The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-12
PRAISED ARTICLE X

1 PRAISED ARTICLE X use these words: Article X is one of the great steps forward provided in the league for the securing of general peace?'
 A. Did you say that the league to enforce peace, of which you were chair man, had not an article in it's proposi- tion. Shouldn't you have been more 1 frank with the American people by tell 1 ing them that your plan only had four ] articles in it and that your substitute for Article x was article three? Can You deny that in your article three you 1 provided for the joint use o( the mili- tary forces of the signatory powers in event of violation of the conditions of the covenant?
 l $. Did not your proposal carry a definite legal obligation to employ forces
 and in this respect, was it not very much more drastice than Article X of l the league?
 '6 You say that Senator Harding has already voted twice for the league with reservations. but you failed to say that iyour candidate within the last two weeks very definitely announced that if he had 1 it to do over again he would not vote
 for the league even with the Lodge reservations.
 DELIBERATE DECEPTION "7. You say that Senator Harding promises that as President he will in dorse the covenant without Article 10. l To whom has he given the promise Certainly not to Senators Johnson and Borah. Every one knows that he has not given it to the American people. 1 tias he given it to you? If so, is it not 1 so much in conflict with Senator Hard ing's recent statement that he pro- oses from now on to turn his back on the league-with or without reserva- ! tions-that it joins both you and him together in deliberate deception? "s. Assuming that the pledge has been given to you, then may we not answer 1t with your own words. spok- en at luncheon given by the civic or ganizations of California. in which you said:
 "'The gentlemen in the Senate who are setting out to defeat this League of Nations are those l would not trust overnight
 "9. How do you reconcile your re- cent statement that President Wilson was responsible for the failure to rat fly the treaty with your statement in your Metropolitan Opera House speech of March ,, 1919, as follows: eff the President insists, as I hope he will, that the league be incorporated 1T, the peace treaty. and brings it back, responsibility for postponing peace is with the body that refuses to ratify it. and also with that part of your speech delivered in January. 1920, at the Academy of Music, Brooklyn, whicn reads
 '1 am inclined to think that the persons who prepared the reservations as a whole were shooting down the avenue at the White House. DUAL OBJECTS OF FIRE Judge Taft and Senator Harding were duel objects of Governor Coxs fire today here and in Illinois In all four of the governors speeches % crowds today at Springfield. Litchf1eld nd East St. Louis. Ill., and to his Col esium crowd tonight. Governor Cox
 emphasized that between him and Sem ator Harding was now the clear-cut issue of "league or no league. "A vote for the senatorial candidate means a vote against the league. while yote for me means one for the league,
 the governor declared, denouncing the
 St nator's position as provincial. self ish, unholy and in fact un-Christian" Governor Cox was the center of mill ing throngs here tonight after day of large captions in southern Illinois and was welcomed in East St. Louis by screeching locomotive and factory
 whistles and large station crowd
 Wnicn included 1ONeTHoT bdtdneF oI Missouri
 In the audience tonight. as special guests. were many disabled soldiers from the federal hospital and men and nurses from Jefferson Barracks. Progressivism. -partisanship. the element of religious support and thought in the league. and labor and a agricultural matters were stressed to- day by the governor in his Illinois Mia souri com bination At Springfiel the home of Lincoln, apparently was an 1 inspiration to the governor and after { A visit 10 the martyred Presidents i tomb he declared to his audience that ! inc senatorial oligarchy' had taken i possession of the party and forsakeD , the ideals of Lincoln.
 /. For the first time during his cam naign the governor was accompanied | from Springfeld to St. Louis today by Mrs. Cox and his daughter and son. ]; in-Iaw. MT and Mrs. D. J. Mahoney. Itut they left the governor tonight to return to Dayton.
 ! Leaving here shortly before midnight the governor was to speak at Peoria. 1 III. tomorrow morning and make sev- l eral rear platform addresses tomor- row afternoon en route to deliver d night address at Lafayette, Ind THOUSANDS JAM HALL 1 One of the largest audiences of the i governors campaign packed the coli | scum. where President Wilson was re- xr-x. n.