The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-30
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FOR CAMP AICN
SAYSGOv. COX
House Was Packed to Hear
Presidential Nominee.
Centered His Attack Against
Senator Harding.
SLABS At, INDUSTRIAL COURT
Fails to Mention Campaign
Sfush Fund Charges.
Speaker Did Not Mention
Democratic State Ticket.
SLABS At, INDUSTRIAL COURT

Cox of Ohio told an audience of more
than 1000 Topekans Wednesday night
The Democrat presid entail nominee
held an audience that packed aisles
and exits more than an hour and a
half. Frequently he centcred his at
tack directly against Senator Harding
by use of his name. But the Topeka
speech was a much REVISED edition
and made no reference to Republican
campaign funds which occupied prom
inent place in early Cox speeches.
Possibly Governor Cox had a slap at
the industrial court law in mind when
he warned Kansas against radical and
extreme legislation. Often in the
course of his speech he appealed to
the sentiments of an enormous labor
crowd that featured his audience and
was clearly in evidence in demonstra-
tions of approval. The nominee was
hoarse and clearly tired as result of
his strenuous trip. Yet he held the
big crowd in a manner egualled by
few public men in Topeka in recent
years.
Stayed to Hcwn Lines.
Revisions in evidence in the Cox
speech were as much a feature of the
big meeting as the things the candi-
date said. There were no new thrills
for the Topeka audience. He stayed
closely by the hewn line-except that
some of the things most expected did
not come from the speakers lips. Per
haps his failure to give mention to his
earlier campaign sfSsh fund charges
created greatest comment after the
meeting.
But that wasn't all. There was no
mention of the Billiard candidacy. Nor
was the Democrat state ticket men
toned. Frequently the speaker played
to the sentiments of Kansas labor and
to the farmer. But the Kansas issues
and the Kansas state campaign had no
place in the los minute speech
Attacks His Opponent.
The candidates attack on his OPP
ponent started early. 1t was in a pre-
liminary discussion of Ohio and her
progressive Observation-Disclosures pen
sion, the new state constitution and a
revised compensation law which was
highly recommended to Kansas.
In that compensation fight before
the Ohio legislature we came so near
Big Business that as Andrew Jackson
said, we could see the whites of their
eyes" said Governor Cox. And
whom do you think we found as the
leader of~these interests? 1t was the
present head of the United States SEN
ate oligarchy-the nominee of the Re
publican party in this presidential
campalgn-Senator Warren G. Hard
ing"
But that was only incidental. AS
Governor Cox swung into his discus
sion of the league covenant, he took
frequent jabs at his opponent His
criticism of Senator Harding was as
rough as his complaint as to the treat-
ment which he himself has received
from the newspapers. Governor Cox
reiterated his earlier complaints that
the newspapers had been unfair to his
candidacy and to his speeches.
Takes Slap at Hays.
Men gave gone ahead of me who
were employed by VIII Hays" Cox
charged. These men visited Repuo-
lican newspaper offices and asked the
papers to say as little as possible about
my meetings, to ask me questions in
their papers and when 1 was gone to
say my meetings were a failure. They
were all like this one"
The statement drew applause.
Then the candidate asked for ques-
lions. He often asked his own ques-
tions and employed the opportunity
to present statements on the Irish
question. the league the Armenian
covenant, the dry plank and reserva-
lions to the league as he had dis
cussed them in other cities.
Again he found an opportunity to
grumble as to publicity. He said an
Omaha paper had asked a question as
to the liquor matter.
MY answer was a question that
PROFOUND 10 both of your papers" said
Governor Cox Here it is: Why are
you supporting for the presidency Of
the United States a brewer
Fine To Be e Large.
''They answered the question up
there that Senator Harding isn't
brewer, that he is only a stockholder
in a brewery and a small, very small.
brewery dc wn in Marion Oh. it is
fine to be running at large"-and here
another opportunity for a swing at his
opponent-"just to know you are not
chained to a porch"
Whether Governor Cox had in mind
the industrial court law in his warning
to Kansas. only the governor can
probably say. He may say today. But
his warning brought applause from
the crowd that marched to his meet
ing and clearly held a big majority
of the seats in the auditorium.
IF you would safeguard against
bolshevisln in Kansas" said the speak
er, you will do one thing-safeguard
against extremes. For one extreme
follows another. No readjustment
made under radical or reactionary
management that is not fair nor
square, butthat you bring the pendu-
lum to the extreme point Then look
OUT
Applause follows the warning to
Kansas. The warning was supple
mented with a discussion of the re-
fusal of the state legislature to give to
the farmers of North Dakota state
owned elevato tors And this failure or
refusal, Governor Cox pointed out.
brought the present situation which
threw the state into the hands of the
Nonpartisan League 800
Once a heckler sought to ask ques-
tons from the galleries But Gov
ernor Cox is quick on his feet He was
the speaker and held every advantage.
The man with the questions went
down in unhappy defeat
Nearly an hour of the speakers
time was given over to the league. He
said that adoption of the Hitchcock
resolution would easily safeguard
American interests as against the ma
jority vote of Great Britain in the
league assembly. All disputants would