Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 211, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1920 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Stroat safe and buried at sea, Cummings is just the person tp officiate, but his selection is a serious handicap. If the party proposes to appeal to the progressive sentiment of the country;” Mir. Bryan calls the Cox candidacy a disgrace. He says; "The fact that the Democrats of two dry States. Ohio and" Kentucky, have instructed for Governor Cox makes it proper to consider his position oa . the liquor Question. It is becoming -every day more and'more apparent that he is the man about whose standard the wet forces will gather. ” Governor Bdwards is a joke. A drunkard in the last stages of delirium tremens would have sense enough to know .that Bdwards has no chance of nomination. Senator Hitchcock did. not have any chance oven before the Nebraska primary, hence he had nothing to lose. Governor Cox Is their man and he has fairly won the dishonor that ho seeks. “ After disgracing his State he aspires to a position in which he codld disgrace a nation. For years the men engaged in the liquor business have bben the real, anarchists of the country, far more dangerous'.than the professional anarch'sts. Governor Cox has become their candl- ” His noriiination would make the Democratic Party the leader of the lawless element of the country and hla election, if, such a thing were possible, wotild turn the White House over to those who defy the Government and hold law in contempt. " There la no likelihood of . his nomination and no chance of his election if nominated, but why should«any Democrat be willing to support' a man whose nomination would insult-the conscience' of the nation? For the triumph of Mbit ion is a triumph of the nation** conscience." • * *