Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1920-10-05
COX .cONFtRS WITH
|. CAMPAIGN LEADERS
White, Harrison and Moore
at Dayton to Arrange
Program
GOV. TALKS TO WOMEN
Nominee Forecfully Enumerates Rea-
sons Why New Voters Should Sup
port 1t

| Dayton, O., Oct. 5.-Chairman Geo.
! White, Of the Democratic Nat:ona!
! Committee; Senator Pat Harrison,
chairman of the speakers bureau,
and E. H. Moore, Governor Cox's pre-
convention manager, arrived yester-
DAY afternoon from New York for q
conference with the Presidential can
did3te. General campaign plans, and
especially the Governors speaking
itinerary. will be considered late to-
day at the Governors home, Trails
end"
At home from campaign tour
that took him more than 1000 miles
and into every state west of the Miss
iss:ppi River, except three, Governor
Cox, though supposed to rest for two
days before going into Kentucky and
Tennessee, today continued his plea
for adoption. of the League of Ma
tions, the paramount issue Of the
campaign.
In an address to a body Of women
yesterday the Governor went into con
siderable detail why women should
support the League cause, asserting
that throughout the years they have
been "the leaders Of progress in the
| world" and declaring that wrath Of
the women who were made to suffer
in the war will pursue Franz Joseph.
William Hohenzollern and Nicholas
Romanoff through all eternity
Though asserting that the none
tary cost of the war, direct and in
direct, was $3eO,Oo0, 100000. it was
the women, Governor Cox declared.
who know what the war really cost,
"for they paid the price in personal
suffering to provide the rulers of the
! earth with 10000. 900 men which were
thrown into the gauges of battle to
placate the anger Of the gods Of war"
The League, Governor Cox said, not
only will prevent war, which he as
serted is its primary purpose, but al
so will promote progress and will set
up, or itself become clearing house
for international justice and social ser
vice.
"Those who want to keep on dream
ing of new heaven and a new earth
can perhaps afford to stay out of the
League" the candidate said: "but
those who really want to make their
dreams come true and make this
world fit habitat fer the human
spirit will want to join the League
w;+hor: delay
The Governor detailed the fellow
ing social service and justice program
which. he asserted member nations
! # the League will en1leavor to carry
out:
"Try to secure and maintain fair
and humane conditions of labor fer
men, women and children, thus lift
| ing the standard of living every
where.
"Try to secure just treatment Of
| tie native inhabita rts of territories
under their control.
TRY to secure and maintain free
dom of communication and of transit.
and equitable treatment for the COM
merce CT members of the League,
Labor together in the effort to
control, and, ultimately, eradicate dis
ease.
"Set up commissions for the proven
ton of the illicit traffic in arms. in
dangerous drugs and in women for
immoral purposes
| Asserting that the issue "is net
fundamentally legal or diplomatic
lone" but morale one, and declar-
rg It fortunate that women for the
first time hold the balance Of power
and the deciding vote. the Governor
said he has no doubt in his mind how
the women's vote will be cast. He con-
tinued: \,
.sThe women OF America will vote
to keep our pledge to $1,000 heroes
whose blood has crimSoned the pep
nies ct Flanders field They will vote
Tor. the hrritat;on of srnlamerts. the
arti.ration of disputes, the publica.
itien of secret treaties. the ameliora
ton of distress and the elevation Of
labor, conditions to higher standards
: In a-word. they, will vote for League
which will convert Christian idealisn