Omaha daily bee., 1920-08-02
Keep League Of Nations Out
Of Campaign Is Scheme to
Discard President and Fa-
vored by National Chairman.
cox AND TAMMANY MAY
LOCK OVER LIQUOR
II Nominee Adopts BIown-in-
Bottle Program He Will Pose
As Progressive, Branding
Harding as a Reactionary.
BY ARTHUR SEARS HENNING.
Chicago Tribune -OmnI,a bee Leased Wire

Chicago Tribone-Omnba l3ee Leased Wire
Washington, Aug. With Pre- Isl.
dent Wilson insisting that the league
OF nations covenant, devoid OF i'm.
pairing reservations. be made the
paramount issue of the campaign and
Democratic National Chairman
White pronouncing it not the para.
mount issue, the acceptance speech
this week of Governor Cox, the dem
ocratic nominee for president. is
awaited with daily increasing inter.
est among democrats as well as re-
puhlicans.
The speech will indicate wha,
course the Ohio governor intends
to pursue i'll his endeavor to satisfy
both the Wilson following, which
dictated the platform and wrote the
league plank into it as the paramount;
issue, \and the antiadministration
leaders who compasscd the f1omina-
: ton OF Cox and who are either luke
Warul or cold toward the league.
MIR. Whites formula for the ac-
conlplishinent of this task is to in
dorse the Wilson covenant "in spirit
but subordinate it as an issue and
cut loose from Wilson everywhere
else along the line. The democratic
national chairman leftfor New York
last night without calling at the
White House or receiving any invi-
tation from the president for a cor.
ference.
May Exploit progressiveness.
His assertio nthat liquor is not
an issue indicates that Mr.. White
does not expect Governor Cox to
make it an issue by coming out for
any modification of the prohibition
law. There are at least five big
states, however, in which Cox is to
be run for the presidency as wet"
for Murphy of New York, Brennan
OF Illinois, Taggart of Indiana, Nu-
gent of New Jersey and Walsh of
Massachusetts had that purpose
il, view when they brought sbout
his nomination. II Governor Cox
adopts the program outlined by Mr..
White he will make progressiveism
the cardinal issue, exploit his guber-
material record as progressive and
attack Harding as an old-tirne re-
publican reacticnary. Mr.. White re-
fers to the record of Harding in
congress as reactionary and to his
nomination as the product OF the
'nachinations of the republican old
guard,
About the Old Guards.
In this line Of attack, however,
the democrats will encounter diff
ficulties and enharrassnTen.s. 1t is
we'll known tf1a. Harding is in
deb.ed for his nomination as much
to progressives as to the told guard.
as was forcibly demonstrated when
the Kansas delegation tried to pre-
cipitate = premature stampede to
his banner while the Pennsylvania
old guard continued to vote for
Sproul until after Harding's selec-
tion had been assured by the vote
OF another Rooseveltian strong
hold, Michigan. It also IS well
known that Cox il indebted for his
nomination to the democratic old
guard. nlarshalled by Murphy,
Brennan and Tageart.
On the league of nations there is
division at sentiment in both par.
ties. Harding, leaning away from
the league, has dissatisfied repub.
lieans who still advocate accept
ance Of the covenant. Cox. who
= promised the president loyalty to
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