The Washington herald., 1920-09-27
Speeches of Cox and Harding
Show Characters of Men and
Cinch G. O.P Victory, Says Taft

language and the absence of acri-
inony and of charges OF corruption
must impress all with the differ
ence between his method of speech
ana that Of his opponent Every
thing ne says aims at constructive
suggestion, as II he were facing
the real demands of the once he
will surely NIL
Cox Course Different.
Gov. Cox has taken a very diff
ferent course Having called 10 his
support idealists of constantly Dem
ocratlc tendency and a few Repub-
ileans by his declarations for the
league with Article X, in spite OF
It's impossibility, he then gave his
whole attention to the creation of
an issue which should screen him
from the fixed and general feeling
against the Wilson administration
and focus attention on the wicked
ness of the Republican management
campaign and enable him TO reason
from the assurance of an abhor-
rent course by Mr.. Harding II Pres
ident.
In the history of American poll
tics there never has been so much
cry and so little wool produced by
the candidate as in the charge by
Gov. Cox in regard to Republican
campaign contributions.
His evidence Is Nil.
BY the production of printed cir
culars issued by professional
money collector employed by the
committee and seeking to arouse the
Republican sympathizers to ade-
quate contributions to pay the large
and legitimate expenses of a cam
paign with thirty million voters, he
sought to treat the exaggerated
quotas assigned in the circulars as
money in hand, and, assuming the
collection of them all, he has had the
unbelievable audacity to charge,
without the slightest evidence, that
the money is being collected from
large business interests. who pro-
pose to buy the Presidency" and
make Harding use bayonets" TO
force working men to accept terms
OF employment the business inter
ests desire.
By constant repetition Of these
gratuitous and preposterous charges
he hopes to have some OF them
men and farmers, and thus to in
fame. the unrest existing in many
quarters.
Vote Lures Are Sophistry.
He seeks to neutralize the hyphen-
ated opposition Of Irishmen to the
league and to the administration by
promising to bring the question OF
Ireland's independence before the
league of nations and to favor II,
although any reasonable construc-
tion of the league makes such a
course utterly inadmissable and
| would enable the Filipinos to take
our dominion in the Philippines be-
fore the same tribunal. Indeed, such
construction would enable the ne
groes of South Carolina, on the prin-
ciple of elf-determination, TO claim
similar hearing.
He gives countenance to !. w W
agitation by saying at Butte that
Wherever you show me a radical
movement I will show you a gov
eminent that has been unjust and
oppressive"
No wonder the New York Times
finds these ebullitions of Gov Cox.
whom it is Loyalty supporting. so
hard to swallow that il refers to
them as Things better left un-
said"
The truth is dawning on many
that Gov. Cox does not deem the
issue The league with Article Y.
or no league" winning issue, and
that he proposes 10 make this fight
one Of radiCalism against the ex-
istinE order. His utter recklessness
OF statement cannot otherwise be
explained. The contrast between
the front porch method of campaign
and that of the itinersnt agitator
is one that will become more and
more painful to those who have
been led to support Gov. Cox on
the merely academic issue of the
league with Article Y OF no league.