OCR Text |
Show . ' " v. MR. -'o. misquotes thi:' iti:cbui j,, (From the Des Molnca, la., Record. Governor Cox gave his acceptance address at Dayton, Day-ton, O., on Saturday. The Capital has already printed print-ed tho speech In full. It Is a strange production. It Is full. If partisan utterances and sOjjji-mlBrepresenta-tlons, Howover, It Is Just such a speech ns might have been expected from a. man who has been politician, politi-cian, ojuiugh to eb elected governor In (ho state pr6'J senttng such a variety of conflicting views and Interests. Inter-ests. Jn another respect It Is essentially tho speech of a man who has been ready to adopt Isms whenever the same might bo necessary. We cannot forbear calling attention to the fol lowing paragraph appearing In the governor's accept-' ancc: "For niore than forty years before Woodrow Wilson was elected president In 1912, a reform of4 our banking and' currency systems had been almost universally demanded and had been year after year deferred or refused by the standpat element of tho Republican party In obedience to ordcrs."( All readers of American currpnt history know that during tho forty years which preceded Woodrow Wilson, the Democrats of the state of OhlcVohd 'of all the states, lnlho Mlssfsslpp! valley .were in favor of sift money! The Democratic party was .the greenback green-back party for a number of years. Ohio had t'he paper pa-per money craze as Intensely as any other state In the union. If Governor Cox had lived at that time he would have been a greenbackcr. When tho OreeBB baeK "party was advocating P.orncroyism and repuJit.Bg tlon of the national debt, tho Democratic party stoB with that proposition. The Democratic party ailopt-BB) ed the-Federal ItoHcrve system which had been plan-H ncd and framed by Senator 'Aldrlch, a n'epubllcaii,B largely because It gave tho Democrats control of lr.anjH thousands of offices and of our entire financial BytBj tem. The Democrats were neyer willing to trust thiH Ilepubllcans with that, power. The Republicans wer.Bj 'willing' to give the Democrats a chance to show whtB theycould do. BJ We are thankful that Governor Cox did not at-l sert that the Democrats had fought a great forelpjBS war and had also enriched the country by nn IncreaX? ed foreign trade. B ' v Bfl BHHBiHBiaMBWBBiaaMBVBVBlBnBMMHiBlBBVBBlHBliiiHBliHBlBBBliiHBB |