The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-12
Editorial and Expressions of
Ohio Governor Recalled.
Opponents Charge He Was Too
Mild Toward Hun.
OPPOSED ENTERING CONFLICT
Editorials Said German Subs
Committed No Crime.
Was Against Sending American
Troops Into France.

Dayton, o.. July 12.-Governor Cox's
political opponents are digging into
the records. Utterances and editor
ials covering the last few years of his
political career are being scanned in
order that material for the campaign
may be gathered. The Democratic
nominees war record, in particular, is
expected to provide thunderbolts for
the Republican stump orators.
1t is being recalled that Governor
Cox opposed any suggestion of war
with Germany vigorously. December
10, 1916, fewer than four months be-
fore President Wilson asked congress
for declaration of state of war with
Germany, Governor Cox's newspaper
the Dayton News, had the following
editorial:
THE war has wrecked the world
and accomplished nothing for either
side. Germany has gained nothing
and lost much. The allies have gained
nothing and lost much. The crime of
all the ages has accomplished nothing
save the wrecking of a similar world.
God grant that the arm lifted to WELD
a sword so foolishly may be paraIyzed
and that the brain may be stopped
from thinking before it conceives of
war"
Opposed Sending Troops to France
The editorial is attracting much
comment among those of Coxs politi-
cal enemies in Dayton, and it is likely
to figure in the campaign. Governor
Cox opposed the sending of troops to
France. Just five days before the en-
try of the United States in the war one
of the News's editorials read:
The best way to injure our enemy
if Germany should become our enemy
thru declaration of war, or because
of a state of war, is to supply the de-
ficiencies of the allies. These def
ciencies consist of food and clothine
~ - -
verting our resources to raising ar
| army of a couple of million men; in
stead of sending men abroad for sen.
timental purposes, We ought to go tC
work to supply the allies with every
thing they need and they do not neec
men. We can best serve our own pur-
pose by furnishing other matter thar
men,"
Submarine Committed No Crime
Even after the heavy loss of Amer
lean life, including women and chill
dren when the Lusitania was torpe.
doed, Governor Cox's newspaper SAID
| editorially that the German submarine
| had committed no crime against tbs
United States. In an editorial printed
in the News october 16, 1915, was thi!
paragraph:
| we have not heard of many Amer
leans biting thier finger nails at thu
thought of the submarine activities
All of us feel sorry for a merchan
vessel that is sent to the bottom o
the sea, whether armed or unarmed
We feel sorry also for the man @
war that is sunk Immediately afte
an encounter. We sympathize will
the soldiers who are losing their live
in the trenches with miserable hu
mainly in general But our skirts ar,
clear as regards the activities of tn
German U-boats. They have commit
Ted no crime against US. They have
played the part of combatants anC
respected our borders. We feel sorr!
| for the men who have lost their live
in the war and for the women anC
| children who have been made to sui
| fer thru no fault of their own; bu
i it is not our war; it is the war o
Great Britain and Germany, and W,