The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 6, 1920, Page 4

Stories From Ohio That Illustrate the Manner of Man He Is BS One of Governor James M. Cox's eronien is ‘The DAYTON, Odio, July 6 Antrim, of Hamilton, Ohio, recently retired ag state law librarian, Were boyhood friends in Buuler county 36 years ago, “My earliest recollection of Jimmie Cox,” said Antrim, raminiscenctng, seeing him drive into Jake Morner’s feed stable, near the old High Main sta suspension bridge, in Hamilton, back in 1855, “1 was working in Smyers’ hardware store, acrom the street, and Would often come Into our store to buy nails or binder twine or things needed on his father’s farm. “The ‘family would send Jim inte town from Jacksonaburg, where fey lived, about once every two weeks to do the ‘trading.’ Ho drove old bay mare, hitched to a light bugsy without a top. | “Jake Morner, who ran the feed stable, was an odd character, full lod stories, and he and Jimmie became great friends. I've often out of the hardware store window across the street, and have Jimmie, sitting en a soap box, laughing his head off at one of yarns. MEALS AT THE BUTLER HOUSE REMEMBERED BY THE GOVERNOR “When dinner time came, Jimmie would often come across to the ‘and say: ‘Come on, Ed. let's go down to the Butler House and Something to eat,’ and I'd generally go along with him, if I bap to have thé price. They servel regular meals for 20 centa “Not long ago, the governor and I were having a ‘fanning bee,’ and aid to me: ‘Ed, do you think there's any place in Ohio today that such good meals as wo used to get at the old Butler House for “gents when we were kids? | “After Jimmie got all his ‘trading’ done, he always went down to ment market of Joo and Johnnie Fromn and bought a big hunk Bologna to eat on the 10-mile drive back to Jacksonsburg, [ used may to him: ‘Jimmie, you'll kill yourself eating all that stuff” “I was out with him a year or so ago and we passed a meat market Was displaying some very fine bologna in its window. Ordered his car stopped and he said to me: ‘Say, Ed, go in and MS pound of that, will you? I like it as well now as I did when I @ kid.” LIKES TO TRAMP THRU STORMS, HIS FORMER EDITORIAL WRITER | George F. Burba, a Columbus newspaperman, probably knows Cox » Personally, than any other man, For nearly 20 years Burba Associated with Cox as editorial writer on his Dayton newspaper then as private secretary during the governor's first term. | “One of Cox's most interesting pleasures,” says Burba, “Is to walk ® the teeth of storms. He loves to tramp thru the fields and along highways when it's raining torrents, or in a snow or sleet storm, _ “Many a time he has called at my house in Dayton during @ storm ra: = 7 go tramping with him. five ure, and cever as much aa 10 miles of territery. minutes any time he wants to. I've been hunting A when he was 12 years ol} The United at Jacksonsburg, Butler county, Ohio, hired him at 35 be sexton; and a few weeks later he went on the schoolboard at 25 cents e week as janitor of the 4 in’ ghosts,” the governor tells. “I used to be scared half to death I would approach the church on dark Sunday nights to unlock it ‘Qnd light the lamps. “And then I'd have to sit in the church alone until the first eam- nt arrived. It was always an old Mrs. Keister.” By the time he was 15, Cox had received ali the schooling he could in his immediate neighborhood. At the same time he had become of the farm work. His father, however, had a farmer's career jpped out for him. Se the Cox boy “ran off" to Middletown and gat a job, at $2 ® week, as “devil” in the office of the Middletown Signal, run- ning the press and sweeping out the office, after school hours. A week or so later his father located him, but didn’t take him back 6 the farm. “Go ahead and be & printer if you want to,” he said. 16 HE GOT A LICENSK BEGAN TEACHING SCHOOL At 16, younw Cox seoured a teagher's license and began teaching in he Village of Heno at $40 « month. At the same time he taught @ Right schoo! ag Middletown. 4 If Was while teaching # the night school that he met Paul Sorg, « Millionaire tobacco man, who was president of the school board. * “After teaching several years, Cox got a job as reporter on a Cincinnati newspaper. He was “fired,” however, for writing a story it displeased » railroad official, and then Sorg, by this time a an, made Cox his private secretary, F Here in Dayton, they still tell the story of how Cox, | @scaped from a hospital He had been working day and night for months, trying to put’a | Pun-cdown newspaper on its feet and he had been acting as editor, editorial Writer and business manager. When the nervous breakdown came the Goctors said he'd have to stay in the hospital for at least three weeks. He entered the place on Sunday | MONEY TO MEET THE PAYROLL) NEEDED TO CURK His “NERV 18 years ago. ALL, THAT WAS US BREAKDOWN” the night. But no trace could be found of him until about no telephoned the superintendent ssisiehdegssedinlene ae “This is Cox speaking,” he said. “But, Mr. © ‘& Very sick man.” “That was before I was able to borrow enough mone: “Sweek's payroll,” replied the pationt.. “You'd have « meee Weller ‘too, if you had my payroll to meet and nothing to mect it with” : | _In Carroll county, Ohio, where democrats are few and far between, Cox Was making & political speech several years ago to a erowd componed large Ty of farmers. When he mentioned that he himself had been born and 4 reares # farm, one of his hearers, evidently a zealous republican, shout- “What do you know about mauling ratls™ The crowd, thinking the gov- would have to confess himself ignorant, laughed uproariously, ‘The geverner insisted that his questioner come down in front where all sht see him. “Now, my friend,” said Cox, “Il answer ‘ene. You tell this audience what a ‘glut’ is.” eter bers wics fle Manel bse ‘The fellow turned all shades, shifted from one foot to another, and ap- ‘peared speechiexs. “Go on, now, and tell us what a ‘glut’ 1s," Cox tormented. ‘The republican finally stammered: “Never heard of one.” “Well, I have and I've used one many a time in helping my father split Falls down in Butler county.” ‘Then, addressing the pode the Govetney geked all who knew what a “glut” was to hold up their hands, Quite a num- ber of hands went up. - “A ‘glut,’" explained the governor, “is a big wooden wedge that you rive into the log in splitting it.” He was not again interrupted during that speech. OF HIS NEWSPAPERS UPON GREAT DARING & newspaper publisher, Cox has always shown great daring. some railroad men, who were trying to build into grade crossings, sued him for $426,000 criminal of the bard fight his Dayton News had made against their rea | “I'm all right now; I'll not be back.” pleaded the superintendent, “the doctor says you're ulleged, it was ‘The gov! Early the next Saturday morning they discovered he had left during| | | fa AAMES AE C2 duty of the shertff to take posseaston of the property unless the person sued Was able to give bond in twice the amount sued for. ‘The sheriff of Montgomery county, a republican, locked up the News of fice, with Cox and his entire working force on the inside, engaged in got ting out the day's paper. If Cow falled to give $850,000 bond, the afternoon inmue wouldn't appear While he wa on the tel Is Suspended.” phone, solielting ald from every friend bh think of, the opposition came out with an extra with « big headii could News An hour later, however, the News was on the streets with an extra tell ing how its friends had come to the reaoug with the $550,000 bond. Sixteen years ago Cox bought a newspaper in Springfield, Ohio, and in one day he did three things to It Changed its name from PressRepublie.to The News Changed its politics from republiean to democratic. Changed ita time of issue from morning to evening, Instead of wrecking the paper, paper on the road to great prowperity. HOW HE WON A BARREL OF APPLES FROM A DOUBTING FARMER Cox won & barrel of apples from a Van Wert county farmer a few years 20. At Delphos he was telling bis audience that 6 new tax law, but re “Governor,” Sometimes we'd walk for| #Mtly enacted, would reduce their taxen said an old farmer | “Hie wonderful viltality is due, in a measure, to the fact that he| house, “we've heard that story before. these three radiqa} changes star who arose In the back You've got to show me.” ed the part of the “My friend,” said the governor, “I'll bey you a $5 hat to a red apple that apples to Columbus tomorrow was speaking at the Van Wert county farmer he had “I just wanted to say, governor,” be began, “that I'll ship that barrel of bet with, was about four to one republican. During his Gret term as congressman, Cox discovered that the republican The new law saved me just $15.20 in spite jof the fact that I turned in $1,100 more of personal property.” Cox was the first democrat ever to carry the National Soldiers’ Home, | at Dayton, in an election. Tem years ago the normal voting population the new law reduces your taxes” 4 “T'l make it @ barrel.” the old fel) @@ experiment. low replied, while the crowd lauahed | Some months later the governor | Lima While he was eating his supper at the hotel | the colored head waiter stepped up and said & man was outside and wanted to see the governor. The! «overnor had him shown in, It was appropriations committee of the house had increased the allowance for food for the animate in the national soological gardens at Washington on account of increasing costs, but hadn't iner food for the soldiers’ homes thruout the eov sed & penny Ue allowances ror When the bill was under discussion, he produced the menus of the Day- | ton home, the Dayton jail and the federal and showed that the old soldiers were not faring as well as either the Kas | Jail or the prison inmates | “If you can appropriate more money for the monkeys tn the soo, why | can't you give the old soldiers more to gut?” was the text of his congres: | | sional speech. penitentiary at Leavenworth, His fight waa #0 vigorous that he forend Into the bill a $250,000 increase for food alone at the soldiers’ homes, At the next election he carried the Dayton home overwhelmingly - and A, |swung to the Ohioan. posses’ were licked,” declared |this politician, who is by the way of |being somewhat of a boas himself. ‘The Fz easels WOMEN’S SUITS, FROCKS | * * * * -—“Jamea | “They fires. nery. ‘Veteran Politician Tells Why Cox Was Nominated SAN FRANCISCO, July M. Cox waa chosen as the democratic presidential nominee because William | delegates finally decide G. McAdoo couldn't be nominated, Mitchell Palmer couldn't be | inated. nut everything hind Cox, butwJt was 1 that they wanted him This convention, to my mind, * * they y when the themeclves he was nom elected,” said a veteran politician to | demonstrated that a group of inde day. Ho refused permission to use| pendent delegates, acting practica his name. without leadership, might have kept He went on to express the belief |the convention deadlocked al! sum |that only with Cox or MeAdoo eould | mer. | | the democrats hope for success in the] “The democratic nominee was de [November It so hap-|elded upon a 2 o'clock in the pened that most of the strong party| morning, all right, but it waa out leaders were lined up with Cox, he|in the open, with more than 1,000| said, but even this backing would|persons—men and women—sitting in| have been fruitless had not a num-|and probably 10,000 others looking ber ofindependent delegations finally | on.” | sscchiaaiaiapisienss j DANGER! 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