Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-27
:COX WELCOMED
BY HOME FOLKS
Governor Speaks in Ohio City in
IA Which He Spent Boy
hood Days
GREAT RECEPTION FOR HIM
Ry the Associated Press


MiddIetown. o.. Oct. T.-Home
folks today were the objects OF cam
paigning by Governor Cox. Here,
where he was born and spent his boy
hood days, and later today at Day
ton, his residence, the Democratic presi-
dential candidate brought his candidacy
| and his pleas for the League of Ma
ftions and other campaign doctrines.
Local committees, here and also at
\ Dayton, had made unusual preparations
for the candidates home efforts. Build
/ inss were decorated with flags and htho-
graphs of ''our Jimmy" and his run
ming mate, Franklin d. Roosevelt, and
large reception committees, with brass
bands, appointed. Many relatives of the
.eandidate, including his father, Gilbert
Cox, Of Eaton, a nearby village, were
Invited as special guests of honor.
! Arriving here from Cincinnati, where
THE governor spent the night after
injecting marking his return to his ma
tive state for several days final and
Intensive campaigning, the candidate
was prepared to tell his friends and
neighbors of his fight across the nation
for American membership in the league.
Progressivism. In Ohio affairs. and in
the nation, also was subject on
the governors list.
The governor will motor from here to
lTrailsend, where he will rest until he
goes to address a women's meeting and
an overflow gathering at the Eagles
Club, Dayton, at s o'clock. Later he
will speak at Memorial Hall. A monster
demonstration and parade have been ar
ranged by the Gem City Democratic
Club to precede the governor s Memo
rial Hall speech.
Governor Cox will remain at Trails
END over night, until departing at 3
O'Clock tomorrow, for a night address
lat Indianapolis.
Atlanta, Oct. 27.-[By A. PIN
"a letter to Frank L. Stanton. Jr.. Of
ernor Cox charged that efforts were
being made to ''arouse racial hatred
TO defeat him.
1--WE are making this campaign,
said Governor Cox's letter, for peace,
for progress and for prosperity. An
attempt has been made by our opponent
tc distract from the issue by setting up
racial groups, each with a selfish pur :
pose. To each of these groups some
thing has been promised.
"None of those who have been against
America in the last four years is going
70 vote for me. To my mind, the most
serious Of all things presented is the
attempt to arouse racial hatred. Prom
tBes have been made to the Afro Ameri- :
can which do not believe the prom
isers have any intention of carrying out
There are some classes of social
equality which cannot be. To quote the
words OF the immortal Lincoln. We dc
not want the negroes to be slaves, bu
that does not mean that we want negro
women for our wives
know no better way to express tn,
evils in the attempt to array clas
asainst class in America"
Cincinnati. Oct. 27-Special plea.
for election of senatorial candidates
favoring the League of Nations were
made by Governor Cox yesterday in {
tour touching West Virginia ant
here where he began his career as
newspaper reporter twenty FIVE year
ago.
The Democratic presidential candi
date. reiterating that he would constru
his election-in which he expressed ut
most confdence-as "a positive man
date" for American entrance into tn,
league, asked support for Democrat
candidates, here in Ohio and in Ken
tucky also, who. he said. stood "fou
square upon the league issue.
Don't tie my hands by electing
hostile senator" he urged, reiteratin
statements made in his formal an
nouncement yesterday. that he believe,
he would reach an agreement wit
the Senate regarding the league
The candidates statement upon tn
Irish question was cheered loudly.
How about MacSwiney?" a ma
shouted from a box.
"ln my opinion the governor re
piled, "MacSwiney died as a martyr
Martyrs grow, almost always, froI
centuries Of injustice and oppression
believe the martyrdom of MacSwine
will enrage the English people, as the,
were enraged against the injustice Kin
George visited upon the American col
onies.
Some say that the Irish question i
religious question, the governor added
of the last ten or twelve leaders o
the Irish cause, most of them hav
been Protestants. Therefore it cant b
regarded as religious question" "
Governor Cox also continued his at
tack upon Senator Harding as a ICON
spirator' against the league BY virtu
OF the senator's signature TO the "roun
robin"
Predicting ''landslide for the caus
of peace ON election day. Governor Co
reiterated his opinion that Senator
Brandegee, OF Connecticut; Smoot. q
Utah; Moses, of New Hampshire
Watson, OF Indiana, and other Republi
can senatorial candidates signing tn
round robin y would be defeated. Tn
send back" Senator Beckham, Demo
erat, and his Ohio audiences were urge
by Governor Cox TO support W. A. Ju