Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-01-24

ed after the drubbing he received at
the hands of Theodore Roosevelt in
1904 and their advice to the Cox
following is to "Cet on a live one"
To the argument that William j.
Bryan was given the Democratic
chance at the Presidency three times
their rejoinder is short and snappy-
We'll, and what happened?"
AS in the case of any other Demo-
cratic possibility, Woodrow Wilson
may have something to say as to-
Cox's availability in 1924. 1t is ad-
mitted that the Ohioan made the
kind of a campaign in 1920 that
Wilson insisted should be made. AT
ter getting off to O. bad start with
the charge that the Republican 4
had unlimited funds at their COM
mand and were prepared to buy the
election, Cox settled down to the
League of Nations as the main issue
and made his fight solely along that
line.
Some of his friends whisper that
he did this against his own better
judgment, but that he was so stu
ated that he could do nothing else.
The Wilson administration was on
trial before the American public,
they say, and if Cox had not stood
by it Loyalty he could not have ex-
pected the general public to have
done so. And if he did endorse and
support the administration there was
no sense in doing so in a half-heact-
ed manner.
1t was this loyalty to Woodrow
Wilson that had mrcM to do with
the extent of the disaster that over
took Cox, according to these sup
porters, and they argue that if there
is a grain or gratitude in the former
President he will show it by doing
all that he can to give the man from
Ohio a second nomination. The least
he could do would be to keep hands
off, iE any event.
Pomerene's Candidacy Not So Sure
To get back to the subject of
Ohto's embarrassment of riches in
Democratic possibilities it may be
said that Senator Pomerene is gen.
orally regarded as by no means so
certain to be q candidate as is Mr..
Cox. The Senator, as it happens, is
also in the position of having q de-
feat as a handicap, but his is more
recent and in some respects more
difficult to explain away. AS a can
didate for reelection to the Senate
AoSG AAiAI l. C44ASA Civ 4dLA a Ddd EGC~
ond to the Hon. Simeon D. Tess and
on March 4 will relinquish his toga
to a Republican.
That would not seem to augur
well for the Senator's presidential
ambitions, If so be it he" cherishes
such, and there is no g~ain-saying
the fact that there has not been so
much Pomerene talk since Novem-
Der. Prior to the election, when the
forecasters were almost unanimously
of the opinion that Pomerene would
be reelected, his hackers were en-
Enthusiastically insistent that he was
the logical candidate for Ohio Demo-
Gratis TO present to the national con-
vention next year, and undoubtedly
it was a decided jolt to them as we'll
as a surprise when Fess was ceturn-
ed a winner.
However, this defeat of Pomerene
is another that can be explained as
not decisive as to a mans strength
as a presidential candidate. In the
first place, it is limited that Pomer-
enc would have been reelected if a
certain element among Ohio Demo-
Gratis had not preferred to see him
retire to private life, and again it is
said that the Senator had the oppo-
SlCOn OF LnG LABOR VOL6 ana would
have been triumphantly reelected
had the general voting public in
Ohio realized that he was being
knitted for the stand he had taken on
Industrial questions.
1t would be an interesting fight
were Pomerene and Cox to contest
for the Ohio delegates to the next
Democratic National Convention.
Both have strong personal machines
or organizations, Is doubtless they
would prefer them to be called-in
the state. Pomerene has built his
up through the prestige and patron
age that go with being a United
States Senator, while Cox construct
| ed his as Governor. The former L W
have his in slightly better repair,
since he is still in the Senate and
Cox has been out OF the State House
more than two years, but 1t would
be a fight such that might prove
which is the more efficient machine
Federal or State.
There is little Likelihood, however,
that such a contest will be staged.
| One or the other Of the two posi-
bilities will be eliminated, in all
probability, before the race for the
nomination is really under way In
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