The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-10-26
This is the Gist of Democratic
Nominees Answer to League
Friends in West Virginia
Campaign Speeches - Goes
Strong on Popular Will"

Huntington. w. Va. Oct. 25.-Gover-
nor Cox OF Ohio announced today that
II elected President he would sit down
with the senate and make an agree
and that his agreement should be de-
termined by the senatorial elections.
The executive will" the Democratic
presidential candidate said. should not
control. and II Is ''unthinkaole. ne ue-
clared. that American membership in
the League should be postponed two
years, when the next senatorial cleo
tions would he held. American mem
bership. he indicated. was the primary
ican participation with clarifying
reservations was reiterated by the gov
ernor
party as one Of the most important or
campaign DEVELOPMENTS the canutua'e b
announcement was in response 10 an
open letter sent today to Governor Cox
and his Republican opponent, Senator
Harding. by ffty of their supporters
urging Them to accept Whatever rev,- n
thirds Of the next senate might ap-
prove. ..
The Governors statement, issued
during II rushing West virginia tour
today. read: -o,r o
into the existing League with clarity
ing reseryati ions. Senator Harding has
said that he was not INTERESTED IN
Qualification. but in rejection nave
every expectation that after November
much Of the partisan spirit that has
been visited upon discussion or the
League will have subsided. One-thlra
of the seats OF the senate are 70 DC
fiMed this year. The people uheer
stend the issue and we will accept
tSeir expression at face value. l Will
therefore. sit hown with the senate and
reach an agreement about our SoinS
into this League. There is no other,
and any talk OF q 1bS new ;mnorosnt ass9h thing
Is 70 get start and help to stabilize
world conditions which vttaAy aHect
the interest and welfare Of America.
For US to remain out of the League ior
toTIa s%G years Se held ID would @ be unthinkable.
n TOO much has to be given IN com
nromise now in order to insure our en-
trance into the League, the peopie
themselves will have an opportunity
10 modify and correct later. It cannot
ho matter Of the exercise OF merely
tha executive will. The popular Will
az voiced at the polls, must SonIroii
ba Inc srsblsd to obtain viii be determined
nv the senatorial clectlons-.~.
0'r>Sa goycrnors announcement ton0~-
al nnon the heels Of his statement IN ms
Madison square Garden rs. speseeh ss would
1toY
wonid "comprpmise" the reserVat,ohn
enntroversv Attention also was calico
~ the circumstance that 1t foilowea
ElIhu Roots statement that GoVeFiol
Cox was as ''unyielding reSa'u'Hh
ticle Ten as President wilson
nozsn west virginia Speeches
No. th,n n dozen speeches were made
throush the West Virginia mountain
cnuntrv TODAY by Governor Cox and the
state gave him one Of the most ehInuHs- eIIH
astic receptions OF the campaign. @ M
crs oilroad men and other tolicrs were
T,rn,minent among the thousands VINO
IN eared the candidate .vociferously:
Senator Harding's league statements
came in for special attack by me III
ernor. DenounCing Senator'S aaru,iH, NE
.odpe of Massachusetts ana others Wno
signed the "round robin as coi'Spi"
tors" the governor asked: -
How can we reasonably expect one OF
the conspirators. If elected TO oVer'ur"
''T DccIarinr Senator Harding had taken
fourteen different league stands, Cover,
nor Cox said his adversary pos.'io''
was VERY much like q shell game.
"Thereare three Shells; salu Ine ns SSr
erooI IT, dcotb to the league and one is the
un,,, osSoriation Of nations. When you
~otc for him (Seno tor Harding) YOU
don't know where the pea IL; you uoh
know what she'll It's under.
Special Appeals TO m1noRS
Spccial appeals were MADE thTouEn
rho state today by the governor to MIN
ers and others Of the working classes
aud these were loudly applaudcd: re
foId ~ the mine run" payment, IN"
vine safety, the workmen's compcnsa
,inn and other Ohio laws. ReiteratihE
ibat big business" was opposing MN
because, he said, IT didn't like the pro-
p-rcssiyc administration Of six years oi
Snx in Ohio" the candidate deClarru
also that big business opposed NE NE
"mse or tho golden rule instead OF inc
hayonet" in industrial controversies ~
Hinton a railroad mems memorial pre-,
sented to the governor said 100 men NAG
contributed 81 each toward expense VI
The candidates. special train tooaN'
West Virginia gave the governor s0Inc
of his most picturesque campaiCnlhe'
Including n tour Of thirty miles OF mo
tnrinp through coal mining villages III
bean mountain Gorges. stores were
cIoSed school children dismissed I" nnc
the roads with flags and Shr:ll chcerlnS
lanes and Smutty faced miners em"rScu ,
70 greet the candidate. negro 1hzI
hand on an automobile truck turnlSfNu
music for the motor caravan.
sreaks at Charleston
Al Charleston tho governor SnoK' 70
several thousand persons about the s'aI"
co ritol steps, and here tonight n" 20
drnssod a crowd In a large hall am, als"
n theatre audience during hali IN ih'
,rcrforr,ancc OF musical comedy Star
4 e Koontz. Democratic guoerha'or'a'