Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-01
cox TELLS FARMERS
OF LEAGUES MERITS
Saws Germany Waits for Us to
Come in and Fix Her In
demnity.

Columbus, Ohio, Sept 1.-Governor
Cox, Democratic candidate for President,
speaking Mt the Ohio State Fair yesterday
afternoon, discussed farming before a
crowd of about II 900 people, and also
touched upon the League of Nations
Telling of starving conditions in Rus
STA, Germany, Austria and other war
ridden European countries and the
threatened spread of bolshevism. the
governor said Germany has not gone to
work because no indemnity has been
fixed" and that France has not returned
to normal apparently because she has
not received her indemnity.
The German indemnity has not been
fixed, he asserted, because England and
France cannot agree on what II shall be,
adding that the people of Germany are
praving that America win assert its voice
and say what the indemnity shall be.
In urging the League of Nations he
paid tribute to the work Of the women
during the war, and said:
The mothers are entitled to partici-
pate in the voice of government the same
as men We must continue to express
gratitude for the boys who fought for
us" and declared the disabled soldiers
should be placed in administrative gov
eminent positions, especially in the tax
ing care of the completely disabled men,
'1f the League of Nations does moth
ing more than to bring about disarma-
ment, it win have justified itself. the
governor declared.
at has been proposed, he continued
that the nations of the earth take the
pledge They realize that civilization
cannot stand another such war as the
last, and so they pledged themselves
so of the great nations of the world, and
said. we viii not war on one another
Somebody has said that they have
another plan, but they can't tell the
specifications They do say that Earl
Grey. English statesman, has approved
il, the governor said. We don't want
world league.
1T is time that the voice of the United
States be heard in world affairs. Euro
pean countries want us TO be heard. Eng
land and France cannot agree on what the
tons are settled. the involved nations
cannot 60 to work and they must 20 back
TO work.
The crowd broke into wild applause
when the nominee declared in ringing
tones that he was going TO the people,
not compel them 10 come To him.
I'm interested IN only one front
porch, Cox said, and that is yours
Franklin ID. Roosevelt, Democratic
candidate for the Vice-Presidency, fresh
from his western tour, told Of the prog
ress being made by the west
The people, Roosevelt declared, ARE
not going 10 vote as their grandfathers
did In these days they're not going 10
vote one ticket or the other because Of
things that happened 100 wears ago.
They're using their heads. just the same
as you are, and as the people in my own
State are.
'Out in the Western States, where |
Just came from" he continued. they
are saying, Send US that man Of whom
we have heard, who put Ohio on the
map; we want to call him by his front
name, just as the people in Ohio do
Mr.. Roosevelt spoke for about FIVE
being followed By Governor
Cox. The crowd arose and cheered when
the governor was introduced
Senator Harding had had the oppor-
tunity to speak at the fair but declined
after his managers had been told they
would not be permitted TO introduce
photograph talk. Aaron Watkins, the
Prohibition candidate, occupied the plat
form with Cox and spoke for over an
hour.