The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-17
'PROCRE Ess|vES
PRAISED BY COX
Candidate Speaks in Home
City of Hiram johnson
and Tells of Oil
garchy.
BIG BUSINESS CONTROLS
Says Former Bull Moose VIII Have to
Join Another Party or Form
Ono Of Their
BIG BUSINESS CONTROLS
by Herbert w. Walker, United Press
Staff Correspondents

by Herbert w. Walker, United Press
Staff Correspondent
SACRAMENTO. Calf, Sept IL
Speaking in the home city of Senator
Hiram Johnson, Governor James NJ.
Cox today predicted if "the reaction
ary senatorial oligarchy gains con-
troll of the government in this cam.
paign it will SO manipulate the power
of patronage that progressive repub-
llcans will soon be compelled to join
another party or form one of their
own"
Cox asserted if progressive repub-
licans. "inclining naturally to the
ideallsm of Lincoln and Roosevelt" !"
were to stay in the party they would
be compelled Ito surrender to official
representatives of big business"
Never were so many obligations
to designing interests being assumed
by the party Of reaction as in this
campaign" he said.
1t was Cox's first speech of his
four-day tour of California He de-
clared that ON many questions other
than international relations Johnson
and he had common view He
praised Johnson's progressive and
straightforward attitude, stating he
and the senator fought reaction in
! Ohio and California
In this great western country
where l have been now for two
weeks, find many evidences of re-
sentiment. and am convinced that
currents Of Independent and progress
sive thought will be running SO high
by November that unholy enterprises
will have been completely engulfed.'
said Cox.
The best guarantee of the future
of the country will be the prevalence
of progressive principles in the poll
cies of the two leading political par
ties. But Senator Harding himself
has said that if progressives of 1912
came back to the party they would
have to come on their hands and
knees"
Cox then quoted Johnson as having
said after tho Chicago convention
that he preferred defeat to nomina-
tion In a hotel room by representa-
tives of big business.
Roosevelt" he said. made the
same fight in 1912 as Johnson did in
1920, but both were Inundated"
Il am unable to see by what pro-
cess OF reasoning, political party
whlch has given to Boss Barnes. Of
New York, distinct status Of leader
ship in this campaign, can expect
progressive friends of Roosevelt anu
Johnson to give it support. In the
language of Roosevelt, he was the
connecting link between crooked
business and crooked politics. Doubt
less the return to Barnes is another
evidence of going. back to normal
The time of Hanna and Boss Tweed,
when public officers surrendered
themselves as puppets to financial
interests because Of service rendered
Turing the campaign
Under the belief that disturbed
following war make politi-
cal victory certain, methods are fol-
owed unblushingly and without con-
cealment.
'It is true and it would be futile
70 deny it, that there are many
Cranes, Smoots and Representatives
If Morgan and Company who( abro-
gate to themselves the right of selec-
ion of candidates, Notwithstanding
what may have been jecreed by the
people themselves.
"Sneers of these gentlemen for the
of the people have never
been concealed and their contem pt
or the mandate Of the rank and file
If party they have ever expressed"
Cox claimed Johnson would have
carried Ohios presidential primaries
f he had been a candidate there.
Cox also is prepared to meet the
Japanese question by stating that he
stands on the democratic platform
which pledges support of the federal
to states which because
Of geographical and International
condi ions have adopted laws exclud. !
ing Asiatic immigrants.
Another large audience greeted the
governor at Reno, New, after waiting
more than an hour while his train
was delayed in the railroad yards. |
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