Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1920 — COX NOT A VOTE GETTER [ARTICLE]

COX NOT A VOTE GETTER

VOTE-GETTING FAME NOT WARRANTED BY ELECTION FIGURES. Democrats, who have' been charmed by the supposed fame of Gov. Cox as a vote getter, will be surprised when they face the election figures from the office (of the secretary of state of Ohio. The figures show that Cox never won a straight-away fight against the Republicans. In 1912 Garford, the progressive candidate for governor, polled 217,903 votes and-this deflection from the Republican party threw the election to Cox, who was the democratic candidate for governor. In 1914 with Garford, Hie progressive candidate for governor still polling more than 60,000 votes from the Republican, Willis, the Republican candidate /was elected by a vote 'of 30,000 more than the number received by Cox. In 1916 Wilson, with his slogan, “He kept us out of war” carried Ohio by 89,408 and carried Cox to victory by the slender vote of 6,616 votes. Cox ran more than 82,000 votes behind Wilson in Ohio. In 1918 Cox carried Ohio by 11,944 votes. The analysis of the vote for this year shows that had it not been for a deflection in Hamilton county, which contains Cincinnati, based on a'purely local issue Cox would have been defeated ,in the state. Hamilton county, normally Republican by 25,000, was lost to the Republican candidate not on account of the personal strength of Cox, but on account of “a local issue as stated above. This year Arthur L. Garford, the progressive candidate for governor in 1912, receiving 217,903, for the senate in 1914, receiving 67,500 votes is back in the Republican party and with the other Ohio progressives, is solidly behind Harding and Coolidge.

Mrs. Frank Marlatt has returned from Donovan where she had visited with her daughter. Job printing at the Republican office.