis.
Both newspapers to-day are highly |
PRINTABLE institutions a new buIid
ink. With modern equipment has 'eea
erected for each. Throughout his 20
years sf public service in Washington
and Columbus Cox has kept in close
touch with ali departments Of his two
pares-x Ne still writes an occasional
neus story. and more often an edi-
toriai.
Cox was elected 10 Congress in 1905
ara reelected IN 1910. In this capacity
be attracted the attention Of state
Democrafic leaders and In 1912. al the
last nominating convention conducted
IN the state. he became the pariy'S 1
candidate for Governor. That was the
year when the Republican party split
Ohio had both Republican and Pro-
grossive state ticket. and Coxis cleo
ton. Of course. ras a foregOne con-
ctnsaon.
He did not lake things easy during
the campair0. however. He stumped
the state n behalf OF a progressive
constitution and other progressive leg
tstatios that he was ambitious to Sc
IN eeio The new era in Ohio OF
'sne new order Of things he termed
his program Of IS progressive meas
urcs. each Of winch was enacted dur
ing his FIRST administration and re-
mains on ene books TO this day.
, II the ast are compulsory workmen's
compensation system. rural school re-
organization with view to ceniraltza