Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-10-12
CANDIDATE COX
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past speeches In support Of the
League. The governor aaked wheth-
er Senator Harding and the former
president were not joined toesther
in deliberate deception"
Eek President Taft" he said lin
q recent statement DISCUSSES the pro-
posal OF adopting the League Of Ma
tons by leaving Article x out Of it
and responds to the suggestion with
these wordsa
That is exactly what we want
should like to ask Judge Taft these
questions:
Il. Did you not in an article to
the Covenanteer, under the title
The Principle We Fought For dis
cuss Article X in these words: The
la wof the League with the sanction
of the power of the League. thus for
bids the violation of the information
al commandment Thou Shalt Not
Steal by Force" 1t is the embodiment
of the principle that we entered and
fought this war to maintain
-. Did you not also in the same
article say The Monroe Doctrine. as
originally declared by Monroe was
Article X limited 10 the aggression
of non American nations against
countries of the western hemis-
phere?'
80. Did you not in the same AZ
ticle use these words: Article x 10
one of the great steps forward pro-
vided in the League for the securing
of general peace
"a You say that the League to
Enforce Peace. Of which you were
chairman. had no Article X in its
preparation. Shouldn't you have
been more frank with the American
people by telling them that your
plan had only four articles in ii and
that your substitute for Article X
was Article III? Can you deny that
in your article III you provided for
the joint use of the military forces
of the sienatory powers in event OF
violation of the conditions of the
covenant?
IS. Did not your proposal carry
definite legal obligation to employ
forces and in this respect was ii not
very much more drastic than Article
X Of the League?
g. You say that Senator Harding
has already voted twice for the
League with reservations. but you
failed to say that your candidate
within the last two weeks very den
nitely announced that IL he had il TO
do over again he would not vote for
the League even with the League
reservations.
80. You say that Senator Harding
promises that as president he will
endorse the covenant without Article
Y. To whom has he given the prom
Use? Certainly not to Senators John
son and Borah. Everyone knows that
he has not given it to the American
people. Has he given it to you, II
so. is it not so much in conflict with
that he proposes from now on to turn
his back on the League-with or
without reservations-that it joins
both you and him together in DELHI
crate deception
Is. Assuming that the pledge has
been given to you. then may we not
answer it with your own words.
spoken at a luncheon given by the
Civic Organizations of California in
which YOU said:
The gentlemen in the Senate who
are setting out to defeat this League
of Nations are those 1 would not
trust over night
-. How do YOU reconcile your re-
cent statement that the president was
responsible for the failure to ratify
the treaty with your statement in
your Metropolitan Opera House
speech March ). 1919. as follows:
If the president insists. as / hope
he will. that the League be incorpor-
ated in the peace treaty, and brings
IL back. responsibility for postponins
peace is with the body that refuses
to ratify it. and also with that part
Of Your speech delivered January.
1920. at the Acamedy of Music. Brook
lyn. which read: I am inclined to
think that the persons who prepared
the reservation as a whole. were
shooting down the avenue at the
White House.
Judge Taft and Senator Harding
were dual objects of Governor Cox's
fire today here and in Illinois In all
four of the governors speeches to
crowds today at Springfield. Litch-
field. and East st. Louis. and to his
Coliseum crowd tonight Governor Cox
emphasized that between him and
Senator Harding was now the clear
cut issue of League or no league"
"A vote for the senatorial candi-
date means a vote against the League,
while vote for me means one for
the League" the governor declared.
denouncing the senator's position as
provincial. selfish. unholy and. in
fact, unchristian."
Governor Cox was ahe center of
Throngs here tonight after a day of
large receptions in southern Illinois
and was welcomed in East St Louis
by screening locomotives and factory
Whistles and large station crowd
which included Governor Gardner of
Missouri
In the audience tonight as special
guests were many disabled soldiers
from federal hospital. and men and
nurses from Jefferson Barracks.
progressivism. non-partisanship. the
element of religious support and
thought in the league, and labor and
agricultural matters were stressed to-
day by Governor Cox in his illinois,
Missouri campaign.
Carpenter and Levinsky