The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-08-05

dom of what McMahon' had said
was quickly proved, for if there ever
| was q man the Third Congressional
! District looks upon as having
brought home the bacon for its con-
stitucnts it is Cox. There stands in
Dayton to day a beautiful and expen-
Sive courthouse and Federal build
ing-a monument to his success.
One of the most notable Inlngs
that he did concerns the Dayton
soldiers Home, which had in it
sCme five thousand votes, of which
normally not more than eight hun
dred OF nine hundred could be count
ed on by the Dem Ocrats. There was
up in Congress an appropriation bill
for food for the old soldiers. Short
| ly before Congressman Cox had not
ed that when there was a Dill before
| Congress to provide food for the
Washington Zoo an increase over the
preceding years had been asked for
| notwithstanding the fact that the
number of animals was no higher.
The new Congressman obtained
from the Soldiers Home copies of
| their menus for a month. He also
obtained copies of the menus of the
Dayton Jail and the LeayenWOrth
| Federal Prison. Displaying these 10
his associates, he was able to show
| that the prisoners were better cared
for than were the old soldiers. His
argument was so convincin gthat a
higher appropriation was made the
! consequence of which was that when
| Cox came up for reelection in 1910
| the Soldiers Home gave the Demo-
| cratic candidate a majority of its
| votes for the first time in it's his
| tory.
| From Congress his advance to the
Governors chair was logical, mas
much as every step he had taken
had served to increase his popularity
at home. There are some people
who say that Jimmy Cox has al
ways been elected on a rain-check.
When theq do they always point to
| the fact that when elected Governor
| in 1902 the opposition was again
split due to the activities of Mr..
| Roosevelt In Ohio Robert B.
Brown was chosen as standard bear
er by the Republicans and Arthur L.
| Garford by the Progressive, and Cox
walked in with a plurality of 167, 900
| over Brown, and a vote that fell on
| ly a little short of equaIling that of
| the other two combined.
Two years later he was defeated
| by Frank B. Willis, after a cam
paign in which Democratic candidate
! was accused of Corporation eonnec-
tions. and was charged with having
conducted the State government
wastefully and exfravagantly and
! with appointing many useless COM
| missions. One of the chief factors
| in his defeat seems to have been a
| change that was made in the tax
| laws, which offended the farmers by
| changing the time at which they had
to make their returns.
In 1906 Cox, again running
| against Willis, went into office on
the Wilson landslide. although he
ran considerably behind Wilson and
| somewhat behind the rest of the
State Democratic ticket. In 1908,
| with tie prohibition issue to the
forefront, Cox again beat Willis, al
| though the rest of the Republican
| ticket was elected.
The question as to whether Cox
has made a good Governor can best
be answered by referring to some of
| the influential Republicans of his
home town-unbaised Republicans,
not the party bosses. Several of
these men, and the list includes
! judges and lawyers of prominence,
have told me that although they
would not vote for Cox for President
for purely national political reasons,
they conceded that his administra-
CONTINUED On Page Four)