Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-10-20

people of the. United States" the nomi-
| nee declared.
Reciting Mr.. Harding's explanation Of
his Des Moines speech rejecting the
league, he added
pie very stupid. He continues to say
that they don't understand him.
On League Interview.
Expressing belief that a French au-
| thor and humorist was Senator Hard
| French sentiment in a new association
| OF nations. and commenting on the sera
| tors letter to President Wilson, Gov
| ernor Cox said:
Poor, Senator Harding has been mis-
understood again. 1t is a pathetic thing
| that he suffers so much from the dull
| ness Of the American people including
newspaper editors and leaders among
partisans and opponents
The league was the principal theme
| of the governor and his Boston common
address at night made 9 total of 10
| speeches. He spoke at Sprinfield, Wor-
cester, Lowell, Lynn and Cambridge,
Aiass.-the latter at the Harvard union
and Nashua, Manchester and Concord,
n. H.
/, Dsnunclatlons Not Approved.
The governors denuneiation of Senator
Lodge was followed by kissing from his
Concord and Manchester audiences.
The heights of his attack on Senator
Lodge were reached by the Democratic
candidate ON the common. He expressed
his happiness over sSeaking on the first
forum of America dedicated to free
speech and free assemblage. Governor
Cox said he desired ito move clouds and
confusion regarding the league. These
he asserted. were ''set up in partisan
plot, instigated and led BY the arch-con-
spirator Of the ages. Henry Cabot Lodge
of Massachusetts,"
Gives Reasons for Lodge Popularity
Stating that Governor Coolidge, Re
publican vice presidential nominee. had
introduced Senator Lodge in Boston as
famous everywhere" Governor Cox con-
tinued:
II have just completed a pilgrimage
from the Atlantic to the Pacific and
back again, visiting almost every state
in the union. / can testify to the truth
of the governors statement. Senator
Lodge must be known to every man and
woman in every city and village in the
land for wherever and whenever l have
mentioned his name it has been recos-
nized-and recited. not with cheers, but
with ieers: not with applause but with
Kisses and loud cries of shame, shame,
peated experience, should be disposed
to suggest, even to q Boston audience,
that it would have been more accurate
to have said that the senator is 'notorl-
ous everywhere. rather than that he is
famous everywhere
Cause for Criticism
Now. why have the people of this
nation risen enmasse in condemnation OF
Senator Lodge? The reason is clear. Our
people are quick to recognize insincer-
ity."
Reiterating that President Wilson. be-
fore returning to Paris in March. 1919,
had conferred with the senate and house
foreign affairs committees and they ap-
proved league covenant changes, Cover
nor Cox said that Senator Lodge had
then formed 1.-THE base conspiracy to
stab the treaty in the back"
Bitter Charges.
"But even before the president had
chance to announce the treaty. the gov
ernor continued, ''the base conspiracy
and the infamous round robin was un-
der way, and the nefarious pledge had
been made to strangle the treaty to
death. From that dark day until now,
no means have been too vile to employ,
to traduce American opinion and betray
the confidence of the electorate. And
LOuEe ItdutTSAlp WAS Iuuuc ptSSluto
only by the vote of Truman II. Newberry
now under conviction in the state Of
Michigan for having purchased his seat
in the senate.
Lodge Hypocricy Black.
Malicious falsehoods have been scat
tered like autumn leaves and the hypo-
crisy of Lodge himself is one of the
outstanding black events in American
history In the light of his earlier rec.
orded pronouncements he has been forced
to stulify himself over and over again.
He has libelled and slandered no man
more than himself He is supporting
candidate who voted for the Knox reso-
luton for separate peace with Ger
many, and who has since publicly advo-
Gated the same unworthy act"
Citing Senator Lodges statements In
1919 against a separate peace and the
senator's Union college address for world
peace, Governor Cox added:
In view of the present attitude Of
Senator Lodge, as the acknowledged
leader Of treaty wreckers. it is certain
that he has neither honesty of purpose
nor sincerity of mind 1t is up to the
sttae of Massachusetts right now to rep
udate his leadership and at the earliest
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