Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-29
Governor C0N'S Personality
Viii Appeal to W0men Of
AmerIcA More Than Issues
Writer Declares Popularity
of Democratic Nominee for
President Is Just Result of
Clean Life
BY ZOE BECKLEY


COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 27.-There
are three kinds of men: The men thai
men like (and women don't), the
men women like (and men don't) an
the men who are liked by both men
and women-the kind of men a WON.
an both likes and trusts.
1 should say Governor James M
Cox belongs in this third class
which is the smallest class of all. |
believe women will vote for him.
Women choose on personality
rather than on politics. Sometimes
they are laughed at for doing it,
But it is a good way.
AS the great majority of US have
neither time nor taste to follow q
candidates whole record, we reau
what we can of him, listen to what
We hear of him, and, best of all-if
were lucky-see him face to face
ana size MIN up in our own way.
Sizing Him Up"
! have, as well as 1 could, "size1
up, Governor Jim for a week.
rye seen him greeting the folks
OF Columbus on the state house
have talked with him in his Of
flce. VI
was present when he received the
suffrag ists. And when the fo,n
i1fers" from states prison asked
MIN to come and address them there
because they couldn't come to him. .
l nave stood around while he talked
to twenty reporters. And, when there
was nobody there at all and he
oldn't know. l was standing around
nave seen him in the fresh of
the morning. And in the evening
When ne was so tired he didn't know
back" VI fse'
I have seen him on the street. on
ene train and at home with his
I have seen him at lunch and at
the breakfast table
"show Mew
elsms, He's a politician" Hes
w WIls - ar pawn on the league ques-
tlon, Hes wet" Hes Tammany's
man, still echoing in my ears.
two-word motto of the Missourians
and was there to be shown.
1t is not because, in greeting a
crowd of welcomers at the door of
the capitol, Cox grasped the hand of
one-armed veteran in a two-fisted
both handss" 1 that 1 set ii h g1Se dS yon
as a human being. Any tactful poll
tician might have done it.
Nor is it because he is approach
able, cordial, unassuming. Nearly
all important men are like that now
&C. - Nof IhdI nc IS an arQenL
I even listened placidly to his rec
ord on workmen's benefits, school
improvements, child labor laws, bud
get systems and prison reforms.
"And he has done something about
it all, people assured me. Not
just talked about it and approved
This sounded good. I began to
think Cox was a doer Not just
comfortable rubber stamp.
"And you ought to have seen the
way he adored his mother" a wom-
an suggested. who has known Gov
ernor Cox a dozen years. Mother
est and retiring but full of char
acter. Jimmie used to drag her ev-
erywhere, in her mousie-gray. silk
and old-fashioned bonnet, and intro
duce her to everybody. Lots of
times she'd rather have stayed at
home. But the governor would coax
her 10 come along. He was proud
of her and wanted to show her off. !"
I determined not to get sentf-
mental even over this. because most
men love their mothers. Still
liked him for it.
Now, no one of these things made
me rave" over Governor Cox. But
putting them all together, they SEEM
ed to indicate that he was pretty
good sort of man, a pretty good sort
Of governor ana mlSnt Hldhe "
pretty good sort of president.
Then I went for a talk with him.
The Business Man
AS you know, he is a shade under eI1
the average height, of sturdy oulld
but without stockiness. His mead is
well-shaped with an adequate
thatch of brown hair untinged by
gray, short-cropped and neat. HIS
nose shows suggestion of hump
at the bridge, his mouth is unusual
ly mobile and his smile unusually
nice. His face and hands are tan
ned.
His clothes are good, with a hint
oP sna rtness and he knows how to
VI sr' them e But there is nothing re-
markable in his general appearance
He is the well-groomed American
businessman.
It is only when he talks that the
arresting feature about him is ap-
parent-his eyes
From behind rimless glasses these