The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-29
COX REPLIES ID
 THOSE WHO CLAIM
 ID WANT ''CHANGE'
Declares That Even Honest Re- pubIicanS Acknowledge That Nobody Wants Harding
 for President
By Associated Press

By Associated Press
 Indianapolis October 2S.-Arguments, addressed especially to voters favoringl Senator Harding on the broad general ground Of desiring "a changep in na- tional affairs were emphasized hese 1 tonight by Governor Cox. To large audience in Tomlinson hall and in a formal statement Governor Cox fired a broadside of questions to the Amer lean people, attacking Senator Harding and other republican leaders for their League of Nations, legislative and polit- ical records
 Republicans. when they are honest,- Governor Cox declared. have ,~cknowl- edged what is patent to everyone that no one really wants Senator Hard- | ing Tor President. And yet they tell me that as partisans many expected to vote for him because they have been 1 taught to believe that they wanted l change.
 The expression was preached as | propaganda by reactionary leaders un- | til it had become nauseating" 1 Governor Cox asked whether the | voters desire 3 change back to nor malcy in legislation, Tn tax revisions ! by big business" to success of reac- l ttonary politicians" to control of gov ernment by men led by Lodge and 1 Penrose.' and to other candidates Governor Coxs visit here was the oc- casion far d great rally of Hooster democracy. A parade with fireworks. torehlights and bands was staged, and l the governor spoke to an overflow meeting outside of the hall Hundreds | of persons, including many clubs l marched in the parade. The governor arrived here at 5:3o ! tonight from Dayton where he spent ! the day resting and where he issued 1 second statement attacking the Satur- 1 day Evening Post. renewing charges os 1 unfair partisanship. With his fire against the argument 1 Tor a change" in government Gover- l nor Cox also preached the League of Nations and predicted victory nen Tuesday
 RETREATING IN DISORDER i when started this campaign.- said Governor Cox, T made the, predic- 1 tion that we would drive our opponents out of the front trench by mid October. have now visited tnirty-six states. ] Not only has that prediction come true. | but the retreat of the reactionary forces has become a rout. The Amer- 1 ican people clearly are for our going into the ieafcuA Tl~ l;-.es are detinite-
 
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 Every smoke screen set up by tb, senatorial oligarchy has been pierced and every entanglement has been torn 1 down. The spacious attempt to build ! up slogan for change is the last 1 fall.
 My opponents make their fight upon 1 the league issue and upon me They ! have failed In their attempt to divert the issues They have been compelled 10 recognize that Cox is the candidate and no longer can they continue their assault upon President Wilson, whom they have pitilessly belabored for months. even though they knew he was sick and unable to defend him self as much victim of the war as is any 1 disabled soldier in the hospitals.'
 In his assault upon sentiment for "a change" Governor Cox put these ques- | tions to voters;
 WHAT KIND OF CHANGE? l DO they want change that win mean tax revision from big business { point of view? Thatis the change they 1 would get from Senator Harding 1 Do the cattle raisers want the change desired SO that the Kenyon -kendrick bill VIII be killed, leaving the cattle men to obtain whatever prices the big five elect | to gtVe2 All of Senator Iardings political associates are opposed to that bill ] DO they desire change back to nor malcy relative to legislation? Will John- son. Borah Norris and the other pro- gressives in and out Of Congress deny they are hoping to prevent Penrose from writing the next tariff bill? Do they want change that win mean | success to the programme of reactionary 1 politicians, including Senator Harding, desirous of abolishing all direct primaries and thus eliminate the troublesome in- structed delegation. when the old guard leaders assemble at Ell a. m. for the quadriennal conference to pick the presi- ldential nominee for the republican voters 1 of America? Do the farmers want q change to federal administration headed by Senator Harding, who declared in 1917 that wheat could be raised at profit for sl a bushel?
 Do the farmers want a change to the | type of political control that brought about the agrarian revolt in North Da- kcta?
 ! Do the workingmen of America want change to an administration headed by Senator Harding, who voted for the anti strike section of the Cummins bill, ai- though in keeping with his general con- duct he would pose now as friend of labor?
 Do the women of America want . change that would mean control ot goy- ernment by men led by Lodge and Pen rose who opposed woman suffrage and every other moral issue. and who are just as wrong on all social service prob Iems now as they are the League oe Nations?-
 A SEVE YEAR RECORD During that portion of the last seven years in which was a democratic Congress more Humanitarian and national welfare legislation was enacted than during the whple history of preceding republican Congresses and more of it will be added to the statutes when the women w,u have rejected the party of evasion ana misrepresentation.
 Do the small business men of the na- ton want change in the federal reserve banking system that would enable small group of bankers to regain control of the money power of the country? Do the supporters of fair and honest elections want a change that would mean more power to Senator Watson of In- diana. who engineered tho dilatory tac- tics that prevented action by the Senate committee by which Senator Truman Newberry remained senator for two N years after the Michigan election and V after his conviction by republican jury Y in a republican court in his own repub- lcan state for having purchased his seat In the Senate?