The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-10-07
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cox IN, KANSAS CITY
Enthusiastic Thronxs- Cheer Demo-
ocratie Candidate a. Hs Makes Il
Clear Cut Plea for the
S S 81 League Of Nations.

Kansas City No. Oct. a.--Goy
4 James M. Cox Democrats presiden.
4 tial nominee, Saturday night before 2
lrnwd that packed Convention Hal
Ito overlooking, answered the critics
/, of his League of Nations stand.
Especially did he present to the
Irish Democrats of Missouri clean.
cit, Irving explanation
X and XI Of the peace treaty as shey
4 relate to the Irish question. Il
| And to all who heard him, i. was
clear that he spoke, on the Irish
lquestion, directly to the trends 'of
Sen. James "A. Reed and those Demo-
Gratis in the state who have been
classed as anti-leaguers.
Long before the time set TO- Coy
ernor Cox to reach Convention hall
for delivery of the principal address
incident to his Kansas City visit, the
immense structure was literally packed
and jammed.
Not only had thousands, OF Kansas
Cityans gone there in advance in eff
fort to make certain Of vantage point,
but other thousands came trnoping in
from adjacent territory i'll Missouri
and Kansas. 8
And such an enthusiastic crow n
Good humored, too, with nHer q
fret because OF the long Wait caused
by premature arrival. Better be
early than sorry" seemed to be. the
motto of the vast throng tina. had
waited with such good humored pa
thence. l
Many men of world wide fame have
spoken in Convention hall. lntcrna.
tional celebrities, many of them. have
appeared there, but never in the his
tory of that historic, structure has
there ever been more wholehcarted,
informally and spontaneously friend
ly greeting than that which the
Heart of America" rendered Satur-
Gay night to Jimmie" Cox, the three
times governor of Ohio who is now
the Democratic presidential standard
bearer. .s
The appearance of Governor Coz il,
the hall was signal for an outburst 1T
prolonged applause. 1t was an order
ly crowd, serious-minded crowd,
but it was also vociferously enthusi
astic crowd.
ireland will thank God for the
League of Nations" declared Go, :
ernor Cox. Unless the Irish ques-
ton is settled before March a, 1921, !
shall consider it my duty, as friend
of peace and as the chief executive IT
a nation that is member of the
League of Nations, to invoke the
right given me by Article XII to pre-
sent the Irish cause to the attention
of the league. Thus / will be present
ing it to the bar of public opinion Of
the world" .
While Governor Cox, on his 10000
mile tour, and in most every one Of
his 200 speeches, has touched on ths
Irish question, and refuted the claims
of the anti-league forces, he has never
gone into detail, and explained SO
clearly and with such certainty the |
Irish issue as he did Saturday nigh. |
in his Kansas City address.
He spent good part of his time |
between speeches Thursday and Fri
day aboard his train, preparing his
message to the Irish Democrats OF
Kansas City and Missouri, the home
of Senator Reed.
Declaring that as governor Of
Ohio he never had Caused one shot
10 be fired" for the purpose of ad-
listing labor difficulties, Governo,
Cox smashed his way into the hearts
If 5000 Kansans-most of them la
boring men-who heard the Demo
ratio candidate for president speak al
Shawnee park, Armourdale, late Sat
lrday afternoon. |
Il am not asking you people TO
.ome thousand miles to see me
tand on my front porch and address
'ou," Governor Cox shouted, and the +
rowd howled its approval. Il Have
.ome to your front porch and atm
Had | have come. 1t beats my own
mile" ~