Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1920 — Democratic Nominees [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Democratic Nominees

JAMES M. COX. James Middleton Cox was three times governor of Ohio —an honor enjoyed by only one other Ohioan, Rutherford B. Hayes. Born on a farm, educated in the public schools, a printer’s devil, a school teacher, a newspaper reporter, a private secretary to a congressman, owner, manager and proprietor of two newspapers, member of the congress for three years and three times governor of his state, is his record to date.

Business success paralleled his political achievements, and through his own efforts Mr. Cox has amassed a fortune. Cox became the leader of the Democratic party in Ohio in 1912, when he wa§ nominated for governor. As one who had brought radical changes in the state constitution, he took the field in its behalf. His first term as governor was devoted chiefly to forwarding the enactment of laws to put the new state constitution into effect. But Ohio evidently was not prepared to assimilate all the new laws,' for Cox was defeated for re-election. But his party renominated, him in 1916 and he was re-elected for a third term in 1918, being the only Democrat to win in Ohio. Legislation for which Governor Cox is best known includes a model workmen's compensation law and a child labor law, which have been extensively copied by other states. Educators of the country say the Ohio school code, enacted under Governor Cox’s direction, will live as a monument to his achievements. Cox was born in Butler county, 0., in 1870. He attended district school and held his first position as a teacher of the school in which he took his first lessons. He spent evenings and holidays in a printing office. In a few years he received his first assignment on the staff of the Cincinnati Enquirer. * After 10 years with the Enquirer he went to Washington as a private secretary to Congressman Paul Sore of Ohio. At the close of this service he bought the Dayton Daily News, borrowing most of the money to pay for it. Later he bought the Springfield Daily News. He was first elected to the congress In 1908. He recently bought the farm near Jacksonburg on which he was born, and is making it into a modern farm home, where he expects to live on retirement from public office. He is married and has four children.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. The little village of Hyde Park, birth place and summer residence of Franklin D. Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the navy and Democratic candidate for the vice-presidency, ceived quietly but with elation the news that its favorite political son had been named as running mate to Governor James M. Cox. to communicate with his mother, The first question asked about Franklin Delanor Roosevelt, chosen as the nominee for vice-president on the Democratic ticket, is as to his relation to President Theodore Roosevelt. He is a Democrat, and has been all his life. He is a fifth cousin of the late President Roose-, velt, and his wife, who was Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, is a niece of President Roosevelt, daughter of his only brother. Mr. Roosevelt first sprang Into political prominence In 1910 when he was drafted by the Democrats of the twenty-eighth New York state senatorial district in an effort to defeat Senator John F. Schlosser of Beacon, who was a candidate for reelection. Roosevelt was successful.

Mr. Roosevelt was re-elected in 1912 but resigned on March 17, 1913, to accept the appointment as assistant secretary of the navy. Since Mr. Roosevelt’s appointment to the navy department, he has spent most of his time in Washington, returning during the Summer months and on holiday trips to visit his mother. He is still a parishioner of St. James Episcopal church, which the Roosevelt family has attended for years. Mr. Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park Jan. 30, 1882, the son of James and Sarah Delano Roosevelt. He is a distant relative of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt on his father’s side dnd of the Astor family through his mother. He was graduated from Harvard in 1904 and the Columbia । law school in 1907, being admitted to the New York bar in the same year. Mr. Roosevelt married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, niece of the late Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and । daughter of Eliot Roosevelt, Meh. 17, 1905. They have five children. Mr. Roosevelt divides ’his time when at home betwen his family, his interests in local affairs and tennis. He is extremdfy democratic in manner and is popular throughout the country. In New York Mr. Roosevelt is a member of the City, Harvard, Knickerbocker and Racquet and Tennis clubs, while he is affiliated with the Army and Navy, Metropolitan and University clubs of Washington. »