South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-10-21
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OFFICIAL 70
TELL TRUTH

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as with Judge Taft and an others
who have a sincere purpose and
whose service in the past eQuips
them especially as advisers In this
work You know full well that Sen.
Harding very recently said:
~ am not interested in clarifi-
cation. am interested in rejection.
AS I have stated at the beginning I
am placing a charitable construction
upon your statement and perhaps
your partisanship has prevented
your reading my addresses and your
prejudice has prevented you from
realizing the destructionist attitude
Of YOUR own candidate; but you have
made a statement concerning me
which the records show is false, and
/ firmly but respectfully call on YOU
20 correct this statement AT once.
Mr.. Root. you have arrived at
an honorable station In life Many
people trust you. You have no
right 20 deceive them. They want
the truth in this campaign. Your
conscience will tell you that duty 20
IL should be superior 20 duty 20
your party.
(Signed) James NJ. Cox"
Gov. Cox's statement upon the
Root message said:
II am today addressing a tele-
gram 10 Elihu Root, calling upon
him for an immediate retraction Of
a mfsstatement in his New York ad-
dress a. 10 my position towards Sc
curing ratification of the treaty and
league.
L am doing this because il is now
apnarent 10 me at least. that Mr.
Root and the thirty eminent repub-
leans who are for the league assO-
ciated with him IN a statement is
sued 70 secure support for Sen.
Harding, whom they know by his
own words is against the league
are attempting 70 deceive voters.
Partisanship Rises
They are permitting their parti-
sanshlp 70 rise above their patriot
ism and trusting perhaps that the
L 81 wobble OF Sen. Harding may be
in their direction. ! am trying TO
L. charita bic 10 these men in view
OF the fact that in their partisanship
they may not be reading my public
addresses. in which l have invariab-
" said that 1t would be my purpose
10 accept any helpful reservations
that will make certain the ~atiflCa-
ton Of the treaty and the leC que /;
and that my election would be ex.
pressive Of the desire OF the Amer
lean peopl, for going into the lea.
que. whereas the election of Sen.
Harding upon his own statement
upon the statements Of johnson and
Borah would be Endorsement for
staying ouc Of the league.
1 am ASKING the newspapers 70
carry this statement and a copy Of
/ tn. telegram sent 10 Mr.. Root as a
matter OF fair play because the as
! ISOLATION of the pro-league repub-
I leans led by him have not given
/ the facts and are not giving the
/ facts 20 the people. Only last night
! DR.. Charles Eliot. who has been one
/ of Americas foremost educators for
more than forty years. called atten-
I tion to this very thing 70 a group
/ Of student voters OF Harvard, in my
/ presence, and pointed out that in the
statement signed by 81 men, all of
whom ne knows. and with most Of
whom he has been associated, they
/ have recommended their country
men 10 put into the presidency a
man who rejects the only League Of
Nations which has been actually
/ brought into existence and is func-
/ tioning.' They advise voting for the
man selected by a very group Of
republican leaAers who have
/ brough the present disgrace upon
/ the republic
VIII Know Facts.
DIR. EAOt also said that many
/ arts OF the statement issued do not
! conform 10 the we'll known facts
| they are misleading and that clear
! expressions of Sen. Harding's stand
/ are suppressed. The thirty one
/ siCners of the statement DR.. Eliot
! further said, are all honorable men.
/ How they signed such a paper is a
I mystery. Let all YOU voters, women
voters, Independents and republicans,
who are in doubt. consided whether
/ this statement of 81 eminent repUb-
! leans is candid. whether their fun
/ damcntaI premises are true or falls.
| whether its reasoning is sound or
Ispecious. whether its conclusion is
sane and patriotic or injudicious,
/ DANGEROUS for the country, and at
the bottom immoral Nothing I can
say would improve upon the express
| sions of Or. Eliot; but IL would seem
| 70 me that these eminent republi-
cans recognized as leaders OF
thought in America, cannot afford
20 rest under the cloud which this
statement casts upon them.
COx's Response.
Gov. Cox 5 response TO Mr.. Root s
speech came here at the close Of the
governors New England tour. The
4 candidate made ten speeches Wed
nesday. all champloning the Lea
que of Nations and attacking the
league stand Of Sen. Harding He