The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-08-15
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STATE CONVENTION
VICTORY
ID EN- Ocratic Presidential
Candidate Says That the
Republicans Will Try
to Buy Government

wheeling, w. Va, Aug l4.-Charges
that republican senator's are trying
to annex the presidency to their
domination We're made here tonight
by Governor Cox in an address clos
ing his first pretentious attack upon
his political foes.
THE republican has passed into re-
actionary control" the democratic
presidential candidate declared IN his
speech in a public meeting on the
ohio river front tonight, following
an early address to the West Nir
ginia democratic convention in which
he also flayed the senatorial oil.
sarchy.'
Hits Front Porch
81 was not nominated by sena.
torial ring, or any other kind Of
ring" said Governor Cox, at tonght's
meeting Il decline to be tied 70 my
front porch by a senatorial ring. /
deny it the right to hold me there,
muzzled in the face of a great public
emergency. and when ! am elected
| do not intend that n senatorial ring,
or any other kind Of ring, shall
own me. / believe in the constitution
If the United States and the preser.
vation of divided authority between
the three coordinate branches ms our
fathers intended, each retaining its
independence, but not exceeding its
function. The republican senator's pur-
pose, the democratic standard bearer
declared, with a fling at what he
termed the plural government" pro-
posed byl Senator Harding, is to make
executive administration not the affair
OF the responsible president himself,
but Of the ring that surrounds him -
Roosevelf's Reform Fight
Charging the republican party with
being under reactionary control. Gov.
ernor Cox said the late Colonel Koose-
velt's fight for its reform was of but
temporary effect.
Domination by political figures
once violently repudiated by the Am
orican electorate, is unblushing and
undenied' Governor Cox declared
The men who control the United
States senate are determined TO an.
mex the presidency to their domina.
ton, and in what they believe to he
certain republican year they have
done things that they would not have
dared TO think Of doing in the past.
Recognizing the unrest Of the hour
and the disposition Of the people to
shake themselves free from the con-
dition that surrounded them during
the veyins time Of war, they have
argued that the electorate would turn
to the party not in power. In the
first place they have nominated one
OF their own number for president
and then they have attempted 10
fasten upon the rank and file Of the
party their creed Of hate and intri-
que They discuss plural government
with self-evident candor. At times
the upper branch of congress has eX-
ceeded its constitutional authority and
it is dominated now with alt AFRO
gance without precedent.
People are Restive
Il recognize now that tho people
are restive; that their emotions have
been deeply stirred; that their con-
verienccs have been interfered with
by the necessities Of war, and that
emergency taxes have been oppres-
sive, but my message to the people
Of this republic is this:
stop, look, and listen before you
step. Ask yourselves what the re-
dictionary policies have meant in the
past. Reflect upon the certain conse-
quence Of a senatorial oigarchy tax.
ing over the presidency, and depriving
it of the characteristics of leadership
which the constitution intended. De.
claring ne believed in revolution and
not revolution" Governor Cox said
he offered Ohios record Of six years
as Statutory expression Of pro
gress." citing in some detail the Ohio
mothers pension, workmen's compen-
sation, rural schools code and other
laws. he said, Of the general humani-
tartan spirit"