Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-25
LEAGUE BINDS j. S.
DESPITE SENATE,
Iv|EW HELD BY COX
Editorials of His Newspaper
: Pointed to as Forecast
: of Speech.
Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The star
DAYTON, Ohio. July 2i.-Gov. James
AECox goes into seclusion Monday to
begin drafting his speech accepting
tkf democratic nomination for Presi-
dent. Interest naturally centers upon
what he will say concerning the
League of nations in his address.
sAn amusing revelation of just
w6ere Cox has stood on the league of
nations up to this time can be gained
by a perusal of the files of the Daily
Nsnws, the local newspaper that is the
sdte property of the governor. A
settles of articles, between the dates
December IA, 1919, and May 20, 1920,
reveals that as a coVenanter James
MsCox outdoes Woodrow Wilson.
For example. Wilson believes that
thu honor of the United States will
be- betrayed and the heart of the
world broken if the United States does
MOI enter the league of nations with
OUT essential reservations. James NJ.
Cox goes him one better.
:. Bound by League.
Cox believes that the United States
aleeady is bound by the league of ma
ti8ps; that no matter what action the
league councils might determine upon
th9 United States would have to COM
ply with the rulings of that body,
despite any action the United States
Senate may take upon the treaty.
On January II. 1920. when he was
hitbself prominently mentioned as a
possible successor to President Will
son as leader of the democratic party,
Coz declared editorially:
zone phase of the league of nations
coatrol is found in the fact that while
OFFICIALLY the United States is not rep
reSented in this association, it is new
entheless bound by the rulings of that
boy,
Elf those who now sit as representa-
tiEes of their governments in the
lekgue councir >at Paris should. for
ex4mple determine upon any scheme
toHching universal development America
weuld be bound to comply with the ac-
tien of the council. even although we
haze no voice in the discussion and ulti-
mate action.
:. Article Y the Heart.
1Article Y has been called 1.-The hear,
ofthe covenant" President Wilson
insists that this article must be left
Untouched in the league covenant, al
Though critics of the league have as
sested it lays open the certainty that
American soldiers by the terms of this
article could be called upon to do po-
lice duty in every corner of the globe.
Cox agrees with this statement and
declares that article y is the police
man of the covenant. In an edi-
torial printed January 16, 1920, he
says:
THE league of nations to be worth
anything at all must perform just
this service to small and less impor-
tant nations of the world. If any
bully among the great powers should
attempt to seize sovereignty over a
weaker nation article x would serve
as policeman to hold the power in
check. If the independence and in
tegrity of all members of the league
are not to be guaranteed, why a
league at all? President Wilson is
right. Article Y is the very heart of
the treaty. and if it is emasculated or
attended so as to rob it of it's sus-
ta3ning and protecting influence the
letgue itself is nothing more than a
cc4lection of phrases. purposeless and
in{potent"