The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-23
.EL|HU ROOT AGAIN ]. ASKED ID RETRACT FALSE STATEMENT Did You or Did You Not Make Statement and Do You
 Known It Is False?
 Asks Cox
By Associated Press

Newark, N. J.. October Exchanges 1 that Elihu Root has misrepresented his League of Nations position were re- iterated by. Governor Cox of Ohio in another telegram sent Mir. Root today during the democratic presidential candidates New Jersey campaign. T have your telegram of October 21, in reply to mine of October 20, in which I called attention to your mis- statement in your address In New York City when you said Mir. Cox declared that he will insist upon the treaty just as MT. Wilson negotiated it.
 T respectfully asked of you a re- traction of your untrue statement. You have apparently mistaken the purpose of my message, which was to give you the opportunity to correct possible error or to admit the deliberateness of intent in it's presentation. Permit me, therefore, to renew in terms that can not be misunderstood the request which can be answered with an uneQuivocal yes or mo- Did yon or did you not make the statement as quoted; and do you not know now that it was false; and do you not recognize that in jus tice to yourself and in justice to the American people who have honored you. you should publicly acknowl- edge it? V
 Tn your reply to me you have en- tered upon a long dissertation upon the subject of Article X in which again by inference you are endeavoring either deliberately or through misun- derstanding or lack of information. con- cerning my speeches to misrepresent my position on the League of Nations. Accepting the fact that your misstate- .Ax<k F. IL ~A s~~R E. tion. I referred you to the daily report of my speeches in the newspapers, in which I have invariably said that I favored the Hitchcock reservatios, and also that I would accept reserva- tions from any source offered in sim scerity and with a desire to help. Simply that you may be further in- formed. let me call your attention to the fourth of the Hitchcock reserva- tions in reference to Article x: That the advice mentioned in Article x of the covenant of the League of Nations which the council may give to the member nations as to the employment of their naval and military forces is merely advice which each member na- tion is free to accept or reject. accord ing to the conscience and judgment of
 it's then existing government, and in the United States this advice can only DC dCCept6Q Dy dCCiOH VI tHc OOuS ICSS at the time in being, Congress alone under the constitution of the United States havingtthe power to declare war,
 Now, MT. Root. I have asked you plain question. We are both as- stunned to understand the meaning of words. The American people likewise understand the meaning of words. You have beer. given the opportunity to correct your misstatement and this cor rection you have failed to make"
 HAS OVERFLOW CROWD,
 Governor Cox spoke at the First Regi- n,ent armory tonight in which hundreds oe an overflow crowd lacked seats. James R. Nugent. who entertained Gov ernor Cox at dinner. introduced the can didate.
 Taking up his league doctrine. the gov ernor was given a rousing demonstration by the large crowd. He said the league had been indorsed by all religious de- nominations, and, what in some respects was the most sacred of all, by the Gold Star Mothers of America.
 The Newark audience also hissed and booed loudly the name of Senator Lodge of Massachusetts. when the governor characterized him as the ''basest con- spirator in all the history of civiliza- tion.-
 Hundreds rose and cheered when the governor predicted that numerous re- publican signers of a recent round robin would be left at home as a result of the election. even in Ohio"
 Another rising dess@nstration followed the governors declaration of his policy toward proposed American intervention in Mexico. when he said he would not "coin the blood of single American soldier into gold for investors in Mexico
 There are too many people," he added. who want Ameri gan troops to draw their chestnuts out of the fire"
 man in the balcony with lusty lungs
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