The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1920-07-14
GOV. cox, THE NOMINEE

b
versed in the principles Of democr-
acy, a candidate who has the pleas
ing habit OF carrying his own State
and a man who in high Office has
demonstrated his capacity to legis-
late and to govern.
Three times elected Governor of
Ohio, being the only successful rep
resentative of his party on the
State ticket in 1918, his record in
that respect Is unique. 1t was
largely through his successful adj
ministration that Ohio in 1915 gave
its electoral votes to Woodrow Will
son and thus insured his reelection.
With Gov. Cox at the head Of the
Democratic ticket this year, Com
monwealth which never before fail
ed the Republicans in a national
election, except as a result of the
Taft-Roosevelt split in 1912, will
again become debatable ground.
AS Governor of Ohio, Mr.. Cox
has to his credit public service of
the highest order. 1t was largely
due to his influence that the archaic
State Constitution was reformed and
fifty or sixty statutes needed to
modernize the laws and practice OF
the Commonwealth, especially as re-
CARDS education, taxation and the
rights Of workingmcn, were enact
ed. When he took Office all of the
old hard-and-fast injustices that in
certain cases practically denied to
labor even a hearing were unchal-
lenged in the courts. To-day judi
cial procedure in Ohio is on an en-
lightened basis and the old encrust-
ed rules are only a memory.
Quite as important in the present
aspect of affairs is his attitude to-
ward industrial questions. There
are great steel mills in Ohio, as in
Pennsylvania. During Sthe recent
strike no interference with public
assembly was reported in Ohio,
whereas in Pennsylvania it was in
cessant. On one side OF the line
labor dispute was settled in good
order, with no complaint of tyran-
nous practices. On the other side
the collapse of the strike left a
tragic record, with bitter sense
of wrong which still endures. Gov.
Cox insisted upon the right of
Americans to meet and discuss
their grievances, his only condition
being that there must be no VOL
ence. The peaceable result justified
his course in every detail, and in
addition to that indicated a great
Democratic theory of Government.
1t will be said by extreme Pro-
Ai1itioAists that Gov. Cox is not
orthodox mat ne viii not enforce
the laws and that his candii9cy is
4 men?ce 10 all who would regulate
custom and appetite by the most
despotic powers. The answer to
this is that the only time he has
suffered defeat at the polls was
when he incurred the hostility of
the liquor interest by doing the
very thing that he will now be charg
ed with refusing to do. He has
the liquor laws of
Ohio the same as all other laws. He
has made enemies among those who
thought he could he swerved from
his duty, but the friends that he
has gained far outnumber them.
From what we know of him we
should say that Gov. Cox, if elected,
would enforce the Prohibition
to the letter, and all
laws made in harmony Herewith.
He is not likely in response to an
public or private, to go
beyond that, as so many zealots are
now insisting must be the practice.
The Supreme Court and the conven-
tons of both parties have left the
issue with Congress, and there, no
doubt. Gov. Cox will leave it, obedi-
ent to its decree.
AS to the League of Nations he
has been described as lukewarm;
yet no one has spoken more strong
~ in its favor than he did in his
Jackson Day address. That he ia
vors it and would ratity the treaty
nunout impa.Iihg as integrity, as
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platform upon which he is to stand,
Is to be assumed as a matter of
course. 4 man of the people, a
leader, a true Democra-
lie progressive, as he appears to be, 7
he would not, he could not. array
himself with the paltry spirits who
.Or the meanest OF motives are seek
ing to wreck the best hopes of
world. We shall expect
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