Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-10-12
COX CLAIMS TAFT AND HARDING IN
 PLOT TO DECEIVE Asks Former President to Reconcile League Views
 With Stand SAYS IEAGUEOR NO
 LEAGUE THE ISSUE Judge Taft and Republican Nomi- nee Are Severely Criticized in Bitter Attacks in Four
 Speeches

St. LOuS, OCl. l1.--HoFe Hol NoA of Ohio, in an address here tonight at the Coliseum, propounded nine specific questions to former President Taft, bearing upon the latter's sup port of Senator Harding, Republican presidential nominee.
 The Democratic presidential can didate gave numerous quotations from MT. Taft's statement today and past speeches in support of the lea que. The governor asked whether Senator Harding and the former president were not joined togeth- CT "in deliberate deception ?" "Ex-President Taft" Governor Cox told throng of thousands in the coliseum" in recent statement dis cusses the proposal of adopting the league of nations by leaving Article 10 out of it, and responds to the sug gestion with these words:
 "That is exactly what we want" I should like to ask Judge Taft three questions:
 1"Did you not in an artcle to the covenanter, under the title the prin- ciple we fought for discuss Article 10 in these words: The law of the league with the sanction of the pow CT of the league, thus forbfds the violation of the international com mandment, thou shalt not steal by force It is the embodiment of the principle that we entered and fought this war to maintain.
 "2-Did you not also in the same article say the Monroe Doctrine, as originally declared by Monroe, was an article ten limited to the agres- sion of non-American nations against countries of the western hem- isphere?
 "3-Did you not in the same article use these words:
 Article ten is one of the great steps forward, providing in the lea que for the securing of general Ipeace.'
 "4-You say that the league to en- force peace of which you were chair manman, had no article ten in it's proposition. Shouldn't you have have been more frank with the Am erican people by telling them that your plan only had four articles in t and that your substitute for article ten was article three? Can you de- ny that in your article three you pro- vided for the joint use of the mill itary forces of the signatory powers in event of violation of the condi- tions of the covenant?
 "5-Did not your proposal carry a definite legal obligation to employ force and in this respect was it not very much more drastic than Article ten of the league?
 "6-You say that Senator Harding has already voted twice for the lea que with reservations but you failed to say that your candidate within the last two weeks very definitely an- nounced that if he had it to do over again, he would vote for the league even with the Lodge reservations.
 "7-You say that Senator Harding promises that as president, he will endorse the covenant without Article ten. To whom has he given the promise! Certainly not to Senators Johnson and Borah. Every one knows that he has not given itt to the American people. Has he given it to you? if so, is it nus so much in con flict with Senator Harding's recent statement that he proposes from now on to turn his back on the league with or without reservations-that it joins both you and him together in deliberate deception?
 l League Main Issue.
 "8-Assuming that the pledge has been given to you, then may we not answer it with your own words, spoken at luncheon given by the civic organization of California in which you said:
 The gentlemen in the senate who are setting out to defeat this league of nations are those I would not trust overnight
 "9-How do you reconcile your re- cent statement that the president was responsible for the failure to | Idtily tHc tIeAty WltH youA SsosS ] ment in the Metropolitan opera house speech, March 5, 1919, as fol lows:
 Il "If the president insists, as hope he will, that the league be in. corporated in the peace treaty, and brings it back, responsibility for Ipostponing peace is with the body
 that refuses to ratify it. And also
 with that part of your speech dellv' iered January, 1920, at the Academy
 of Music, Brooklyn, which was: !
 am inclined to think that the persor
 who prepared the reservations. as
 whole, were shooting down the ave
 nue at the White House."
 Judge Taft and Senator Harding
 were dual objects of Governor Cox'' fire today, here and in Illinois. IT
 all four of the Governors speeche'
 to crowds today, at Springfield, Lit !