Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-11-19
Gssu'as'SH isso,as sss5sfdsy sssds 1905
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1920.
Governor Cox's Distinction.


the Democratic candidate for President, has
been the recipient of much comment from
the partisan Republican press over his
distinction as the worse beaten candl-
date Of an established political party that
ever ran for the Presidency. 1t IS some
what early for this conclusion, however, as
the complete official returns may show he
i.not really entitled TO this notoriety. 1T
IA still unsettled whether, by actual COM
uarison. he does not rank Mr.. Greeley,
over whom Grant received plurality OF
T62. .eol in a total poll Of o,4s6, l65, IN
1872. with 2s6 Electoral votes to IL in
opposition, or Genera Scott, the candidate
ot the expiring Wing party, in 1852, VINO
received only ~ Electoral votes 10 25A
for Franklin Pierce, the Democratic
nominee.
B,t Governor Cox hns distinction
conferred BY his overwhelming defeat
which no doubt he is proud to recognize,
and which all who voted 10 confer upon
him will recall with pleasure throughout
their remaining days. 1t is that Of having
received vote which in its constitution is
practically 100 per cent patriotic Ameri-
can. No hostile alien element is included
IN the Democratic following Of the year
1920
Senator Hsriing's plurality OF about
Eve millions in the popular vote seems
huge in numbers, but il is comprised IN
CONSPICUOUS Of those which so radically
opposed the League of Nations and voted
s,lidly against the candidate who stood
forth unfinchingly in its support The
C;erman-American element, augment
ed by Equal Suffrage, which was cast
pchdly Throughout the country against the
candidates and policies Of the Democratic
pArty, of itself numbered fully FIVE million
votes. And it is safe TO estimate, IN the
absence Of official figures, that at least
three million more votes came from the
other hostile alien elements Of the elec-
,ors,e-the radical friends Of Ireland.
the disxruntied Italians. Poles end Hun
uxrians. and others which had some
Democratic national administration at
Washington, which had done such glorious
work in bringing the World War TO
close with complete victory for the cause
OF popular government.
With the setting to one side Of tins hos
ule alien vote-to say nothing of the ig-
norant and unthinking Negro vote, also
cast solidiy for the Republican party-the
qualiiy and character Of the vote received
by Cox and Roosevelt, and In patriotic
Endorsement Of the League Of Nations, can
readily be conceived. II was genuinely
na,riotic American vote, Of which the
recipients Will ever have cause tofeei proud,
notwithstanding the Overwhelming pro-
portions Of the vindictive opposition, so
largely constituted Of hostile alien ele-
ments and those whose sole agTavation
was that our country had taken such
poteni part in the defeat of Germany IN
the World War.
Nor was the cause which Governor Cox
o. valiantly and splendidly championed
defeated by this adverse wave Of hostile
alien votes 1t still lives and eventually
will triumph. The American people, after
their sober second thought" will never
eonsent that their country shall stand
with Germany, Russia, Bulgaria, Turkey
and Mexico outside the pale of the League
" Nations, and with no voice in the
PRONUNCIATION Of its righteous determine
tons 70 bring about World Peace.