Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-14
LIQUOR ISSUE AS
DEAD As SLAVERY,
G0V.C0X DECLARES
Tells Portland, Oregon, Crowd He
Will Enforce the Dry Law as
President.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS IS.
CHEERED BY MULTITUDE

Portland Ore, Sept. I4.-SroVernor
Cox WAS again drawn into a discussion
of the wet and dry question yesterday by a
heckler in an immense audience when
the governor faced at his first address IN
Portland. Having gwen to the hrst
audicnce AN answer which did not appear
quite to satisfy them, the governor made
To his second group of Portland listeners
the following statement:
"At the close Of the meeting this morn
iou some one asked me about the liquor
question. welcomed the question. That
there NAV be no misunderstanding, |
want TO restate nv position frankly and
elaborate il here in words that will let
vpu know exactly where stand.
III have been SURPRISED at coming into
this vast noFthwest toJind that osrt here,
where the great moral issue of peace
through the League of Nations has been a
sole absorbing question, the Opposition
has been seeking to avoid that issue by set
ting UP a. bugaboo the liquor question
An issue that is - dead as the issue oil
slavery.
Will Hs1onoD LAW.
so FIR q the President = concerned,
the issue under the Eighteenth Amend
msnt i. one of law enforcement. We must
Judge men by their performances rather
-.
enforced the laws for the first time in the
HISTORY Of the State / closed not only the
front doors but the back doors OF the sa-
loon. ON the Sabbath. I enforced AL the
laws. As President Of the United States,
shall continue to enforce all the laws re-
eardless of what interests may be Affect
ed"
Not since Governor Cox started his
campaign has he faced audiences which
cheercd him so long or 80 frequently in
terrupted him with applause a. did those
in this Republican city when he argued
the cause of progressive government and
the League of Nations.
He was in the midst of An impaH1oncd
plea to his hearers to vote as your boys
shot overseas when suddenly a voice
from the gallery shouted:
GLOW about the liquor question:"
The speaker paused for minute and
responded:
II understand that there u . great
newspaper in this city which for months
and months preached the gospel of the
League Of Nations, but which has now
lost interest in it. Apparently there is
one of its readers here who is asking a
question"
Despite the advice Of his physicians
that he should not speak today, the
nominee insisted on speaking TO three
large audiences, one this morning IN the
armoxy at Salem, and two IN the biggest
auditorium In Portland. His voice had 80
far recovered itself over Sunday that the
governor was aeAin able to put into IT the
IRE that marked his earlier addresses.
CHEERS roR THk LEAaUK.
Hn audiences here were made up not
only of Democrats, but of the Republicans
Who have again and again swung this State
into the c.. o. P. column. Folllwing his old
arguments, but introducing new phrases
which his hearers liked, the climax of en-
thusiasm was reached when he told how
the nations of the earth have entered In
to pledge to make w.r impossible.
Coupled with the league, Governor Coz
esve in some detail his ideas on govern
mental administration and economy, and
promised that if elected he would urge on
Congress the desirabihty Of introducing
the budget system and would seek IND
mediAtely the authority to appoint bud
Get commissioner IS executive ASSISTANT
70 the President TO AnalySe estimates
SnbmftAsd by departmental heads.
The first big response came whom be
told hcw IN his fight for progress IN Ohio
he had against him ''the same old crowd,
led Nv Senator Harding. And again bus
hsaScss came TO their fest when he shout
ID
sThoe Who mveagh against u viii
thank thsn Almighty God that there is .
prpereanve government IN America. II
YOU do not cultivate progressive govern
ment YOU are going to have the brambles.
II sovernment Is made responsive TO the
haertboAt Of humanity, radicahsm viii be
inpossibIe because the radical leaders vii
have no followers"
Declaring that TO have a progressive
rovernment you must have a counter
frritant," he got more cheer when he said
that in Ohio The counter irritant had been
Pennsylvanix and that In Oregon it was
that part Of the reactionary press which
WIS roactionary when Oregon changed
it's constitution and which 'fis reaction
axy now"