CANDIDATES FOR AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 2, 28 September 1920, Page 3

CANDIDATES FOR AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

A REMARKABLE PARALLEL. Mr. James M. Cox, chosen on the Ufa ballot as' the candidate of the Democratic Party for the Presidential election next November, is Governor of hia native State, Ohio, which has given more Presidents to the United States than any other. He can turn to the history of 'his political opponents for a parallel of happy augurj', for out of the ranks of that party came an Ohio-born President —Mr. Rutherford B. Hayes.' who (like Mr. Cox) was three times Governor of Ohio. This parallel, however, is "as nothing compared with that v/hioh can bo established between Governor Cox and his, present opponent, Senator Warren G. Harding, the Republican nominee.. The opening stages of each man's' career were so similar that a printed biographical form which' 6hould leave spaces ■ blank for the insertion of names, dates, and localities might do duty for both. Mr. Cox was bom on a farm near Jacksonburg:, Butler County, oniMarch 31,.,1870, and he carries his 50 years with a vigorous ease that tells of strength won when he was a farmer's lad. It is his pride, as it is the pride 'of Senator Harding, that he was "reared on a farm," and that the country' school at Jacksonburg gave him the beginnings of education. Later came several terms at the Amanda High School before he went out, to make his way in the world. •. ' " He worked in a printer's offuse, as newsboy, and as "printer's devil," and he taught in o country school. Then came an opportunity, eagerly seized, to become e. reporter, and when he felt,- himself ready he sought and obtained a position with ,the Cincinnati "Inquirer." Energetic and-thrifty, he-,loat none of; the chances that came his-way, and he was Teady, when in 1898 the Dayton "Daily News" was for sale, to buy it and to apply himself feverishly to the expansion of its influence. He; succeeded 60 well that in 1903 he could acquire the Springfield (Ohio) 'Tress Republic," now the Springfield '"Daily News." With the two newspaper properties he formed the News League of Ohio, and his position in his native State was henceforth assured. . : Like Senator Harding, his connection with journalism drew him irresistibly into i politics. It is generally agreed in Ohio'that he is not only a likeable man, but an admirable Governor.