Bisbee daily review., 1920-10-21
COX CALLS
 UPON ROOT

'iO4A Noh bV COlSL oHiS as
 mandate of the American peo-
 pie; and that to secure ratifica-
 ton of the treaty and the league
 l would sit down with the mem
 bers of the United States sen
 ate; l would confer with MT.
 Wilson and with you. Mir. Root,
 as well as with Judge Taft and
 all others who have a sincere
 purpose and whose service in
 the past equips them especially
 as advisers in this work. You
 know and know full well that
 Senator Harding svery recently
 said
 "I am not interested n clari-
 fication; I am interested in re-
 iection.' As I have stated at the
 beginning l am placing a chari-
 table construction upon your
 statement, that perhaps your par
 tisanship has prevented your
 reading my address and your
 prejudice has prevented you from
 realizing the destruction;st atti-
 tude Of your own candidate; but
 you have made statement con
 corning me which the records
 show is false, and firmly but
 respectfully call upon you to
 correct this statement at once.
 MT. Root. you have arrived at
 an honorable station in life.
 Many people trust you. You
 have no right to- deceive them.
 They want the truth in this cam
 paign. Your conscience will tell
 you that duty to it should be su-
 perior to duty to your party.
 (Sjgned) JAMES M. cox"
 Comments Upon Message
 Governor CoX's statement con upon the Root messag said:
 T am today addressing a telegral -c Elihu Root, calling upon him fC an immediate retractiou of mi statement ;n his New York adGres 1s to my positions toward ratiEc; ion Of the treaty and tho league.
 'I am doing this because it is no apparent. to me at least. that M Root and the thirty eminent Repu icans who are associated with hil in statement issued to secure SUI port for Senator Harding, whom the Inow by his own words IS agains he leaguc-are attempting to dc ,eiye the voters. They are permr ing their partisanship to rise abov heir patriotism and trusting tha he last wobble for Senator Hardin nay be in their direction lam try ng to be charitable to these men fl jew of the fact that in their parti anship they may not be reading m. 'ublic address, in which I have in said that it would be m! to accept any helpful reser ations that will make certain th' atification of the treatc and the eague; and that my election wCult e expressive of the desire of the .merican people for going into thu aague; whereas the election of Sen tor Harding, upon. his own state lent, upon the statements of John Cn and Borah, would be indorse lent for staying out of the league am asking the newspapers to carr, his statement and a copy of the tel gram sent to MT. Root as a matter f fair play because the assertion. f prologue Republicans led bl i'm have net gwen the facts and arr Ot giving the facts to the people ,nly last night D. Charles Elliott rho has been one of America's fore nost educators for more than 4 cars, called attention to this yer! hing tO group Of student voters a Harvard. in my presence, and point q out that in the statement signed " 31 men, all of whom he knows nd with most of whom he nas bee: ssoeiated. they have rec0mmcudeC heir countrymen to put in to the a man who rejects tho nly league Of nal Ons which has cen actually brought into existence nd is functioning. They advise vot ng for the man selected by the very roup Of Republican leaders whC