Norwich bulletin., 1920-10-20
GOV. COX ATTACKS LODGE AND RIDICULEs HARDING

Boston, Oct. 19.-Scathing attack upon Senator Lodge of Massachusetts and sar- castle criticism of Senator Harding. re- publican presidential nominee. were made today by Governor Cox during his New England tour embracing Massachusetts and New Hampshire cities and ending with 2 large meeting tonight on Boston Common.
 Here. in the home state of Senator Lodge. as well as to other audiences to- day, the democratic presidential candi- date denounced Senator Lodge as -the arch conspirator of the ages" because of his fight against the league of nations Reiterating that Mir. Lodge headed "a conspiracy to strangle the treaty to death" through the round robin" Gov ernor Cox urged his Boston audience 10 ''repudiate" Mir Lodges leadership and retire him to private life as soon as pos sible. To his New Hampshire audiences Governor Cox urged defeat of Senator Moses. republican, because he signed the round robin"
 Senator Harding was heaped with sar- casm and ridicule by Governor Cox in virtually every address of the day. with the incident between President Wilson and the senator regarding the latters l statement of French overtures for new | association Of nations as the basis The facts justify the conclusion that ! Senator Harding has stupfdly, though de | liberately, attempted to deceive the people of the United States" Governor Cox de- clared
 Reciting Mir. Harding's explanation of | his Des Moines speech rejecting the i league, Governor Cox added:
 He must think the American peoule very stupid. He continues 10 say that they don't understand him"
 Expressing his belief that a French author and humorist was Senator Hard 1 ings source of information regarding | French sentiment upon new association of nations. and commenting upon Senator | lIardnS's letter 10 President Wilson. Gov 1 ernor Cox said, sarcasucally:
 Poor Senator Harding has been mis- understood again. IL is an apathetic ta.n- that he suffers so much from the duilness of the American people, including news paper editors and leaders among parti- sans and opponents"
 The league WAS virtually the exclusive theme today of Governor Cox and his
 Boston Common 'sneech tonight made a
 total of ten speeches. He smoke al Springfield. Worcester. Lowell, Lynn and Cambridge. Mass. the latter at the liar ward Union, and at Nashua, Manchester Suncock and Concord, N. H. The gover- nor oenNnciation or senator Lodge was followed by hissing from his Concord and
 Manchester audiences. In his tour today
 the governor motored thirty-six miles
 through a shower of gorgeous autumn
 leaves, from Nashua to 1.anchester and
 Concord and from. Lynn to Boston.
 The heights of his attack upon Senator
 Lodge were reached by the democrat.s
 candidate tcnight on the Common Stat. ing that Governor Coolidge. republican
 vice presidential nominee. had introduce,
 Senator Lodge in Boston as "famou, everywhere." Governor Cox continued.
 T have just completed a pilgrimag,
 from the Atlantic to the Pacific and bacl again. visiting almost every state in th,
 union. I can testify to the truth of th.
 governors statement. Senator Lodg, must he known 10 every man and womsi
 in every city and village in the land. fol . wherever and whenever l have mentioned , , his name 1t has been ~recornized-ant greeted. no. with cheers. but with jeers
 not with applause. but with misses an, f loud cries of shame Shame Shame
 Judging from this continuously repeafe, z experience. I should be discosed 10 sog x gest. even to a Boston audience, that , would have been more accurate to hav,
 sad that the senator is notorious every