Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-09-10 | Page 1 | Cox's Charges Boomerang Says Dry Candidate

COX'S CHARGES BOOMERANG SAYS DRY CAN01TE Country Doesn't Care 30 Cents to Know Amounts, Watkins Avers HAM LINE, Minn.. Seul. 10 The country at large wll not care thirty cents lo find out the exact figure or even the approximate figures of in- campaign fund, said Aaron S. Watkins, Prohibition candidate for president. In a speech at the Minnesota Minne-sota state fair todav. It Is said by some thai all the national na-tional elections since ihe civil war have followed the line of largest contributions." con-tributions." Mr. Watkins continued. The fact that the side with the largest campaign fund has usually won .may be a case of cause and effect one vv.i or another it mav be true that the part) which is on the way to victory vic-tory may easily secure the largest campaign funds because n eoing con-cern con-cern always attracts followers anil j supporters. So the man who calls attention at-tention too largelv to his opponent's campaign funds may be betraying the fact that the swing Is against himself r- vi v ua i ii "The real Questions of this year are, the league of nations, the litboi ptob- lem and the extinction of the liquor i traffic On all these questions wp be-lieve be-lieve ihat the rural population can be i reaohed with ri laoh and will vote In I accordance therewith." Mr. Watkins dev oted the major por- ; tion of his speech to a discussion of' rural problems the most important of ; Which he said was the Htradv decrease .of rural population l.ov I PI ro FARM "As long as hoys and girls on th- farm are taught that the great opportunities, oppor-tunities, Intellectual social, and financial finan-cial are in ih cltle we shall cry out I In vain against the exodus from the farm. Whenever we begin to plan the farm as a permanent place to liv e and jtlie heht place tO eiiibv life, then the .farm will be In condition at least to (state its problems to the country and to assist In their solution'