South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-08-09
COX ACCEPTANCE
SPEECH RAPED
BY SEN. HARDING
Says Address Saturday is g
Curious Mixture of Mis-.
statements.
Bv Associated Press /:


MARION. O.. Aug. s.-Assailing
Gov. Cox's speech of acceptance as
"a curious mixture of errors and
misstatements'' Sen. Harding's head
quarters replied with length in ncf-
fetal statement Sunday night to the
governors criticism OF the record OF
the republican congress on taxation,
finances and the league of nations.
The republican party, the state
ment said. is ready 10 join battle on
the question OF whether the senate
attempted 10 subvert and did sub
vert the wish and purpose of the
American people in preventing rati-
fication OF the presidents league.
Give Statement
The statement. given out over the
signature OF Sen. Harding's head
quarters, was. in part, as follows:
Gov. Cox's acceptance address will
rot fail 20 please his political op-
ponents, republicans and democrats
alike, who are convinced that the
country's most Immediate task is TO
Set it's business administration into
tho hands Of people competent 10
take care Of IL and get its interna-
tlonal relations into me control Of
men who are Americans first. rather
than internationalists.
The speech is a curious mixture
of errors and missta tements as 10
facts, 50 we'll known that mere ut
terance can cause nothing less than
amusement
The democratic 65th congress
pass any of the appropriation bills,
it's task was turned over TO the in
coming republican congress, which
proceeded Immediately 10 prune
down the estimates that had been
embodied in the appropriation bills
prepared by its democratic prede-
cessor.
Cut Expenses.
Following this came the regular
session Of the republican 66th con-
gress, from which the democratic
administration demanded appropria =
tions aggregating $6,3S4,312,929.46.
Instead OF getting this amount. this
session of a republican congress cut
the estimated appropriations l,474,-
422.6O2.16. So, from March 4, 1919,
10 early June, 1920, the aggregate
saving effected by the substitution OF
a repu blcan for a democratic con-
gress was S2,414,115,144.l3.
In the face of this, il is rather
astonishing that Gov. Cox, in a
speech that must become the charter
OF principles for his campaign, that
is certain 10 be placed under the
most searching analysis, should de-
clare that the republican congress
has not made a single eff
fort or passed a single law to reduce
the taxation burdens.
4 Ion Of "a 8
democratic nominees address is
about equally sound and reliable.
Annoying consumption taxes he
says. once willingly borne. now un-
justified, shout dbe repealed. And
in the very next paragraph;
Small Tax.
81 suggest a small tax. probably
| one and one-half per cent on the
total business Of every going con-
Germ.
Thus the governor is found in one
| taxes, and in the next 10 favor their
paragraph to oppose consumption
adoption on universal scale.
Gov. Cox's discussion Of revenue
and taxation will demonstrate TO any
modestly informed person that ht
| has no program whatever except tc
| appeal for the support of people who
want somebody else TO pay the tax
es. There is no way Of accomplish
\ ing that.
In his discussion of internationa
affairs, Gov. Cox is particularly bit
ter against the senate majority thai
insisted on Americanizing the presi-
/ dents covenant for a league Of ma
| tons. He drops in a word of apollo
w to save the feelings OF the ,;
democratic senators who went or
| record in favor Of the Lodge reser'
vations. But he assumed neverthe
| less that the senate attempted 10 sub
vert and did subvert, the wish and
purpose OF the American people II
preventing ratification Of the presi
/ dents league.
"On that issue the republican par
" is ready to join battle before th'
! country"