The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-28
]. M.sCOX HAILED
 ASFIRM DISCIPLE %OF. WILSON FAITH Baker Points To Blame ' less Fight Of Four | Years Ago @ SHEER MENTIONED
 AS CLEANUP MAN The Character Of The :. Man Is Appeal For
 J., w. Davis

NEW 1Ohh, June Z.-OecldrlHS that former Governor James NJ Cox of Ohio became a national figure at that moment in 1920 when only a few had the vision to see or the courage to follow the new faith-the new political religion of Woodrow Wilson," Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War in Presi- : dent Wilson's cabinet, today again placed Cox's name in nomination for i the presidency before the democratic national convention.
 without hesitation or wavering, he fought the long 1920 campaign, debat- ing without doubt, appealing to our higher emotions, battling back the tide of ills which, rising out of the chaos of the world; finally included us with the peoples of Europe as the children of despair" Mir. Baker told the conven- tion. :.af
 Remained At Work
 ,%Since that campaign, his dedica- tion to the cause has remained com plete," Mir. Baker said. He has de- voted the intervening years to serious study in the old world and this. He has sought for those reasons, historic, traditional, permanent or temporary, which brought about our act of dis couragement at the moment of our might. With pen and voice, with growing power of enthusiasm and of Knowledge he. has as a private citizen sought to inspire us to better and higher thinking and juster and more enduring policies.
 .n."Thus Ohio feels her son, once her favorite, has become the nations fla vorite. In her name I present to you Ohio's- fhreestime governor, her sue cessful executive, her constructive lead et,. her son who bore the banner of principles bravely and blamelessly in a.national contest, her son who has had the vision to see where Americas op- portunity now is and has the courage and capacity to lead us to that reali- zation. ,-
 q present to you the name of James M. Cox. :: For three times as her governor this son of Ohio demonstrated his ca pacity as an executive. Without tur- moil or confusion, the business of a great state was dispatched. He was our war governor Under his eager and patriotic leadership the people of Ohio gave their quota in men and money to the national effort and sus- tained the national cause with sacri- ficial fefvor. The constitution of the state was remodeled under his leader ship, engrafting modern and liberal principles and political agencies in re- sponse to new conditions. A great body of wholesome legislation was en- acted by his cooperation with legisla- tors not always of his own political faith, until, in many of those new prob- lems. which have come with increasing congestion and the department of an industrial society, men search the Ohio statute. books for the laws which he caused to be enacted as examples of sane solutions which in practice have proved wholesome and helpful.
 "The Immediate Future"
 ''The past9is safe with Washington, Lincoln and Wilson. The challenge lies in the future-the immediate fu- ture. Our task is to search out the opportunity. state the cause and choose a leader. The leader must fit the cause.
 "Nationslistic aspirations have been nursed as promising a possible relief from intolerable hardships or as the only. safe defense against aggression. . European oynics and reactionaries have conjured as they have for centuries conjufed, with the fears and miseries of people anr -councilled that imperial armed readiness which history touches as apt to be provocative of the very disaster which it intends to avert.
 'On the other hand, even in such a world the first great experiment in in- ternational cooperation has been mak- ing and succeeding. The league at Geneva has, gathered to it the great liberals. of the old world. It has yield ed nothing to force, it has defied skepticism and dared to believe, as liberals always believe, in the power of goodwill. It has fought disease and vice, lifted Austria and Hungary back into the possibility of orderly national life, repatriated the war prisoners, es- tablished a World Court, prevented four wars and stopped one, set on foot the only promising plan of disarmament yet devised, and never moved single soldier. J
 Battle Rests Now
 Between these two sets of forces the conflict is on. The battle rests now. Throughout the world the forces of militarism and imperialism are arrayed against the forces of liberalism. Within the next four years one or the other of these philosophies will prevail which, we are probably determining here today.