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Show Notification of Cox Means War Is Really I On Between Parties i DAYTON, O.. Aug. 7 National De-I De-I mocracy today took up the battle gauge with Its Rl puhlle.an opfionents for America's highest political honor, the presidency With today's formal notification of and acceptance by Governor Jfoxnea M Cox, of the Democratic presidential presiden-tial nomination voted him at the San Francisco convention, tho national campaign was on between the two dominant parties, except only for similar sim-ilar ceremonies next Monday at Hyde Park. N. V. for Franklin D Roosevelt, Roose-velt, tho Democratic vice presidential nominee. I lemocratlc legions by the thousands thous-ands representing the party's leader-Shlp leader-Shlp and rank and file, joined today in the ceremony presenting their leader lead-er to the Amerlcaji elei torate. All states, territories and possessions were represented In today's program which culminated in Governor CoJt'S address of acceptance stating th-Dcmoeratlc th-Dcmoeratlc cause. HOLIDAY IN Ivin Dayton declared a half holiday today to-day for the ceremonies at Ihe Montgomery Mont-gomery county fair grounds, ubout a mile from the center of the city, while Ohio and other states snt thousands thou-sands more by special trains, automobiles auto-mobiles and other conveyances. i.ike city buildings and homes, the fair grounds tossed decorations ot flags hunting and banners, with gill shields and evergreen. Lithographed pictures of Governor Cox by thousands thous-ands were on dlsplav At the fair grounds seats for about 4.000 wero provided In ihe flag-decked amphitheatre amphi-theatre and special auxiliary grandstands. grand-stands. The speaker's rostrum, ad-. Joining the race course flanked with treeB, wan the Judge's stand, today almost al-most concealed under swaths of red, whlto and blue. The brown dirt race I rude und nvul enclosure together with grassy paddOcka at each end of the amphitheatre were set aside for tho crowd which gathered here today None wan out of earshot of the speakers, speak-ers, an electrical sound amplifying device de-vice having been installed to carry' the Democratic battle cry beyond the farthest far-thest p reSto In the grounds. D1QLEGATIONS MARCH. Marching delegatlbna swept through the atroeta with blaring bands, long beforo tho hour, 1 o'clock, set for the' formal parade to thi fair ground... for review by Governor Cox and thiol thi-ol her pa n y nol able i, The formal program nt tho grounds was brief, except for the acceptance address of Governor Cox, which was released for publication throughout the country at 11 o'clock local time, I everywhere and the notification! speech of Senator Robinson, of Ar- kansas. heading tho notification com-j mittee by virtue of his chairmanship I at San Francisco. J. prigg M M.i-hon, M.i-hon, local Democratic leader and close friend of Governor Cox. was the presiding pre-siding officer. Clergy selected for the Invocation and benediction, respectively, respec-tively, were the Rev. William A. Hale, ' of the Reformed church and the Rev. Martin P Neville, of Holy Angels Roman Ro-man t uthollc church here. L.I M II I ON (.1 1 s Ts. Prior tO the fair grounds' ceremony the governor and Mrs. Cox had as guests at a noon buffet luncheon at Trail's End the members of tho notification noti-fication and national committees and other prominent leaders. Mr Roosevelt, Roose-velt, his wife and daughter and Chairman White of the national committee com-mittee were among the governor's house guesia for the notification period. per-iod. In addition to Governor Cox and Mr. Roosevelt, places on the speak-j er's stand were provided for a group of party chh ftalns. Mrs. Cox and the governor's son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. D. J Mahoney. and other oth-er relatives and friends had boxes In the amphitheatre Given the honor position in the parade pa-rade line was tho celebrated 'Cos band" of Sun Francisco convention i fame. Immediately behind the scar-l let coated musicians from Plq.ua, O., were the Uoosters, ha) ton's fighting delegation at San Francisco. Theirs' was the glory of leading In the Cox campaign song of the convention, "Ohio' ihlch was the musical motif of the day's entire festivities. A perfect summer day wu.-i provid-; ed with a promise of considerable heat! by afternoon. Karly promise for fair weather was broken by gathering clouds and by ten) o'clock a light rain arrived with local thundershowers predicted for today and tomorrow. Tho rain was not heavy enough to send the street crowds to cover hut bobbing umbrel- las ifoon appeared over gaudy but j delicate uniforms of the visiting delegations dele-gations Numbers of spectators hustled to the fairgrounds amphitheatre early to secure seats |