Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-27
LEAGUE AND FARM
i TAKEN BY COXFOR
NEBRASKA TOPICS
Governor to Tour South Da.
kota After Speeches
Scheduled Today.
By the Associated Press.

NORTH PLATTE, Neb., September
27.-The league of nations and agri-
cultural problems were prominent
topics of Gov. Cox. democratic presi-
Dental candidate, for his Nebraska
campaign which opened early today
at North Platte and comprised seven
speeches, the latter this afternoon at
Lincoln, and tonight in the audi
tcrium at Omaha.
Across the entire state, including
brief state talks at Lexington, Kear-
ney, Grand Island, Aurora, York and
enne, Wyo., early this morning.
had one of the most strenuous pro-
grams of his western trip, the last
week of which began today.
tour for the candidate through the
home state of William J. Bryan and
Senator Hitchcock, administration
leader in the treaty fight.
w. H. Thompson of Grand Island,
Nebraska's national committeeman,
and others arranged to meet the gov
ernor's train at kearney.
Touches on Credits.
Gov. Cox brought information to Ne
braska agriculturalsts regarding ma
teriaI as well as moral interests of
ldl hiCio ana i've STUN SIoWcl III tliC
league. The governors matter in
cluded reports of declining exports
of agricultural products, which the
governor assigned to lack of Euro
pean credits, falling exchange and I'M
settled conditions at home and abroad.
with the league presented as a sta
bilizing remedy for volume and prices.
After his Omaha speech tonight the
governor will tour South Dakota
Tuesday, visit Sioux Falls. S. D.; ST.
Joseph, Mo-; Atchison and Topeka,
Kan. on Wednesday, spend Thursday
in other Kansas cities. Friday in Ok
1ahoma and end his western Swing"
Saturday at Kansas City. Returning
to Dayton next Sunday. the governor
expects to take two days rest and
probably to Kentucky and Tennessee.
Attacks Wayne b. Wheeler.
CHEYENNE, Wyo.. September 81
Senator Harding, republican presi-
Dental candidate. was characterized
as "a brewer, who is apoligizing for
his holdings in a statement issued
here by Gov. Cox, democratic nomi-
nee, before the latter's departure to
continue his campaign in Nebraska.
Gov. Cox discussed the respective
prohibition positions of himself and
Senator Harding and charged that
Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel
for the National Anti-Saloon League.
ing and was mere chattel of re-
publican headquarters"
Gov. Cox asserted that questions
asked him and Senator Harding by
Mr.. Wheeler were designed to aid
the republican, nominee, and the gov
ernor courted further Sut identical
questioning.
The governors statement follows. in
part:
My attention has been called to a
o%a1
Wayne B. Wheeler. general counsel of
the Anti-Saloon League. as saying
that he has submitted questions to
both Harding and myself, and that
I had not responded, but Senator
Harding had
Difference in Questions.
Let me direct the notice of the
stance: I was asked whether 1 was
for or against any proposal to change
the Folstead law. Senator Harding
was asked whether he stood by his
seco ord vote on the eighteenth
This sharp difference will be noted:
The question to me was based upon
future developments; the one to Sena-
tor Harding was not I was asked
what I would do in the future. Sena-
tor Harding was not"
The habitual trickery of Wheeler,
which we are used to in Ohio, by the
way, is obvious in the face of his
oft-repeated statement that the Anti
Saloon League was only interested now
in what might be done with the Vol
stead act. and yet he made no attempt
whatsoever to ascertain Senator
Hardings stand on what he, Wheeler,
himself. says is the real issue This
would all seem to be a carefully de-
vised partisan plan. In fact, one
. would have expected it from Will II.
Hays, the republican chairman. That
it was prepared as protection to the
republican candidate rather than as
an attempt to ascertain his views is
perfectly clear.
Points to Coincidence.
This idea would seem to be
strengthened by the coincidence of
events. On the day preceding Mr..
Wheeler's statement Representatives
of the prohibition party made public
in Chicago a letter from George
Christian, jr, Senator Harding's Sec
rotary, in which two striking things
appeared:
First. that the senator was in
terested in the brewery business;
and, second. that If the Volstead act
was changed by Congress the senator
would not improperly impose his will
on the law-making body In face of
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