New-York tribune., 1920-09-21
Beck Accuses
Cox of I1lcitiirlg!
Radical Spirit
Denounces Candidate for
His Speech i'm Oakland
Immediately After the
Wall Street Explosion
Wilson Also Criticized
Democratic Party Declared
To Have Spread Unrest
Throughout the Country

Speaking at the first big Republican
campaign meeting in this city at Carne-
gle Hall last night, James NJ. Beck ac-
cused Governor Cox and the Wilson
administration Of pandering to radicals
and spreading spirit of unrest
throughout the country. Mr.. Beck de-
clared that within forty eight hours
after the bomb explosion in Wall
Street, sin the very shadow of that
speech at Oakland, Cal, had said that
in his travels through the West he had
found the radicals 8 reasonable and
well-intentioned people, complaining
about things that could have been
changed if the government had not
been reactionary.
Mr.. Beck said it was fair to assume
that the Democratic nominee had the
Wall Street tragedy in mind when he
spoke in California, and that it re-
minded him of President Wilson'S IA
nous remark forty-eight hours after
the sinking Of the Lusitania, when he
said there was such thing as being
"too proud to fight"
ut is incredible that public men
speaking in the shadow Of tragic
Beck, when the whole world is
shocked by the dastardly act. Who is
spreading the spirit Of unrest through
the country, l ask? The Democratic
party, ever since it spat upon it's no.
blest President, Grover Cleveland,
whether in power or out, has sown the
seeds of discomfort"
Mr.. Beck said he did not intend to
suggest that either of the great par
ties could be the cause Of such dlsas-
ters as that in the financial district,
or that they could sympathi@e in any
way with the dastardly acts of few
miscreants, but when Governor Cox
made such statements as he did in
Oakland, and Edward Moore, one of his
campaign managers, taunted the Re-
to mention cases, and give them seri-
Gus thought.
The speaker further criticized Gov
ernor Cox for his action when he was
Governor in seizing coal that had been
consigned by the Federal Fuel Admin
istration to the people of the North
west. He said Governor CpX's boast
of this act "smacked of Bolshevzm."
MS. Beck has just returned from
two months stay in Europe. He de-
clared it was amazing to him to see
the attention given in this country to
the League of Nations "as compared
with the lack OF lnCerenSC which Europe
now takes in Mr.. Wi, on's ambitious
but misguided scheme for world govern
ment.' He declares the Wilson coven-
ant, if not dead was at least moribund.
The meeting was under the auspices
of the New York Salesmen's Harding
and Coolidge League. Colonel William
Hayward presided. The other speakers
were Senator George H. Moses, of New
Hampshire, recently renominated and
Mrs. Alexandra Carlisle Pfeiffer, of
Boston, who made a hit at the Repub-
lican National Convention when she
seconded the nomination of Governor
Coolidge. Mrs. Pfeiffer spoke briefly
in urging the election of the Republi-
can ticket. She paid high tribute to
the Republican candidates, saying they
were sane, safe but fearless, and
above all have common garden and
horse sense. "The country needed
most to be brought back to a state of
normalcy, she declared.
Senator Moses admitted that he was
"a bitter ender" and proud Of it on the
League of Nations issue. He said he
stood with Senator Harding in wiping
out every vestige of the instrument
brought back by President Wilson.
Louis X. Liggett, of Boston, pres-
dent of the United Drug Company,
discussed the issues from a business
mans point Of view. He urged all
business men to vote for Harding and
Coolidge,