New-York tribune., 1920-10-03
Cox Ready to
ON
Reservations
Tells Pittsburg, Kan, Audi
ence He Would Sit With
Senate and Agree Upon
Any Clarifying Changes
Discusses Irish Cause
Authority for Action by
League Lies i'm Article XII
of Covenant, He Declares

PlTTSBURG, Kan, Oct. Ex-Governor
James M. Cox told an audience that
met his train in Pittsburg this after
noon that if he were elected President
ne would "sit down with the Senate
and discuss the treaty. of peace and
agree upon any reservations that would
clarity or 'reassure the treaty"
The Democratic Presidential nominee,
en- route from Joplin to Kansas City,
stopped here twenty minutes.
KANSAS CITY, Mo, Oct. 2.-Gover-
nor Cox closed his months Western
campaign trip here tonight with a
mass meeting at Convention Hall.
In ten speeches to-day the league
was preached by Governor Cox, the
Irish phase being emphasized especial,
ly tonight. lie reiterated arguments
that it was a pledge" to Americans in
the war, bond Of honor with the AL
lies and a medium for moral and ma
terlal betterment for America and the
world.
His speech tonight made a total of
100 for the Governor during his West
ern trip, exclusive OF many minor
greetings, in the twer .ty-two states Wis
tied.
Criticism of the league in this COM
m'unity by Irish pathizers inspired
an extended statement by the Governor
tonight. Reiterating that he proposed
to bring the Irish question to the attcn-
tion of the league if elected President
the candidate repeated that authority
for such action would be under Article
XII, and he declared that upon attaining
independence the Irish people would be
thankful" for Article X with its pro-
tectlon. The Governor argued against
external aggression upon weak as we'll
as strong nations. The league, the
Governor reiterated, would give the
Irish people forum, now lacking, for
bringing their cause to "the bar of
public opinion of the world"
Under Article X, the Governor de-
clared, Ireland "has the right to sepa-
rate from Great Britain and establish
its own government and to
that end may wage such internal ag-
gression as it seems necessary to ac-
complish the result. This is a matter
wholly without the purview of the
league"
Governor Cox tonight issued the
following statement:
MY aCteHtlOn mas just Deen called
to a syndicated article by William
Howard Taft in which he makes the
msstatement that have attacked The
Associated Press for failing to give
to the American public a fair account
of my speeches and phases of my cam
pagn. This would appear to be a part
of the deliberate conspiracy on the
part of reactionary politicians, and
one to which | am loath to believe
Judge Taft would knowingly lend his
name.
Upon reaching the Coast we found
that not only was the reactionary press
refusing to carry advance news of
meetings, but affidavits of Republican
editors established the fact that scouts
of the Republican organization were
demanding of the so-called Republican
press silence regarding the meetings
and suppression Of the facts after the
meetings.
'In bringing these matters to the
attention of my audiences ! several
times made the statement that The
Associated Press and other press or
ganizations had representatives in my
party, that they all were carrying the
news, but that reactionary editors were
failing to give their dispatches to the
public. AS a matter of TACT, l have
unwittingly offended representatives of
other press associations by inadvert-
entity using the words associated
pressn when meaning press associa-
tions' IN complimenting them upon the
work they were doing"