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Show DEMOCRATS SET OUT TO ELECT THEIR NOMINEES With Bryan Reported Opposed to Candidate Leaders Are Puzzled About West. SURE OF SOUTH. AND SOME LARGE STATES Cox Declared to Be More Aggressive Ag-gressive and Experienced Than G. 0. P. Leader. JOHN Mrl. O'LOI GHI IN Written for Universal Service. SAN FRANCISCO, July 7 Tho .-homing and the tumult are over; It is the election campaign which is now I .L. , VUlWVrillllf lll ir,i,.nn pai i.' No longer is It B. question of whether 'or not the Democratic national con Ivention made a wise choice in candl-! candl-! dates for the presidency and vice presidency. The choico is made and the party must stand or fall upon it-There it-There Is. of course, u great deal of academic discussion, the hones of yesterday yes-terday are being picked to pieces, and , the mistakes of the MeAdoo management manage-ment are being magnified, but the real leaders, the men and women whose business It is to elect, are getting d-rvrm to work and formulating plans for th mosi extensive Democratic campaign l the ountr has over seen. It Is their purpose to determine first of all where "ox l weak and then to buttress him n such places, to dwell, upon Senator Harding's reputation for conservation land insist that progressive Republicans Republi-cans and the independent can find no lodgment In the catty; to make the women visitors understand that the home Is as much 8 sanctuary In Cox en es as in those of his opponent, and above all to secure ample funds to meet the heavy expenses of the cam-liiKn cam-liiKn With the s-jlid ilectorul votes I of the south certain for their candidate, candi-date, the Democrats intend to confine their at tivitles largely to a comparatively compara-tively few big states, such as ( hio, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Wisconsin and Indiana It is the industrial in-dustrial nte which thCy will endeavor to corral, and If they succeed In their efforts they declare Cox will be the next president of the United States The Ohio nominee, according to the men who named him. is free from the blight of administration connection. All the delegates here, including manv of the officeholders who sat in the convention realised while they were lauding Wilson, thai a large section of Democracy was dissatisfied with many nets Which had been done In Washington Wash-ington during and since the war, and this feeling was s factor of importance In the defeat of the ex-secretary of th treasury. W hat I h delegates wanted as the result demonstrates, was a new deai. and their frame of mind espe-1 espe-1 daily appealed to those Democratic senators who had broken from the president and v0ted for reservations to the league of nations. Governor Cox has been completely Independent of ihe administration and he !s in a POpl-. lion, so far as the league Is concerned I to stand for it with or without reset- nations as he mav see fit. He favors the latter It Is presumed hs will not change his attitude in view ; of Use opening afforded In this re- spect by the plank adopted by tho con-1 ventlon His 1,'roat fight however, will j i e based upon the imperative necessity' ' ot returning an administration which will secure the ratification of the' treaty. EIEP1 Hi U INS READY The Republicans, unquestionably Will be ready to meet him on this' Issue. Will Senator Harding, in hi speech of acceptance, flatly declare his. opposition to the league" If he docsi so. Senator Johnson will support him; with nil his force. If he does not, I Johnson will make his lone fight against the league in California jusi as Senator Heed is making a lone fight I against the league in Missouri. Important as the league of nation" is to the country and to prosperity, It seems to me, front the wav the dele-i gates talk, that they regard It as sec-: ondary to other matters cnguglng the; attention of tho people. The leaders admit that Cox wan labelled "wet" by the convention. Twenty-eight "otps wet for Cox" shouted tho chairman Of the New Jersey delegation when he transfered his unit solidly to the! Ohloan. On the same ballot. New York j gave 63 votes to Cox. and Illinois fol-1 low ed suit with all the wot votes she j could muster. The fight for the nomination nomi-nation became a wet and dry light and it was the mutuality of interest! which caused tho wets to hord together to-gether and support the man theyj eventhally put over. They were aided by the antl-admlnlstrat Ion feeling In j the convention, the "crown prince" propaganda, and by tho exceedingly1 Intelligent direction of Ed Moore, the' Cox manager, and the lack of efficient management in tho MeAdoo oamp FIVF- MEN RESPONSIBLE There were five men who nominated Cox Moore. Murphy, Taggart, Bren-an Bren-an of Illinois and Marsh of Iowa, andi (Continued on jwige Two.) "A Democrats Set Oist to Eieci Their Nominees (Cautioned Worn Pago Ona.) I these, ., Id. from Moon Marsh was Infinitely the greatest, Kach of these mi ii had Ills particular Job and each I did It well. In addition the were Inconstant In-constant conference, and thus Secured unity of action as against the Ulsor- i Sanitation that prevailed In the .lc- I Adoo camp The Cox backers say the wet and dr;. i Issue will be an important Issue in the campaign, and therefore, they are ad- r vising the governor to say something which will calm the turmoil in the ' breasts of tho prohibitionists Willlum Jennlngs I3ran sa ? he cannot do It, that Cox Is cursed with the support of liquor and of Wall street, and that he will not support him. This declara- ; Ion Is of serious import to Cox. In the states west of the Mississippi river. It ! win be of potent influence On the other hand the moist attitude of the 'governor is expected to help him In tho states which hav e been selected as I pivotal. The west also dislikes thi , Idea of a "made In Tarnmv" nominee To demonstrate the ubsence of Murphy Mur-phy domination, and as a sop to the administration, Franklin Koosevelt, the assistant secretary of the navy, w-as nominated for the vice presidency. Whether the administration down In I Its heart will like Koosevelt Is quoG-; Itionnble. Certainly he has been exceedingly ex-ceedingly frank in criticisms of Secre-j tan' of the Navy Daniels. "The question before the country," said a leading Democrat, "now. Is will It take n. progress, aggressive man, like Cox who haw made 8 superb governor, gov-ernor, and who has had long public experience .or a man like Harding., I who is a conservative and who stands for nothing." Bryan tel8 those who talk with him confidentially that there is and can be only one answer to this statement. A single- guess Is allowed (Copyright 1020. by Washington PosiJ oo- Burying beetles hav a h'blt of digging dig-ging a grave beneath small dead ver- tebrajei , |