Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-15
cox THE AelTAroR.

AS Maine goes so goes the nation
has been the prophecy Of many cam
paigns nearly always fulfilled. Not
that the nation goes republican every
time the state Of Maine goes republi-
can, but that the trend toward or
away from republican policies and
candidates is reflected in the vote of
an entire state when registered
only a few weeks before the national
election. The people of Maine this
week gave the republican ticket a
Plurality $4,000 larger than the
largest ever given to a republican
ticket in state election. All four
congressman elected were republicans
and every member of the state senate
will be republican where twodemo-
Gratis sat before and the forty-one
democrats in the house Of repre-
sentatfves were reduced to fifteen.
The campaign was fought out on
national, issues with the women vot-
ing for the first time and the repub
lican ticket has q lead Of g., 900. votes
over the democratic ticket where four
years ago the republican candidate
for president polled scant 53ss
votes more than Wilson. The total
vote was increased $4,000 by the wo-
men but the gain in plurality is more
than all the new votes combined so
it is abvious that this is very decid-
|edly republican year in Maine and
probably in the nation.
The more we see of the campaign
and the more I've hear of Cox the
more are we convinced that 1t ought
to be a republican year. Cox a
northumberland himself has descend
ed to the cheap demaSogism of an
ordinary red agitator Beginning
with an accusation that the republi-
cans were raising a campaign fund
OF $15,000,000 with which to buy the
presidency and Cypress labor with
bayonets and being unable to prove
that any specific sum had been raised
or that any money had been corruptly
spent Me made himself Ridiculous yes
terday by charging his irresponsible
libel at Boise, Idaho saying:
II 80 per cent Of the people will
forget their politics and help me lick
the 2 per cent that is raising a fund
of from $25,O00.000 to $4,000, 900 to
beat me, we will make government
an agency for the 80 per cent and not
for the two percent
An 4. w. WI orator could not have
been guilty Of more blatant br ir-
responsible statement and coming
from man of such aristocratic in
clinations as Governor Cox it is dis
honest in its demagogery. Cox is
many times millionaire made out of
shrewed investment in big business.
His country home outside of Dayton
called Trails End is a palace costing
many hundreds of thousands of dol
lars II not well toward million. It
harbors retinue of servants, with
FLOODED horses in its stables and pic
lures Of Mr. Cox on his aristocratic
bob tailed jumpers decorate the
walls. This aristocrat of the fox
chase and the marble palace is try
ing to elevate himself to office by in
flaming the public prejudice against
his own intimate friends and asso-
ciates Of wealth at a time when boil
shevism and the red menace liz
threading the destruction of establish
ed government, the humiliation Of
private property Of the farm and of
the humble home as well as Of the
great factory and offers nothing but
chaos, starvation and the nationali-
cation Of women in return. Cox is
an agitator pure and simple for pol
itical profit.