The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, July 19, 1920, Page 9

“Francisco: as at Chicago. i mtlmatlo : sumlanty to those brought up by)Mr h Gross of Wisconsin in the Repubhcan ' : natxonal conventmn ' The Repubhcan conrentlon hissed Gross and 'voted his planks down. . The Democratic convention cheered Bryan—and_ voted: ‘his ‘planks down' ‘What. is the dliferenee? R : : Wlth the nommatlon for presndent ~ . of James M. Cox, governor of Ohio, ‘by . the Democrats, Amenean voters this fall will be called upon to choose between two candidates of remarkable slmllanty Both Cox and the Repub- “Tican nommee, Senator Warren G:: Harding, live in Ohio; Cox at Dayton™ and Hardin_g, at. Marion. . Both are newspaper publishers; both are fa- vored by that chque of international financiers popularly referred to as “Wall street” - The story .of Senator Hardmg and ' “his nomination by the Repubhcan con- vention at Chicago was told in a pre- vious issue of the Leader.. His sup- port of the Wall. street, reactionary ‘program in the last sessions .of con- gress needs no. further mtroductlon or comment. “Of Governor Cox, William Jenmngs Bryan, writing from San Francisco'as “the balloting was in progress, said: “It would be difficult to bring the Wall street crowd up to a line so distinctly : drawn. . The most of them'are with -Governor Cox, who has wisely en-. " trusted this part of his campaign to former ‘'‘Governor Harmon, who was: ' ‘the Wall ‘street candidate at Balti- ... more eight ‘years ago. “and Mr. Palmer kave some supporters amongst this element; but'a man who 38 really ‘under the control of the finan- ciers is moved from candidate to can- Mr. McAdoo . didate as‘a pawn on a checkerboard " is'moved from square to square, ac-- cording to the plan of the one: who 1s_.— pleying the game. o CONFUSIDN AIDS IN BOSSING: CON'VENTION The same situation exmted at San A multi- plicity of candidates was trotted out to confuse the: more “simple” dele- : . gatés, while entire delegations were ' shifted from one candidate to ‘another by ‘bosses who sat in “star chambers” in the ante-rooms ‘and convention ho- tels. ' hausted themselves and the candidates undesired were worn ‘down, - decisive switches in’ voting delegations: were effected and the! choice of the finan- ciers was nominated. : ¢ Governor Cox is accustomed tol Does * Protectlon Datus C. Srmth Questmns Benefits of Pohcy From Stand- pomt of Agriculture DITOR Nonpartxsan Lead- ‘When it comes to foohshness the = foolish virgins -had nothing on the occasional American — farmer who is. today shoutmg for tariff protection. man’s game for him and that other man is none other than our old friend, the “poor” -American . manufacturer, who used to plead that he was an in-' fant industry and then when ‘he was - grown so big that it was indecent to ~ any longer call himself an. ‘infant, told ‘us'it was a good thing for us, anyway, 1o keep on feedmg him protection pap. And for 40 years we haye paid the fbe tariff, - 4 At the fxrst :meetmg of the Amencan " Farm Bureau federation one of the " high offlcxals, Just elected, zave some £ an mbenhon to root for .. private life, but in. 1917 he staged a When the delegates "had ex-' ‘The ' farmer 'who supports the high tariff idea is certainly playing the other .is simply holding the bag. " creased in prlce by the “protectlon” it _carries. " piper while the wealth of the country _sucked into the tow:ns by the axd of ‘obeying orders and fulfillmg the am- bitions' and programs of the financial | and 'speculative ‘elements. He was born ‘b4 years ago at Jacksonburg, Ohio, and, having spent his boyhood on a farm, his_ political press agents will have colorful materlal for cam- palgn propaganda. SR BOUGHT BIG PAPER ON REPORTER’S WAGE ‘He later b.ecame ‘a newspaper re- pox;ter, in: the days when $12a week:’ ‘were considered as the makings of a - week’s: paytoll and while thus con- | “nected, with 'the Cincinnati Enquirer, his biography tells us, he: purchased the Dayton Daily News in 1898, and also the Springfield Press-Republic in 1903, and organized the News league. of Ohio at the same time. . With a - powerful: newspaper in Dayton, an- other at Springfield, and with scores of _smaller town papers toadying to the big Cox press, coupled with the: assistance of the News league, Mr. Cox launched into politics for himself. In 1909 he was elected and sent to ‘congress, serving untxl 1913, when he was elected governor of Ohxo. “After serving one term he was retired to- comeback and ‘again occupied the gov- _‘ernor’s chair at Columbus. er, Governor Cox has made no inno- vations. His papers are not of the so- ‘called “reform” kind. 'They are re- garded, rather, by his profession as’ . of the New York Times-Chicago Trib- une - 'St. Paul Dispatch - Minneapolis 'l‘nbune stamp. Different, though, it is with Senator Harding’s paper. It.| is located in too small a city to come in the Cox press classxficatxon. ; newspapers advocated, the same as As a newspaper editor and' pubhsh-. Sena- | ‘tor Harding’s paper in Marion has the | \ reputation of supporting almost any- | Q€ thing the big- Repubhcan machine | = - 2 V'I‘xes Any Klnd oI‘ 'I‘wlne Perfectly The Knotter that Never Missesthe Tie HE Herschel B1nder Knotter automatically adJusts ik itself to any size or diameter of twine. With under- size, oversize or even twine, it makes a perfect knot, even-with double er triple strands. strands as easily and readily as knots: of a single strand. “ Whether flax or hemp, hard or soft’ twme, the Herschel Knotter ties the knots securely. that can not be used in the ordinary knotter. Herschel Knotters are made to' fit McCor- mick, Deering or John Deere ' ' binders, small grain or corn. - { Al It discharges a knot of two or three It never misses. It will'tie cheap twine Every Knot Perfect .In operation the Herschel Knotter is like any other knotter, except that it has the yleldxng Jjaw to insure'a perfect tie. This yield- ing jaw handles all sxzes of ‘ twine ‘without a single adjustment. Order. from your dea]er —or wrife us direct. | Herschel-Roth Mfg. Co. aneapolls, an. for*- ‘has its owner, the senator himself. . | = - Both ‘cater to the same element ‘for | financml support, in pnvate leeT,aa e he | well as’ during the campaigns. East already ‘scents a flow- of cam- paign_ funds. That a "‘hugei’ barrel will be tapped in Wall street is'little “doubted, and from that same “barrel” the coin will flow to Ohio, to Dayton ‘and to! Marion, figuratively, but, ac- tually, the same crowd will spend equally: huge sums. on both Hardmg and Cox in a farcical campaign. Both _are satisfactory to the international’ financial ring, so the voters may have the choice of selecting between two.. “evils, one carrying a label “Repubh_ R can" and the other “Democra Protect Farmerp “probectlon" and now I see leadmg l western farm journal in its business section actually proposing that steps be taken: to limit general imports be- cause some things are likely to:be im- ported that the farmer has to sell.: It 'is true that protection is made: .real on some few things, and only a/ few, that the farmer grows,: and we should have what little help we can ‘et | in that way, but in the great run of the. -protectxon business the farmer’s: part " In the main the farmer’s: products ¢an not possxbly ‘be protected because: rival products are not imported, while about- everythmg' he has.to buy is in- It is a 16-to-1 plan—sixteen for the manufacturer and ‘one for the farmer. | “Protection, tariff protection, means sunply protection on the pnce—-—let us. ''not forget 1t. 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