Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-28

~-s rsnsvrsd here today by Governor Isuss M Cox. democratic presidentia czndtdate- in d number of addresse' opening his New England campaign
 That he had proven his charges in hi Pittsburgh address last night or the ds sernbling of Sl5.eeo,oVV corIuPeloi- fund by the republicans was asserted oS Governor Cox. and he also deciareu ne vouyd continue rubbing that sore spot until election day He withheld. how ex,sr any further evidence in support ot his charges. e, The first break in the republican line, rs,vp-,o- Cox declared during the course ,,f four speeches here, was the republican proposzl for a separate peace with Gef- many.
 The second break in the lines came las. night at Pittsburgh" he continued They have been going along gathering 4he largest campaign fund ever known in fhe history of government in all the world No one ever dreamed Of getting such a sum This year the chairman Of The republican campaign committee has set to work a great force of men, state chaEru,eu. local chairmen and workers. that he dssignates as the money diggers Of the republican party
 Governor Cox stated that Will H. Hays republican national chairman, had denied
  declared that the fund would be only ss 900 oee. while a few days later, the governor said, Fred W. Uphann, republi- can treasurer, multiplied MT. Hays by two and cne-hslf times by stating that the fund would be s7,ooo.ooo.
 R.serves Privilege to Multiply.
 aIz my Pittsburgh speech last night, fl,e candidate added. T have domonstrat- sOr7 nf l. dioed voter in the country that we were 3,,Sfi6ed in multiplying MT. Uphan1s fig ufes by two.
 T repeat. that the republican fund-the -orruption fund-win be not less than s15.eoo .oea. We will not attempt to match their dollars.
 Governor Cox also made statement commenting on Mir Upham's denial Of his -harres After reading g statement from MT. Urhar that the $S.145,o00 contribu- tiou ouots list presented by the candidate at Pittsburgh was ''phony, Governor Cox said:
 a-The senate committee can find out perfectly well who attended this meeting at which these lists weer distributed by the republican leaders It is matter that can be got at in a perfectly simple way Another thing that I don't understand is why MT. Harding and MT. Hays are moi coming forward with some expiana- tion of why this quota list was Kept secret"
 Made Four Addresses.
 Almost from the moment Of arrlTal her. this afternoon. Governor COX during a dzv of bustling campaigning started hzuuerinE at the republican hnances. He made four addresses and in all but me. that to soldier patients at the public bezith service tuberculosis hospital at AI1inztouu. he denounced the republican -ar,naiRn He addressed a hotel meeting nf inc First Voters league, the soldier hovS z large democratic ratification dinner at Savin Rock. a nearby Long rsta,d sound shore resort, and large DnhIic gathering at thestr etonight. At au he vas received with enthusiasm.
 Besides his criticism of the republican contributions. Governor Cox in all Of his utterances urged vigorously the entrance of America into the league of nationss, and to his audience at Savin Rock he made what his auditors regarded as a reference to the question of Irish free dom. the first of his campaign
 Plea for League of Nations.
 In pleading for the league, Governor Cox stated that it was put forward by
 
 lion of the fourteen points, one of which was "self-deternination of free peoples"
 The league of nations" the governor continued, does not abridge the right of any racial entity to determine its cwn destiny. The league was never intended 10 be and. under it's administration, it never will be an agency that will restrain or discourage the same kind of emotions
 Sl-. II Etirred the colonists to achieve their in- den<ndence in 177s."
 The statement was cheered at length by the audience. many of whom, it was said ~rere of Irish blood
 The Irish Question.
 The Irish question also entered into the arsneerneuts for the speaking progran of the governor An announcement that Prof \. Irving Fisher of Yale university a strong league advocate and one of g rroup which once memorialized congress 10 refrain from acting in the Irish free dom dispute. would speak tonight brought objections from Irish sympa- thizerx After conferences with Cover. nor Cox. Mayor Fitzgerald and others Professor Fisher offered to strike his ad dress from the program, to avoid possible unpieasantness. Professor Fisher an nounced. however. that many college pro fessors and other 'progressives" and ''in deusndents' soon would organize to wori for the league and for Governor Cox. slsetion- Among those he named wa; Charles " Eliot, former president oi Harvard university. Theodore warburg former minister to Belgium. and Hamil ton Holt and Rabbi Wise of New York he said, also were in sympathy with tho plan for q new league organization.
 Governor Cox's speeches to all audi ences here except at Allingtown hospita were replete with references to republi can contributions.
 ssMen are. trying to buy the presidential election in order that favored few rather than the average man, may have his interests considered first" the gov. ernor charged at the democratic picnic which he addressed standing on a table sprinkIed with used crockery. eRpeatine his Pittsburgh statements in part, the governor continued: afsF, Much to the ccnsternation of those or the other side, I am going to continue rubbing that sore spot until the 2d ot November.
 HAazd Xazes of Men in Ohio.