Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1920 — CHESTER ROWELL OUT FOR COX [ARTICLE]

CHESTER ROWELL OUT FOR COX

California Republican Leader to Stump the State for Governor. Washington, D. C., Oct. 18.—Chester Rowell of Fresno, Calif., chairman of the Republican state central committee in 1916, former Republican national committee member and for many years one of the strongest supporters of Hiram W. Johnson, has come out for Governor Cox. Mr. Rowell will begin this week a speaking campaign v for Cox and Roosevelt In California, speaking with Senator James D. Phelfn, candidate for re-election. Mr. Rowell formerly was editor of the Fresno Republican, which he soli recently. He was one of the leading members of the Progressive party and a close friend of Theodore Roosevelt For the last two years Mr. Rowell has advocated the league of nations and presided at the meeting In San Francisco which President Wilson addressed on his trip to the Paciflic coast. During this period Mr. Rowell did not break personally with Senator Johnson and was understood to favor him for the Republican nomination for president, despite the divergence of their views on the league.