Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-10-02
|THRONCS GREET
COX IN THE WEST
Is Told BY Backers, Democrats
Will Carry Cxlahoma-Treaty
Delay Hampers Producers

day night on his swing homeward
toward Ohio. he took with him
assurances from state party heads
that Oklahoma not only would de-
liver her electoral vote to him by
a majority ranging fro tn35,OOO to
$4,000, but that she would also
elect Congressman Scott Ferris
to the United States Senate and
return a solid congressional dele
cation, gaining two seats over the
last election.
Huge crowds met Gov. Cox ev-
erywhere he halted. At Enid be-
fore he had breakfast; at King
fisher; at FL Reno, where $4,000
Ipersons from Oklahoma, New
Mexico and even Texas had gath
cred; at Oklahoma City, where he
divided honors with the attrac-
tions of the State Fair at Chand-
Ter; at Bristow; and at Sapulpa-
and finally here, where he arrived
worn and weary, but exultant in
the thought that he had turned
the flank of the republican nation
al committee, backed, as democra-
tic leader here charged, by a huge
campaign fund.
Speaking at the fair grounds at
Oklahoma City, Gov. Cox discuss
ed the adverse economic effects Of
the world war.
The Governor used them in an
effor to drive home the necessity
for a world agreement to restore
debilitated exchange" +" Upon this
point he said:
1--WE blamed, and justly, trad
ing profiteers who made private
fortunes out of public disaster.
What shall we say of those polit-
ical profteers who are striving to
crafty personal revenge and win
partisan advantage at the expense
of human sufferings? -
by refusing to ratify the trea
ty of peace and join the League
OF Nations they have thrown Our
times out of Joint. When we
should be enjoying a period Of un-
pecedented prosperif.: at the same
time that we arc helping to -e-
make a broken world, we have
been forced to sit idly by wl1iic all
Europe crun5les il, chaos
"And as f.. ourselves we are
made to Su'fcr, as produce:s 5 of
raw materil $, the losses incident
TO tulnbling prices.
You Col"1n growers IN OI.ia
hOma know what i. r:caE- J.
president of your State Board OF
Agriculture estimates that :,
quarter of million bales Of low
grade cotton will not be picked
because the price has fallen to $35
and it costs $50 to put bale OF
cotton on the market,
"You wheat growers also know
what l am talking about. The
price of wheat already has faller
below the price formerly fixed by
the government without a paral-
lei decline in the cost of bread to
the consumer, and the producer
stands to lose on his crop.
81 am farmer and know some
thing about the cost of produc-
ducing; nor can | agree with the
statement of Senate rHarding in
the Congressional Record, page
$500, July 1o, 1917, and again on
July 21, as recorded on page $3.50,
of the Record, when he said that
wheat could be grown proftably
for ST bushel.
'The depression in the demand
for raw commodities, of course,
is due to the instability of foreign
exchange, and to the inability of
Europe to obtain necessary credit,
for the reason that financial Sc
curity rests on social security, de-
MED to the remainder of the
world by our refusal to cooper
ate in the establishment and
maintenance of order
Large manipulators of raw ma
teria1s in the United States, he
said,> were taking an unfair adj
vantage of closed foreign mar
kets by Cheating the producer on
one hand with low prices and ex-
plotting the consumer on the 9th
er hand with high prices"
While the high cost Of living
was an issue in the campaign, he
said, "the League is the. para
mount issue, because there can be
no hope for permanent prosperity
and peace until it is accepted"
Gov. Cox has essayed la coun-
ter attack upon the republican
drive now centering upon Article
x of the league covenant.
Being asked where he stood as
to belief in it, he said:
I'm making my answer | should
like to ask a question also. Do
you believe, sir, in the Ten Com