The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-27

capacity to work. His secretary, Charles Morris, brought out to him from Colum- bus Saturday several volumes which ne evidently intended to use in working up his speech of acceptance. The governor took them not negligently as one glad to put off the evil hour when he mus dig into them, but with the absorbed manner of one who was never far away from his work.
 LIKE STARTING NEW LIFE
 At fifty, having spent the energy that IS necessary to accumulate g., ,000 600, ne still has tremendous energy and ambi- tion. He still is beginning life. He has new wife and young baby. If he had been defeated for the governor ship in 1918. 1t is generally understood he had made his plans to invade the larger publishing field of New York City, and since his first election to the governor ship in 1912, his friends say, he has had his eye upon the presidency or rather upon the nomination for the presidency.
 The job of winning the nomination for the presidency is so big that it is hard to look beyond it. Gov. Cox has the nomination now, and he has to find out what to do it now that he has it. He is like a man who as a result of his energy and ambition has been suddenly translated to sphere of activity wholly
 
 has not got his feet on the ground as a candidate He does not know how he will make a success of his new opportu- nifty. He does not know how he will gain circulation. He does not know how he will make the country stop thinking of Wilson and lead it to think of Cox.
 COX'S LIMITATIONS
 To this task of creating an issue, Gov. Cox does not bring big. full mind IL is this which men who know him well mean when they say, as they always do: Jimmy Cox is not big man. but
 The but is that he is an unusually energetic and resourceful man who has everybody insists on this, always shown a capacity to grow Cox has been a man of action rather than a thinker" To be a thinker one has to have the indolent streak in him that Wilson had, When you start with nothing and make ss2,ooo0o0 out of a newspaper chiefly at fifty you have not had much time to think.
 When men say that Jimmy Cox is not a big man they mean that he has not just the bigness that would stand him in good stead now-a thinker r's grasp of national, social and world problems, but he is big in the sense of having force. He has the capacity, his friends says, to grow. He may rise to the emergency. He will bear watch ing.-He has energy, ambition. shrewd political sense being the product of an environment keenly stimulating, like that of Dayton, where success reward ed just the qualities he possessed and he has something more-the news- paper mans gift for arresting public attention. He knows front pages and the art of getting on them. He has to get on front pages and push Wilson off of them to win.
 The record of Cox's success outside of the governorship is the record of newspapers success. He has made his s2,000,000 out of newspapers ot which he has two highly prosperous journals. He has gained wealth in other ways, through a gas company merger and from public utility invest ments. for he is an excellent business man. and Dayton afforded opportun;- ties, but the chief source of his in come is his newspapers. A