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Show COX'S VARIED ROLES - BT SCOTT O. BONK. ' ' At "one" With Woodrow Wilson and for WHaontm Ud all it Implies, without reeervatloa, yet beeeeehlng a weary, tax-hardened country to elect him president That' OaadidMai Cox. Aa exponent, for campaign purposes, ot progressive thought and lofty Ideals, yet nominated and backed by Boss Murphy. Boss Brennaa, Boss Taggart and Ed Moore! That's Candidate Cox. Wsttest of the wet aspirant for president, save TMwarda, by Bryan's appraisement, In a Democratic convention dominated by the wets, yet now endeavoring to convince aa arid country that he U dry and ever has been a dry! That's Candidate Cox. Charging- that a corruption fund of 116,000,000 was being raised to buy up the presidency, and then, at safe distance from the seat of inquiry, raising the amount .to S30,0Q0,000. yet without with-out producing aa lota ot evidence In support of hi wild charges. I That's Candidate Cox. 5 ' A machine-made politician, vouched for by Tammany, yet t pretending to have been given the light In 1912 as a disciple ot Theodore .Roosevelt and Hiram Johnson; That's Caadtdato Cox. 'Arraigning the press for not' taking him seriously by print- ing his speeches, yet knowing, a a newspaper man, that the cost I of print paper under this administration is too high to give space ! to mere words! That's Cdldato Cox, I Crying out against a mythical "Senate oligarchy," because V 1 the precious Wilson covenant failed of ratification, yet with full I knowledge that hostility of Democratic senators rendered ratio-cation ratio-cation impossible! That's Candidate Cox. i A mild, dodging critic of Burlesonlsm and Palmeriam, when confronted by hecklers" out west, yet committed unqualifiedly to ' Burlesonlsm and Palmerlsm by the Democratic platform! That's I Candidate Cox. An apologist for the sinking ot the Lusltanla, a pacifist of the Nowfon Baker stripe as clouds gathered, and intervening on I behalf of a rich alacker when war came on, yet today appealing. for the support ot American sons who went to the front! That's ( . Candidate Cox. Dry to the dry, wet to the wets, tplritueUe to the spiritual, all things to all crowds, in the face of the O. O. P. landslide ' clearly impending, yet never daring to deviate la hi devotion to Wllsonism or the Wilson League by the dotting of aa "I" or the crossing ot a "t"! That's Candidate Cox. ' And, finally an acrobatic AJax defying the lightning of public disapproval! That's Candidate Cox. |