The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-10-01
COX CONCLUDES
KANSAS EFFORTS
Discusses Mexico Russia,
and Other Topics as
Well AS League
OUIzZED BY HEARERS
Asked About Dry Stand, lie
Replies by Jumping On
His G.. o. =. Opponent

WICHITA, Kansr sept 30 -
Domestic and intorn1uonnI Nhl''"
wore mingled with The paramount
icnruc OF unilona issue by Governor
cox Of ohio lu min, HddruHH'7 today
ip Kansas. with the finale NJ tho
dcu.ocrutic prcHdcuiiul'H Hhtn cam
paign q largo meeting here '"hlHh'
Bc8Idoa the league. ~" governor
gavc his views on the N'N''u qu''
tlon. tho Russian problem and am
pllfiad his diarusglou o. prohibition.
MANY NJ the caudilutoH rcwHrkh
were inspired al what ho termed
town meetings I'm formal colo
quics with h.s audiences IN Whl'h
he invited questioning.
Iu rorpuuar To question on
Mcxlco tho governor referred 10 tho
statements OF Senator Harding hiA
republican opponent regarding
"protcciing" American citizens ana
Interests ana added
"Ita one think 10 talk about pro
tccung American Citi2cua no mnttoF
whore Il might be. But whom an
advcnturer goes into horne q nest
and knows whore he's going, the
United Statcs ought not send a bri-
gRdr OF soldiers with him
Calls Harding brewer" Again
Governor Cox was dulzz"d regard
ing prohibition. Mt Hutchinson and
Newton and. agnin charnclcri9ing
Senator Harding as "A brewer" de-
ciarcd that tho scnntot had, upon
senate prohibition measures, voted
wet 32 times and dry two umos,'
The governor added that undor
similar circumstance he would have
duplicated tho senator's dry votes
a man asked why President Wilson
vetoed the Nolstond enforcement law
and the governor replied sharply
"He gave his own reasons. And
let mo add, Wilson isn't running Tor
president this year. Cox is running
for president
when applause from his Newton
audience subsidod. the governor Ad-
ded that he intended no disrcapcct
TO the man who will take his place
In history with Thomas jefferson
and Abraham Lincoln"
Russia. the candidate declared,
should be admitted To- the league OF
nations as soon aH its requirements
could be met. Asked regarding tho
leagues attitude toward Russia, if
this nation was "A member, the gov
ernor replied.
THE league would bo compelled
to keep hands off Russia and por-
their own salvation. And Russia,
will after which we would ask
Russia 10 become u member of the
league
Germany, Turkey ana all other
noh-momher nations. tho speaker
added, should be invited In when
possible.
Hits "oilgarchy" Again.
The governor again denounced the
Senatorial oligarchy" charactorlz-
ing Senator Lodge OF Massachusetts,
as tho Rrch-conspirator OF the
world, and "a narrow-minded bigot
the man who wrote the hymn OF
hate against woodrow wilson" lie
also flayed the arrest OF u man who
interrupted Senator Hardings Balti-
moro speech and added:
rs this Russia or Amcrlca3
In urging the league, Governor
Cox again discussed the question ot
moral or physical force In lts
operation.
Tho moral Influence is there" he
said, but there must ho nhysirnl
force behind the door, n necessary" ="
Asked how the league would bo
moro effcctual than The Hague tri-
bunal IN preventing war, tho gov
ornor said:
nv ANhl klfh''fi WliN III niatOrN
happened under II (Thc Hague tri-
buna) and Il lasted only 10 years
the Bocr war. the Balkan war. tho
war between Russia and Japan and
tho world war" The governor CON
tlnued
Somebody had scnso enough 20
lock II up during the war. win
tell you why Il failed: Theodore
Roosevelt called Attention TO A. that
there was no public power bohlnd its
decrees. II YOU have decree q. the
court In this country II doesn't
amount to anything without the
police power of the sheriff behind a.
hut the sheriff never has to enforce
IT, 1t Is Just like the referendum
IN our state. 10 is tho muskct he
hind the door. The legislature knows
IL is there and tho legislature be-
haNcs itself. Look at the decrces of
the supreme court or the United
states. II has never been necessary
10 enforce single one by force
The moral influence liz there. But
there must be tho physical force
behind the door, II necessary. A.
Roosevelt said, tho Hague tribunal
failed because there was not a
sheriff behind the court"
Leaving here early tomorrow
morning, the governor was billed for
"a number OF speeches I'm Oklahnmn
tomorrow, including, Enid Okla.
homa city, Sapulpa and Tulsa.