Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-25
COX ENDS SPEAKING
TOUR IN COLORADO,
|NVADES WYOMING
Cancels Some Engagements
in Ohio in Order to
Obtain Rest.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
GREELEY. Col, September 25.-A
rear-platform address here this morn
ing concluded the Colorado campaign
of Gov. Cox. and the remainder of to-
day was to be spent by the demo-
cratic presidential candidate in Wyo-
ming, with speeches late this after
noon at Laramie and tonight at Chey-
enne
The league of nations, it's material
gressivism and agricultural topics
were Gov. CoX's principal themes here
for his hurried railroad station ad-
dress. en- route from Denver, where
last night he expanded on charges of
conspiracy" by Chairman Hays of
the republican national committee to
suppress newspaper publicity of the
democratic campaign.
The governor was due at Cheyenne
at 1890 for brief welcome prior to
his departure half hour later for
Laramie on special train provided
by the Wyoming democratic commit
tee. To make the Laramie engage
ment IT also was necessary to forego
an afternoon speech scheduled pre-
viously at Cheyenne. At Laramie the
governor was to remain from $40
until 4:50 this afternoon, returning
to Cheyenne at $50 for his night
address and to remain over Sunday
before starting the last week of his
western trip through Nebraska on
Monday, with campaigns in South
Dakota, Kansas and Missouri to fol-
low before his return to Dayton a
week from tomorrow.
Cancels Engagements.
NEW YORK, September 25-Speak-
ing engagements of Gov. Cox, demo-
cratic presidential nominee, at FIRE.
mont and Toledo, Ohio, October 4,
nave been Cancelled in order to give
the governor additional period for
rest prior to the start on the second
lap of his speaking tour of the
country. it was announced at the
democratic national headquarters here
today. Gov. Cox will start on a tour
OF the middle west and east on
October 6. it was stated. speaking
first somewhere in Kentucky.
Charges "Silence Conspiracy"
DENVER, Col. September 25-At-
tacks upon Chairman Hays of the re-
publican national committee and re-
publican newspapers, charged with
a conspiracy of silence against the
democratic cause, featured Yesterdays
Colorado campaign of Gov. James NJ
Cox of Ohio.
The new line of assault of the demo-
cratic presidential candidate who
NHdi ECU llidt MI nays, acting 1Or the |
republican national committee, and!
republican newspaper editors, were f!
conSplrlng to suppress news and di-
vert issues of the Cox campaign. was !
made by the governor in three Colo |
RADIO speeches at Trinidad, Pueblo and |
the auditorium.
PolSoning was the term applied by |
Gov. Cox in his charges regarding |
the republican newspapers, and he !
likened Chairman Hays to the sneak |
ing guerrilla who in days of old poisoned /!
wells for the destruction of enemies.
Mrs. Hays, the candidate declared |
sent an advance agent to confer with |
Colorado editors, as well as to New |
Mexico.
asserted in his Pueblo speech, editors
of Colorado republican newspapers
assembled for a conference with
Mr.. Stephens. said to have been an
agent of Chairman Hays.
The editors We're asked to divert
the public mind from the league and
other paramount issues" said the
governor, ito minor affairs. They
were told to ask questions thought to
be embarrassing and to give unfavor-
able reports on my receptions
Proof of his charges that advanced
scouts of Chairman Hays had in |
spired missionaries in republican |
newspapers of Albuquerque, n. NJ,
Gov. Cox said. was given by the edi- |
tor of one Albuquerque newspaper.
The governor said that this editor ad- |
nitted the truth of his charges.
Had Dinner With Cox.
The editor in question, it is said, is !
organization" in New Mexico and had |
dinner with Gov. Cox before the lat
ters address Thursday night,
In discussing the league Gov Cox
said that ''it was not Wilson league,
not Taft league, not a Root league.
not British league. not a French
league. but league in behalf of the
of the world"
Article 10. the governor said, Sim
ply says that territorial burglary
must stop in the world and
that the moral force of the earth will
be directed to restrain external
aggression"
Citing statements of former Presi- |
dent Taft. Gov. Cox said that Mr.. Taft
himself had charged partisa nship
among league opponents and a desire |
to wrest honors of achievement from
called six-to-one voting inequality
between Great Britain and the United
States, the governor said:
That is in the assembly 1t doesn't
make much difference whether we
have one vote there or some other
power has a thousand votes 1t re-
quires unanimous action before any
thing can be done. Is there any one
here who believes that Canada, the
country that lost thousands and thou
sands of her boys, is not entitled to
voice in the league of nations? Is
there any one who believes that other
colonies making up the British empire
should not have d voice? But in order
to reassure Americans. there was
written one of the Hitchcock
reservations this provision. that in the
event of any dispute involving Eng
land as a part of the empire. involv-
ing Britain as an empire. involving
single one of the colonies of the en-
pire. that neither Britain nor any of
her colonies should have single vote
in the assembly at all"