The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-10-22
Position of Lodge
Scored In His State
Governor Cox Scathinsly Attacks
Senator From Massachusetts, in
Day Of Active Campaigning,
Concluding at Night With
Large Meeting on Boston
Common.

Boston, Oct. 1-Scathing attack
upon Senator Lodge Of Massachusetts,
and sarcastic criticism of Senator
Harding, Republican presidential
nominee, were made today by Cover
nor Cox of Ohio during his New Eng
land tour, embracing Massachusetts,
and New Hampshire cities, and end.
ing with large meeting tonight on
Boston Common.
Here in the home state of Senator
Lodge, as we'll as to other audiences
| today, the Democratic presidential
, candidate denounced Senator Lodge
as "the arch conspirator of the ages"
because of his fight against the lea
que of nations. Reiterating that
! Mr. Lodge headed ga conspiracy to
strangle the treaty to death" through
the ground robin" Governor Cox
urged his Boston audience to "re-
pudiate" Mr.. Lodges leadership and
retire him to private life as soon as
possible. To New Hampshire aud
fences Governor Cox urged defeat OF
', Senator Noses, Republican, because
he signed the round robin"
Senator Harding was heaped with
sarcasm and ridicule by Governor
! Cox in virtually every address Of the
day, with the incident between the
president and the senator regarding
the latter's statement of French ov-
! ertures for new association OF ma,
tiors as the basis. @ as,6
Attempt at Deception.
"The facts justify the conclusion
/ that Senator Harding has stupidity,
though deliberately, attempted to de-
ceive the people of the United
| States" Governor Cox declared.
Reciting Mr.. Harding's explana-
ton of his Des Moines speech ere
| jecting" the league, Governor Cox
added:
'sHe must think the American peo-
ple very stupid. He continues to say
that they don't understand him"
Expressing belief that a French
author and humorist was Senator
Harding's source of information re-
garding French sentiment upon
new association of nations, and COM
,nenting upon. Senator Harding's let
! ter to President Wilson, Governor
Cox said sarcastically:
| "Poor Senator Harding has been
misunderstood again. 1t is pathetic
thing that he suffers so much from
the dullness of the American peo-
pie, including newspaper editors and
! leaders among partisans and oppo-
] nents."
The league was virtually the ex-
elusive theme today of Governor
! Cox ard his Boston Common ad-
dress tonight made "a total of ten
speeches. The governors denuncia-
ton of Senator Lodge was followed
by Kissing from his Concord and
Manchester audiences.
The heights of his attack upon
Senator Lodge were reached by the
Democratic candidate tonight on
Common. Expressing happiness
over speaking on the "first forum of
America dedicated to free speech
and free assemblage," Governor Cox
said he desired "to remove clouds
and confusion" regarding the lea
que. These, the governor asserted,
were "set up in a partisan plot, in
s.igated and led by the ,archconspira-
tor of the ages, Henry Cabot Lodge
Of MASSACHUSETTS"
Lodges Name Known.
Stating that Governor Coolidge,
Republican vice presidential nomi-
nee. had introduced Senator Lodge
in Boston as famous everywhere"
! Governor Cox continued:
81 have just completed pilgrim
age from the Atlantic to the Pacific
and back again, visiting almost every
state in the union. / can testify to
the governors statement. Senator
Lodge must be known to every man
and woman in every city and village
in the land, for whoever and when
ever I have mentioned his name it
has been recognized-and greeted,
not with cheers, but with jeers, not
with applause but with Kisses and
J loud cries of 'Shamev 'Shame'
'Shamev Judging from this continu-