The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1920-10-05

as is Congressman Claude Weaver Of
Oklahoma. Congressman Edward b.
Almon of Alabama will campaign the L
State during the week of October 18th.
Senator Oscar Underwood of Alabama
will also be here on several dates not
yet assigned.
An effort of the Republican Nationanr,
Headquarters to line up the churche4
against the League of Nations, is seem
in the telegram sent to DIR. z. l.. Pow
ell, pastor of the First Christian
Church at Louisville, by Fred b.. Smith p
prominent Y. NJ. G. A. and Inter 4
church World Movement workerl \.
Smith asked Dr. Powell to help him I'M Tx
wife rs clergymen from the Centrau
West to make pilgrimage to Hard-}
ing's front porch at Marion, DIR. Powlu'
ell declined to become party to suchI,o
a move, and suggested that Mr.. SMITH
'place trumpet TO hYs lips and blowl
blast that would rally to the Leagues
Of Nations every minister in the coun- "a
'ry." The Church Boards and COunciS
are already committed to the Leagua "
an effort to reverse them in their de III
cisiOns. .@
Prospects for Democratic victorLsu
in Kentucky never appeared brighter in
The-arst weeks straw vote in the Rem Il
all drug stores throughout the Statk
shows total of 6,13O votes nbr COZ
against 3,50S for Harding. Even
Louisville, which is under Republica
control, Cox is running ahead with so NO
10 Harding's 2S6.
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In a speech made at Baltimore Serwal
ator Harding frankly confessed to if w
competence for the Office of President.
Of the United States. IN RESPONSE :;
70 question from the audience aboI
lie League of Nations, he answered .
ST o no.eoo,,r franL 90 Gov 20 20 tnvi
that | am without a single program
constructive In character about an
association of nations" After three
years of world wide discussion of the |;
principle of the League of Nations, "
here is candidate for President WHO
cOnfesses that he hasn't got an idea Y
on the subject. Can you beat it? "
The majority of the leaders of the ;
Bull Moose party, disguised. with the II
reactionary control Of the Republican u
party, have definitely announced their "
support of the Democratic ticket, andl
appeal to all pragressves to vote fori
Cox. Among them are Harold L. Ickes a
and Antoinette Funk, both of whom Il
were delegates to the Republican Ma
lional. Convention al Chicago; Ben b. q
Lindsey Colorado, founder of the =
juvenile courts; Francis J. Heney, Of
San Francisco, who purged California B
politics of corrupt corporation lnhu- 4
ence; John NJ. Parker Louisiana, who 3
was Theodore Roosevelt's candidate 2
Nor Vice President on the Progressive b
ticket Their action win Influence Y
thousands OF Independent voters to line B
up with Cox. z
Pershing said, Lafayette, we are x
here" Harding echoes, Lafayette, we D
have quit" 3
In striking contrast TO Senator Hard y
lng's opposition to the Federal Farm N
Loan Act and his advocacy of one dol z
lar wheat, is Gov. cox's aggressive :.
campaign 10 help Ohio farmers buy =
tractors. In 1918 Gov: Cox deposited 8
$40 million dollars of the State Indus .
.r.al Commission money in country
banks. SO that part of II could be loan II
ed 10 farmers TO buy tractors. He then II
secured ruling from the Federal Re. =
serve Bank that notes given by farm
ers purchasing tractors be discounted q
on the same basis as agriculture lnple- y
ment paper BY these means Ohio ~
farmers were enabled TO buy that year II
1892 farm tractors, doubling the num- IL
Der in the State. 0