Arizona republican., 1920-08-08
We must always have old memo ries and young hopes.
 -Arsene Houssaye.
Governor cox's Speech

The speech of acceptance of Governor Cox with refe the League of Nations unworthy of who aspires high office the presidency. It is disingenuous. the first place the posi- tion of Senator Harding who in his address urged peace with Germany is attacked and msrepresented comparison is made by Governor Cox of an Ameri- with Germany with the separate peace into which Russia entered with Germany.
 Surely Governor Cox could not have failed to the lack Of analogy. At the the separate RussoG German the allies of Russia at war with Germany and sorely pressed. Now, all our as- ates in the late peace with Germany We alone of all who fought Germany are technically a with that nation We proposing to desert nobody. France. Great Britain Italy, Japan suffer nothing our formal entrance into peace with Germany-for really already at peace.
 The governor also disingenuously, for can attribute ignorance him. points out that those who most bitterly opposed the League of Nations were foremost among those who criticized President Wi Ison for not entering the when Belgium inv aded In the first place the governor probably des igns to all who insisted reservations of the treaty opposed to the treaty when, as ma of fact, comparatively few republicans opposed to treaty to "the treaty. with such res ervatons proposed and Great Br tain France signifed they would accept But the purpose of the governor to establish an inconsistency between the attitude leading pu bIicans 1914 and the republicans in 1919 ani today to show that they then willing to en broil the country in while today they pIt ading against entanglement in peace.
 The governor be ignorant the we were a party to the treaty which guaranteed Be Igium against invasion. Perhaps had business to be party that; was matter to nation. and when we became party to that agreement perhaps regarded the DC sftion honorary one, rather than that m ght load with dire responsibilities. But in the pinch did discharge that responsibility any
 
 the hesresponsibity which attached to when gllaranteed the integrity of China and the "open dor
 As to his own attitude toward the League of Nations governor is only little less vague than the san Francisco platform He accepts that D ank the platform somewhat enlarges upon he says:
 We hear it said that interpretations are necessary (the president and his satellites say that) That may be true but they will at least De reassuring many WI feel that in signing the treaty there should mental reservations that are not expressed in plain words and as matter of good faith to our associates
 That is precisely the spirit of the Lodge vations-to apprise associates or our under standing of the covenant and it's obligations well ss to clear that we can not under the const- tution, if desired to do so, accept obligation which seemed to be imposed in Article x.
 The governor. while indulges Wilsonian twaddle of having gone for ideal. is no definite regarding that the president llas
 While also counseling, for .-reassuring" some of citizens explanatory reservation he attacks the Lodge reservations in the without attempting wherein they destructive of the treaty wherein they differ from such reservations as he would accept merely to be ''reassuring to some of citizens"
 a In short, the governor has left the League of Nations where he found it. He has answered none of the pointed questions which Mir Harding for two weeks has ben asking to the position of his opponent