Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-10-15

} '"The candidate of the senatorial ring
has behind him today the most motley
array of questionable groups and influ-
ences that ever were behind candidate
an array that to survey brings the
crimson blush of humiliation the Demo-
cratic presidential candidate declared.
More than dozen quarters includ-
ing the "pro-German, the "Afro-Amer-
ican,' the ''Anti-League of Nations the
"profiteer," the 'Iibrty Bond SPECTATORS
and other alleged groups are backing
Senator Harding. the governor asserted.
Emphasizing that special racial group
appeals were being made, Governor Cox
said that the Afro-American movement
includes false claims that it can bring
social equality
Harding Is Prolific.
From the front porch at Marion
something has been given to everyone OF
these groups" the governor said. add
ing that the primal object was to "evade
the issue of the league by promoting
minor and extraneous issues.
The governors address at night was
to a crowd which filled the largest for
um in the state capital. 1t was the 11th
speech of an exhaustmg day in Ohio
home health campaigning.
Ohioans at Van Vert. Delphos, Lima.
Wapakoneta, Sidney and Milford Center
turned out in force with bands inelud-
ing the "Cox band of Piqua, which per-
formed at the San Francisco convention.
The governor was cheered. hustled and
squeezed all day into theaters, halls and
court house square rostrums. He was
greatly tired and, with hurried meals,
&%~n oh nf SrHI
So strenuous was the days program. that
at night he wired a protest to Senator
Harrison, chairman of the national Dem
ocratic speakers committee. demanding
less exactins future programs.
Greed OF Christ.
The league continued virtually the
sole subject of the Governors addresses.
In increasing religious vein, he told
audiences that it was "a sacred and splr-
itual'' issue, and that he was preaching
the creed of Christ" as against !" the
creed of Cain" The league. he said, was
"as diyinely inspired as the Declaration
of Independence. He also charged that
archy' was directed at world peace, and
denounced Senator Lodge of Massachu-
setts. as "the basest conspirator in all
the history Of the human race" The
governor reiterated charges OF "a con-
spiracy of silence in with holding pub
lication of the league covenant.
Interruptions.
Boys at Wapakoneta, bearing large
Autographs Of Senator Harding and
shouting for the senator caused Gov
ernor Cox to declare that he had dis
covered a new Contemplate plan OF
opposition. Told by local Democrats that
the boys were hired BY Republican lead
ers, Governor Cox questioned one young
boy who kept unfurling Harding poster
In theater aisle, directly before the
governor. Asked by the governor who
had 'thired him or told" him to naunt
the poster, the boy replied nobody"
"You 60 home and tell your mother
that you didn't tell the truth" the ger-
ernor replied. There Is great deal
Of money being used IN this campaign
and one of the peculiar uses Is what we
have noted In the last two days when
we started our meetings one boy or group
of boys will stand out in front OF the
speaker and unfurl the Hthcgraph Of the
opposition candidate. Now that boy was
paid to do It,"
Governor Cox said he would not per-
nit the incident to disturb him. and said
that every trick they have tried to play
has resolved itself in our favor"