Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1920 — COX DWINDLES. [ARTICLE]

COX DWINDLES.

Maine having gone Republican by 65,006, Mr. Cox puts up the figure he says Republicans are going to collect to buy the presidency. He is no longer satisfied with a mere $15,000. That might have been all right if Maine had returned a normal majority. But 65,000 calle for heroic measures, therefore he assures the citizens of Nampa (Idaho) that the corruption fund is not $15,000,000, buti $25,000,000, or $30,000,000. The less verification the more vociferation is Mr. Cox’s motto. The progress of Mr. Cox is significant. Small bore state politicrf has been Mr. Cox’s experience, and some allowance might be made for that fact, but as Mr. Cox has traveled he has grown smaller instead of larger. No expanding sense of his responsibilities as candidate for the highest office in the land and leader of a great historic party has come to him. On the contrary, he talks more and more like a soap •box orator without that individual s usual justification of sincerity. Up to this time Mr. Cox has shown the smallest caliber of any presidential candidate for many years. , No patriotic Republican can be glad of that, though it makes Republican* success the more certain. At any time it would be deplorable to have a national contest put on the plane chosen by Cox, but at a time like the present it is doubly so. We fear that as November approaches Mr. Cox will get worse instead of better in direct ratio with his chances. —Chicago Tribune.