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Show Gov. Cox Makes Good Impresssion, Sullivan Says of Notification Bv MARK BULlIV N) (Copyright, 1920. By N. V. Evening Post . ) DAYTON, O.. Aug 8. The Cox notification was much more of a show than the Harding OCcaalOn nt Marlon two Weak! ago. The show part of it was more thoroughly organized, was vary much bigger, got more attention from the audience, ami altogether was much more "played-up." There were miles and miles of marching clubs and hands. It took fully two hours for the parade to fil" pftat the judges' stand on the race . Qurae where Cox and Roosevelt reviewed re-viewed H The songs, the uniforms of tin- marchers the banners and the slogans on the standards were a show in themselves apart from the speeches There was abundnnt evidence of piquancy, pi-quancy, both prepared and spontaneous. spontane-ous. The Cox song, "' hlo, Ohio We'll Elect Jlmmle Cox 'r Know The Reason Why." was sung half a hun dred times to the tune of 'Oh We'll Ramble, We'll Ramble." The banner-and banner-and slogans had Joke and allusion The delegation from Senator Harding homo town, Marlon, announced on their standard that We're here Jimmy " and a delegation from MH-waukea MH-waukea carried a banner Hying 1 The ! vote that make Milwaukee famous ninety-nine and one-half per cent Cox, one-half of one per cent Harding." ENDLESS QUANTITY Of this kind of thing there was endless end-less quantity and infinite variety. Cox idtd not miss a minute of the parade j nor a single face of the paraders. He i had the air, in a wholly quiet and re- strained vv.iv of giving a personal Igreetlne to each marcher, an unobstru-'slvo unobstru-'slvo greeting that did not quite so far 'as nod, but did seem to include the ! business of glMng a penetrating and reassuring look Into the faco of each person who marched past htm. 11 was a look that semed to say to each person. "J want ou to know that 1( appreciate this- I'll see you again on J election day and you can depend on ; me to remember you." It was wholly subdued, it . was in perfect taste and It was one hundred per cent effective. Cox had ahead of him the moM Important speech of bin careor, but he was not distracted for . single moment from the important business of the moment, which was to make every man who marched by in the hot sun fe that the governor of Ohio had foeussed friendly eyes in gratitude on him cn LOOKS YOl'NO And in huh connection your correspondent corre-spondent noticed this' Governor Cox Is not particularly 'young, but he looks young Franklin , Utiusi. ii It is ounK and Inokn younger. 'As the two stood together reviewing I the parade, they gave distinctly the impression of two youthful candidates, also the mon who marched by in the I parade were young, and between the loung men who marched and the young man who reviewed there was unmistakable kinship an unmistakable ! greeting of youth to youth. The Republicans Re-publicans neod not be surprised if Cox jar.d Roosevelt turn out to be a young 1 man's ticket Your correspondent will watch the i vote of the young men of the countrv with a good deal of Interest on election elec-tion day. The parade part of it ended, and then the national chairman, George White, came forward wtth his count-'enance count-'enance of lean earnestness, looking a , little like a country clergyman of a .generation ago He had but a sen-i sen-i ti nee or so to say. and then a local figure, Mr McMahon, Introduced the Rev. Mr. Hale to lead In prayer. You can take It completely for granted that he clergvman had been acquainted with the speech that was to come later. He knew what was to be the point of and burden of Cox s speech j His prayer was That War May End"i i a nd he spoke of a "Covenant Keeping! IRod." ROOSEVELT INTRODUCED Then tha vice presidential candidate Mr. Franklin D Roosevelt, was Intro-1 iduced to the gathering He merely! j bowed In a friendly way and did not ,glve the crowd enough time to get very enthusiastic ahout him At length the notification proper came. Senator Robinson began with humor, not tho most substle humor nor the most ef- fective In the world, but applauded fori n.i xi iviiu inn u.i ii ri kuciiros- THEN COMES X At last came Cox. He had perfect composure There was ont much ap-l plauee at his first appearance; not so much, you felt, as would have come if tha audience were not a little tired. The show part of the occasion, pro-ceding pro-ceding the speeches had been extreme-Is extreme-Is micceaaful. but the parade had consumed con-sumed a good deal of time, and the afternoon waa hot. The first of the really striking passages pas-sages came in the ery beginning when Cox said "I thank God that I take up the standard of Democracy a free n.an. Unfettered by promises Every politically sophisticated man In the audience wondered Just what Cox had In mind when he said that whether Cox was taking notice of the Republican Republi-can Jibes about his visit to Wilson, and the allegi promise to stand for Wilson'H policies Rut the" phrase might Just as well have had refer to some of the forces like Tammany land the New Jersey ' wets' which had a leading pirt In nominating him at Jran Francisco. DEAL OP CONCERN In Cox's more Intimate surroundings there has been a good deal of concern about that. Cox's personal manager Edmund H. Moore of Youngstown. ' Ihlo, who managed the pre-conven-tlon campaign for Cox's nomination with such auccaaa, greeted your correspondent cor-respondent a few minutes after Cox had been nominated at San Francisco, 'ami there was unmistakable 6Clf-Justl-ficatlon in his voice and manner when in that first moment of success. th-thing th-thing that occurred to him to say was: "I haven't promised so much as a POBtofflcc to a single human being." I Loiter, when Moore returned from San I Francisco to Dayton, the first thing he ..dd to Cox was these same words. However, the precise Implications of I " ': declaration at the opening of his speech of untrammelled freedom ar- something within his own mind. That he had neither fear nor compunction com-punction about t lng himself up to Wilson and Wilson s erslon of the League of Nations was the first lm-jportant lm-jportant thing that appeared in his j speech. When he said on two occasions, in .contexts which showed his wholehearted whole-hearted support: "I faor going Into the league, " every friend of Wilson and Wilson's I treaty In the udlenrc- applauded And jthe applause was not merely for Wilson Wil-son and the League of Nations. It was not merely for Wilson's frlende Th applause was equally for the courage and candor of the man who .said it The point that struck you as vou listened was the completeness of Governor Gov-ernor Cox's Identity with Wilson's position posi-tion on the League of Nations. Of course all this kind of thing can bo more minutely examined and more ac-, ac-, nrately expressed bv the editorial writers anrt others who will read the speech at leisure and will compare it with debates in the senate, and with, I the positions taken by other American I public men. But to your correspondent, correspond-ent, listening to the Speech and watch-ling watch-ling the speaker's manner, It leemed . if he were reall) mlng to put hlm-1 hlm-1 self squarely In Mr Wilson's shoes Not ,on did his reservntlons. nn he spoke them, seem more, mild thnn unv of the others that were put forward in the senate and elsewhere Further than that It seemed thai Oovemot 1 lOS I reservations had wholly different Intent and plrlt from those that were put forward In the senate.' GAVE AW AY TOO Ml ( II It seemed as If Governor Cox were concerned not with grudging oaullon lost we concede too RtUCh, but an If lest American give awny too much The thing he wanted to do was to look DUt for our alller and save them from the consequences of Any misunderstanding. misunder-standing. He wanted his reservations t.i be wholh of the nature that President Presi-dent Wilson has described as 'Inter- ipretive hut en ar wi n, lie seein'o Uo apologize to the allies for making even "interpretive" resrivat ion. Ae ho expressed it. we h"ar It said that interpretations aro unn I !g) MM rv, that may be true, hut that will at least be reassuring to many of our citizens who feel that In signing the treaty, thl re ShoUld be no mental reservation' that are not explained In plain words, as matter of good faith tao our associates associ-ates By his reservations, Governor Cox seemed to mean to cover only those things that our constitution does not allow us to do, and he vvanted them made to express merely that there should be no misunderstanding The Speaker made everv thing lo d up and land aid to emphasizing his whole li' ,,rtcd support of the league. Than really was effective art In the way he first pletured the Republican position in order later to make his own seem conspicuous by contrast He cleverly utilized Senator Johnson's commendation commenda-tion of Harding to make dear his pic-1 ture of the Republican popltion as be-1 lng identically with that of Johnson and the irreconcilable opponents of any league nt all. I IRCED REPUBLICANS He forced the Republicans, In his speech Into the farthest extreme opposition op-position to the league In his position. Whether you liked the league or not, you admired ( ox's candor He was not afraid looking a world of chaos It) the face and taking a principal part I In setting things right. "The house I of civilization is to be put In order," i jib cvaiu. .inn no iiuo no UUUUI euner of our duty or our capacity to set it In order. And as you looked upon the competent, clear-headed speaker you fait that he was not without confidence confi-dence in his own capacity to handle world problems if fate should cam i him where these problems would be i his. And vou fell, too, that there was , much Justification for his confidence Cox looked pre-eminently a man who would go strulght 'o the heart of any practical problem, and make tew mistakes mis-takes in the administering of It Altogether Cox made a good Impression Impres-sion primarily it was an Impression of straight-forwardness and pram. .1 ability, his speech was riear and simple sim-ple At no point was there any taint of oratory, of saying something because be-cause It would sound well Next to tho League of Nations, the burden of his speech was lhat body of soclahand humanitarian Issues which arc roughly grouped as "progresslvo-ness." "progresslvo-ness." but In emphasizing this he hardly hard-ly ever had the air of abusing those, whom he would call reactlonnrles-Thero reactlonnrles-Thero was nothing whatever In the 'way of stirring up the audience. Indeed In-deed In this part of his speech, he was less empathlc and did not make out as strong a case for himself as he dues In private conversation. No BLAMBANGING There was no slambanglng anybody, not even the Republican party. There j had been a good deal of that in na-tor na-tor Robinson's speech, but Cox s was a simple, clear, and restrained exposition of his own view s on the League of Na-1 tlons. He cheerfully and clear-head-edly took on both the assets and the i liabilities of Wilson's position. On the other topics he gave a clear and simple exposition eaail) practicable practic-able remedies and Innovations entirely safe and sure footed, and as the audience audi-ence grew accustomed to him, they fldence In his competence In practical affairs both In his words and manner, he was Whollj without self-consciousness, without ornateness, a man of 'tr.ilght-forwan directness. Unhappily, Unhap-pily, any great entnusiasm that might really have been developed in the audience audi-ence was a little thwarted by the circumstances cir-cumstances that Just after Cox had finished the middle of his speech, a shower drove that part of the audience which was without cover, including the Inewapaper men and the distinguished I guests Into seeking a roof, a disturbing disturb-ing Incident that rather broke up the accord between the audience and the .speaker Aloo the enthusiasm of the audience ha! been rather consumed by the length of the parade and the liv ely Interest the audience had In It. But If there was no effort at eloquence , or emotion on the part of the speaker 'and no marked outbursts on the part (of the audience, nevertheless the au-Idlence au-Idlence did ha' o the air of steadily ln-creaalng ln-creaalng approval of the man and confidence con-fidence In him It was conspicuous that in spite of rain and other handicapping circumstances circum-stances the bursis of applause became jmore hearty and more prolonged us the speaker drew toward Its end. Where ever Cox appears in person j he will make votes |
