Omaha daily bee., 1920-07-20
C0XL00kS TO
WEST TO PUT
him ACROSS.
After Conference With Wilson
Democrat Nominee Believes
Folks of Plains and Noun.
tains Will Favor League.
SECRETARY COLBY WILL
BE USED AS CHIEF ORATOR

StChE AMI CUL61 WILL
BE USED AS CHIEF ORATOR
In Western States Liquor Issue
Will Be Soft PedaI|ed, While
Thirsty East Will Be Re-
minded Governor Is Liberal.
BY ARTHUR SEARS HENNING.
Chicago Tribune Omaha Bee Leased Wire.
I Washington, July l9.-Governor
Cox of Ohio, the democratic nomi-
nee for president, accepted not only
President Wilson's uncompromis-
ing stand on the league OF nations
at the White House conference yes
terday but Mr. Wilson's plan of
campaign to win the election OH this
as the paramount issue.
President Wilson, it transpired to-
day, belieces that the same western
states which broke from their re-
publican mooring and carried him to
victory in 1916 can be relied upon,
with proper attention by the demo-
cratic % apaign managers, to repeat
the performance this year insuring
election of Cox and Roosevelt and
Endorsement of the Wilson policies.
The kept us out of war; issue to
which has been generally attributed
L. he success of the president in car
v,ying number of state west of the
Mississippi is to be given new
dress, the raiment of the league of
nations, and trotted out again to
court the appreciation of the folks
on the plains and mountains of the
country.
Cox to Make "Circle"
Governor Cox himself is to swing
round the circle" seeking to con-
vince the far west that only the
league of nations can save the ma
ton from war and preparation for
war, that we can enter the league
without incurring obligation to en-
ter war not of our own making and
hat the first requisite for attain
ment of this end is the election Of
the democratic ticket.
But the real simon pure spokes-
man of the president on the league
of nations in the far west is to be
Secretary of State Colby, an engag-
ne and forceful orator, who will be
relied upon to interprent the cove
nant in detail with greater fidelity to
the presidents view than Governor
Cox could be expected to attain.
There is naother purpose, too, in the
decision to send Mr.. Colby to the far
west. This region is one of the old
strcngholds of the bull moosers, Of
whom the secretary of state was one
Of the conspicuous leaders until
Roosevelt indorsed Hughes in 1916.
Soft Pedal Liquor.
Thereupon he went over to Will
son and the president has been
quoted as asserting that Colby rem
dcred him more effective aid than
any other speaker in the last nation
al election. So, Colby's mission to
the west will be not only to elucidate
the covenant, but to attract the for
mer progressives to support OF the
democratic ticket.
So far as the democratic campaign
plans can be discerned now, the in
dications are that the liquor issue
! will be soft-pedaled in the far west,
7 which contains number OF banner
prohibition states. In the east, how
ever, Charles F. Murphy of New
Ycek, Senator Walsh of Massachus-
ctts, Jim Nugent of New Jersey and
other leaders are basing their cam
paign plans upon the appeal Gov
ernor Cox's liberal views of the
prohibition question will make to
those who are dissatisfied with a
bone-dry country.
A. Cox Reservationist.
y The democratic nominees COM
plete acceptance of Mr.. Wilson's
views on the league of nations has
raised the question whether he has
surrendered his previous convictions.
1t was known that Governor Cox ad-
vocated reservations, but his friends
here insist that he never went farther
than espousing the interpretative
reservations to which Mr.. Wilson
said he would not object.
On May % Governor Cox sug-
gested this reservation: "1n giving
assent to this treaty the senate has
in mind the fact that the league
of nations which it embodies was
devised for the sole purpose OF
maintaining peace and comfy
among the nations of the earth and
preventing the recurrence of such
destructive conflicts as that through
which the world has just passed.
The cooperation of the United
State with the league and its con-
tinuance as member thereof will
naturally depend upon the adher-
ence of the league to that funda-
mental purpose"
He also proposed this resolution:
1T will, of course, be understood
that, in carrying out the purpose
of the league, the government OF
of the league, the government of
the United States must at all times
act in strict harmony with the
terms and intent of the United
States constitution, which cannot
in any way be altered by the treaty
making power. ..