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Show TELEGRAMS POUR I INTO OHIO GUI I Clerk Kept Busy Opening Congratulatory Con-gratulatory Messages From Notables of Country DAYTON, O., July 5. (iov. James M. Cox today sent a teleKiarn to the Democratic national convention at Sari H t- ranclSCO announcing he would accept the presidential nomination and thanking the delegates for their ac- 1 In- governoi Will addie.ns his fellow townsmen, mpst ot whom he can call by their Hist names, at a town mans meeting at !.30 o'clock, lie will mo-toi mo-toi there from Dayton with friends Dong before noon today friends from Middletown came to Dayton t H personally requestthe presence of the. governor at the jollification meeting tonight. They culled at his home after having spent must of the morning hours ringing bells and blowing wlm-ties wlm-ties In celebration of n- governor nomination. Some Of the delegation were from Jacksonburg, Ohio, where the gover-nor gover-nor was born fifty years ago. Jack BOnbUrg Is only three miles from Mid dletown. 1 he Democratic nominee began hie 1 newspaper career tn Mlddletown as a newsboy, later working as a printer's devil and teaching night school. It was there that he met 'ongi easma n Raul Surg the tobacco king, who at the tun'- was a member of the Middie-town Middie-town board f education. , Later Mr Cox became private sec-rotary sec-rotary to Soig. Among ihe first of the hundreds I upon hundreds of telegrams of con-gratulatlons con-gratulatlons received today were ones H from President Wilson and Senator Warren G. Harding, the Republican presidential nominee Senator Hard-ing Hard-ing wired "I recall a much remarked cartoon which portrayed you and me as news-boys news-boys contending for White House de-livery. de-livery. It seems to have been pro-pnetlCi pro-pnetlCi As an Ohloan and a fellow publisher, I congratulate you on your notartl victory." T( legrame Of congratulation also wereroceived from Senator Robinson, p. 1 111,1 11. -nt ehuirman of the Demo-1 Demo-1 ratlc national convention; Senator tiitohcock, Senatur FJoiuerone, Wll-Hani Wll-Hani 1 oopet Procter, who managed I c,. n Wood " pre -convention campaign, and former Gov. Campbell of Ohio Telegrams were arriving so fast that several clerks were busy opening them. No attempt was made tu an-swer an-swer them immediately. 00- New I "rk state forbids nae of the U. S. flag for adertiaing purposes. |