Republican farmer., 1920-08-13
Cox, In Great
 Speech, Accepts
 The Nomination
Dayton Gives Up Its Business When Demo cratic Hosts Parade the Streets Prior to the Formal Notifica- tion to the Candidate Takes Sharp Issue With Harding = Text of His Speech.

Dayton, O., Aug. 7-National Democracy today took up the battle gage with it's Republican opponents for Americas greatest political prize | the presidency.
 With today's formal notification of and acceptance by Governor Cox of the Democratic presidential nonina- tion the national campaign was on be- tween the two dominant parties, ex- cept only for similar ceremonies next
 Monday at Hyde Park, N Y. for Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Demo- cratic vice presidential nominee. Democratic legions by thousands
 joined in the ceremony, all states. i territories and possessions being rep-.
 resented in the days program
 i A haf holiday was in force in Day- ton TOT the. ceremonies at the Mont gomery County Fair Grounds about a I mile from the center of the city, ! While Ohio and other states sent l lhousanos more by special trains
 automobiles and other sconveyances Like city buildings and homes, the i fair grounds tossed decorations of
 flags, bunting and banners, with gilt 1 shields and evergreen. Seats for
 about 4.0o0 were provided in the l amphitheatre. The speakers ros 1 trum adjoining the race course was ! the judges stand and today almost
 concealed under swaths of re- white
 and blue. The brown dirt race track
 aand oval enclosure, together with ! grassy paddock plots at either end of
 the amphitheatre were set aside for I the crowd, none of which was out of
 earshot of the speakers, an electrical if,-1
 l installed to carry the Democra tic
 battle cry beyond the farthest person
 in the grounds. Marching delegations swept through
 the streets with blaring bands long
 before the hour set for the formal
 parade to the fair grounds, for re- 7 view by Governor Cox and other party
 nots bles.
 The formal program at the grounds
 was brief except for the acceptance address of Governor Cox and the not lhcation speech of Senator Robinson Of Arkansas. J. Spriggs, McMahon
 close friend of Governor Cox was the
 presiding officer. Clergy selected for the invocation and benediction re- 1 spectively were the Rev. William A. Hale of the Reformed church and the
 Rev. Martin P. Neville of Holy Angels Roman Catholic church here.
 Chairman Robinson, and members of the Notification Committee: The message which you bring from the
 great conference of progressive
 thought assembled under the formal auspices of the Democratic party in 5 spires within me a pride and an ap- 7 preciation which I cannot voice. At t the same time I am mindful of the } responsibility which this function f now officially places upon me. As l f measure my own limitations the task = ahead 6of us should be approached s with more than a feeling of difhdence
 if I were not strengthened and reas- Sured by the faith that one has only N to practice true fidelity to conscience. It is not the difficult thing to know what we ought to do; the sense of right and wrong has been given with | Divine equality. The mistakes of his tory are the result of weakness in the T face of tempting interests. I thank l God therefore that I take up the = standard of Democracy a free man. T unfettered by promises and happy pa Txpn