The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-08
b|G BUSINESS IS PLAYED BY COX IN
 HIS DAKOTA TOUR
Says Big Interests Lined Up Again St H i m a n d Are Leagued With the Sen
 ate 0Iigarchy
By Associated Press

Minot, \. D., September Big busl- ness was flayed and progressivism preached by Governor Cox of Ohio. dem- ocratic presidential nominee in tour today of 2Q0 miles in North Dakota near the Canadian boundary.
 The League of Nationas also was dis : cussed by the governor before eight 1it- ferent audiences composed principally of farmers. laborers, small business men, women and children. Besides two regular ly scheduled and extended speeches at l Grand Fork early and here tonight, the candidate spoke at Larmore, Devils Lake, Leeds. Rugby, Towner and Gran 1 ville making brief talks from the rear | plantform of his train, which was run as special through the state.
 Big business is seeking his defeat, Gov l ernor Cox declared, by contributing largely to the republican funds. Large interests, he asserted, are arrayed al- l most soidly against him and are ''leagued with the senate oligarchy." 1 To his audiences here tonight and also others en route, Governor Cox recited former President Roosevelt's fight in l 1912 against alleged "reactionary repub- l lican leaders,"
 l He led the crusade against vested in- terests and political bosses who served 1 them,' said the governor. He called 1 the roll and specified persons by mama. | He named Boss Barnes of New York, Penrose and Shoot as connecting links 1 between crooked business and crooked 1 politics.
 THE SAME OLD CROWD s l Referring to testimony before the sen ate campaign fund Investigating commit | tee of alleged subscriptions by large | corpora tions and wealthy individuals to MT Barnes republican book, Governor l Cox continued:
 The same old crowd is back in the 1 front line. Barnes, who in Roosevelts mind, was the Judas of the party, has | been made it's Saint Paul and has been designated to write the faith of the par I ty for this campaign
 | Reading. the names of the Barnes book | list. the Governor added: | Large sums were pledged to Mir. | Barnes to instruct the electorate. That it was done with the knowledge and con sent of Senator Harding, the candidate
 for these same interests, is shown by his
 letter directed personally to MT. Barnes. i It is also commended by Boise Penrose, the Pennsylvania boss.
 This is of interest this year be-
 cause the same voices have defied the
 voice of the primaries and nominated
 d number of the senatorial oligarchy
 who did not receive majority vote
 in a single state primary"
 Governor Cox told his audience he
 came as the preacher of peace, pro-
 Gress Nand prosperity
 "The kind of prosperity he ex- lpiained that will enable the farm-E the business man and the laborer to get his share, but with no .eserved seat
 in the government for big business or
 special privileges"
 Besides seeking an underhold in gov-
 ernment, Governor Cox declared large
 industrial interests desire an admin ietr wh ich force IT,
 dustral disputes.
 The territory visited today by the . governor is the stage of sharp fight
 ing between the nopartisan league and
 it's opponents, and "radicalism' was discussed by the candidate. Urging pro- gress rather than reaction, he said: "Wherever you have despotism you are going to have revolution. If you don't blow your corn you will have
 weed If you don't cultivate the pro-
 cess of government you are golng 70 have radicalism. There are some peo-
 pie in this country who believe that
 when radicalism asserts itself they should lay the hand of force upon II.
 the hand of oppression. My creed is en- tirely different. It is to cultivate the principles and the practices or good
 government, and you wont have rau- ! celism anywhere in the world.
 1 With all of his audiences Governor COX pleaded for an Independent vote and declared he was going 10 the peoples g
 front porch instead of asking them 10 his. He emphasized that his fight was against the "senatortai oilearchy. an1 that he had mo quarrel with the rank land file" of either party.
 During his trip through the wheat coun- l trv the governor received less applause
 than usual. Some of his rear platform
 audiences. including many brought by
 automobile, stood in light rain The rear nlatform speeches were organized Ihurriedly today in several towns by scattering handbills and many towns
 where stops were made were said to be strongly republican. At one point l. w. W literature was thrown on the govern or's train. The most applause given to- day to the candidate followed statements
 far peace and disarmament by means
 or the League of Nations. He repeated
 the statement that the league would bring world peace and stability and that disarmament would reduce taxes.
 The candidate also emphasized the ar
 ruuent that the treaty was secured hy ! American soldiers and that the repubii-
 can policy was to scratch through
 separate peace with Germany Governor Cox declared the league was similar 10 the Monroe doctrines with provisions Tor preventing of bullying of weak nations
 He added that not single shot ever
 had been fired to maintain the Monroe
 doctrine. a. Governor Cox's schedule called for nis Ideparture early tomorrow for Montana with speeches tomorrow afternoon at Havre and at night at Great Falls.