Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-17

themselves have in Ohio one of their par
tvs distinctively able leaders, statesman
and favorably regarded throughout the
Union. We mean Governor James M. Cox.
Twice elected to the Chief Magistracy of his
State, over the most determined and re-
sourceful efforts of the Republican ma
chine, he has to a rare degree those virtues
that strike straight home to American
hearts and heads. He was reared on
a farm. AS a youth he worked in a
printers shop. He taught country school,.
He became newspaper reporter. His cub
bling season over, he acquired editorial con-
nections with the Cincinnati Enquirer. Ris-
ing steadily, in 1898 when he had just
turned twenty-eight, he bought the Dayton
Daily News, and five years later the Spring
field Press-Republic. In 1909 he was elect
ed to Congress from the Third Ohio dis
tr1ct, and was reelected two years later.
Then came the great stroke of his career. In
the campaign of 1912 when Democracy was
storming Republican strongholds long con-
sidered impregnable, he led an epoch-mark-
ing fight in Ohio and in winning the Gov
ernorship did much to carry the State for
Wilson-the State Of Mckinley, Mark Hanna
and Taft. He is now serving his second,
though not consecutive, gubernatorial
term, and appears to be more than ever
firmly entrenched in the confidence of his
fellow Ohioans regardless of partisan
lines. Particularly strong is his appeal to
Independent voters, who not only trust his
integrity but also admire his liberal and
constructive policies. Careful observers who
know Cox and Harding and Ohio, are of
the opinion that the Governor, as an oppon-
emit of the Republican Presidential nominee,
would sweep the States four-and-twenty
electoral votes easily into the Democratic
column.
So it is that the outstanding Ohio DEM
ocrat is widely discussed as one available
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tional ticket. "McAdoo and Cox" or "Cox
and McAdoo" is a frequently heard sugges-
ton. Also the name of Hon. John W. Davis,
now United States ambassador at London
and certainly one of the ablest Americans
Of his time, is favorably mentioned. Nor
can it be doubted that Herbert Hoover still
stands well to the fore Of his country's
admiration, nor that thousands in both par
ties would welcome the opportunity to vote
for him. There will be more eligibles to
choose from at San Francisco than there
were at Chicago; eligibles, that is to say,
in the larger prerequisites of Presidential
candidate-in ability, in attainment, in
understanding of the times, in sympathy
with what is forward-reaching in the minds
and hearts Of the American people, No
unprejudiced and candid onlooker, we as
sumo, would deny that in all these essen
tials William G. McAdoo measures much
above any of the contestants for the Re-
publican nomination. And Mr.. McAdoo
though of Southern birth, now halls from
New York, which has forty-1ve votes in
the ELECTORAL College. With those forty-five
plus Ohio's twenty-four fairly assured them,
and with some one hundred and eighty
from the South and bordering States, the
Democrats would have high omens indeed Of
victory. We do not essay to prophecy con-
corning the San Francisco nomination. But
this much is certain: the Importance of Ohio
and New York should not be overlooked in
plans for Democratic victory.