The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1920-10-12
Gov ]. M COX
|. BARES FACTS
tcentInusd from Psss u,

Tne h0puDncan senators are try.
ing to stir up, anxiety among Repub.
licans lest this be- Limitation upon
our tariff. It would help much to meet
and remove objections and cut the
ground under senatorial obstruction"
Regarding the Monroe Doctrines
protection, Mr.. Taft was quoted as
follows:
my impression is that if the one
article already sent, on the Monroe
Doctrine, be inserted III the treaty,
sufficient Republicans whb signed the
round robin would probably retreat
from their position and vote for rati-
fication so that 1t would carry II the
other suggestions were adopted. 1 feel
confident that all but few who op-
pose any league at all would be driv-
en- to accept them and to stand for
the league"
Another message by Mr.. Taft, on
March 2s, 1919, upon the same sub
ject said:
venture to suggest to President
that failure to reserve Monroe Doc
trine more specifically in face Of op-
position in conference will give great
weight to objection that league as
first reported endangers doctrine. 1t
will seriously embarrass advocates Of
league, it will certainly lead to senate
amendments embodying doctrine and
other provisions in form less likely to
secure subsequent acquiescence of
other nations than proper reservation
now. Deem some kind Of Monroe
Doctrine amendment now to Article
Ten vital to acceptance OF league in
this country. I say this with full re.
alization that complications in confer
ence are many and not clearly under.
stood here. A strong and successful
stand now will carry the league"
Another, on April 13, signed by Mr..
Taft, and A. Lawrence Lowell, read:
Friends OF the covenant are SER
iously alarmed over report that no
amendment will be made more spe.
cifically safeguarding Monroe Doc
trine. At full meeting of executive
committee Of league to enforce peace
4 with thirty members from eighteen
4 states present Unanimous opinion
4 that without such amendment, Repub
lican senators will certainly defea,
ratification of treaty, because publ,
opinion will sustain them. With sucl
amendment, treaty will be pr0mptl!
4 ratified."
The White House memorandum
3 made public By Governor Cox. sale
that the leagues reservation Of do
mestic questions wAs made "as sug
gested by Mr.. Taft and almost in hi
own words" All OF the other sug
gestions from Mr.. TAFT, 1t stated, wer'
followed. as shown by quotation
from the league covenant.
In making public the correspond
!, ence, Gov. Cox's statement said tina
time had arrived ito bring before tn
, American jury the recorded evidenc
. that the league is the composit
, thought Of the leading statesmen o
] the world" and that It incorporate
|. all the suggestions that were honest
ly offered by leading United State
citizens"
Citing suggestions by Elihu Root
Charles e. Hughes and others, Go,
Cox reiterated that It's opposition wa
"a partisan conspiracy"
"It seems but yesterday" said Coz
Cox, "that all the leaders Of Amer
can thought were for the league, Th
: past eighteen months OF plot and col
spiracy, holding up the civilization {
the world and tearing at the hear
Il strings Of humtnity, for political pu
n poses," are as a nightmare.
IS Governor Cox referred. to the Whit
l. House dinner in February 1919, {
8 which President Wilson, he said, col
ferred upon the league covenant wit
the senate foreign relations and hous
foreign affairs committee, and added
v "But before this meeting Henry G.
bot Lodge, as the arch conspirator I
the ages had uttered his defiance an
,r issued the mandate that peace shoul
r, not be II it came as the result of e
Il, fort in which the president had d
n, recting hand.
r. A partisan victory born in hatre
g and discomfort was his goal, let Il
& cost to civilization be what 1t Nigh
In sequence, few days after the co
n. ference, Senator Lodge produced b
n infamous round.robih, signed by thi
~ ty seven Republican senators, WI
III declared that the league was not q
le ceptabIe in the form presented, b
p who, under partisan leadership. mat
10 no suggestions of any kind for its II
Of provement as means OF preservil
the peace of the world.
"In this connection let 1t be Ell
phasized that not one single sugges