Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 237, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1920 — COX KNOCKED LIVE HORNET’S NEST ON OWN PARTY'S HEAD [ARTICLE]

COX KNOCKED LIVE HORNET’S NEST ON OWN PARTY'S HEAD

Charge Regarding Campaign, Funds Fibres Back and x Singes Democrats. . I THEY WANTED TEN MILLION.; People Willing to Contribute to, Get Rid of Democrats, but Not i to Keep Them in Power. By WILLIAM HOOTOR. -God in everything,” sang the poet. | And this does not even exclude the rompalyn speeches of Governor Cox. 1 As a result of Mr. Cox’s allegations •f a big Republican Campaign Our- ( ruption Fund, certain definite facts ( have been demonstrated by the ■Worn . testimony of the leaders of Governor Cox’s own party. They may be summarized as fellows: It has been demonstrated thatshenu, tn their most sanguine moods, the Republican managers never contemplated a campaign fund of more than *4.000,000, the Democratic . party, at an expense of one-half nail- , Hon dollar*, bet up the machinery for the collection of a campaign fund of *10,000.000. It has been demonstrated that tho contemplated *10,000,000 fund of the Democrats did not materialise for the sole reason that there aren't a sufficient number of plain people In the United States who want a continuance of Democratic rule, to,contribute even one-tenth of *10,000,000. It has been demonstrated’ that whereas, -the great body of tho people—literally thousands of them — hive willingly contributed from SO cents to *I,OOO to be rid of the present Democratic administration, and to defeat Governor Cox ron the other hand not thousands and not even hundreds are willing to contribute 5 cents toward a continuance of Wiiaoniam. What Records Show.

It has been shown by sworn records that whereas, tn despite of Mr. Cox's outraged feelings over the disposition of thousands of ordinary American cltlsens to help pay tho expenses of defeating him In bls campaign for tho presidency, Mr. Cox in 1914 viewed with complacency the criminal efforts of bls campaign managers tn Ohio to extort from the Civil Service employees of the state contributions intended to further his personal political fortunes. It has been shown by the testimony of Mr. Cox's own campaign managers that the *4,000,000 which the Republican managers hope to raise for all political purposes this year is not more thiui can legitimately be expended for this purpose, and that these frank Democratic managers would also like to have a similar amount, but don’t seo any way of gating it It has been shown that the common, ordinary rank and file of the American people, for the first time In American politics, are ready to contribute out of their own pockets to defeat a candidacy which represents all that la repugnant and hostile te American .Institutions, and that this willingness of the American people to contribute to the expense of defeating the Democracy ia the sole basis of Gevernor Cen's charge of a conspiracy to buy the government of the United States. Incidentally it required tho candidacy of Governor Cox to Introduce Into a national campaign the doctrine that'it is possible for the people of the United States to buy their own government unless Mr. Cox unconsciously means to convey the ides that In this campaign the people are to buy back their government from the autocracy which has seized It and i 'uses to let go. Finally It has been conclusively demonstrated that If the Democratic party Is to secure any money to waste la a vain effort to achieve a Democratic victory that money must come exclusively from men of the Colonel Deeds’ type and the Dayton aircraft Plunderbund, and from the Wall street international financiers, who alone will profit through the participation.of tho United States Ju Wilson's League * Nations. All of these conclusions have been demonstrated by sworn testimony before the Senate Committee with a. mathematical precision which would have met the enthusiastic approbation of tile late Mr. Euclid. Governor Oax> great expose has petered out It was a false alarm. s Lot's get back to the issues of the miipalga