New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-24
Harding Seeks
View of League
Friend and Foe
Candidate Will Confer With
Supporters of Both Sides
i'm Party to Ascertain
Republican Sentiment
Hughes at Marion To-day
''Relations'' of Cox on Cam.
paign Fund Awaited
Without Apprehension

the latest clear viewpoints on the in
ternational situation, Senator Harding
has arranged a series of conferences
with friends and foes of the League
of Nations this week, not forgetting
those who take a middle. or rescrva-
ZIONIST, ground.
The first conference will be to-mor-
row morning with Charles Evans
Hughes, who has been invited here.
Mr.. Hughes has expressed himself in
sympathy with the mild reservation
lists and is somewhat at variance with
the strictly nationalistic attitude that
Senator Harding has taken so far in
the campaign.
The Senator continued his confer
rences to-day with Colonel George Har-
,ey, who has been known as one of the
chief opponents of "scrapping the
whole league" Colonel Harvey has
given no indication while here of
change of heart. Ira A Bennett, editor
of The Washington Post, another
enemy Of the league, talked % the Sen
ator to-day, and later went out with
him for a ride.
On next Friday the Senator will
talk with Henry P. DAWSON, of New
York, head of the American Red Cross
and member of the firm of j. P. MORGAN
Co. Mr.. Dawson is pro-leaguc
man. Former Senator George Suther
land, of Utah, president of the Ameri-
can Bar Association, VINO was aligned
with the Lodge reservationsts, will be
here Wednesday. Senator P. c.. Knox
has been invited to the confer nmoS
but may not be able to attend on ac
count of illness.
Important Speech Saturday
The result of all this concentration
on the international situation will be
made known in the Senator's speech
next Saturday, which is expected to be
one of the most important addresses
OF his campaign. Fred D. Underwood.
president Of the Erie Railroad. will he
here Friday.
Governor Cox's, "revelationsr con-
corning the alleged enormous campaign
fund of the Republican National Com
Inlttee are awaited here with interest,
but not with apprehension. 1t is
thought that the evidence" of a great
fund which Cox referred to is the
Hays plan Of dividing the country into
state and lesser districts and assign
ing quotas This was put in operation
by the Ways and Means Committee two
years ago and resulted in the collec
ton of 100000, most of which has
been spent. Governor Cox's testimony
Is thought to revolve around state
quotas and state figures furnished by
one of the state chairmen.
Senator Harding has no patience with
= hat
trbutlng to the Republican fund He
sad a that the wartime profteers, the
$4,000 new millioinaires created in
TINS country during the last few wears
fiourished and found their opportuni
ties for graft under Democratic Ad-
mlnlstration. He intends in one of his
speeches. to call attention to the waste
and extravaganza of the Administra-
ton and to cite some of the lavish con-
tracts winch We're handed out by the
government officials
"Wlll these profteers forget the
party that nourished them % asked
one of the Senator's aids to-day. eft
Is more likely that they would chip in
to the Democratic fund"
Cox Figures Scaled Down
~ was said at Harding headquarters
that two weeks ago, in Dayton, Gov
crnor Cox charged that the Republican
fund was S1O0,OOO,000. He has since
come down to S15,o00,O00.
Frank Knox, publisher of the Man
chester, N. H., Union. called on the
Senator to-day. New England can be
relied upon to cast its electoral vote
for Harding and Coolidge, he said. He
was one of the Wood chiefs in the Chi
cago convention. Since the convention
he has been in espondence with
other Wood men and without exception.
ne said, they arc supporting the NOM
minee Loyalty.
81 most sincerely hope that Gov
ernor Cox will continue to perform as
ne is right now" he said. "He is rap
IDLY becoming a real asset to the Re
publican party. With every fresh dec
laration from him the impression gains
ground that he is engaged in a task far
beyond his powers and is candidate
Tor an office the proportions and re-
sponslbilities of which he is totally
unable to grasp. He has staged q po-
ltical vaudeville in which he seems
bent upon producing fresh sensation
with every appearance, entirely reck-
less. apparently, of the source from
inspiration for each sensation, and
whether if called upon to do so he can
support with facts the charges and
assertions he makes.
Reminiscent of Bryan
"The Cox method is reminiscent of
Bryan, who in 1896. by the middle Of
August. had embarked upon cam
paign of donunciation and abuse. reck-
less unsupported charges and attacks
upon the business interests of the
country, coupled with i'll considered.
half digested proposals to remedy the
conditions he complained of. Mr.. Cox
is likely to discover, as did Mr.. Bryan,
that such methods will attract street
crowds and command the treatment al
ways accorded the bizarre and sensa-
tional in the newspapers. but they do
not commend themselves to the sober
Judgment Of men and women seriously
intent upon choosing wise and states
man-like chief executive and leader in
time of grave crises
Willis c. Cook, national committee
man from South Dakota, was another
visitor. In a statement issued after
talk with the~Senator he called atten
ton to the insincerity of the Demo
cratic campaign.
They nominated the wettest kind
because he was the wettest and because
all sheir vets wanted him." he said
Then they made platform that is
wet in wet territory and dry in dry
territory, and the program is a wink
for the vets and nudge for the drys.
1t isn't working we'll. Out in our coun-
try there is increasing suspicion. No
Cox attacking business, while he him
al