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Show m i i A CAMPAIGN CONTRAST H j BY SCOTT C. BONE B To tho extent that Candidate Cox can divert public attention m from tho things that Candldatu Cox stands for and typifies H Wllsonlsm and tho like Candldato Cox scores. K i Ho scorod momentarily when ho mado thoi brnr.on, pre- B postcrous charge that tho Republican party had set out to ralso a P( slush fund of $30,000,000 to buy tho Presidency, l 3 Dig nqwspapers gavo htm scaro headlines and thoso favoring BB " his candidacy mado tho most of tho mountebank performance. PV if , Dut tho sensation was too empty to ondure. B v Confronted by cold facts, tho utter falsity of tho outcry was BHf v quickly established, and Candldato Cox, revoalod In his cheap Pp, gulso as n monger of untruths, simultaneously stood Exposed as PJ "n pronouncctl wot." Thus Is he depleted nnd characterized by 1 tho Now Jorscy Liquor Dealers' Association in an appeal for H ; funds to holp oloct Cox President. ' PJ ' t Scoring as ho did, temporarily shielding himself, for the 1 . moment, from tho blight of Wllsonlsm, whllo Doss Murphy PH' j chuckled, and Doss Drennan grinned, and Doss Taggart winked PB! tho othor oyo CandldatA Cox, In tho end, has only succeeded In BPJ j awakening and stimulating Interest In the campaign. And this PB I nwakanod nnd stimulated Interest will assuredly make tho Ro- PJ , publican Victory In Novombar all tho moro overwhelming and B comploto. B What a contrast Is presented as to candidates! IWnrren O. Harding, In tho bocomlng and dlgntflod role, befitting be-fitting a nomlnco for Presldont of tho groatcst Republic on earth bb i not In tho tawdry gulso of a barnstorming aspirant for a seat PH ' In a town council or on a board of aldormcn Is devoting his BP t i tlmo to real probloms of tho day, domestic and International, p.. ' and, with notablo spcechos of a constructed character, com- P , mandlng tho respectful attention of his countrymen and the- Pj woild as well. B '" Verily tho contrast 1s striking, Indeod, and, moreover, re- B dounds to tho credit and glory of tho party of Lincoln, McKinley B and RoobovoU tho O. O. P. H' I f |