The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-09-29
No SUBSTITUTE
FOR LEAGUE PLAN
Governor Cox Says Harding
Favors Days of 1914 Of IL
ternational Anarchs
and War
ISPEAKING IN MISSOURI
We Must Choose Either to Retrace
Our Steps to Destruction or Fol-
low Straight Narrow
Path.
[By Herbert W. Walker, United Press
Staff Correspondent

Stan Correspondent
ENROUTE WITH GOVERNOR
COX, ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, Sept 29.-
iSenator Harding has presented no
substitute for league of nations
because 'his only alternative is a
return to the International normal
conditions OF 1914, with autocracy,
imonarchies. sudden ultimatums,
!secret diplomacy and burdensome
Earmaments," Governor Cox said here
today in his first speech in Missouri
Again attacking Harding's state
Iment that he had nothing construc-
tive in character" to offer regarding
a new association of nations, Cox
declared that the republican candi-
idate would not dare to suggest to
mothers Of America a return to pre-
war International relations.
"The reason Harding has no sub
!stitute for the league of nations is
because everything else has been
tried and failed" Cox continued.
Spirits of ten million men who
fought and died, many millions who
must hobble through life on crutches
! or go with pinned-up sleeves, the
thousands who are sight1ess, the
widows and children who have been
starved and made homeless, all these
haven't dreams of statesmen who il,
this critical hour have nothing better
to suggest than go back and do it all
over again.
1--WE must choose either to retrace
our steps over the broad road of
international anarchy, which leads
ionly TO destruction, or we must
choose to advance and travel along
<.&r0 s~1t y0 iy,fn
national justice, patrolled by moral
right of civilized nations Of the
world
Ship Of States Crew.
[By Raymond Clapper, United Press
Staff Correspondent
ASHLAND, Ky, Sept 29.-The
ship Of state must sail with skilled
crew as we'll as captain, and its
sailing orders must originate in the
,, United States, Warren G. Harding
declared in speech here today.
Harding said the government must
express the will of the people, not
the will of the chief executive.
Today's speech is the last sched-
uled for this trip. .....
Harding spoke to audiences that
packed two Of Wheeling's - largest
halls last night. His reception in
West Virginia outstripped anything
thus far in the campaign, according
to members of the party.
"When I am elected, there is going
to be that regard and respect for con-
gress which the constitution contem-
plates, and congress must respect
the rights and obligations Of the ex-
ecutive," Harding said in his speech
here.
"But I mean to do more than to CO.
ordinate and cooperate with con-
gress. am going to consult and
converse with the men and the
women of America. I would rather
trust the great undercurrent Of
American thought and conviction
than follow the greatest propagandist
program ever inaugurated.
"I think president will be safe
who takes the people into his conf
dence and gives him their conf
dence I believe most heartily in the
chief executive counseling and ad-
vising with the men and women who
are conspicuous in American leader.
ship. / believe in expert advice in
solving problems which require it. I
believe in the vice president being
made the second citizen of the re-
public in fact as well as In name"
Car Jumps Track.
[By Raymond Clapper, United Press
Staff Correspondent
WILDWOOD, W. Va, Sept 90
Senator Harding and his entire party
had narrow escape today when his
private car jumped the track near
Millwood, W. Va, and bumped over
the ties across a high narrow trestle
before the train could be stopped.
No one was injured. The front
truck of the Harding car was smash
ed. The party was transferred to
other cars and the train went on,
leaving the private car standing on
the track.
The train was travelling forty miles
an hour when the front truck of
Harding's car broke apparently as 1t
was crossing switch. Railroad en-