New Britain herald., 1920-08-28
.G. O.P.LEADERS ARE
 SIMPLY GONE MAD'
So Declares Cox-PolitiCal Gen. erals "Bold, Brazen or Foolish"
MAKES TWO SPEECHES TODAY
Candidate Also Says ''Scnatorial
 Oligart hy Has Directed Abuse .At
 President Wilson" - CharactcriZcs

Gov. smith as Genius in Govt" New York. Aug. 2s.-Republican
 funds were declared by Governor Cox
 here today 10 be bold, brazen or | foolish"
 He delivered two addresses in which
 he dealt with republican campaign funds. the league of nations and Am 1 ericanization. The first address was given at luncheon at the national | democratic club and the second at
 police field day at Gravesend. He declared the republican leader
 ship has simply gone mad" Refers to .Charges. Referring to the. charges that the 1 republicans were conspirirg to buy the presidency, Governor Cox said: 'If it were not that the documents presented came from the very in-
 side of republican headquarters then the country might look with some doubt on the whole thing, for the sim pie reason that it is difficult to be- | lieve that political generals can ever he so bold brazen. or foolish. And
 yet the very thing that has just been exposed is simply a repetition of the foilies of the year. When the senatorial oligarchy stood out. in the way of peace, when it held the civilization of the world | in a strangIe hold at time when aid | should have been given to staggering ! nations just out of war. men looked | at each other and asked the ques- ton:
 | "'How can such a thing be done even | in the name of poIitics?'
 When the senatorial group. with 1 an inconsistency that persisted. moved from one contention to another the l same query ran through the communi- ties of the land. When they unbiushingly selected
 leader of the oligarchy. Senator Lodge. to sound the keynote, Mc1Sin- ley. Lincoln and Roosevelt politicians
 shook their heads. When at 2:11 in the morning in a. | hotel room at Chicago the senatorial Y crowd selected one of its number to
 he the candidate of the party, the | rank and file was appalled,. ' edt- "htuI lHt money 0igg1nE I campaign started with an organization
 that swept the country and reached into every state and county. when
 open relation with business became | an affair of partisan pride. then it became apparent to all that the group l which has run away with the affairs 1 of the republican party after having I departed from the idcalism of its
 historic days has simply gone mad g Sensational oligarchy The governor said that the 'sena- | torial oligarchy'' had directed abuse
 at President Wilson.
 | When the president was stricken
 low. as clealy a victim of the war as
 the soldier who fell in the trench | said the governor. their abuse en- | tered the sick room. With the presi- dent of the United States in the very
 shadow of death himself. it is a mo-
 torioIs fact that cloakroom gossip was | a chuckling and gleeful affair Never | in all our history was anything more | shockingly unkind."
 i Governor Cdxsrhargedrthat instead
 of making the presidential campaign
 a pure thing repubticans had pro-
 cured large sums of money in order | to stir up racial groups and keep alive | tbnOLioDS sIOuSeO DN tne war. 1 Compliments Police | At the police games he declared
 that he had often lost patience with | critics of police.
 l There is no finer type of man | than the American copper who main | tains a clear head and a clear honor. ' he said.
 He praised Wm. c. McAdoo. who | presided at the democratic clubs | luncheon for his administration of the | treasury and railroads during the war | Governor Cox characterized Cover
 nor Smith as a genius in govern | ment."
 Mir. McAdoo in his address at the 1 democratic club expressed his belief
 in the "presumptive truth" of Gov
 ernor Cox's charges that the repub-
 licans were raising s15,oOO. 900
 slush fund. He referred to Chairman
 Hays and Treasuref Upham, of the
 republican national commiteee as the
 gold dust twins and said Wood
 row Wilson was the greatest presi-
 dent the country ever had.