The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-08-20
Fifteen Million Low Mark With
Sky as Apparent Limit Demo-
cratic Nominee Charges.
SENATE OLIGARCHY
Among Other Things Repub.
licans Are Blamed For Belated
Reduction of Living Costs.
tsy Associated Press. }

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| South Bend, Ind. Aug 19.-At least
fifteen million dollars are being con-
| tr.buted to the Republican campaign
ffund by selfish interests, Governor
Cox declared today during the course
of two addresses opening the Indiana
Democratic campaign. That is it's low
mark he said and the sky is apparently
its limit.
| Our safety, our economic readjust-
ment and our prosperity all are in
volved in Americas making the league
! a world force" Governor Cox asserted
charging the Republican senate oil
garchy" with responsibility for delay
in economic progress and belated re-
duction of living costs. The Demo-
cratic candidate came here today from
Columbus via Chicago and spoke to-
night at the Indiana Democratic Edf-
tors banquet
THE position of the Democracy is
definite and affirmative" said Govern
or Cox, charging ''the reaetionary Re-
publican leaders" with being tevasive;
, ambiguous and. hyRocriticaI
March 4, 1921, our pledge is to enter
the league, making such conditions as
are reassuring and helpful he con-
tinued. This VIII legally end the war;
it will help to reestablish credits. A
call will be made upon our mineral
wealth and our productive skill We
will have the ships to sail every sea;
the supply of life's essentials will be
oil 70 J,a do, 4. ixy;,c 4
be reduced. What we would other
wise be spending for guns and powder
and ships VIII be applied to our war
debt and above all, we will be happy
in the consciousness that war is prac-
tically impossible.
"The opposition offers at the very
best a prolonged delay. What project
it has as substitute for the League
of Nations, no one knows or .at least
no one has ever attempted to describe
it, or to name it.
THE question of the League of. Ma
tions therefore becomes increasingly
the issue in this campaign for the very
reason that it involves our safety, our
economic readjustment and our pros
per.ty. The air is clearing; the smoke
screen of hypocrisy thrown out by the
SEildlOI1di OllSdICIy mas DSGH pierced
and every day between now and No
vember will witness the gradual re-
treat of the forces of reaction The
tide of moral thought is flowing
against them. There isn't enough mon
ey IN the world to stop it."
Reiterating his charge of reaction"
against the Republican leaders, Gov
ernor Cox added:
steps backward, and they are so used
to moving in that direction that they
would not need a compass, they would
find that every cond. ton against which
they inveigh is of their own creation
They discuss the high cost OF living
without apparently realzng that in
large measure they are responsible
for the belated settling down of cOndi-
tions which have continue the high
cost of living. The demand for food
stuffs has exceeded the supply.
IF the eLague of Nations had been
ratified months ago, exchange would
have been stabilized. Europe could
have started its work of rehabilitation;
its countries would not have made a
drain upon our food supplies In fact
Europe would be buying tne things
which we can spare. The result of
this would be self-evident. War taxes
which should have been modified or re-
pealed when the war was over, were
not touched, and the Republican oil
garchy in the senate is directly respon
sible."
Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania
Governor Cox declared was .instru
mental in preventing reduction o. war
taxes, ION the theory that the people !
would blame the executive rather than
the congressional administration" for
failure to abolish burdensome taxa
ton.