The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22
COX GETS GREAT
 !. RESPONSE ID PLEA ID END ALL WARS
Frequently Has His Audi ences In Tears as He Urges Ratifying the
 League of Nations
Bx CLINTON w. GILBERT

By CLINTON w. GILBERT
 Orrville, O., August 21. Special. )-Governor Cox con- tinued here today, pounding away at his League of Nations issue. He got a big response to his agreement to finish the job which the American soldiers did in France and keep faith with those who fell there. This country must enter the league and use it's influence to prevent future wars.
 After testing both issues. the league and progressiveism, the Democratic candidate appears to have reached the conclusion that his best chance to win lies in appealing to the !deaism of people and presenting his candidacy as crusade to stop war.
 He is surprised and delighted at the response which his advocacy of the league calls forth. At first he was inclined to believe the league would have to be subordinated to an attack upon the republican party as the party for reaction, But now he is persuaded by what has happened at his meetings So far that his best hope is to urge | everywhere the quick ratification of l the league covenant, with no captious | insistance on the exact language of 1 reservations as the way to lessen the likelihood of war.
 EFFECT ON WOMEN VOTERS
 This idea has especially impressed l Jim since the ratification of the suf- frage amendment by ! Tennessee has made the general participation of the women voters in the election probable The women voters, 1t Is argued, are strongly opposed to war. Moreover most of them have not seriously con, sidered the League of Nations. The, are open minded. They are idealist. and emotional, and Cox makes an~eno. ional appeal for the League of Ma. l tions
 There Is often some local Incident some story which gives point to his ap. peal, and more than once he has had
 ms audience. even the male part, ir
 tears. At South Bend Ind, he asked | those who had served in the great war to arise and he demanded of the audi.
 ence:
 Did not they do their job well?"
 When the audience replied hearth,
 that they had, he went on to say:
 Now. 1t is for us civilians who re.
 m q fvA A
 and enter the League of Nations so es
 to end the prospect of future wars"
 local chairman who has lost {
 son in France some incident of tn,
 returning troops of Ohio, the Joy oI ) the sorrow of some mother gives hin
 some lead and he goes straight to tn,
 hearts of his hearers before he make,
 his appeal for keeping faith with thos, < who paid the price. It Is good sob squad stuff, and Cox believes 1t vii
 reach the women voters
 HARDING'S SUBSTITUTE Cox will have until September 2s {, drive home his argument that he alon, would keep the faith; that he alone of fers the hope of stopping wars: tha
 the republicans reject the league. bu have no plan to present In its place : On that date Senator Harding will discuss the republican plan of a sub ] stitute at Marion.
 The republican candidates speech ma
 change the whole aspect of the cam
 raign When he has outlined his sus
 gestion 1t will be no longer possible fo Cox to say that the republicans offe 3 ?othing. Debate will then range abou B the relative merits of the Harding substi tute and the league. The republican 3 will probably urge that their propose gives the world good a guarante f against war as does the league. whil
 avoiding the possible diplomatic compl = cations of Article ta and Cox will prot : ably attack the Harding plan as prom 1 sng to be no more effective than tn s Hague tribunal
 5 SHOW A LITTLE ANXIETY U Cox and friends look forward with som 1 little anxiety to the disclosure of tn c Harding proposal If the republican sut 3 stitute for the leagLe comments itself
 the people one chance of Coxs electiof < (which Is regarded in Columbus as raTf | promising. will be closed. The democrat : candidate is prepa,jng for the emel 2 gency by declaring that in any event 1 i negotiate new international agreemer l. will involve delay, and will be doub' \ fuli proceeding at best. He says ovc !. and over rain that after making sepa e rate peace with Germany this countr ' will be in no position to go to the ns q ions who belong to the league and a' t mem 10 dDan0OH tHe league lu4 nc . arrangemtnt. After Mir. Harding hs f spoken the country will be likely to hes | much more of this argcment. But
 MT. Harding has any sort of well thougi Tout substitute for the league certa effectiveness will have gone out of fl Cox campaign.
 And privately the republicans respoI sibie for Iiardings campaign concede u effectiveness for the present of Cox's a ! gument that the republicans grant th' lsomethng must be done to stop wa
 but do not offer any concrete plan. The # arc not concerned. They feel that tht :, ilave a large margin of safety. And the z Hook upon Cox IS one man not ws j. known, without organization and vii
 Inc great resources, facing the task of a j. ltering the sentiment of whole natio y iThey are aware that the one thing n Ihas to do it with s a receipt for sto r. ping war. while up till nov they have n offered any.