Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-08-30
cox PUTS LIFE
INTO CAMPAIGN
G OF DEMOCRATS
All Factions Get Into Action With
Candidates Visit to
New York.
WILL CONTINUE "SLUSH"
FUND CHARGES IN WEST
From The Baltimore Sun.

rIOm ne b0it1mOfe sun.
New York, Aug. 3O.-Governor Cox,
in leaving New York feels that his cam
paign organization is now in the best
shape st has been since its inception.
Those who talked with him before he left
today could not but draw this conclusion
and there was ample evidence that the
conclusion was a correct one.
Amalgamation of the Wilson organl-
xation and the Cox campaign was one
Of the big problems the Governor had
to assist in working out while he was
here. He was tireless and effective in
spreading the gospel of peace and good
will among the heretofore divergent ele-
mcnts of the eastern Democracy.
He talked with Charles +. Murphy,
the Tammany chief; with W. G.. Nc
Adoo, with active workers in the Palmer
pre-convention campaign and Others.
From all, there were striking indications
aftcrward that satisfactory results had
been achieved.
Perhaps no better testimonial of the
Governors success in this "cementing
work could be afforded than the strong
appeal for united and militant party
offensive embodied in W. G. McAdoo' 3
speech yesterday at luncheon in Cox's
honor.
DEMOCRATS TO SPEED Up.
There are two main reasons for ex-
pecting vastly more active Democratic
campaign from now on. The first and
most important is that the Wilson-Mc-
Adoo wing of the party is now convinced
that Cox is making militant campaign
70 win, and win on ISSUES that the adj
ministration has stood for. The second
is the growing belief among Democratic
leaders that Cox, despite his heavy up
hill fight, has proved himself capable OF
meeting the situation and has better
chance to win than they had thought
possible.
At San Francisco the Wilson, McAdoo-
Palmer Democrats We're outspoken in
their insistence that Cox could not win
if he were nominated. for the campaign
would deteriorate into a wet and dry
dght" They are convinced now that
Cox will not inject this issue Into the
campaign one way or the other. Time
and again during his recent public ap-
pearances opportunity has been gwen
him TO take one side or the other and
make popular expression on IT.
Calls from crowds such as: "Tell
EN- we're going TO get our beer back.
Jimmie and "Show :em they lie when
they say YOU re wet, Governor have
always been ignored.
IL NAV be stated on the authority of
those in intimate counsel with Cox that
he will continue to ignore this ISSUE be
cause he does not believe it enters as d
factor in the Presidential race.
WILSON MEN GET IN line.
So the administration forces are now
getting behind Cox with vigor-and or
eanization. And between the two added
factors the Democratic campaign should
cease to lag.
Cox approached his big western
drive with the alleged Republicans slush
fund in hand as one of the foremost
weapons he homes TO use. BE il going
out into territory where his big objective
is Progressive votes. He is not ignor-
ant of the effective preconvention cam
paigns Senator Hiram Johnson made in
that territory, Haunting the charge Of
exhorbitant expenses by his Republican
opponents at the time. as one OF his main
issues.
For some time now IL is 10 be ex-
pected that campaign money charges viii
hold the center of popular political at
tention. With the Senate investigating
committee beginning its work and with
both Democrats and Republicans hurl-
ing allegations anent Nslush funds" it
ie not difficult to see the League Of Ma
tions and other issues temporarily yield
the spotlight to the ''slush fund fray.
TO ANSWER HARDING.
Governor Cox, however. will answer
Senator Harding's proposal for a new
international arrangement. As he looks
at it. he has forced the Republicans by
his militant tactics to assume a defen-
sive attitude now on the two issues he
has set forth as the leading one IN his
campaign-the money issue and the league
issue. He will continue to pound on both,
az he says, until the ides Of November"
In all events, with election now only
two months away. there is to be much
more fire and hgImstone Such promi-
nent Republicans as Charles Evans
Hughes and Senator johnson are dom
ning their war paint to go out into the
fray for Harding. w. G. McAdoo, Balm
bridge Colby, other members Of the Pres
ident's Cabinet and possibly the Pres
ident himself and United States Ambas-
ssdor John w. Davis. with statements are
preparing to get actively behind Cox.