The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1920-07-09
COX HAS HARD ROAD
TO TRAVEL OUT WEST
Candidate Of New York
And ILL.,, Must Look To
East For Help
Richard Lee in Louisville Herald.

conciled to the Cox and Roosevelt
ticket nominated by the unruly con-
vention, has awakened the party lead
ers to the necessity for an intensive
campaign in the Far West, where
PRESIDENT Wilson's reelection was
made possible
In conference today with National
Chairman Homer s. Cummings, the
Cox campaign manager, Edmund II
Moore, pointed out the party peril in
the Observation-Disclosures apathy.
Mr. Cummings has apparently been
made a committee of one to salve the
wounds Of the McAdoo forces who
took defeat so hard.
What Mr.. Cummings answered to
the Moore complaint is not of record.
| The McAdooites are making no bones
about their attitude. In almost braz-
en- fashion about the hotel Hobbies
they are respectfully referring the
| Cox folks to New York and Illinois.
Let The East Do IL.
"New York and Illinois furnished
the delegates responsible for the nom
ination of Governor Cox, now let
them furnish the electoral vote to
make President Wilson's successor
Democrat" is the substance of the
attitude of the disgruntled McAdoo
men.
1t is virtually the sentiment which
was expressed upon the convention
floor by Governor Stewart, of Mon
tana, who was forced out of the vice
presidential race by the New York
Illinois-Ohio combine which used the
second place nomination as a means
of simplifying for Tammany.
Now let New York give the ticket
a $4,000 majority, as Montana did in
1916" said the Montana governor al
most belligerently in Withdrawing
himself from the race in favor of the
New York entry, Franklin d. Roose-
velt who had been considered a pos !
sible candidate for senator.
But that outward expression of |
sentiment from the defeated admins !
tration forces who are berating them
selves for letting themselves be out
generated in the early hours of Tues
day morning by minority of the /
convention, does not tell half the /
story. Fhe story in full with the
mot for quotation" injunction.
when are the Democrats going
to wake up?" was the spirit display
ed. There they sit by and allow their
CONVEX - &c be dominated by ele-
mants "n, N never did have the least
oCnceyE over the success of the ma
tional ticket This ticket was nomi-
mated for the purpose of electing
couple of local tickets.
"Fow are we going to carry these
Western states which helped us re-
elect Woodrow Wilson in 1916! Ey en-
if we got the electoral votes of New
York and Illinois, which we will not,
they would not balance the Western
electoral vote, which we can not get
with ticket going into the campaign
with a wet tag upon it,"
Evidence that these statements !
have not escaped the ears of the Cox
the activities of the temporary mana
has already come from
gers. Even ahead of the Ohio meet
ing of the national committee they
are considering a plan to bring Gov !
ernor Cox into the West Immediately. l
Adding to the Democratic troubles {
during the day was the statement
from Senator Hiram w. Johnson, of I
first word since the
Republican National Convention in
Chicago he was denied the
nomination. He minced q
no words in denunciation of the Dem I
ocratic party for standing by the c
Wilson league and he styled it the G
duty of all Americans to support !
he Republican party" as the agency
Tor preserving our Americanism. u
He declared the League of Nations I
20 be the "overshadowing issue" of S
he campaign to come. He said lit a
lie about the Republican nominee, [
Senator Warren c. Harding, of Ohio, Y
Dut concluded his statement with this S
declaration to the American people: @
with a candidate standing four I
square upon the platform the issue G
League of Nations) leaves those who e
believe in safeguarding, protecting t
md preserving Americanism but one c
,hoice, and that is to support the Re- ?
publican party" r
With that statement from Senator u
Johnson Democrats who had been
alking so glibly about CALIFORNIA; b
Hiding into the Democratic column at a
he fall election began to accompany S
heir claims with qualifying reserya- 4
ions. In interviews today Gavin Nc r
lab, Democratic leader. admitted that "
1t was hard fight in tbe West" "