Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1922-03-23

the Legislature was the address
in the house of representative
Thursday night Of James " Co,
of Ohio, Democratic candidate il
1920 for the presidency. Thursda,
afternoon Governor Cox arrive.
in Columbia from Aiken. He wa
met at the station by a house del
legation and after a short drive II
points of interest in the city. wa
taken to the jefferson hotel
There he was rendered a dinner
by the delegation, at which Gov
ernor Cooper and number oi
other distinguished citizens Of thu
State were guests. Following the
dinner, the party went to the Co
lumbia theater, where Governor
Cox delivered a 15-minute speech
to an audience which filled the
big building and was perhaps one
of the most sympathetic to which
he had ever spoken.
But the really big reception of
the evening for Governor Cox
began when he entered the hall
of the house of representatives.
on the floor and in the gallery of
which apparently not one more
person could have found standing
room. Immediately Governor Cox
was recognized walking down
the main aisle with Governor
Cooper and the house delegation,
he was greeted with a round of
applause which lasted more or
less regularly throughout the
evening and which must have
made him feel that for once at
least he was among friends who
were anxious to pay tribute to
him as the leader of the great
party to whom all bore loyalty
and fealty. Introduced by the
speaker Of the house. Governor
Cox had the audience whole
heartedly with him from the first
dozen words Of his speech. And
such speech, such an arraign-
mant of the insincerity, such an
indictment of the hypocrisy and
incompetence of the Republican
party and the national Republi-
can administration has seldom if
ever been heard in South Caro-
lima.
Many South Carolinians look
upon Mr.. Bryan as the one man
in American public life possessing
a fee simple interest in the right
to expound without question the
principles of the party of Thomas
Jefferson and Andrew jackson
and apply those principles to pres.
day national and international
needs. These people are fortu-
nate in having heard Mr.. Bryan.
but they are more unfortunate in
not having heard Governor Cox.
Mild of manner, with a pleasing,
lngratiating voice that charms
and holds his audience as he
drives home with unanswerable
argument, keen wit, apt illustra-
ton and biting sarcasm the facts
and differences he presents to the
discomfort of his opponents, Gov
eror Cox pleads the cause of dis
tressed humanity as no otl.er man
in public life in this country can
do it. Little wonder that he was
thrice elected governor of OHIO,
a distinction that State has never
conferred upon another of her
sons. Little wonder that he was
put up by the Democratic party
as its standard bearer two years
ago. The wonder is that the peo-
pie of the country did not have
the good sense to elect him, as he
should have been, and if he had
been elected the outstanding fig
ure in world affairs today would
be strong, resourceful, sincere,
four-square president of this
republic. And the seat
occupied for eight years by Wood
row Wilson would not today be
filled on the installment plan by,
a weak, wobbling, vascillating
executive rafting around in it
like grain of corn in blad-
der"
A little better than two years
from now the Democratic party
will again be in convention to
nominate it's candidate for the
presidency. On whom will its
favor fallf McAdoo! Good man,
but lacking the aggressiveness
to lead the party to victory.
James NJ. Cox! BY that time the
country will have sorely tired, of
the good-natured but visionless
Harding and will welcome the op-
p0rtunity to turn to Governor
Cox. Then South Carolina will
have the chance to redeem herself
from the faulty Judgment of her
delegates to San Francisco in
1929 who held out so obstinately
against Governor Cox.
In Columbia Thursday night
there were people from all sec
tions of South Carolina who heard
Governor Cox. Not one of these,
perhaps, but who went home con-
vinced that in him the partv
has a leader whose leadership it
cannot afford to dispense with
excent at the possible cost of fail
ure in the next presidential elec-
tion. Whatever the attitude Of
these SOnth Caroliuians toward