The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-12
Gov. COX on Sen. HARDING and His Policies
By Governor JAMES MIDDLETON COX

q ENATOR HARDING, personally is man of appealing
- individuality who makes friends readily whose
acter and record ene him the high respect which
he is held. AS speaker and writer he has charming
way of putting what he has say. Moreover believe
he is conscientious and that he his conclusions hon
esty lie is standing belleVes
is using all his force to make them effective. AS the
ing of those principles and wherein they differ
will write later.
Harding for good many years. though intimately. His
paper the Star belongs group of Ohio daes
which mine, the Dayton Ne10s and the Springfield Nes
not part Thus professional problems have been
the and have not had the opportunity of knowing much
about his newspaper that have been told he
has specialized largely in the editorial end of it. He writes
very good editorial which easy
charming STYLE and the conduct of his editorial pEge shows
is admirable newspaper and considering the size of the
city in which it published has achieved very substantial
prosperity This prosperity DUE told to Senator Hard
ng character and to the esteem which he is held
who have largely relieved him of the business incidental
the fraternity the newspaper business Senator
Harding and myself have much in and while hold
thoughts apart as poles Nor is this merely
matter Of craftsmanship Perhaps through natural tempera
different mental paths. His beliefs and mine unda
For Instance believe that the people have the right and
the capacity to govern Senator Harding believes they have
He is of his time and of his money
affairs of government he cold claims of the
individual or OF the mass Of individuals as if they were only
This little imaginatiy? description given to me by
n
the senate, will eucidate what he Senator" said
approached his his Office by beggar he
fully empty his purse and perhaps obgate himself
just cheerfuy he would take his
and vote for which would help the
Masses
study the record and utterances Harding
be fair picture of his mental processes He
hearted kindly and lovabe his friends
those who personal with him,
dominated by the idea that the few and the
born to rule He has personal anpahy for the Masses
and enjoys mngng with the people OCCASION he
the hands Of a selected few
instance he against primaries of which as
well known in favor Of the great measures of pro-
gressve legislation which accepted standards of
last decade of political life in this country
Ohio, he has favored practically oppo
ston has been lukewarm, sometimes has open
always it has been consistent
For instance there the great which
have persistenty and glad say successfully fought
These the Workmens Compensation law the Rural
School law want monument better than
these two laws the statute books of
effective operation; and placed there while Governor
the State
formerly travelled about the country among the
farms where was raised boy, could not help but
the drift of the farmers the was largely
because they they lacked in the country the onnor1it
for the education of the children which the
cities. Out of this observation grew fight our new
rural school law which has been be the model
law of its kind for the whole and operating under IT,
there already in Ohio 100 temples learning the corn
fields Our country children longer 90 to the city
to get the best education.
Harding and the interests that fought constitution