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Show EDITOR Of POST DEFENDS FOLIC! I Article Against Governor Cox Held Desire for Better Government PHILADELPHIA, Oct 20 George Horace Lo rimer, editor ol th Saturday Satur-day Evening Post, in a statement In reply to charges of unfair partisanship partisan-ship on tho pari, of the I OSt and Its editor, made bj Governor Cox, said FOR BETTER GOVERN!!! Vl "it Is common knowledge that tho Saturday Evening Fost is not influ-, enced in its stand by a d-yir,- for more circulation, because for some time now, It has cut tho orders for its edition , several hundred thousand copies week-i ly. If It were as Goernor Cox barges a large boneilclarj of advertising out of the excess profits tax. Its cours invlgorously attacking that "ectlon of the revenue bill from week to week sould be suicidal. In short, the anl-rnus anl-rnus behind Governor Cox's charges must be apparent to evon the simplest mind Tho real explanation of the stand taken hy the Saturday Evening Post during the past year has not occurred oc-curred and probably could not occur to him; that it grew out of a sincere desire for better and efficient goern-mcnt goern-mcnt "Partisanship to Governor Cox and being against him and what he stands for. Tho Saturday Ev.nlng Post has always had perfectly clear-cut opinions opin-ions on politics and other subjects and has never hesitated to express them, whother thev were unpalatable to either or both of tho old parties and ti'i'ir candidates. ur policies In this j respect arc perfectly well known to , the public, and quite unchanged. I repeot that when we stood for the re-j election' of Mr. Wilson In the last days before the last election, neither Gov- ( i-rnor Cox nor any other Democrat; found anything either partisan' or in-, sldlous' in our :utlon. "Governor Cox personally is of secondary sec-ondary importance in this campaign, but the Democratic candidate, weighed weigh-ed In the balance of his public utter-sncos. utter-sncos. has proved himself merel) i politician using the methods of the sensational journalist The record of the Democratic party since the armistice armis-tice has been one of inei.mpot -nci , waste and failure to do the things thai are necessary to the salvation of Amcr- |