Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-05-17
COX DELEGATES
LEAD DEMOCRATS
Has More Than Any Other DEM
ccratic Presidential Candidate,
According To Moore

James M. Cox Of Ohio now has more
delegates pledged to him than any
other canidate for the Democratic
presidential nomination, it is pointed
out by E. II. Moore, Nation Commit
teeman from Ohio, who is in charge
If the Cox's campaign.
In the Kentucky contest for delegat-
IS in which opposition was led by sup
2orters of w. G. McAdoo the Cox
sorces won a sweeping victory After,
eight of the eleven districts in the
Blue Grass state declared for Cox the
state convention instructed its four
delegates at large likewise, so that
twenty out Of the twenty-six dele.
gates from that state are pledged to
support Ohio's threc-t term governor as
'ong as his name is before the nation
u convention.
To this number must be added the
9 delegates from Ohio, making
.otal of 6S pledged to Governor Cox
The Ohio primaries were remarkable
or the big Democratic vote cast, up
wards of 100000 when there was no
.onest, the only name on the pre-
cerential ballot being that of James
VI. Cox. With hardly an excuse for
going to the polls, a veritable army
IF Ohio Democrats went merely to re-
cord themselves on the volunteer list
:or the popular governor of their
state.
In one county where election Of
ficers had failed to have ballots pro-
perly prepared, Democratic votera
waited at the polls until they could be
secured. The testimonial is offered to
chow the militancy Of the Buckeye
Democrats. T he states delegation
will be solidly for him "until nomi-
nated', as it expressed by he dele
gates With Cox as the presidential
candidate, Ohio Democrats feel sure
Of Ohio's electoral vote but otherwise
hey arc not 80 certain, Ohio normally
'ieing n Repubican state.
Gcovernor Cox is receiving hun
lreds Of letters Of protest against the
action Of Rev. p A. Baker, general
superintendent of the Anti-Saloon
League Of America, in attacking him
as a wet candidate.
= 'tBaker's statements have been is
sued entirely for consumption outside
Ohio where tie liquor law enforce
tniert record of Governor Cox is not SO
Well known, says G<on B. Etling, of
Woostefj Ohio, prominent Democratic
dry leader, and an Ohio delegate to
the Democratic Nationali Convention
ON Ohio the Baker attacks do more
good than 1iarFhl because they show
that the Afti Saloon League, as al
ways in this state, again proposes to
plav the role of strictly Republican
organization.
"Despitc An >ti-Saloon League at
tacks Governor Cox always has had
the sup port Of dry Democrats and
many other -prohibitionists because OF
his fearless enforcement of liquor reg
his fearless enforcement of liquor reg
forcement in the past has been emin-
emily satisfactory to the prohibition
lists of the safe, if not of the Anti
Saloon League officials. While dry
Republican Governors have permitted
open violation of liquor laws, under
protection, Cox always has enforced
all laws to the letter. Bakers attack
on Cox is all the more abominable
and his purpose obvious because ne
expresses approval of Republican
presidential candidates whose wet
propensities are well known"
While Governor Cox never has de-
eIared himself for beer and wine al
though the Anti-Saloon League has
ATTEMPTED to make it appear thus, he
has said that in his opinion OF the
movement against bone dry prchlb.-
ton would succeed it will never go
farther than the restoration OF light,
wines and beers.
"The eighteenth amendment Is IN
the constitution to stay" the Cow
ernor always has said. "The saloon
never will return If there will ever
be change it will not be in the con-
stitution but merely in the Volstead
act, and then iA won't go father than
to permit wines and beer. Until the
Volstead law is amended it is the law
of the land and it must be obeyed and
enforced"
While Governor Cox's stand on var
fious new issues have been made the
subject of inquiry into his record in
six years of service in the. executive
Office. When the governor completes
his term he will have served longer
than any man who has occupied the
chair. In that time his administra-
tion has taken action on educational
highways and public utility regula-
i ton.