The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1920-10-29

James NJ Cox, VINO has pledged his
support Of the League of Nations. hns
"a long record of conservative political
achievement. Personally he ,s Wig
orouH. dynamic "a lnAn of action.
When he sets out Ia do a thing he
goes straight Hhead and does II. Very
seldom has he failed 10 accomplish his
objects. Born near Jacksonburg,
Butler county. Ohio, March 81. 1870.
the youngest of seSon children of til
bert and EiiGn Cox. he grew up on
the farm. attended country school. and
made his pocket money by working ar
Janitor Of Il country church. Incident.
ally, he ls still "a member IN good
standing of that same country church,
When he was & no went 20 Middle
town ohio. sayed AT the home of his
sister and worked his way through
high school by carrying papers, set
ting ttpe. and doing odd jobs for tine
Middleton signal. After completing
high school he passed an examination
and obtained "A position as teacher Of
n country school. Later he returned to
the the newspaper nt Middleton as
reporter, and as correspondent for the
Cincinnati Enquirer
His work attracted the attention OF
the Cincinnati newspaper when he
put over cican scoop" for them
on a railroad wreck, and he MAS call-
cd TO Cincinnati To take u position
there. lie made rapid rise on the
reportorlal staff ef the Enquirer aud
was appointed city editor az the same
time he was offered a position AS pri-
'vate secretary to Congressman Paul
Sork lilo accepted the latter and went
To Washington, ID, c., where he ga nod
valuable experience,
A Successful Publisher
In 1898 MIR. sork retired from con-'
gress, and Cox borrowed money from
him To buy the Dayton News which,
was then nearly bankrupt, and whicn'
no got for small sum. For several
years Cox had u hard struggle to keep
the paper going, Competition was
keen, and the old record of the News
did not help, once his shop was, IN
fact, closed by the sheriff. But Just
when the opposition newspaper APP
peared on the streets with the an-
nouncement OF tho News demise, Cox.
who had scraped around and raised
enough money to lift part of his debt
published an Extra" declaring the
News was very much alive, Il was,
and Cox won out. Within five years
the News was ON "a paying basis and
making money for It's owner. Suhse-
quently he bought another run down
newspaper al Sprlngt eld. and Is now
the owner and publisher Of both the
Dayton News and the Springfield
News.
Until 1908 Cox occupied Hll his time
running his newspapers. In that year
he was persuaded to run for conSross
ON the democratic ticket He did SO,
and won, Again In 1910 he won the
congressional eleetion---thls time BY a
larger majority than any candidate
had received IN that district. And the
district had been republican Tor years
The Great Democratic Govcrl0r In a
Republican State,
by 1912 Cox had become state
wide figure In politics. lie was an en-
thuslastlc champion OF a new, pro-
gressive state constitution, and with
this as his principal platform plank he
was nominated for governor. and at
the culmination of vigorous and
hard-fought campaign, Won the elec-
ton. Twice since then he has been
re-elected--tho only time in history a
democrat has served three terms rs
governor of Ohio. The only other
man who ever served three terms us
governor of this state was Rutherford