The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-28
FUND CHARGES PROVED,
 COX DECLARATION
Says He Will Continue to Rub Sore Spot Till Elec- ti0n-Two Breaks In c.
 o. P. Ranks Recorded
By Associated Prsss

By Associated Prsss
 New Haven, Conn.,, August 27-Attac ok
 on republican campaign contributions
 was renewed here today by Governor
 James M. Cox, democratic presidential 1 candidate. in a number of addresses opening his New England campaign. He asserted that he had proved his charges. in his Pittsburg address last night, of the assembling of a s15OOo,0oO corruption fund" by the republicans and he also declared he would continue rub ping that sore spot" until election day He withheld, however, any further evi- dence in support of his charges The first "break in the republican line. Governor Cox declared, in one of four speeches here. was the republican proposal for separate peace with Ger many.
 "The second break in Ie lines came
 last night at Pittsburg,'j he continued.
 They have beer going [ ong gathering
 the largest campaign fund ever known in the history of goyernraeYlt in all the world. No one ever dreamed of getting
 such sum. This year the chairman
 or the republican campaign committee
 mas set to work great force of men,
 state chafrmen. local chairmen and
 workers. that he designates the money diggers' of the republican party
 Governor Cox said that Will H. Hays! republican national chairman had denied the charges of a $15,O00, 600 fund and de- clared that the fund would be only s3. ocooOo, while a few days later, the gov-a ernor said, Fred w. Upham. republican treasurer multiplied MT. Hays by two and one-half times'' by stating that the fund would be s7.00o, GOO
 JUSTIFIED IN MULTIPLYING
 In my Pittsburg speech last night" i" the candidate added, q have demonstrat- ca 10 the satisfaction of every ,lnpretu- diced voter In the country that we were justified in multiplying MT. Up- hams figures by two.
 T repeat that the republican fund, the corruption fund will not be less than sl5, 900 900; we will not attempt to match their dollars"
 Governor Cox also made a statement commenting on MT. Uphams denial of his charges after reading a statement from Mir Upham that the ss,145, 900 con tribution presented by the candidate at | Pittsburg was ''phony," Governor Cox said:
 The Senate committee can find out | perfectly well who attended this meet | ing at which these lists were distributed l by tho republican leaders It Is a matter | that can be got at in perfectly simple l way.
 O<hiActhCi tniii6 tIdl uOH understand | is why MT. Harding and MT. Hays are | not coming forward with some explana- ton of why this quota list was kept | secret"
 Governor Cox made four addresses and l all but one, that to soldier patients in | the public health service tuberculosis hos- pital at Allingtown. he denounced the | republican campign. He addressed | hotel meeting of the first voters league, the soldier boys, democratic "ratifica- tion" dinner at Haven Rock a nearby | Long Island sound shore resort, and | large public meeting at theatre tonight 1 At all he was received with enthusiasm. |
 WANTS U. s. IN LEAGUE
 Besides his criticism of the republican | contributions the governor urged the en- trance of America into the League of | Nations. and to his audience at Haven | Rock, he made what his auditors regard l ed as reference to the question of Irish | freedom. the first of his campaign.
 In pleading for the league the gov l ernor said that it was put forward by | President Wilson in the latter's delinea- | tions of the fourteen points," one of | which was "self-determination of free | 
 The League of Nations" the governor "does not abridge the right | of any racial entity to determine it's own | destiny. The league was never intended | to be, and, under It's administration, it | never will be. an agency that will re- strain or discourage the same kind of | emotions of any people-emotions like l those that stirred the colonists to achieve | their Independence in 1776'
 The statement was cheered at length | by the audience, many of whom, it was | said, were of Irish blood
 The Irish question also entered into the for the speaking pro- | gramme of the governor. An announce | nent that Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale strong league advocate, and one of a group which once memorialized Congress to refrain from acting in the Irish freedom dispute. would speak to- night brought objections from Irish sym lathizers- Altar conference with Govefn- pr Cox, Mayor Fitzgerald and others Professor Fisher offered to strike his ad- lress from the programme to avoid pos- ;ible unpleasantness.
 TO ORGANIZE FOR COX
 Professor Fisher announced however, hat many college professors and other 'progressives and Independents soon would organize to work for the league ind for Governor Cox's election. Among hose he named was Charles w. Eliot, ormer president of Harvard University Theodore Marburg former minister to Belgium and Hamilton Holt and Rabbi Wise of New York. he said also were n sympathy with the plan for a new League organization.
 Men are trying to buy the protss-
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