The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-10-15
HITS AT STAND OF TAFT
cox SAYS HARDING PLANS
no DECEIVE VOTERS
Will Of People Will Rise IN De-
tense OF League, ne
Asserts
IAssocjated Press Disoatch.l


Van Vert, Ohio, OCTOBER IA
new line Of Attack upon former
PresiuenI latIs pcsitIo4 Ia ,..c
League Of NauOns, <as mace here
TO-DAY by Governor IVA, III oIen,.e
a three days campaign in MS uoInv
state.
referring to Judge Taft's state
ment that even la event Of uoV ernof
Cox's erection there would relnaI
enough republican senators to Lsical
the treaty, the democratic presiuen-
UIaI canaloat9 declared tniS lnuicaC-
ed q plan 10 disregard 0ecIsion OF
the league referendum.
This can mean only one thing,
said Governor Cox, That wnen 1 am
elected on straightforward platform,
Iayorlng the Ieasue, II Is Lns puIpose
or the brazen conspiration Al the
senate, to treat the manaate or lne
people with contempt and turn their
packs on the expressed viii OF me
electorate. This, in the first place.
is unthinkable, and In the second
place, will not be permitted, for a.tci
al this Is democracy anu the Viii
Of the people Is triumphant"
Secures Senate Oligarchy.
"On the other nand, me governor
continued, IF the candidate III the
senatorial oligarchy were to be elect
ed, because he favors staying out or
the league and then after mis- as
sumption, of office, were to turn
about face and propose entering the
league, wha, about the popular man
date and the referendum tnen2 what
would .Borah and Johnson say, and
what would the voters of the coun
try think about such reputation OF
their will? Senator aHrding may be
willing to scrap the league, but the
American people are not reauy 10
have their government scrapped By
deceitful band or I<4ticai free
tcCsSrs,"
Governor Cox reiterated Cat he
favored going into the League %
Nations with the Hitchcock resolu--
ton or an. others that are offered III
good faith to further clarity or re-
e"s"re - bot - rot have the pur-F
pose of destruction"
:. s...u.u - apparent" the gov
ernor continued. mat Ihe@enlaee par-;
pose of the senatorial clique has been
destruction of the league and repudi-
alton of purposes for which We. el-
tered the war.
People Are Indignant.
America has forty million voters,
who are getting sick and tired Of the
purposely created doubt and uncer-
tainty and who now demand tos know
whether Senator Harding intends, as
ex- President Taft has explained to
repudiate the result of solemn refer
endum in forthcoming election on the
greatest issue that has even been be-
fore the people,
Everywhere the people are hold
ing indignation meetings to show
their resentment against the clique
and against the candidate that haze
shown their willingness to sac iG .e'
the honor of the nation to win
partisan victory at the polls Here
we have the proposal ty Senator
Harding and the approval Of ex-
President Taft that we play fast and
loose with fundamental rights of
American citizens and that we sven
disregard their definite decision of
purpose as expressed in the election"
After closing his fourth Inc'ana
visit last night at Fort Wayne Gov
ernor Cox brought his League of
Nations and other causes the central
Ohio today with speeches at Van
Vert. Delphos, Lima, Wapakoneta,
Sidney, Piqua. Urbana and Columbus.
the state capital The governor Is
billed for addresses at Delaware,
Marion, the home of Senator Hard
ing, Upper Sandusky, Carey, Fos-
toria and Bowling Green Enroute to
Detroit. on Saturday he speaks at
Sandusky, Elyria and Cleveland