Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-10-24
GOV. COX SENDS
SECOND MESSAGE
To EL|HU ROOT
Insists That New Yorker Re-
tract Statement Regard
ing Democratic Nominees
League Attitude

tby Inc Associated Pressl ~
Newark, n. j.. oct. Exchanges
that Elihu Root has misrepresent-
ed his league of nations position
were reiterated by Governor Cox
in another telegram sent to Mr..
Root Friday during the candidates
New Jersey campaign. Making a
second vigorous demand for a re-
traction by Mr. Root, the governor
said regarding Mr.. Roots reply
Friday to the candidates first tele
gram:
You have entered upon a long
dissertation upon the subject of
article ten, in which again by in
ference you are endeavoring either
deliberately or through misunder-
standing and lack of information
concerning my speeches to misrep-
resent my position on the league of
nations"
In this message and in more
than half a dozen speeches today,
Governor Cox reiterated that he
would accept helpful" reserva-
tons.
Governor Cox's telegram read:
Honorable Elihu Root, New
York city.
Il have your telegram of October
81 in reply to mine of October 20,
in which l called attention to your
mis-statement in your address in
New York city when you said: Mr..
Cox declared that he will insist
upon the treaty just as Mr.. Wilson
negotiated it,
II respectfully asked Of you a
nf CT
ment You have apparently mis-
taken the purpose of my message.
which was to give you the oppor-
tunity to correct a possible error.
or to admit the deliberateness of in
tent in its preservation. Permit
me, therefore, to renew in terms
that cannot be misunderstood the
request which can be answered
with an unequivocable yes or no
Did you or did you not make the
statement as quoted; and do you
not know that it was false; and do
you not recognize that in justice to
yourself and in justice to the Amer
lean people, who have honored you,
you should publicly acknowledge
it?"
Favors Hitchcock Changes.
an your reply to me you have
entered upon a long dissertation
upon the subject of article ten in
which again by inference you are
endeavoring either deliberately or
through misunderstanding or lack
of information concerning my
speeches to misrepresent my po-
sition on the league of nations.
Accepting the fact that your mis-
statement was based upon lack of
information, l referred you to the
daily report Of my speeches in the
newspapers in which l have in
Variably said that | favored the
Hitchcock reservations, and also
that | would accept reservations
from any source offered in sin
certify and with desire to help.
Simply that you may be further in
formed, let me call your attention
to the fourth of the Hitchcock re-
servations in reference to article
ten: That the advice mentioned in
article ten of the covenant of the
league of nations, which the Coun-
Gil may give to the member ma
tions as to the employment of their
naval and military forces is merely
is free to accept or reject accord
ing to the conscience and Judgment
of it's then existing government,
and in the United States this adj
vice can only be accepted Ivy action
of the congress at the time in be-
ing, congress alone under the con-
stitution of the Uniter States hav-
ing the power to declare war
nc1y i
you a plain question. We are both
assumed to understand the mean
ing of words. The American peo-
pie likewise understand the mean
ing of words. You have been given
the opportunity to correct your
u1is-statement and this correction
you have failed to make.
JAMES M. cox"
A rising demonstration followed
Governor CoX's declaration in his
speech tonight of his policy toward
proposed American Intervention in
Mexico, when he said he would not
"coin the blood of a single Amer
lean soldier into gold for investors
in Mexico
There are too many people" he
added, "who want American troops
to draw their Chestnuts out of the
fire"
A man in the balcony with lusty |
lungs interrupted the governor to
ask regarding the relative voting
power in the league of the United |
States and Great Britain.
Are we red blooded Americans
TO be interiors to the dominions of
England" the man shouted,
Applause came from part of the
crowd, but this was lost upon the
uproar of appreciation which greet
ed the governors reply. He said:
1.-The leagues decision must be
unanimous always" and also eX-
planned that a Hitchcock reserYa-
ton proposed that neither England
nor any of her dominions should
vote on any question at issue to
which any part of Great Britain