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 WHEELING, w. Va, Aug. 14.-Gov- ernor Cox today threw his force into the presidential campaign with five speeches here and in Ohio, all flaying what he termed the Republican reac- tionary candidate and leaders and supporting the league of nations as the premier Democratic cause. He stormed the Republican position, attacked the senatorial oligarchy,' which, he said, was trying to add the presidency to it's domination, denounced separate peace with Germany and charged that a few men were banded together try ing to buy the presidency Millions on millions of dollsrs, he added, are being taken into the Republican campaign fund.
 That Senator Harding is surround ed by a senatorial ring was asserted by the governor. He added that he could not be kept nuzzled' on his front porch by any ring
 Given Ovations
 Motoring from Columbus. the nonai-- nee made t. ee a&ddresses enroute,. at Zanesville, Cambridge and St. Claris- vile, Ohio, addressed the West Vu- ginia Democratic convention ana a pubic meeting here tonight on tha river front. All through in Ohio he was given a great ovation.
 The league was foremost in all his addresses. The Republican leaders, he charged, are behind a smoke screen of hypocrisy--for one thing pure and simple, administration spoils." He also stressed what ne declared was the fight between ''reactiorary Republi- canism" and progressive Democracy" and predicted his election.
 "The outstanding question of this campaign" he told the state conven- tion, lis whether VIC are or are not going to keep faith with the boys who died in France
 Discusses League
 Declaring that the lea que is pledge to those who died, Governor Cox told of his visit with President Wilson.
 'T wish every American could have been with me" he said. 9Th" presi- dents whole thought is that he gave a promise to the mothers of the nation when he asked them for their boys and he wants to live to see that pledge fulfilled"
 The governo- declared that the league also was . rledge which will make war impossible, or practically So." The Republican leadesrhip. he said. was acting in partisan "bad faith in opposing it. The governor named Senator Lodge as head of the 'sena tcria1 oligarchy'
 When the Massachusetts senator proposed compromis.uc the treaty res e-vaticns. Governor Cox said. Sena- tors Rorah of Idaho and Johnson of California served notice thcv would bring about :i rupture If the Repuoli- can party The Republican platform therefore, he asserted, was "ambiGu- ous and meanfng1esS.
 Against Separate Peace
 Tn cudgeling the proposal for "a sep- arate peace with Germany" Governor Cox said it came from Senator liar ding adding:
 s'But he never will be given an op- portunity to make a separate peace. There will be none because l will not make one"
 Governor Cox remained here tonight and will motor to Columbus tomorrow.
 'I was not nominated by a senatorial ring nor any other kind of a ring" the governor said tonight here. 'I de- cline to be tied to my front porch by a senatorial ring. I deny it the right to hold me there and when I am elected do not intend that a senatorial ring, nor any other kind of a ring shall own me. I believe in the constitution and preservation of the divided authority between the three coordinate branches as our fathers intended. each retaining it's independence but not exceeding it's functions"
 The Republican senator's purpose, he declared, with a fling at what he termed the plural government" pro- pOScQ DN 6SIdtOT I1dIdlIlSt IS IO IIldk0 executive administration not the af- fair of the responsible president him. self. but of the ring that surrounds him.
 Attacks Republicans
 Charging the Republican party with being under reactionary control, the governor said Colonel Roosevelt's fight for it's reform was of but temporary effect. Domination by political fig ures, once violently repudiated by the A , |, declared. "The men who control the senate are determined to annex the presidency to their domination and in what they beleive to be a certain Re publican year they have done things they would not have dared to think of doing in the past. Recognizing the unrest and the disposition of the peo- pie to shake themselves free from
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