Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 267, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1920 — NO POLITICAL SABOTAGE: COX [ARTICLE]

NO POLITICAL SABOTAGE: COX

“Pemocracy Will Not Attempt It,” Is / Hope of Defeated Candidate for Presidency. Columbus, 0., Nov. 8. —Gov. Cox, Democratic candidate for the presidency, in his first statement since the election sayg: “For the first time in ten years tne Republican-party is in complete control of the legislative and executive branches of the national, government. Therefore policy as to statute and administration is with it. Its task is no longer that of the critic, but the constructor. It is nTy hope and firm belief ‘that the Democracy of the nation will not attempt political sabotage. The country has seen quite enough of that. “We are in the midst of an emergency and the nation’s every resourceshould co-ordinate in behalf of the things that are helpful. So long as government exists, the principles of Thomas Jefferson will be the center about which human hopes will gather. Talk of a new party is absurd. One might as well discuss the destruction of human emotions. “As essential as it had been to the welfare of the country in the past, the creed of Democracy is more needed now than ever because recent events have made it distinctly the American party. In spirit I am as proud as when the fight started. I would not retrace a step nor yield a single jot in principle. It was a privilege to make the contest for the right in the face of overwhelming odds. There is a distinct difference between defeat and surrender. The flag of Democracy still flies as the symbol of things more enduring than the passions »nd resentment that come with the aftermath of war.”