South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-10-13
SAYS Sen. HARDING HAS
NOT One DEEP SEATED
CONVICTION ON ISSUE
Democratic Nominee Delivers
10 Speeches in Indiana
and Illinois.
HAMMERS ON LEAGUE
Candidate Says He Favors
Going In and His Position
is Unchanged.

LAFAYETTE, Ind, Oct. IL
Gov. Cox OF Ohio. in a busy tour
Tuesday OF Illinois and Indiana.
hammered heavily upon the League
Of Nations prorouncements OF him
self and Sen. Harding, picturing his
republican opponent as ''wisEiing
and wabbling." The demoeratio
candidate emphasized. 10 sixteen
audiences, that he was for the
league with whole heart and soul"
Centering his assault upon Sen.
Harding's league statement Tues
day, Gov. Cox declared II 'vaciilat-
ing" tho eleventh position assumed
by the senator and at the heels OF
a tempest" aroused by Ar. Hard
ing's Des Moines speech.
That the senator's proposal for
a new association OF nations was
held BY former President Taft as
impractical was also stated By the
democratic nominee.
Candidate WabbIy.
Mr.. Cox said:
The yacillating attitude OF Sen.
Harding Justifies neither the Ameri-
can people, nor the nations OF the
world, in taking him seriously. lt
is apparent that he hasn't a single
deep-seated conviction upon the
subject and that ne wabbles about
from one day 10 the other IN the
aimless hope that this group or
that group Of voters can be pleased.
1T is the most pitable spectacle
In the political history Of America.
4 q Il.
Of wiggling and wab5ling has been
emblazOned over the billbOards OF
America with the picture OF the
senator. The candidate Of the sens
tOrial oligarchy has monopoly ON that
process and he ought 90 be privilr
eyed 10 advertise it
Although the governor confined
his long string OF speeches priI
cipally to the league. he reiterated
charges OF a conspiracy OF silence
by the reactiOnary press against the
democrat compaign. Big business
also was fiayed BY the foe. Re
igiOus tone 20 the governors
please increased and, presenting
what he termed we're practical
business reasons, he declared that
If we don't go into the league i
look for constantly Increasing trend
toward a business recession
League Necessary.
The league is necessary, he argu-
ed. 10 restore foreign credits and
purchasing power. lie expressed be-
lief that America would be IN the
league within a few months ana
that no large nation would be out
side within a year or possibly SIX
months.
In his fire upon Sen. Hardings
league statements, Gov. Cox declar-
ed that his own had been and would
continue unchanged.
Il ask you" he said whether
you have followed the vaciilating
positions OF the candidate OF the
senatorial oligarchy.' He made
changes on the front porch, the.
when we took him OF the front
porch and ne arrived IN Des Moines
he said he was going 20 turn his
back upon the league. with r with
out reservations There came a
tempest all over the land, and re
publicans that were for Lhe league
announced their position and their
intention OF voting for me. When
he reached the front porch again
Monday, ne changed again, and said
no was for new association of ma
tions.
tempting 20 keep MIN steady. says
that the new association OF nations
Is not practical, that - won't work
that Il can't be attained. forty one
nations OF the world have already
joined the league. II IS going
concern and they Will not abandon
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