The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-09-03
TOLEDO Talk
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BY GOV. COX
Nominee at Lansing, Mich,
Today-Harding and Cox
Reply to Engineers-Roos
welt In Maine.
Sen. HARDING CONFERS

ern Swing" of Governor Cox was
opened early today with a before
breakfast rear platform address to
railroad station crowd at Toledo
while the Democratic candidate was
enroute to Michigan.
II am starting for the coast" said
Governor Cox to his sunrise audience.
We're in the fight to win. We will
win because our cause deserves to
win"
In urging the league of nations, Gov
ernor Cox referred to the present dis
agreement over German indemnities.
The voice of America he said, must
fix it. Now they say that we should
substitute for the league the old
Hague tribunal.
Closed Up Before War.
That institution closed up before
the war. I imagine there are bats in
its belfry and spider webs every
where.
1T was a distinct failure, having
failed to prevent war in 1914. The
opposition candidate says he will go
back and open this old institution and
try to keep house there"
Declaring that the league sis the
modern idea of bringing the nearest
guarantee of peace" Governor Cox
said it was a progressive plan and that
Senator Harding. the Republican
nominee, stood for reaction as he had
done also in opposing the new Ohio.
LANSING, Mich, Sept. 3.-Michi-
gan Democrats gathered in force here
today to greet Governor James M.
Cox, opening months campaign tour
planned to take him through % cen
trail and western states.
A strenuous day had been arranged
for the Democratic nominee. Enroute
to the Michigan capital the program
called for several rear platform ad-
dresses and a half-hour speech at
Jackson.
This evening Governor Cox's pro-
gram calls for addresses at Battle
Creek and Kalamazoo.
MARION, O., Sept. 3.-Senator Har-
ding set apart most of today to work
on his Labor day speech, and he had
engagements with several callers to
confer on various other subjects con-
nected with the campaign.
w. w. Marsh, representing the civil
service reform league of New York,
was one of those on the nominees list
of visitors, and during the afternoon
he had an appointment with a COM
mittee of the National Board of Farm
organizations headed by Charles A. Ly-
man. He also continued his confer
ences with several callers on the
league of nations issue.
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quarters that the call to have been
made here tomorrow by Republican
state chairmen of ways and means,
entrusted with the raising of campaign
funds by popular subscription, had
been Cancelled. Announcement of the
engagement had been made two weeks
ago, at which time it was said the
nominee would make a speech to the
state managers.
WATERVILLE, Maine, Sept 8 =
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic can
didate for vice president, told an audi
ence here today that "in travelling
across the country he found a great
number of people belonging to other
parties whwo are grasping the real
issues of this campaign"
Il hope the big issues will remain
uppermost." he continued, "and that
the people will decide between them.
That is why Governor Cox and con.
slider it our duty to go before the peo-
pie and present the issues as we see
them"
CHICAGO, Sept. 3-Opinions of Gov.
Cox and Senator Harding regarding
national department of public
works, budget system, development
Of resources and other questions of
public interest are given in letters
from the two candidates made pub
lie today by the American Associa-
tion of Engineers.
The letters are answers to a ques-
tionnaire recently sent by the associa-
ton
Governor Cox wrote that my reply
to every one of them you ask is un-
equivocally yes" while Senator Hard
ing gave his views more fully
Among the questions asked were
whether the nominees favor a nat
ional department of public works for
the purpose of reducing and co-ordin-
ating many bureaus and commissions,
the appointment Of an engineer as a
member of the interstate commerce
commission and development of public
resources; a budget system of appro-
priations and the reclamation of waste
lands.
Must Study 1t First
Senator Harding said he did not
wish to enter into categorical reply.
but preferred to answer in formal
way. He said he had been considering
a department of public works and
added: Il should be unworthy of pub
lie confidence If l ventured to decide
such an important and far reaching
question without the very fullest
study"
you may say, in a general way"
he continued, that I think very we'll
OF the appointment of an engineer on
the interstate commerce commission
and I have always spoken in favor of
a progressive and constructive policy
OF conservation. / am sure you know
l favor the budget system, and a very
forward policy relating to reclamation
and conservation"