Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-10-23
cox HAS BUSY DAY .
IN NEW YORK CITY
Filling Score of Campaign En-
gagements, With Madison
Square Garden Speech
Tonight.
Ry Associated Press to Every Evening


New York. Oct. 23.-Governor Cox
today told several hundred members Of
tho Young Americans Democratic League
that if elected he would devote his energy
to accomplishing an industrial readjust-
mcnt throughout the country,
One of tho FIRST steps in this direction,
he said, would be the appointment of
"thc highest class industrial engineer
available in the country as a member of
my cabinet"
Governor Cox said he WAS absolutely
frce and unfetterd by campaign promises
even In the matter OF approaching q
fourth-class postmaster.
Although feel myself an utterly free
man," he added, Il shall recognize my
election as a positive mandate for the
Leax,le of Nations. | confidently expect
10 be elected, but ] will not consider my
election as a personal or party victory,
but N a triumph of the great principle
which the Democratic party represents.
III Senator Harding is elected there will
be. on the other hand, multitude of con-
fu.ions in Washington. The certainty of
this is evidenced by the statements of
other prominent Republicans. In the
newspapers nearly every day Senator
Johnson declares that the Republican
candidate ia firmly set against the league.
while IN the same newspapers, former
President Taft declares with equal posi-
tiveness that Harding is for It
After speaking 10 the Young America S
Democratic League, composed for the
most part of college men and women,
Governor Cox went into conference with
his campaign advisers in New York.
~. Il
time since his nomination as head of the
Democratic national ticket, Governor
Cox Of Ohio is in New York today filing
a score OF campaign engagements.
The Governors arrival here, long after
midnight. WAS picturesquelv calculated
10 arouse late passersby in the streets TO A
more than ordinary interest IN the event.
Following the closed car in which Cover
nor Cox was driven from the Jersey CITY
school house where he made his last
speech, were more than hundred tour
ing cars from which blazed red fire and
other brilliant pyrotechnics.
At advantageous points along his route
N New Jersey elaborate displays of fire.
works were set off while the flag draped
machines filed past
Arrived NJ the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
the candidate met Mrs Cox. who had
come from her DAYTON home during the
day TO be with the Governor here and nc
company him on the last week Of the
campaign tour.
The DAYS schedule called for strenuous
campaigning beginning AZ $50 o'clock
with the receiving Of delegation of col
lege men and women at the hotel. 4 CON
ference with campaign advisers followed
scheduled 10 last until time for noon
luncheon Al the Astor Hotel.
The afternoon was completely filed
with engagements to speak at succession
81 meetings. followed by formal dinner
ten minute stop At popular theatre
aud finally the ma in evcrt his Madison
Square garden address
The evening meeting IN the greet
auditorium will be. hiS managers say
the largest OF the entire presidential
campaign Despite provisions made so-
utilizing u possible seating spare.
crowd which viii overflow irto Madison
Squsrc itself i predicted
Others who viii speak on the same plat
form With Governor Cox are Rabbi Ste
phen Wise snd Herriet May Mills. Dem
ocratlc andldate fo- secretary Of state of
New York
Discussing ms campaign informally
= IN newspaper men tins morning Cow
nor Cox reviewed his Spaechmating tours
. roe his nomination.
With q few exceptions ! have been
N every state M the union barring what
Is called the Solid South he said
There ls no denying the drift toward
the Demo, ratio party which followed
revival Of the League OF Nations issue
several weeks ago
Also too much stress cannot be laid
upon the importance of Republican lead
e-s coming out in favor OF the League OF
Nations ] am fully confident OF the drift
n public sentiment toward the league.
end the aspirations Of the Democratic
partv
The governor briefly discussed the
Hitchcock reservation to article ten of the
League Of Nations covenant
III ! am elected the country need not
esr that the Senate and will not M ee
pn the question of signing articles of
peace. he said. We will agree and tne
reason that we shall IS that there viii be
? great many of new faces-new Dem
ocrats-sitting in the Senate chamber"
Arising very late afte~ his strenuous
evenings campaign in New Jersey. Cove
nor Cox was thrown more than an hour
behind schedule. The meeting of Young
Democrats assembled from colleges in
All parts OF the east was kept waiting
until after clock, the students Willing
WY the time by singing college songs in
he Astor gallery OF the Waldorf Astoria I
Hotel