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Show m cox m last WO TO WEST t9 Hi- Highly Flattering Remarks fl Round Out Busy Days Of Speechmaking I. ANGELES. Cal., Sept 22 .Governor Cox of Ohio, Democratic I presidential candidate, who left Call-' fornia last night and who was In Arizona today, on the way to i'lioe-j nix, spoke to the west this morning through the Ios Angeles Tlmee, lie-publlcan lie-publlcan newspaper. Just before his lr;nn left Ixm A nge-lea nge-lea he asked the Times to publish ihC following statement "The nation must look to the west for Its food increase. Yni have wot the acres and then Is intirh h' rger opportunity for the development of that acreage In the west than iti :he cast I like your western spirit .progressive, they respond nioie tu;c!;-i Tj to the spoken vsurd . I liellevo the Almighty realized that the task of reclaiming this' western country required a gr-.i? peo- I pie. for vou people are doing that' I great work with a wonderful spirit. " Governor Cox's program foi today called for a number of speechc.. us does that for tomorrow, which will see him on the way lo New Mexico with plan.-i completed for vi--:t to i ohirado, Wyoming. Nebraska. Soii.Ii Dakota, Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri. Mis-souri. IPP1 w. Ol m: IN K. Governor Cox. Democratic presidential presiden-tial candidate, in his final address In California, declared here last night that evry candidate for president should be compelled to come and sec your wonderful country, look you In the face and study your needs.' We can not have the slightest un-, derstandlns of the west unless we scu It." he said lie gave almost his entire time hire to the league of nations. A woman in the audience asked: An' you going to send our boy to Prance again? .Mine is dead there." The governor replied: My dear woman. I know how yon feel, but If we had had the league of' nations ten years ago. you still won' 1 have your son." Governor Cox was on the way to Arizona last night, after completing I his southern California campaign, j which Included one scheduled evonl the brief appearance of the governor as an ' actor ' before the motion plc-I plc-I ture camera. MWN DISAPPOINTED, His program wa.s so crowded that he was unable to keep some of ihc lust minute engagements made for him by thcCjI..os Angeles commlt'e, but he managed to address two audiences audi-ences at Long Beach, two at Los Angelei one .u Hollywood, and one ii s.ni Bernardino, before his depart-I depart-I ure. tit started the day with an address : lo the Southern California Editorial association In convention here Hf lold members of that organization he would speak lo ihem .1 im editor to his fellow editors," dud A'ould not touch on political i u-t lonst I havo plenty of time to do that every dav." he said Then ho went to Long Beach and. i before an audience which overflowed the municipal auditorium, made- an addrdss which was largely a defense of the league of nations and an account nf the nomination of Senator Harding as the Republican presidential candidate. candi-date. He referred to the lutter event as u meeting In Uooin 404, Black-stone Black-stone hotel at Chicago, where senatorial sena-torial oligarchy met and hand picked i hi Kcpublic i n ca ndldate." His second speech at Long Beach was to those unable to crowd Into the 1 : auditorium He made reference to the Japanese question In California ami promised that if he were elected president, he would ie bound ': the constitution to respect the rights of I states to settle their own Inernal prob- ' leiiis FROLICS WITH BATHING GIRLS. Ha 1 U to Los Angelej again, he ' spoke to a gathering ot club women of southern California 1 he governor's program, as arranged r the local committee called also for three other addresses here. He I was unable to keep these engagi ments. howecr, ana those who hid ! expected to hear him at these places after watting long, finally gave i hope and deputed without I'mi In; whj the engagements had been in-celled. in-celled. The governor was able to keep the engagement at a motion picture studio In Hollywood, where he "acted" on a '"wet" prepared especially for his visit. 1 'ihc 'set" represented the shm of' state and he toou up position on the bridge, while about the craftj In n I'-cr 1 which reached their ankles, disported a number of girls In bathing sups In .1 brut lulk from the bridge, the governor extolled the motion picture industry and di clared tho happy! tact s' he saw about him gave proof 01 satisfaction found in that work. |