Cox believes that there may be delay until nations once more
have borne their crosses on Calvary and until further blood and
treasure are wasted. And so he says now: "I favor going in."



CHAPTER II

COX THE MAN


Men of great versatility are most difficult to picture
comprehensively. Perhaps this is the reason that no pen-portrait
of Theodore Roosevelt ever seemed quite complete. There was in
every single sketch something that seemed to be left unsaid, a
point made by one was certain to be omitted by another. Cox is a
man after the Roosevelt type. They were fast friends and they
had many ideas in common. They often exchanged views upon
progressive issues and found themselves largely in accord.
Neither was static in mental processes and their dynamics were
often of the same sort.

But while Governor Cox's intimates compare him often with
Roosevelt, they prefer to liken him to Andrew Jackson. For Cox
is the true Twentieth Century Jacksonian, they say. Like Andrew
Jackson, Governor Cox can improvise the organization of a
political campaign better than any man of his time, save Colonel
Roosevelt, and the masterful Colonel won only when he had great
resources at his command. Cox seems to have reached back into
history and grasped the idea of the manner in which Jackson's