Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1920-09-24
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; FROM BAREFOOTED
NEWSBOY TO =
CANDIDATE FOR
PRESIDENT :

From barefoot newsboy to the
proprietor and editor of two leading
newspapers is far cry. but it was
accomplished by James NJ. Cox. gov
ernor of Ohio, who is the democratic
candidate for president of the United
States.
1t was in Middletown. Ohio that
young Cox shouted his wares. There
he stood on the street corners selling
newspapers with all the enthusiasm
of youth. Then he became a printers
devil, his face and hands despatched
with ink, and in this school of hard
knocks he saw the opportunity which
lay ahead of him in his chosen WORK.
With a vision of the day when he
would become an editor, young Cox
mastered all the mechanical features
of the trade and with this knowledge
tucked a way in his head he sought
job as reporter
There are those in Cincinnati who
still remember the youth. remember
the knocks and rebuffs he received.
remember how he served his cub
days and how he succeeded in mas
tering the style of journalism OF his
day.
Then the youth bought a newspa-
per. He borrowed the money 20
make the great adventure. 1t was a
hard task but his courage YVES SUI
and his knowledge Of the business
had been learned from the ground
up. He put his shoulder to the wheel
and success crowned his efforts. He
set about to print the news fairly and
impartially and this policy won him
the confidence and support of the
people.
Today the governor owns two
clean, progressive papers in Ohio,
housed in splendid buildings and run
on efficient lines. Porbably no one
knows Governor Cox better than his
lifelong friend, United States District
Judge Robert M. Marx of Cincinnati.
Judge Marx says:
II have been to the farm where
Jim Cox was born at JacksOnburg,
Ohio. so years ago. l have seen the
humble home built by his grandpar-
ents. / have tramped the fields that
young Cox narrowed and dragged and
titled. l have been to the little one
room rural school where Governor
Cox first studied and later taught.
II have watched the young man as
he strove to do big things for the
people Of Ohio. l have seen his
achievements, hundred Of miles Of
market roads and farm credit plan.
finer rural schools. state insurance
for every workman. eight hour day
in public work, full crews on rail-
roads, adjustment of child labor, an
industrial commission that adjusts
disputes between labor and capital,
and a scpra of other accomplish
ments.
and that is why the service men Of
Ohio are solidly behind him. But
there is a loftier idealism back Of
the support of Cox. He went in 70
end future wars-to make it neces-
sary for our generation or the next
to 60 through the suffering and en-
dure the hardships OF war. He is
for the League Of Nations.
I'VE know all too we'll the false
hood of the claim that our entering
into the Covenant of the League Of
Nations would require us to send
troops and vessels to fight the Bottles
of other countries. 1t was no league
that made us send our men across
the waters. 1t was because there was
no concert of nations-no agreement
of powers that we were drawn slowly
but surely and despite our first de-
sire to keep out. into the war for the
cause of humanity.
|. Il was in Belgium in 1914-wh.n
the Germans guns opened fire on
Liege. There was no league then. and
it was because there was no way the
the powers IF the earth could get to-
gether and talk it over that the war
began. 1t was because there was no
league that We could arbitrate our
claims before that we were forced
to resort to the arbitrament Of arms.
Our sons went oversees to fight be-
cause of one thing Only--therc was
no league, no tribunal or association
OF nations. Our sons will go overseas
again as they went in 1898 and yet
again as in 1914 and yet again until
there is a league which will substi-
tute right for might.
THE old order of world anarchy
has failed to keep us out Of war. The
new order is not alone the order we