The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-10
COX PROMISES ID PRESENT |RELAND'S
 CAUSE TOLEAGUE
Believes In Giving Any Ag- grieved People Opportunity to Plead Cause Before
 Bar of Civilization
By Associated Press

| Butte, Mont, September 9.-A definite pledge to present the Irish cause to the League of Nations, in event of his election, and a further attack on repub- lican leaders and that party's contribu- tions were made here tonight by Cover nor Cox in closing his Montana cam paign.
 | In three extensive speeches at Helena, Anaconda and Butte, and in half dozen rear platform talks en route. the demo- cratic candidate concluding the first week of his western tour, hammered the league, the republican corruption fund: and labor issues into his audiences. | The Irish question developed at the governors meeting here in front of the courthouse lawn.
 Ut would be my duty" he said, "and very quickly availed of as a friend of peace. asserting the friendly right Of any members of the league to present the Irish cause to the. attention of the | league under the authority given by Article XI and give to Ireland, or any other aggrieved people, the opportunity to plead their cause before the bar of civilized opinion. SAYS CHARGES CONFIRMED Dealing with testimony before the senatorial Investigating committee at l Chicago, Governor Cox made fresh as- saults upon Will H. Hays, republican national chairman; Treasurer Upham and his assistant, Henry M Blair. The gov ernor deolared the Chicago testimony had confirmed his charges, on the heels of denials by Chairman Hays and other republican officials.
 | His fund of arguments on the league, settlement of strikes by the golden rule | instead of bayonets and progressivism were given by the governor. He also reit- erated attacks upon Senator Harding, his republican opponent, the senatorial oli- garchy'' and "big business"
 In discussing the league the governor presented local questions in Anaconda and Butte with their laboring popula- ticns of many racial sources and their copper interests. And at Helena he also argued reclamation development. Through the league, the candidate said, material prosperity would be had by creating for eign markets for copper and other prod ucts of mine and farm and labor when European conditions become stabilized
 SETTLEMENT, NEEDED
 The Irish question, Governor Cox said, needs settlement to promote peace be- tween the English-speaking races. Read- ing Article Il of the covenant. providing for consideration of the league council or assembly of any international ques- ticns whatever, which threaten to dis turb either the peace or the good under standing between nations," Governor COX said that under existing conditions the. Irish question could not be presented to the bar of public opinion"
 Under the league it can," he contin- { n0n 0n- ole of Gaelic blood in the United States as there are in Ireland, and their nat ural feelings not only figure in our domes- tic relations, but also stand like granite between the stretching hands Of England and America. So long, therefore. as the Irish question remains unsettled, there will be some conflict in America with tho idea of worldwide cooperation between the English-speaking nations
 Tt must not be forgotten that when we took up aSms the thing that gave us unity and great enthusiasm was our declaration that we fought to end the rule of might; that we were cham pions of the rights of small peoples; that we stood for the reign of law based upon the consent of the governed As I have said before. the league con templates enduring peace. There can not be peace without happiness. There will not be happiness without justice You cannot take mountains, nor rivers, nor other physical characteristics and by these lines create governmental en- titles that vii endure. On the other hand racial groups will form better guarantee of peace. This is not only fundamental common sense, but it touches the basic principle of the armistice and the league itself. There fore. I contend that the League of Nations will be helpful to the civiliza- ton of the world because it will be creative of a new life, national and otherwise, for racial groups. which have for generations fostered the same aims and hopes and aspirations that in- spired the founders of our republic"
 HEARTY RECEPTION The governor was introduced here by Judge J. J. Lynch and by Governor all of which gave hearty receptions. Admirers at Helena, where he spoke before going to Anaconda for a $ o'clock theatre meeting and return ing to Butte this evening. put aboard the governors train a quarter of elk for game dinner tomorrow. The gov- ernor's schedule called for his depar ture from Butte tonight and his arrival early tomorrow at Spokane. Wash. to deliver an address at the interstate fair. Another address scheduled there was to the Young Voters League.
 The governor will tour western Washington tomorrow. and on Satur- day, Beliingham. Tacoma and Seattle are the principal points to be visited