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Show J Cox Wiggles and Wobbles. V "' BY SCOTT C. BONE. Candidate Cox, recklessly charting tftat tho Republican party hnd rx-t out to corrupt the electorate by raising a fund of $15,000,000 with which to "buy the presidency," has been utterly' confuted by the facts. Instead, It has been completely established that the goal fixed by Chntrmun Hays wns only one-fifth that amount, or $3,090,000, with contributions con-tributions rigidly limited to $1,000, and that never before has a campaign fond been bo free from tlip'tnlnt ofcorporate, sinister or sordid Injuencest i Thut"an oVertaxed? 6verburdoned and weary country," paying the cost of Incompetence, Incapacity and extravagance In governmental affairs and maladministration at Washington, would welcome relief at any price legitimately expended may be taken for granted. .Hut only In the wild dreums of Candidate Cox who stnnds committed com-mitted to Wllsonlsm and the wastefulness of Wllsonlsm, with everything thnt Wllsonlsm typltles und Implies has any such expenditure as Candidate Can-didate Cox charged over been .remotely conceived or for a moment contemplated. con-templated. Even his foremost newspaper champions organs of the International nnnklns crowd which favor Ills candidacy becau.s with equal rashness, be promises' that If elected he will go Into the Wilson League of Nntlons editorially admit thnt his slush fund clmrges have proven groundless. Candidate Cox's credibility as a witness has similarly been damugt-d by tlio wet and dry Issue confronting Mm. To tlio Indisputable proof thnt the Now Jersey Liquor Dealers' Association Is appealing for funds to elect him as a "pronounced wet" he replies that the liquor Interests ef Ohio never contributed to any of ' bU campaigns. , Yet a sworn statement, signed by the secretary of the Ohio Liquor Dealers' Association and on tile Ijj the sccretnry of state's office, shows thai that organization contributed a substantial sum out of Its treasury to the Cox campaign of 11110. And In the face of It all, having withstood for months, tn silence, William Jennings-Bryan's denunciation of him as a "wet" and unfit to 'run for president. Candidate Cox, with characteristic audacity, now assures u North Dakota crowd that "I have always voted dryl" Imagine Ross Murphy, Ross Taggart, Rosa Urennan and that Voungstown Apostle of Light and Uplift, Ed Moore, contriving the nomination nomi-nation at Sun Francisco of a candidate who had "always voted dryl" Imagine It, If you can I Shade of John Rarleycornl What a spectacle la presented In American political |