The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-09-17
COX LAUDS HIS
PROGRESSIVISM
Wonders How Friends of
Johnson and Roosevelt Can
Support Present Leaders.
AGAIN FLAYS BIG BUSINESS

| SpNs lux, u OhiNs
tlnl democratic candidate. praised SEN
ator Hiram Johnson, republican. Rs an
| exponent of progressvism and again
| fayed big business" and republican
leaders supporting Gov, Harding.
Although they differ fundamentally
on the league of nations, Gov. Cox said
he admired Senator johnson for frank
ness and lack OF ambiguity or hypoc-
| risy.
| LAS an Ohioan," he said. II give you
the assurance that the observation
| made by a distinguished citizen OF our
state that Hiram johnson was a black
| guard and UNIT to associate with decent
men Is not the view OF our people. II
Hiram johnson had been a candidate
before the republican primaries in Ohio
this year he would have carried them.
"I am unable to see by what process
| Of reasoning the political party which
| has given to Boss Barnes OF New York
district status OF leadership In TINS
campaign can expect the progressive
| friends of Theodore Roosevelt aud Hi
ram johnson to give II support.
"Never were so many obligations TO
| designing interests being assumed by
| the party of reaction as In this cam
paign. Under the belief that disturbed
| conditions following the war make po-
| litical victory certain, methods are fol-
| lowed unblushingly and without con-
| cealment.
'In this great western country. where
| / have been now for two weeks, l md
many evidences OF resentment. J am
| convinced that the currents OF progress
sive thought will be running so high
| by November that unholy enterprises
/ will ha cOmnlptClV nnRllfnd
Gov Cox's California campaign was
| In an effort TO secure the electoral vote
which four years ago clnched the re-
! election of President Wilson. Leaving
| Sacramento at 1875 pm, the governor
was anticipating keenly his address to-
| night in the San Francisco auditorium,
| where he was nominated In the early
| morning of July 8. last. He expected in
| that speech to contrast sharply the cir
| cumstances of his nomination with that
| OF Senator Harding. his republican OPP
ponent, at Chicago.
Posses Common View.
The governors speech In part follows:
| Il am very pleased to be in the home
| city OF Senator Johnson, He and l do
not agree on international policies, but
| l respect the man for his candor. His
| words tell you plainly his mental atti-
| tude, and he speaks without ambiguity
| or hypocricity. On many questions we
| possess "A common view, that OF the
| modern progressive. II you will COM
| pare his progressive achievement AS
| governor of California with what has
| been done in ohio you will find the
| same underlying principles of progress.
| | have looked with admiration upon the
| night which he has made throughout
| the years against reaction, He fought
| 1t with Roosevelt and he continued
consistently the contest which began
| in 1912, through the primaries and the
| convention of 1920, just as Roosevelt
would have done had he lived.
"As an Ohioan, l give to you the
assurance that the observation made
| by n distinguished citizen Of our state
| blackguard and unfit to associate
with decent men Is not the view of
our people. ! 80 further and make the
| statement that II Johnson had been n
candidate before the republican prima-
| ries in Ohio this year he would have
| carried them the best guarantee OF the
| future In this country will be tho pree-
alence OF progressive principles IN the
| policies OF the two leading political
| parties But ] am convinced that II
the renctionary senatorial oligarchy
| gains control OF the government In this
| campaign, II will so manipulate the
| power OF patronage that the progressive
| republicans will either be compelled TO
| join another party or to form one OF
| their own. 1nclining naturally TO the
| idealism Of Lincoln and Roosevelt II
will be compelled to surrender the ban
| ner to the official representatives Of big
| business. Senator Harding himself said
that II the progressives OF 1919 came
back to the party they would have TO
| come on hands and knees"
He was elected governor and he put
| through his program OF fifty-two re-
| form measures. He was well basted for
come OF them by his own party and by
| the opposition. But II is worth noting
| that every one of those bills II still
on the statute books. No one has
dared put finger on them.
His Appeals Not Partisan.
II is likewise worth nothing that In
| his efforts to do something" In the
| Ohio legislature his appeal has never
been a wholly partisan one. He did
not ask democratic legislators to vote
his way for the good of the party. He
asked all Legislators to vote his way
| for the good OF every one
No one has even been three times
| governor OF the state OF Ohio. sither
| unless one harks back to Rutherford
B. Hayes. Cox 10 easily get-at-able
| in his office. He has the Ohio repu-
| tation OF being very snrewd, far
seeing. alert politician No one has
ever bossed Jimmy" Cox. flo may
have worked with bosses from time TO
| tlme--every other politician hns-but
no one suggests that he ever took or
ders blindly. Nor has any one ever
named the man or men whose advice
he follows. He has many close friends
| in business and politics, not all of
| whom are on his side OF the party
| fence. He likes to listen 10 them, get
| their point OF view, drag out OF them
| every Item OF fact they may have.
but you can never tell what he's
going to do" mourned one Of his near
est Il do not mean that his mind
wahhles. ! mean that after he has
| heard the evidence and the arguments
he makes up his mind for himself. And
| he's got derned strong mind"
Gets Down TO the Facts.
| His own Idea Is that the nearest you
| get to the source the more you know Of
| the truth.
II like TO listen to lawyers argue over
| railrond affairs" he told me once. But
| when | want TO know about the rail-
| road affairs I 10 talk 10 n brakeman
| And hos husky Oh man. he's husky.
| His arms and shoulders are hard AZ
though wrapped with rnwhide. Vie
never misses his Swedish exercises and
| his icy bath each morning When ne
| can he takes u long walk daily. When
| time presses he Ia maHsaged by young
man who might almost be called his
| trainer and who has been with him Tor
| years. During the mASSaging he
| thinks out tho days problem
you cannot think well or work well,
said he. when you have layer OF
| fat on your brain and your liver II
| about az active as n cold poultlce. The
| man who makes good In this world
| NpunR or old-iE the man who Keeps