The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1920-07-27

Out in Dayton, Ohio, there is
oud boot-black, Al Schartle by name,
who for some twenty years has been
shining the shoes of James M. Cox,
Governor of the State.
Now AL Schartle knew Jimmy
Cox in the days when not only was
he not Governor, but when one OF
his principal occupations was hustl-
ing around Dayton, before press
time, seeking money to stave off the
creditors. so that the Dayton News
might continue to be a newspaper.
And so to-day. when the Gorer-
nor is in Dayton and Al Steps into
his newspaper-off1ce along about IL
O'Clock in the morning, he general
ly opens the conversation thus:
And how's Fighting Jimmy
this morning."
In asking this question the old
bootblack sums up the character OF
Governor Cox about as accurately as
it can be summed up in a similar
number of words, for all his life the
Governor has been a fighter, first
for his newspaper existance, then
for his political existance, and then
for the reforms which have turned
Ohio into one of the progressive
States of the Union.
Grandson of a pioneer, son of a
farmer, school-teacher. newspaper
reporter, publisher, Congressman,
Governor for six years-this, in
: brief, tells the career of James NJ.
Cox. Add to this story of something
like $2,000,000 which Cox, starting
with nothing, acquired in twenty
years by the keenest sort OF. business
foresight. unlimited work. and close
and constant attention to- details,
and. you have a bird's-eye view of
Ohio's most outstanding figure.
To understand the factors which
have gone into, the making of the
man who ;aspires to be the next
President of the United States, it is
necessary to go back to the pioneer
days of the early eighties, when Gil
bert Cox, the Governors grandfather
then living in New Jersey, placed all
his belongings and his family in a
praire-schoone and started West
ward.
With him in the caravan that
wended it's way Westward were mem
bers- of the Craig and Van lyle fam
lilies. When they reached Ohio they
looked around at a little crossroads
which has since come to be known
as the town of Jacksonburg, and de-
cided that the land in that locality
was admirably adapted for farming.
With the help of his girls. Gilbert
drove couple of poles in the
ground, put stick across the top,
threw a tarpaulin over it, and went
to Housekeeping.
The Government was at that time
making grants of land to homeseek-
ers frenI the East, and Gilbert took
up $50 acres, paying therefor $500
and receiving a deed which was writ
ten on sheepskin. Being a expert
brick and stone mason as well as a
farmer, Gilbert soon set about the
construction of a permanent home.
Bricks were made and burned from
the clay with which parts of ! the
farm abounded. Gilbert's boys and
girls helped to make them, and when
he set about the erection of the
house they carried the bricks and
mixed the mortar while he built the
walls.
The house is still standing, one of
the homes of Governor Cox, to prove
the efficient workmanship with
which the job was done And over
Its door are bricks which, could the
mortar be removed would show, ac-
cording to the testimony of Gilbert's
descendants, the names of his boys
and girls, where they wrote them
with sticks before the bricks were
burned. =
Ito Be Continued Tomorrow
Don't be a consummate slave
Quit doing like somebody else. Dc
just like you feel you ought to do
Be free-be a king in your owr
reals.
For goodness sake! Why is a
man just like a sponge every time he
happens to drop into the pail oil
Prosperity?