The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1920-09-16
COX SHOWS HIMSELF
SMALL FOR PRESIDENT
Portland Speech of Democratic Can
didate Proves Weak and Eyasiye.


NJ. Cox is trying to jimmy his way
INTO the Presidency by calling him
self Progressive"
In his speech here today, he men
toned the late Theodore Roosevelt
fifteen times and never mentioned
Wilson once.
Evidently Senator George E. Cham
berlain who introduced Cox had told
him the way he works the Republi-
cans for votes in Oregon.
Shades of Roosevelt! We know
where the late Colonel would be IL
he we're alive today-working for
Harding and Coolidge with all the
rest OF the Rooseyelts Except his
fourth cousin).
Cox's speech bristled with abuse
of his opponent. He slung mud in
mis- Portland speech today as he has
done all through the campaign. His
opponents, the Republican Standard
Bearers, he called re-actionaries, for
getting the forces of reaction, Tam
many, Cochran, Brennan, and Tag
gart who nominated him in San
Francisco.
He told how he won the votes of
the !. w. W. at Butte by promising
the forces of radicalism freedom Of
speech.
He lodged the Liquor Question as
he has throughout the campaign. A
man In the audience asked,
What about the Liquor Question:
Cox answered, My friend, you are
interested in something that is as
dead as the slavery question. 1t is
question of law enforcement. |
will answer you by saying that when
/ was elected Governor Of Ohio
closed the front door and the back
door Of every saloon in Ohio on Sun
day. which omits any promise to
enforce the Eighteenth Amendment
or not to tamper with the Volsted
Act.
His reference to the campaign
fund charges, which he has made an
issue of the campaign and failed to
prove, were vague and elusive. Sim
mered down to what is left of them,
he charges that William Burns, a Re-
publican newspaper man of New
York, solicited funds to publish a
campaign book. Some rich men con-
tributed. And on such fimsy basis
he, in his Portland speech, charged
connection between the Republi-
can party managers and the forces of
reaction.
Cox's defense of the League of Ma
tions was weak. Vote the way your
boys shot" was the basis of his ap-
peal, pure uppeal to the emotions
and not based upon solid facts that
the American people would like to
hear from their Presidential candi-
date. He showed no familiarity with
the issues involved, the question o.
the creation of a superstate. the
question of the loss of American
Sovereignty, the question whether
the American Congress would lose
control of American troops.
His only argument in favor of the
League which was at all definite was
the argument that the foreign nations
could not repay their immense for
eign debts unless America joined;
which is perhaps one reason why we
haven't rushed in head over heels up
to date.
He apologized mildly for the bur
dens placed upon the people by the
Wilson Administration, the heavy
taxes, etc., but offered no construc-
tive policy or promises of relief.
Cox's Portland speech showed this:
Cox may do for Governor of Ohio
BUT HE WILL NOT DO FOR PRES
IDENT.
Whenhe aspires to the big Job of
President, he is in over his depth. He
has not the statesmanship, the ia
miliarity with national problems, the
capacity to handle the job.
Think of a candidate for President
making speech without a reference
to National budget system, with no
reference to what he will do for the
soldiers, sailors or marines, with no
constructive program for the up
building Of agriculture and the de-
velopment Of the Federal Farm Loan
System, no message OF hope to the
laborer or the artisan, no mssage OF
cheer to the little children Of the
South who are still oppressed by
their employers.
No, James NJ. Cox, by his own pub
lie utterances, has caused the Ameri-
can people to bring in their own YER
dict:
TOO SMALL A MAN TO BE THE
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED