Presidents, Warren Harding. The losing candidate, an Ohio newspaper publisher:
"Cox served three terms as Governor of Ohio, first, in 1913–1915 and then in 1917–1921. He presided over a wide range of measures such as laying the foundation of Ohio's unified highway system, creating no fault workers' compensation system and restricting child labor.[4] He introduced direct primaries and municipal home rule, started educational and prison reforms, and streamlined the budget and tax processes.[5]
During World War I, Cox encouraged voluntary cooperation between business, labor, and government bodies. In 1918, he welcomed constitutional amendments for Prohibition and woman suffrage.[2] Cox supported the internationalist policies of Woodrow Wilson and reluctantly supported US entry into the League of Nations."....
A capable and well-liked progressive reformer, Cox was nominated for the presidency by the Democratic party at the 1920 Democratic convention in San Francisco defeating A. Mitchell Palmer and William Gibbs McAdoo on the forty-fourth ballot.[7]
Cox conducted an activist campaign visiting 36 states and delivering 394 speeches mainly focusing on domestic issues, to the displeasure of the Wilsonians, who pictured the election "as a referendum on the League of Nations."[2] To fight unemployment and inflation, he suggested simultaneously lower income and business profits taxes. He promised to introduce national collective bargaining legislation and pledged his support to the Volstead Act. Cox spoke in support of Americanization to increase loyalty to the United States among immigrant population."
His VP running mate was FDR.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_M._Cox
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Perhaps Mencken was just looking at current events and prognosticating.
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