Show 7 t ti I i S I NEWS N EW Progress ogress Is His Hobby Who'll Be President President No 4 I A Has feun Rn of L Luck ck 1 1 s i l v ti py y a I. I I 1 0 2 rr rl t wa i I e I II I I I I Z ti v g gi R F t L. L t t 1 i f II I I I k i 3 j A J S 11 JN 1 J. r r t. t J L tn Yg tI 1 Governor Has Faculty of Sensing Public Opinion 1 C C. C C. Lyon yon L b By i 0 y p lU Ei E A Special pecia Correspondent C q IBUs 0 O March 1 Theres There's There s 's s J v c thing o.-thing thing about Governor James Tames Mv M M. v Ohio hlo that that- bO both l his hs p political al vr friends ends and opponents agree u upon on absolutely f i lie es e's s the luckiest politician Ohio OhIo Ohio I t i developed I In the present gener genera genera- 10 1 t on S r i ox wants to be the nett ne next t. t presto pr sl- sl f j nominee of 01 the Democratic t. t arty iJ there theres s anything In luck h he ought t f tU get et It t fez f. f t Read ead his lucky record record- I HAD THE NOMINATION HANDED TO HIM 4 pr many many years up to 1908 the thet t Third Ohio congressional district had been b heavily Republican with no I h chance nce l for a Democratic editor editor dike Jike t i Jimmie Cox COT of the Dayton News News' to to break into office r t But Bu In hi that year the Republicans i and had two candidates candidates' ates' ates for tor congress congress at the election The Demoi Democrats Demo Demo- i handed Cox the nomination on L 8 platter lIe He polled the Ute regular Democratic strength while his two w ij J opponents divided theirs Cox walked Into congress again in in inS S- S while white the Republican factions 1 were Ie still sun ng each other 1 j i The liquor Interests completely i d dominated the Democratic state tate convention convention con con- at Toledo In 1912 and Cox I w wis Ras s nominated for governor Without r S opposition F 1 4 Taft Fan Taft had carried earned Ohio for tor pre president president t 4 1908 by but in there 1912 there was a a big split be between the Republicans I-eans I cans can the and the Bull Moosers and Cox CoX- i r Into the governors governor's chair with an ayr enormous plurality r r r. A JIe Te tried ried to to reseat repeat in 1914 when A th the Bull Moosers again had a gubernatorial guber guber- guber candidate for governor in the field t-field J field against the Republicans but i jJ time time time-he he failed and he went back vr i Y tol to Dayt Dayton n to run his paper And ry Sl another other one at Springfield PC JIe was nominated again for goy 4 arnor in 1916 and was carried Into office with the with the Wilson Wilton landslide in Ohio While Wilson got got Ohio Cox got More Cox luck his opponents said ald In 1918 the war was on and the flu epidemic was at its height in Ohio Public meetings were were tabooed a and d political d discussions s were re confined confined confined con con- fined to th the columns of I the the newspapers news news- papers Cox w was s elected for the third time But back of all aU his all his luck in politics C Cox x possesses something that many many another politician doesn't t a shave a dynamic energy a lev level l h head adi- adi and an almost uncanny faculty for sensing p public bUc 4 opinion v lies lies' about the smartest man Ohio has seen In many a year Even en as asa asa asa a a- he Was Has smarter than smarter th than n his companions com com- Born Horn in in poverty in Butler county he was a a country countr school schoolteacher schoolteacher school schoolteacher teacher In in n his early teens and then thena a reporter leporter on the Cincinnati Enquirer En En- Paul F p ul Sorg the file millionaire tobacco man of Ilc 1 MIddleton got into congress n n th the arid and picked youn young oun I Cox for his private secretary a WAS BUSINESS r f E fM I M MP MAN N AND EDITOR 1 Cox COg was such a smart smart private se sea ses- j rotary that Sorg Borg ba backed k d him In in buy buy- buying ling log ing the Le Dayton News New a a D Democratic m t ol organ an Within a a year jear eat or or two C Cox x had made the News the biggest moneymaker moneymaker money money- maker malter In Dayton tie Jle re was not not- only the tha smartest editor but he lie stood stood out from all all' others all others as a a. a successful busi bast a aness ness manIn man I In those d days days ys he showed no signs of being bein a ref reformer nn r but stuck Ids to la v R. Hanley the Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic boss DOSS and when the Republican Mean lican congressional split came in 1908 it was svgs Hanley who who dictated his nom norn- by the the Dein Democrats r ts EVEn be before r his nomination in 1912 I for go he was was on the stump advocating th the the- and arid referendum refer tetel- t nd lm a workman's workmans compensation law and many other progressive re reI reforms reforms re- re forms S. S i r rHe I He astounded the the conservatives s I of of Ohio by the the length of ot his T pio l e. program that he he submitted to the Ohio legislature during his hig first term He demanded the pasI passage passage pas pas- sage of six fifty progressive measures covering ey every ry field of activity and ond I he ha made the legislature stay on the Job until t they ey had passed every one of bf th the six fifty DEFEAT TRACED TO TO TOO MUCH PROGRESS Cox had ad g gone n so far with progressive progress site sive legislation in fact hs that that- his defeat de- de de defeat feat In 1914 can be e directly attributed at- at at attributed ut d to too t p. p much nuch pi progress ogress He Is had bad tr tramped on on the the- corns of many many- different interests and they combined against him The Hep Republicans ans' ans how i his of-his' his ever didn't dare dare any Q of reforms a after ter the ibe u p public pubic had digested them Co Is always doing things doing things He instigated tb the dire first state meetIng meeting meeting meet meet- ing of 01 prosecuting attorneys ys' ys to fight the high hish cost coat co t of living Jiving and after food hoarders and profiteers He JIe tackled the coal strike proposition l a I sillon and was on the verge verge verge-of of of making mak mak- ing peace between Ohio operators operator and miners mil ers when the federal Government announced It its nationwide settlement Cox Coxs Js is In 1 hl his fiftieth tt eth y year r. r but looks to be b be e about 40 He enjoys I tl IP-tl fil p vitality and h health alth |