The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-09-19
INTOXICATED
BY OWN WORDS
Made Big Charges and
Failed to Produce
proof
NEVER EXPECTED TO
Relied On Psychological Eff
feet of Suggestion to Impair
Confidence of Voters

GOV. James NJ. cox. democratic
candidate FOR the presidency, made
the positive charge that the ropub-
Nrln national committee had raised
$4,000. 900 for the purpose Qf cor
ruuting the voters and huyiag the
election. says the Wheeling tW. va
1utrIligenCcr. lie made this charge
az "a public meeting IN the state of
Ohio. and reiterated 1t number OF
fines. when called upon to furnish
proof, he declared he would furnish
his proof at "a meeting to be ad
dressed by him in pittsburE ON
thursday. Mir. Cox made his adj
dress in Pittsburgh, and this is the
prsf that he gave:
4, quoted from q letter signed by
Fred W. Upham treasurer OF the
national republican committee, in
which Upham stated that "A fund OF
$500. OO0 was needed for the pur-
pnsr of the campaign to include, not
only the work OF the republican ma
tonal committee. but the work OF
fhc congressional committee. and OF
=. the various state committees. No
secret was made OF this or like let
tcrs They have been matters OF
common knowledge. \ systematic
effort has been made TO raise funds
along these lines. substituting the
agencies Of the national republican
committee for various local agen-
clos But as Mr.. CiN knows the
Jpham suggestion was only tcnta-
tive and no program tu raise 81
500 900. or anything nko il. has
been undertaken. Nowhere i'm any
one Of the statements quoted by
Governor COX was there the remut-
est reference to the sum OF $4,000
900. and as to the sum Of 10000
900 which the imaginative Mr..
Roheyclt named, there was, OF
,ofrse not the slightest suggestion.
The plain fact is that Mr.. Cox lied
10 the extent Of 100 per cent con-
ccrninr the well-known and we'll
outlined plans OF the national re-
publican committee,
The democratic candidate FOR the
presidency Of the United States,
having i'm his hands exactly the
same Information that hundreds Of
other people have had, and con-
Cerning which there has been no
secret, appearing before an audi
ence Of his fellow citizens, delib-
crately decided them or sought to
deceive them, by doubling the fig
urCs which were given Ia the state
ments which he had and which
were is only source Of information.
In ordinary business, a man who
has sold or bought an article for
500 and tells others that he bought
or sold the article for $500 Is put
down as a liar.
man who cannot come within
30 per cent Of the truth Is naturally
regarded ms an unreliable man, a
man to be avoided by those whose
business requires accurate state
ments and precise facts.
The most charitable assumption
as 10 Mr. Cox is that he was carried
away by the intoyication Of words;
that he was led into making charges
which he never expected to be called
upon to sustain. Loose thinking
and random talking may be excused
IN men Of inferior places, but they
cannot he excused in a man who
aspircs TO the most responsible eX-
ecutiyc office in the world. Above
all tho American people are a sober.
careful and exact people. and the
sacrifice Of truth for the purpose
OF making an oratorical period is
least Of all to be excused in a presi-
dent Of the United States.
The campaign fund proposed to
be raised by the national republican
committee amounts to the munifi-
cent sum of i 8 cents for every po-
toutial votZr. The addition OF 22,-
100000 Women to the electorate OF
the United States, and the necessity
OF arganizatiin to reach and to
NAN effective the votes OF these
women who sympathizc with the re-
publican party. require almost
H"""'. the ertort and expenditure
or previous campaigns. Concentra
unn in the national committee OF
work heretofore done by the CON
, Gressional and state committees will
place more money I'm the hands II
mat organization, but, in effect, will
reduce expenditures instead of in.
vreasing them. The national repub-
mean committee is conducting its af.
ialrs on a business basis with a sys-
tom and with a well-arranged plan
ENery dollar of its expenditures will
De accounted for.
The effect of Mr.. Cox's attack 1,
soI'ly to discredit him and to reveaI
.s true character as small poll.
ucIan OF a rather low type