New-York tribune., 1920-07-13
Cox and Roosevelt viii
Take Campaign Fight to
ALI States With League
of Nations as Big Issue
Plans Are Mapped
Out i'm Conference
Vice Presidential Candi-
date to Resign as Aid to
Daniels About August l
From a spcoio, Correspondents

league of Nations will be the dominant
Assue Of the campaign, and we shall
sarry the fight into every state in the
Union" said Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Democratic nominee for Vice-President,
after a conference to-day with Gov
ernor James NJ Cox, the Presidential
candidate, at the Governors mansion
here.
"The party's position on the League
Of Nations and reservations is very
clearly set forth in the Democratic
platform, and we shall stand or fall on
the issue as it is there outlined.
"Both the Governor and myself are
saot going TO consider any state hope
less"
Mfr. Roosevelt also reiterated Gov
,error Cox's recent irftimation that the
campaign will be carried into the West
at an early date. He said he expected
to take the stump Immediately after his
official notification. The notification
ceremonies, he said, he hoped would be
ct his home at Hyde Park, N. Y.
Will Resign Navy Post
He also stated that he expected to
resign as Assistant Secretary of the
Navy about August /, or Immediately
after the return Of Secretary Daniels
from Alaska. His desire to begin
preparation of his notification speech,
Mr.. Roosevelt said, would hasten his
resignation. He will 60 to Eastport,
Ne, where his family now is, to pre-
pare his speech
Mr.. Roosevelt said he hoped to be
in Dayton on July 20, when the Demo
cratic. National Committee meets there,
and also that he hoped to see the
President soon. He said the time Of
his conference with the President
would depend solely upon the desire of
the Chief Executive.
Governor Cox did not discuss the
conference with his running mate
other than to say they had talked some
OF campaign plans and that they ex-
pected to continue the conference to-
night. Mr. Roosevelt left for the East
~ 9:36 P. m.
1t was Governor Cox's first day at
the Executive Office since his nomna-
tlon. He arrived on an early train
fron Dayton this morning and Went
directly to the Capitol At an informal
reception the Governor spoke from the
steps of the State House to several
thousand persons, asserting he had
never broken confidence with the peo-
pie Of the commonwealth" and adding
that he had the deepest conviction
tnat the guaranty OF progressive gov
ernment would be adopted by the peo-
pIe Of the nation in the election of
Mr. Roosevelt and myself.
1T will be but an expression of the
na1ion that their wellbeing lies in the
golden dawn of tomorrow rather than
the twilight zone of yesterday"
The Franklin County Democratic
uiee Club, which helped to sing Cox to
victory at San Francisco, serenaded the
nominee at the monday reception. An
immense bouquet of American Beauty
roses, the gift of the Franklin County
democratic Club, adorned the Gov
ernor's desk in the State House when
he arrived.
Running through stack of tele-
grams and letters on his desk during
the conference this morning with news
paper men, the Governor announced re-
celpt of a four-leaf clover sent by
James II. Cox, of New Lebanon, N. Y,
VINO said it was picked from the lawn
OF Samuel ]. Tilden at New Lebanon.
Iildens birthplace. He also received
letter of congratulation ard best
wishes from Sam Small, Southern evan
gelist.
Cox's Manager Ill
NO definite announcement has yet
peen made relative to the place Of
holding the formal notification meet
ing. 1t will be either at Columbus or
layton. with chances favoring Dayton.
The Governor this afternoon received
telegram from San Francisco from
Wilbur Marsh, treasurer of the Demo-
cratlc National Committee, stating that
=. H. Moore, of Youngstown, Ohio,
Governor Cox's pre-convention mana
ger, was seriously i'll in q hospital
tnere from nervous reaction.
The message stated that he was un-
ger nurses care and that no one was
permitted to see him. 1t added, how
ever, there was no occasion for alarm.
Inc Governor Immediately sent mes
sage OF sympathy expressing the hope
.aat his manager would be able to be
out soon