Arizona republican., 1920-10-26
GOVERNOR COX WILLING TO CONFER WITH SENATORS LIN
 CLARIFYING RESERVATIONS

HUNTINGTON. w. Va. Oct. 25.- Governor Cox of Ohio. announced to- day that if elected president he would sit down with the senate and make an "agreement" upon the league of nations and that his agreement should be determined by the senatorial cleo tions.
 The exclusive will" the Democratic presidential candidate said. should not control and it is 'unthinkable" he de- clared. that American membership in the league should be postponed two years. when the next senatorial elec- tions would be held. American mem bership. he indicated. was the pri- mary consideration. That he favored American parrscipation with "clari- fying reservations" was reiterated by the governor.
 Hailed by members of the gover- nor's party as one of the most im- portant of campaign developments. the candidates announcement was in response to an open letter sent today to Governor Cox and his Republican opponent. Senator Harding. by 50 of their supporters urging them to ac- cept whatever revision of the Lodge | reservations two thirds of the next senate might approve.
 The governors statement. issued durinae rushing West Virginia toul today. read:
 | "The situation is this: I favor go- | ing into the existing league with clar- flying reservations. Senator Hardinl has said that he was not interested il | clarification. but in rejection. l have | every expectation that after Novem
 ber 2. much of the partisanshiD spiri
 that has been visited upon discussion of the league will have subsided. One
 third of the seats of the senate are t ! be filled this year. The people under
 stand the issue and we will accep
 their expression at face value. I will
 therefore. sit down with the senat
 and reach an agreement about our go ing into this league. There is n
 other. and any talk of a new associa
 tion is but idle phrase. The import
 ant thing is to get a start and hell
 to stabilize world conditions whicl
 vitally affect the interest and welfar
 of America. For us to remain out o the league for two years or until an ] other election could be held would b } unthinkable. If too much has to given in compromise now. in order {
 insure our entrance into the leagu, ) the people themselves will have a } opportunity to modify and correC 3 later. It cannot be a matter of the ex ercise of merely the executive vii The popular will. as voiced at tn t polls. must control. The sort of agree 5 ment which I should be enabled to oh tain will be determined by the sena s torial elections"
 Would Compromise on League. The governors announcement fo lowed on the heels of his statement i Madison Square Garden speech lai
 Saturday in New York that he woul compromise the reservation contro versy.
 . Attention was also called to tf 5 circumstances that it would folio |. Elihu Roots statement that Govern, Cox was as "unyielding' regardin s article ten as President Wilson. h More than a dozen speeches wel c made through the West Virgin a mountain country today by Govern, n Cox and the state gave him one of tl e most enthusiastic receptions of il s campaign. Miners. railroad men ar - other toilers were prominent amor e the thousands which cheered the cal it didate vociferouslv
 - Senator Harding's elague statemen
 came in for special attack by the go- l. ernor. Denouncing Senator Hardin if Senator Lodge of Massachusetts ar .e other senators who signed the "rour n robin" as "conspirators." the govern o added:
 .e How can we reasonably expect oi s of the conspirators if elected, to owe 'e turn the conspiracy"
 Declaring Senator Harding h
 taken IA different league stands, Go
 ernor Cox said his adversary's positi
 was "very much like a shell game"
 There are three shells said the go
 ernor, "one IS the mild reservation " one is the death to the league and O is the new association of natioi m When you vote for him Senator liar ve ing) you don't know where the pea ,n Yes? Yes? You don't know what sh lc it's under"
 " Appeals to Miners al Special appeals were made throu w the state today by the governor
 miners and others Of the worlIi ob classes and these were loudly a la. Continued On Page Twol