Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-21
BUSY Time AHEAD
! Of COX ON FINAL
/ DAY IN CALIFORNIA
After Making Five Speeches,
Candidate Will Start
for Arizona.
Ir the Associated Press.


Los ANGELES. Calf. September FL
Gov. Cox of Ohio. democratic presi-
Dental candidate. today faced busy
day, his program calling for the con-
cIusion of the southern California
campaign and his departure for Ari-
iona this afternoon.
Five scheduled speeches remained on
ihs program in southern California
One was at Long Beach, three at Los
Angeles and one at San Bernardtno.
This called for a morning trip to
Long Beach and return here, where he
was to address the City Advertising
Club, a luncheon of club women and
the Southern California Editorial AS
ISOLATION. The speech at San Bernar-
dino was to come late today.
As DIT his speeches in San Diego
yesterday and in Los Angeles last
night, those today were expected to be
featured by the league Of nations and
kindred subjects. as sentiment in IA
vor of the league was said to be
strong in southern California.
Calls Press Renctionary.
Last night. at his first speech in Los
the largest audiences of his western
trip, the governor, for the first time,
discussed the Hitchcock reservations
to the league of nations. declaring
they met "all sincere objections
He charged some 'reactionary"
news of his campaign, adding they
used to be preaching the league of
nations. but are not saying anything
about it now; but they are saying Cox
is wet"
Gov. Cox closed his first days cam
paign in southern California with an
address to a large audience here at
the base ball park LIST night after
other addresses at San Diego. En-
route here from San Diego the candi-
Ocean View, Santa Ana and Fuller
ton.
Only Six Objections Raised.
The candidate declared that he
knew OF only six objections raised
against the present covenant, and
that all six were covered fully by the
reservations submitted in the Sem
ate by Senator Hitchcock.
sons letter to Senator Hitchcock ap-
proving the so-called Hitchcock reser-
vations and said: HE was willing to
accept. and If the Senate had accepted
the reservations which met every OBJ
this ,s thing w sSs'a have s,s been
do I accept them"
The six objections to the league
given by Gov. Cox were that it obli-
gates Americans to Tight in foreign
wars; that it's commitments are un-
the Monroe doctrine: that it is
British" q Wilson" or q demo
cratic" league: that 1t would make
Irish freedom impossible. and that
Great Britain would have six votes.
with her colonies. to Americas one.
Candidate Answers AL
Tho first objection was answered.
rs in the past. by Gov. Cox. with the
statement that Congress only may
cannot order Americans into foreign
That the American Bar Association
and eminent juristS have given opin-
ions that the league had no uncon-
stitntiond provisions was the gov
ton he named.
RegardinE the Monroe doctrine.
Gov Cox cited Senator Hitchcock's
reservations that 1t should not ''in
any way be impaired or affected by
As to the fourth objection, the gov
ernor answered that he believed former
President Roosevelt first mentioned
the term league of nations" and
that the present covenant was the
composite work OF many nations rep
resentativea
Regarding the fifth objection named.
relative to Irish freedom, the gov
srnor reiterated that only through
the league could Ireland secure a
hearing before 1.-The bar of public
qpdnion Of the world" and he prom
Esd to present Ireland's case to the
league II elected
ON the sixth question, of the Brit
IA and American voting power, the
56vernor said 1t was covered by the
Hitchcock reservation providing that
all parties to disputes, including coll
onies or dependencies, should be dis
qualified from voting.
what is the meaning of that?' the
governor continued. II Canada has
. dispute she cannot sit in the as
sembly and no vote will be accorded
to England or to the rest of the col
onies OF Great Britain, since parties
to q dispute do not vote, SO that
equalizes the whole thing"
Park In Packed.
One OF the largest audiences of the
western trip gave to Gov. Cox an en-
thusiastic welcome here. The grand
stand at Washington Park was over
flowing. and hundreds more sat on
the ground about a temporary speak
ers' stand. canvas covered, from which
the candidate spoke, with the aid of
a sound-amplifyingd device.
Isador 3. Dockweiler, national COM
mitteeman. opened the meeting, and
; the governor was introduced by the
Rev. James A. Francis of the First
Baptist Church.