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Show CLOSEUP VIEW i OF COX GIVEN BY SULLIVAN Has No Press Agent an'J Moves About Dayton Very Informally SHOULD BE DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS OF POLITICS Candidate Anciressive and Competent But Hasn't Got I Down i.o Real Action Yet Hv U IRK si i,l l (Gopyright, the New ork Evening I E6si ) COLUlfBUS, ihlo. Aug. 17 Your J correspondent has lately spent several idays at Dayton In this contract with the Democratic candidate)! home town, one was conscious of several marked Impressions quite different from the preconceived ones based on the early I und hasty newspaper dispatch that came out of Dayton Immediate!) after, the nomination. As to some cf these Impressions, deallnK with Cox's personal back ground and with the attitude of Day-ion Day-ion Inward him one would rather wait 'for ihe maturing "and confirming of the Impressions before attempting to vvriie thehli but there is Qne quite 'definite impression which Is shared 1 1 all the other newspaper men with whom 1 have talked. Neither Cov noi j those Immediately around him, nor the Democrat!" national committee ha :yet waked up to the fact that they compos'- One-half of the great nations! campaign and that more than one month of that campalrn has already passed and thai less than three month. I remain. COX COMPETENT ('ox, so far. has done practically .nothing towards adjusting himself to the enormously Increased figure he S In the nation and neither Cox nor the national committee has done anything any-thing towards surrounding the Candidate Candi-date with a machinery adequate to I what is now expected of him. Cox Is so obviously competent a person In 'practical affairs that hardly anyone Would be so rash as to aa that he doesn't realize what has happened to him. Nevertheless, it Is a fact that the Democratic campaign so far has bet n conducted as If it were merely a local campaign for governor. No changes or additions have been mule to the personnel around Cox In Lhe waj of additional secretaries or clerical help. Ills son-in-law who Is the executive head of his newspaper, now seems to. devote a good deal of his time t0 the candidate's personal afl urn. but that Is aooiit all that has been done towards preparing for the i Incn teed mall and the other rruilu-j lue ,.f details that may be expected to pile up if the campaign Is to be energetic. You occasionally observe v'ox him-1 h telephoning about Ihe time of trains and the like. His trips from I Dayton to the places where he makes peaches are not organized with any more careful preparedness than if h! Were I priv its Cltfsen. All In all there' le not In Dayton that air of many is:tor, of piles of telegrams und hur- I rving messengers that one is accus- j tomed to associate with a candidate! for the presidency I XCI ii mini vi lit M7T1V1 In a way this lack of excitement Is I .ittr... t.,. but doesn't Ko with the kind i of campaign that the Democratic na- tlonal committee must soon get under-wa under-wa If the full strength of the part Is to be brought out for Cox In Novem-ll Novem-ll r 't is m marked contrast With Harding's home t Marlon, where the! secretariat and clerical help taken on for the campaign already fills one' house and Is about to overflow Into! another For the mosi i.an kmIuMv I this lack of organized expansion Is due to the change In the chairmanship of (the Democratic national committee and the fact ihat no new machine! Can possibly get under way as prompt-! II) as the old one could have. Kroni the point of view of effective tnd business like organization the Re-publicans Re-publicans were much, wiser In holding On the chairman who had been In charge for the past two years ( IGGRESCTVE As to Cox himself, sverj impression, you get la one of quick competence, all his friends and associates pli ture him I as extremely aggressive and his ca-1 ir-. er would seem to prov e thHt qualltv . I ,His friends say that when he really gets going ami puts his back Into the mpalgn, he Is the Douglas Fairbanks of politics, nevertheless, anvone who h-' " " 1 ton recently rniJ5t have wondered whether Cox hu yet realiz-' ad the huge proportions of the bus!-1 ness of impressing his practically un-Known un-Known personality on a hundred mil-' lion people within the space of eighty' das s. I 'ox undoubtedly has energy very-' body says that of him Whatever he! wants he KOe9 after aggressively and general he brings home the bacon 1 but for the purpose of the present I (C'ontlo"i on Pero Two.) I Closeup View of Cox Given by Sullivan (Continued from Page One.) campaign, Cox has not thrown the clutch Into hlKli gear so to speak. LACK oi PRE SSI RE He still has the air of considering things of getting ready He act6 S little as If he hasn't quite grasped the rub v and Conditions of this new game yet. lie has more the air of still learning still asking for information rather than flying down the track on a well planned course. He lacks any appearance of pressure A newspaper man who went to Cox's headquarter for a fifteen minute engagement actually act-ually talked with him for four h The picture at Dayton, as one finds i on personal contact is different fromj what I am confldc.it the public thinks It Is Cox lhes In his big m-v. house a few miles out of town and every morning! com cm into his newspaper office. There : he moves about in a manner so far as it is unassuming, one admires, but i ko fai as it pavs no attention to the tremendous business of leading a great political party In a national campaign must be disturbing to anyone Interested Interest-ed In the favorable outcome of that ev ent. CORRESPON DENTS THERE The onlv thing that distinguishes James M Cox in the office of the Day -Ion News from any othes proprietor' of a newspaper In a town of 180,000 1 is the present e of sight correspondents from out of town These and the occasional oc-casional other correspondents w ho I drop In for a few daya are almost (h only eidenee of the enormous process; of making a man known to a whole nation and marshalling 10.000.000 or I 1 5,000,000 voters Into organized support sup-port There are two stated hours when Cox meets these newspaper men, once j in the forenoon for the evening papers and once In the afternoon for the morning papers Actually, the at paper men have the run of ihe office and Cox moves about among them with utter informality me feels he. Would do hitter If he made a more1 systematic even if less good natured vise of his time. All the newspaper I men like him He realires their hunger hun-ger for a 'story' twice a day and cooperates co-operates with them in a generous 'spirit He tries to think of something I to say or some onnouncement to make and the newspaper men sometimes I make suggestions which occasionally he accepts and enlarges upon He has i no publicity man ami for that contrast con-trast With well established practice on? Approves of him The stream of pro-j pro-j found or snappy " utterances ? hat frequently fre-quently flows from public men too of-jten of-jten has its source not in the mind of I the man himself, hut In the lnventivi fertility of a professional publicity man. So far as Cox's failure to acquire ac-quire a publicity man represents a determination on his part that his per-'sonallty per-'sonallty and his brain shall be reveal-'cd reveal-'cd to the public Just for What th( are, without the artful aid of a publicity pub-licity man that is fine but unhappily 'one suspects It is merely part of the, 'general casualness with which the, campaign is being managed 1 NOT MUCH DRIVE The net of it is that there isn't much "drive" In the Democratic campaign I ' et either a reapers the organization1 lor as respects Cox. The public hasn't; becomo Interested yet and corrcapond-j lents has not observed anything com- lng along that Is likely to excite thoi yoters erv much. This is as true of! the Republicans ns of the Democrats-lit Democrats-lit ma be the public isn't going to: take as much Interest In this campaign las we have grown acccstomcd to I For a generation, ws have had three ; huge personalities in this country.: Roosevelt, Wilson and Bryan In; every presidential campaign for twenty twen-ty -five years one of the other of the, men has been a candidate, sometimes ; two of them They stirred themselves !up by virtue of mere quantity Of their personalities and neither Cox nor Harding has anything like the quan-j tlty of personality that these three hav e had- ' jwTTTT-r'' ' ' ' " 1 .1 ii |