Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1920 — BUDGET AND QUOTA [ARTICLE]

BUDGET AND QUOTA

Mr. Upham, treasurer of the Republican national committee, says that Governor Cox does not know the difference between a “quota” and a “budget.” He describes a quota as “a dream, a roseate estimate, something nobody expects to get.” .Yet the Republican treasury bulletin states that a great many cities have oversubscribed their quota. The Washington (D. C.) Republican chairman admits Washington’s quota is $50,000, as stated in the list and says he is going to get it. It is Mr. Upham who does not know the real distinction between a quota and a budget. His idea is that a quota is what they get and a budget is what they admit they get.

Governor Cox and Franklin Roosevelt keep to the vital issues of the campaign as expressed by the campaign slogan: “Peace, Progress and Prosperity.” That is to say, they stress the league of nations, the progressive ideals of government and the economic and Industrial features of the platform and the reduc.tion of taxation. These are the real issues that appeal to men and women alike, as demonstrated by Governor Cox In West Virginia and Indiana and by Mr. Roosevelt on his western trip, where he found the people progressive, strong for the league and against Mr. Harding’s plan to make the high cost of living a little higher. .

Cox hits straight from the shoulder and talks to the hearts as well as the minds of his hearers. Roosevelt puts himself on friendly terms with his audience and talks a language they can understand as easily as they can understand Governor Cox\ Senator Harding shifts from one fook to the other and changes his misd ’ as often as he changes his shirt. What he says is less like a speech ' than a political shimmy.