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JULY 22 1920 “ While there is ife there’s Hope” Published by. LIFE PUBLISHIN “OMPANY Crragtes Dana Gisson, President Groxce B, Ricwarosox, Vice-President Le Rov Miter, Treasurer Grorce p'Utassy, Secretary Eowarn S. Martin, Editor Massox, Managing Editor 1 Saves Casey, Art Editor Thoma: 17 West Thirty-first Street, New York London Offices, Rolls House, Bream is hard to lose Ohio this ear. Well, Ohio is a great state and close to ‘the country,.and comes state to being rep- very center of population of t as near as any resentative of the American Ohio's representative qualities have been recognized before in selecting candidates for President, but never to the same ex- tent as this year. It is notable indeed, a moving circumstance to be considered and digested at leisure, that two Ohio news- paper men should be candidates of the two great parties for President. Never before has recognition concentrated on people, Ohio as conspicuously as that; never be- fore has it shown itself so conscious of the newspaper vocation. Perhaps at last that vocation is coming to its own. It The last President is a very instructive calling. newspaper man who ran for was Horace Greeley, and he did not do well a candidate; but year the profession seems bound to have a vindi- cation. Other candidates turn up, strong that may but the probability is very either Cox or Harding, both newspaper owners and editors, will be elected. What is really surprising is that it has taken the public so long to look for presidential candidates in the profession from which it has so long been used to get its political opinions. As between the two Ohio editors, Mr. Cox seems for the moment to have rather the best of it with him than the Republicans are with Mr. Harding. Politically speaking, the Democratic nomination seems at first sight pretty strong. Give the Democratic Con- His party is better pleased Biigs., London, E. C. vention credit for doing its work thor- oughly and to the end. So far as appears, all candidates before that convention had a fair show. No doctor was called in to dope the patient, and the delegates stayed on resolutely and finished the job. There were bosses present, but they fought in the open and on the floor of the conven- tion, and in so far as they won, they won fairly N these parts we are reading up on Gov- ernor Cox. We know about him only what we read and what we are told, but so far he lool He is a man of large experience; newspaper experi- s pretty good, ence, which always includes instruction and practice in what not to say, as well as in statement; business experience, which is by no means to t in the times ahead; experience of Con- gress and Washington life, and a valu- despised ple and creditable experience as Gover- nor of Ohio, It is very noteworthy that Governor Cox should have been three times elected to his present office. He He is credited with bringing the laws of Ohio up to the has been a good governor. with labor He is credited an understanding heart and date, especially in connection and labor organizations with having quite a good head on the subject of taxa- tion. He is not an enthusiastic Prohibi- thing that Uncle Bill Bryan outspoken grief—but it does not appear that he is so anti-Prohibition as to make doubtful the enforcement of the Fighteenth Amendment. He seems to be about as good a Prohibitionist as Presi- tionist—a causes dent Wilson, and that is good enough. Evidently he is an accessible man, whose feet touch the ground when he walks, and not the high places only. Perhaps it is time we had a President of that charac- ter. He starts with a great advantage, in that the convention has given him a pretty that is right about the League of Nations and professes sound Mr. Wil he an obstacle to the fulfilment of his own hopes and policies good platform intentions about the railroads, son had come to Governor Cox inherits the polictes and the hopes, and, not being their parent, is likely to get both of them a better chance than the could. Often boys or girls are sent away to school to get them away from home and give them a chance parent to develop. Mr. Wilson's policies are very likely to benefit by treatment of that Somebody not their parent, but standing in their parent’s place, may do them a lot of good. As for Mr. Franklin Roosevelt, the only trouble with him as a candidate for Vice-President is that he is young and too good to be tied up to an inactive job, One would almost rather have had him in the Senate. All the same, there for a Roosevelt's being sort too is a precedent Vice-President, and though that office is not necessarily a stepping-stone to the Presidency, there have been Vice-Presi- dents who have succeeded to the job, whereas there never has been a case main senator who succeeded in into the White House. ofa moving It is a great year for Vice-Presidents. In both parties the nomination for that ffice is first-class. The office is very important, and should be made propor- tionately desirable. As a first step the 000) might well be doubled, but the great need is for duties fit to keep a man in the active period of life from rusting 6 HE most doubtful compliment on the action of the conventioncomes fromthe Times when recording that Governor Cox and Senator Harding are both business