The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-17
down WITH REDS
Progressive Aim to End World
Anarchy, Cox Declares.
Attacks Harding as a Reaction
airy in Ohio Speech.

Columbus. o., Aug. 1.-THE aim of
the progressive forces of the country
is to bring an end to international
anarchy. Governor James NJ. Cox as
serted in a brief speech before the
afternoon in which he made another
vigorous attack ON Senator Harding
and reactionary groups.
Cox drew parallel between the
stands that Senator Harding and he
have taken in Ohio during the last
eight years and brought the guests to
their feet with applause, when he
shouted: Senator Harding still be-
lieves in reaction; I believe in pro-
gress."
In every contest between progress
and reaction. whether state, nationel
or international, you will find that the
forward step is always surrounded by
articulated misgivings, sincere in some
instances, but ordinarily the evidence
of selfish desire or political design"
the candidate said.
In world affairs the progressive
would now being an end to interna-
tional anarchy. He would re-establish
the orderly government He would
take from the potentate the power to
declare war over night. He would
merge governmental entities into a
righteous association.
THE progressive has faith in the
awakened moral sense of civilization.
He would stop the flow of resource to
the building of ornaments. He would
substitute the governmental agencies
of humanity and education for the
vast arsenals of human destruction.
He rejects the creed of selfishness,
personal national or international,
and believes that Almighty God in
tended the force of moral righteous
ness should not be fettered by bound
airy lines. He believes that govern
ment should be as human as humanity
itself. He learns by experience that
evolution is the triumph today over
the mysteries of yesterday and that
the divine scheme of things will work
out only by our passing forward and
not going backward.
AT every bend of the road we
found him (Harding) aligned with the
opposition after charging that paid
lobbyists were at work to defeat the
operation of the new state constitu-
uon, the workmen's compensation.
mothers pension and other laws
Senator Harding mistook the spirit
of the whole movement. 1t was an
orderly process of evolution. He desig-
mated it as revolution. In short. it
created confidence in government It
has been demonstrated that the new
order in Ohio is not only humanitar-
ian. but economically sound"
Governor Cox today laid down
the opening political barrage in the
big battle for Ohio-the state so COW
eted by both parties.
Virtually every prominent Democrat
is here for the convention, the main
purpose of which is to give the cam
paign impetus. Secretary. Baker, Vic
Donahey candidate for governor. and
NJ. A. Daugherty. keynoter. also were
scheduled TO speak. The business be-
fore the convention was the framing
of a platform and the selection of
the presidential electors
Cor. after several conferences with
state leaders. said he had received
most encoura ging reports as to Demo-
cratic chances in November.
Secretary Baker was expected TO
make the league of nations the main
therne of his speech