The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-07-08
Dayton and Columbus Jealous
Rivals for Honor Of Mott
fiCation Ceremony.
FRIENDLY TO HARDING
Democratic Nominee Not De-
pressed at "Age of Unrest"
4 Sees Advantage,

Sees Advantage.
Dayton, o., July e.-Llke the sol.
der who has caught the smell OF
powder on the eve Of battle and 10
Impatient TO get Into the fray, 80
Gov. James M. Cox, democratic
presidential nominee, finds himself
tugeIna at the traces while waiting
to Jump Into the campaign with ali
the physical and mental strength In
his possession.
Gov. Cox, after working few
"rr, nours N ,,o..% Ss nsw'papes ,in,s. o'se ths
Ing newspaper representatives
about the home and haunts OF his
early boyhood at Jaeksonburu, near
Mlddletown, o. The trip was made
by automobile.
It NOW is expected that when Frank
lin D. Roosevelt arrives from San
Francisco the conferences will result
in more than the mere expected felici-
tations. Homer S. Cummings, chair
man of the democratic national COM
mittee; Z. H. Moore, of Youngstown,
the governors preconvention campaign
manager, and number OF other party
leaders are expected to participate in
the conferences. IL Is understood
cussed, especially plans for the official
notification.
Dayton citizens are apprehensive that
efforts may be made to have the noti-
fication ceremonies take place in Co
lumbus and they are prepared to go the
limit, II necessary, to nullify such an
arrangement in case it should be
pressed by any one. From present in
dications the notification ceremonies
probably will take place. at Trails
End" the governors suburban home,
cred two weeks before his nomination
to celebrate with him the occasion of
the departure OF the Ohio delegation
for San Francisco.
Laborlng Under Strain.
The strain Gov. Cox is laboring under
Vas demonstrated in his speech at the
Dayton Country club last night peiore
the 800 golfers participating in the state
tournament here. While the talk was
extemporaneous, Gov. Cox had deliber-
ntely planned to make no reference TO
politics and confne himself to golf en-
tirely.
Toastmaster Lee Warren James, pres
itient of the Dayton Association OF com
merce, introduced Gov Cox as the pa
iron saint Of the Ohio Golf association
and Immediately connected politics with
the meeting by adding that the gov
e,lor would be the patron saint OF the
United States next November II not
defeated by Senator Harding.
Two Editors, TWO Golfers.
The presidential nominee spoke OF the
ultimate relations existing between SEN
ator Harding and himself as feioW-
newspaper publishers ana goiiers. i ~
recalled the meeting of the ONO DANES
Dissertation last winter in which they
l,th were proposed as the respective
candidates Of the two parties and added
facetiously.f ''who knows but what the
two editors and golfers arranged s .ns
whole thing between themselves anu
were playing the game togetnerY he
y ,,,an became sarious and told them that
regardless of what the result woulu pe
IN November Warren q. Harding ana ne |
would be the same good friends tney
have always been for years. Then lo,-
lowed talk on the game, part OF Wnicn
IL as follows;
EVERY man Is law unto himsen
In the game of golf. The man VINO
can concentrate on the game to the ex-
clusion of everything else Is Douno 70
h., n great golfer 1t Is also true that
The man who can cease 10 De sny VI
tbn little white ball will also be sue
CO ssful as player.
"My experience has taught me tnat
when / get on thin ice It Is petter ~
nass over to another subject. SO 1 WIN
teu YOU about composition. W!hou.
corpetition the game of golf would not
have produced really great players: u
iiite comnetition and it is absolutely
necessary that we have 1t IN oroer 10
have good government. Compe.itloh
stjrs up the liver of the individuaI. re
vilalizing him, ana TINS Is aiso sSon eu
cnmpetition in government. A presiueh-
tial campaign is nothing more or less
than a great university that brings
out the genius within its ranks.
Need Business 6ralns.
az, 10 hiph time that this great coun-
try should attract the genius OF the
commercial world to the ranks OF gov
cl nment. We have too long peen IN tne
custom Of lifting our heads once every
four years from the business I leaser s1 ~
nut our eyes on the flag. we neeu
more men of brains. Ordinarily, every
man worth while who seeks public once
does so from sense OF pride. IL Is
natural that the circumstance OF PREF.
erence should appeal to. every man;
am not one of those VINO DeheVe thae
because we are living in restless age
thipys aro going to pop. believe the
greatest prosperity we have ever eN-
I,srieneed lies lust beyond the thresh-
nll Things are bound to come out
ali right, particularly when we develop
The bond of good fellowship through
srch games as golf.
men of the various political parties,
ard In CLOSING want to say that no
rose that arrows ls quite so sweet as
the one that lays It's petals Just
over the party wall"
Put Golf First.
The governors interest in golf was
declared by Lee Warren James, prest-
don't of the Dayton Chamber OF Com
n,erce. TO be best exemplified by an in
cident that occurred on Saturday before
The nomination was made at San Fran
cisco. James said he and the governor
were iust leaving the locker for the
course for an afternoon round when
an attendant called out that San Fran
cisco wanted Gov. Cox on the tele-
sTell them I'll talk tonight" was the
governors reply. according to James.
In Columbus Monday.
Columbus, O., July s-Gov. Cox Is TO
return TO Columbus next Monday from
his home in Dayton.
No definite plans for his reception
were formulated pending return Of the
Ohio delegation from San Francisco.
The Cox preprimary campaign head
quarters. closed when the leaders de-
parted for San Francisco. viii be re-
opened next week and campaign plans