The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1920-09-25
COX KNOCKED LIVE
HORNETS NEST ON
OWN PARTY'S HEAD
Charge Regarding Campaign
Funds Flares Back and
SingeS Democrats.
THEY WANTED TEN MILLION.
People Willing to Contribute to
Get Rid of Democrats, but Not
to Keep Them in Power.
BY WILLIAM HosTER.

God in everything" sang the poet.
campaign speeches of Governor Cox.
AS a result of Mr.. Cox's allegations
of a big Republican Campaign Cor
ruption Fund, certain definite facts
have been demonstrated by the sworn
testimony of the leaders of Governor
Cox's own party. They may be sum
married. as follows:
1t has been demonstrated that
whereas, in their most sanguine
moods, the Republican managers never
contemplated a campaign fund of
more than $4,000,000, the Democratic
party, at an expense of one-half mil
lion dollars, set up the machinery for
S10,O00,00o
1t has been demonstrated that the
contemplated $10,000,000 fund of the
Democrats did not materialize for the
sole reason that there aren't a suf-
icient number of plain people in the
United States who want a continuance
of Democratic rule, to contribute even
one-tenth of $1O,O00,o00
II has peer demonstrated that
whereas, the great body of the peo-
ple-literally thousands of them
nave willingly contributed from 80
cents to $1,000 to be rid of the present
Democratic administration, and to de-
not thousands and not ever hundreds
are willing to contribute 5 cents to-
ward a continuance of wisconsin.
What Records Show.
1t has been shown by sworn records
that whereas, in despite of Mr.. Cox's
outraged feelings oyer the disposition
of thousands of ordinary American citi-
zens to help pay the expenses of de
feating him in his campaign for the
presidency, Mr.. Cox in 1914 viewed
with complacency the criminal efforts
of his campaign managers In Ohio to
extOrt from the Civil Service en-
pl0yees of the state contributions in
tended to further his personal politi-
cal fortunes. 1t has been shown by
the testimony of Mr.. Cox's own cam
paign managers that the 100000
which the Republican managers hope
TO raise for all political purposes this
year is not more than a legitimately
be expended for this purpose, and that
these frank Democratic managers
would also like to have a similar
amount, but don't see any way of get
ting it.
1t has been shown that the common,
ordinary rank and file of the American
people, for the first time in American
politics, are ready to contribute out Of
their own pockets to defeat a candida
cy which represents all that Is repug
nant and hostile to American institu-
tons, and that this willingness of the
American people TO contribute to the
expense of defeating the Democracy
is the sole basis of Governor Cox's
charge of a conspiracy to buy the gov
eminent of the United States. Incl
.dentally it required tie candidacy of
Governor Cox to introduce into q ma
tional campaign the doctrine that it
is possible for the people of the United
States to buy their own government.
unless Mr.. Cox unconsciOUsly means
to convey the idea that in this cam
paigu the people are to buy back their
government from the %autocracy which
has seized it and refuses TO let 90.
Finally II has been eenclusively dem
onstrated that if the Democratic party
is to secure any money TO waste in a
vain effort TO achieve a Democratic
victory that money must come excIu-
sively from men of the Colonel Deeds
type and the Dayton aircraft Plumber
bund, and from the Wall street inter
national ~inanciers, who alone wiH
profit through the participation of the
United States in Wilson's League OF
Nations.
All of these conclusions have beer
demonstrated by sworn testimony he
fore the Senate Committee with a
mathematical precision which would
have met the enthusiastic appreciation
of the late Mr.. Euclid. Governor Cox
great expose has petered out. 1t was
a false alarm.
Let's get back to the issues of the
campaign.