Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-10-06
WORLDWIDE 1EACE
WOULD COME FROM
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Governor Cox Tells Why He Is
Convinced Our Country
Should Go Into II.
is NOT A PARTISAN ISSUE

In M, interview with "A correspondent
al the New York World, on the subject
~ the League of Nations, Saturday last,
Governor Cox SsId:
II will not eutcr into technical dis
mlrs.on of the Treaty of Peace or the
covcnan, III the League of Nations. There
has lvrn far too much technical
si,~eu~~,on for more than year. IL has
tsrn conducted asssiduously IN the Senate,
on the platform and m the press, with the
Deliberate purpose OF confusing and con-
founding the electorate. he average
man or woman has neither the time, the
training nor the Inclination to qualik
v An expert In International law. | shall
cnnfne ruy~lf IN this campaign To the
great moral issue of the campaign and
shall discuss that in language so SIMPLE
that he who uins may rcad. And the
covcnan, ~ simple and clear and PLAIN.
IA snylspdv prrtcnds not to lc able To see
what Il means. then all | have 10 say is
that no one ,s so hlInd as the man who
Will not sss.
Dav after dsv and night after night
am sr.s,kins "a thousands III my fellow
Americans in the very halls in which their
war meetings were held In these armories
and audiIormms and school houses the
fathers and mothers and sisters and
brothers assembled to hear patriotic adj
dresscs Here they bought bonds tIll II
hurt Here mothers came for assurance
a. thew brought their SONS to the altar of
liberty and offered them up IN sad sacrl-
hs,r Cor the defense II democracy. We
we're AL Amcricans then.
COVENANT Is NOT PARTISAN ISSUE.
'Tsrtisan differences IN politics had no
more tn do with ou great DECISIONS m
tho~e days ~ generous idcalsm than sec
tarisn differences religion There
should be No more partlsanshIp IN the
ending nf the w7r-.hsn there was IN the
xNginr nf tho war For my part. ! am
not making partisan campaign. and the
reason | suh not making a partisan can-
rruQn u because | 10 not believe that the
eus~t,ons Ia be- settled thus wear should
h~ ncttlsl hv the dlvislnn of our citizen
sh,p along party lines | am asking my
~nA,cnof~ ~ forget their politics for the
tine. as | sm forgetting minc. We should
search cur ennsciences m order to ascertain
what Is our duty As Americans IN this
ev,t,cai hour m oar nationa, history.
1T may interest YOU tO know that
h~forr the league became the football Of
fsutv pnlitics. before ey-lAresidcnt Taft
rschsnsei his principles for his preludices
f~ esrrcsscd practically the same senti-
m~nt lie said: This y not partisan
,rusvt,on We should search our hearts
and ~ous to sce whether we are against Il
n~causs Mir Wilson ls for It
"a have no quarrel with the Republican
rartv A. ~lch IL has rendered.. IN times
rA~t ~ Al organization, grrst service 10
hs nsalnn II gave to the country Ian
cp.n. Mek,nlcy Roosevelt, and other dis
tins,ru>l~~d stat<tpcn. Those against
~hus r-rlsrs- ,nveieh are the men who
make ,.p What ! have chosen IT, designate
- the ~rnstoriN olirarchy, sgatnst those
who havv forgotten the idealtsm of Ian |
snln. AgSruss thos- who have departed !
fron sAl the tenets of The creed of Roose-
welt AT hr best Nv hsh, Is against that |
clique in the senate which paid no at
ssntion whatever tn the rank and file of
the Republican party when they came Tn
rhopse the nominee Of the convention IN
Chicago They d,d not inquire who had
earned the States IN which lively primary
,s,nteSts had heen vared. hut, a. had been
prvsilct4d hy ms manager, Mr.. Daugherty,
weeks before, when the convention grew
tired a fcw men most OF them members
of the Senatorial oligarchy. gathered in a
room IN Chicago hotel and there the
selection was made hand the mandate
l<sued II rs my coRtentlon,I therefore,
tha, this Scnatorisl oligarchy deserves
not only the condemnation OF the Amcrl-
can prople for what Il has done To the
civilization Of tho world. but Il also de
serves the rrpudiatson of the members OF
the party IL has drafted and adopted q
platform, purposcly amblguous,and IT has,
With mwonted auGscIty, chosen one of
~ own number 10 be the party nominee
for the Presidency.
h.f that rsS.N-,f.tl ysf Tho mot H.
en- of America 60 the sacrifice Of their boys
IN far Oh fields of battle? Was il that
they were told that they were to fight and
die for new domains, or that they were
10 gam for their country rich cash m
ocmnity7 No, that Is not what they were
told They were told that America was
fighting, first, 90 destroy a cruel and selfish
military sutocracy and that second
America was fighting a war 10 end wYr
Am na right? Well. the BOYS completed
their Job II seems 20 me that il Is up
~ Va now o. complete ours. II
Il do not believe thst Americans are /
omtiers. Having put our hand TO the
pioush, ] do not believe the majority OF |
our Tscpie Will favor turning their backs |
on progrcs~. The time has come TO stop |
PLAYING party politics with the peace
tra,y. The time has come to give short
shr,fi IA thc~c who have been preaching
gusyrl Of r~pudiat,on. believe We have
turned a corner IN history, that we have
rvs<hed fork IN the road Of our national
dsa tiny. Those who counsel cowardice
and stultIhcat,on wayt US To retrsce our
steps, forretful OF our pledges to our allies,
to our dead, and 10 our children. have
more faith IN America. believe We have
a DIVINE MISSION to perform IN the world.
"rhe tune WIS, no doubt, when men
thought of League of Nations as some
thing that might BE- dcsirable-like al"
IDEAL commonwealth. The tune has come
when there Is no alternative left for Us
bot 10 make the dream of the prophets
come true. The league has become abSO-
lutely necessary. Mankind cannot stand (
another war like the one we have just
suffered 1t would be not only diabolical /
IL would be uncomfortable. Civilization 1
would he crushed and humanity blown 10
bits Il