The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-10-25
Cox Feels Confident
OF Election Outcome
Last Days of Campaign to Be
Spent in Busy Speechmaking
i'm Ohio and Indiana.
ISSUES STRONG STATEMENT
Saturday Evening Post Attacked
as Having Switched to
Republican Organ.

hour visit which his campaign man
ayers declared had won New York,
-Governor Cox left here this afternoon
for the last week of his campaign
speech making before the presiden-
tial election.
Before entraining for West Virginia
and thence to Indiana. Kentucky,
!, Ohio, the Democratic candidate for
president expressed entire conf
dence" in the outcome of the cam
pnign.
Frankly / expect to be elected, he
said in one of his five speeches yes
terday and today he reiterated his
conviction to those who called to pay
their respects to him and to Mrs. Cox
at the hotel in which, they stopped
here.
Throughout the day, except for an
hour during which he drove around
the city as guest of George White,
chairman of the Democratic National
Committee, Governor Cox kept to his
apartment receiving the latest reports
on the, election outlook from his lieu-
tenants in the field.
Among those who were closeted
with him were: r. H. Moore, who
acted as the governors pre-conven-
ton campaign manager, Norman e.
teeman for New York, George Foster
Peabody, and Senator Pat Harrison
of Mississippi.
In the course. of the afternoon Mrs.
Cox announced she had given up her
plan to accompany her husband on
the final lap of the presidential race.
Instead she said, she would return
to Dayton to await the outcome at
her home
Just before leaving the hotel for
the Pennsylvania terminal, where the
special train waited, Governor Cox is
sued the following statement:
propaganda is not effective when |
il is labelled but in the guise of facts |
1t strangles the truth and moulds the
minds into which it is introduced as
facts The American people discov-
cred this during the war and finally
they put upon disloyal propaganda
the label which destroyed it.
'T am Just now in possession of a
speciment of propaganda of this very
sort. 1t is an advance copy of the
Saturday Evening Post known to a
great public as a disinterested jour
nal In all its history, it's stated pur-
nose has been to present the facts
and atmosphere of political situations
and to refrain from controversial po-
sitions In this spirit the Saturday
Evening Post has been admitted as
counsellor and friend to millions of
Americans.
'sBut the number of this magazine
which is to be distributed next Thurs
day the last before election. 1t sud
denly throws off the cloak of non
partisanship. For the first time In its
history, it resorts to the devices of
~ arN1 inc r.
toons to create sentiment for the
Republican ticket. In the cartoons, /
am represented as a newsboy, invent
ing false and sensational happenings
for the purpose of selling my wares.
NV opponent is depicted as kindly and
wise. The impression is sought to be
created that am irresponsible; Sena-
tor Harding grave and reliable.
"Why has the Saturday Evening
Post done this? Why has it betrayed
it's mission at the last minute of the
eleventh hour of this campaign?
''The people know the answer. 1t
has done this thing because its owner
is one of the plutocratic group which
knows what II wants of the next ad-
ministration and how to get it from
the syndicate which controls Hard |
ing. II has done this because its
owner is the head of the ring which |
has sought a subsidy from the gov
ernment for the delivery of national
magazines.
saturday Evening Post" has i'm
posed on the confidence of the Ameri- |
can people won by long record OF |
nom -partisanship and has become
Republican journal because the pUofi- |
teers who escape government taxes
by diverting to it millions of their
revenue in advertising want my OPP |
ponent elected.
Those subscribers, who, in good |
faith, have admitted this journal TO
their homes all over the United States, |
will turn its venal counsels out of
DOORS
The last week Of the campaign will |
be spent by Governor Cox in states !
where the struggle is reported tense
Ohio. West Virginia, Indiana and Ken |
lucky.