The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-22
COX READS IA
HARDING VIEWS
ON THE LEAGUE
Democratic Nominee Pleads
in Baltimore for the
Covenant.
THIS LEAGUE>OR NONE
That Is Sole Issue, He De-
clares in Attack on His
Opponent.
DEFENDS ARTICLE X.
Industrial Depression Will
Come if America Stays
Out, He Says.
DEFENDS ARTICLE x.

sBeciut Despatch to THE NEW YORK HERAID.
BALTIMORE, Oct. 21.--Gov. Cox fought
for the League Of Nations tonight
IN the Fifth Regiment Armory, where
Woodrow Wilson won the Presidential
nomination in 1912. making one of the
most energetic appeals Of the cam
paign to turn Maryland, normally
Democratic, from its apparent deter
mination to join the Republican sweep.
With a large delegation of Admin
stration officials from Washington on
the stage or in the audience, the
Democratic nominee trotted out all
his arguments for the covenant, as
selting that the issue to. be decided
at the coming election is simply: This
League of Nations or none" Senator
Harding he bitterly attacked.
Claims Harding Reward.
Gov. Cox added spice to the speech by
claiming the reward offered by Senator
Harding at Jackson, Ohio, yesterday for
any one who could show he had changed
his attitude at any time on the League of
* Nations. What the reward would be. he
explained, Senator Harding had failed
to say. but Gov. Cox said 1t would be
election to the Presidency on Novem-
Der 2.
This served as vehicle for the pres
entation of what Gov. Cox asserted were
fourteen different positions Senator
Harding has taken on the League of
Nations. 1t is the same list he had been
using before. expanding it from time to
time, starting with eight
Senator Harding complains bitterly
he has again been misunderstood and
lnisrepresented.r Gov Cox said. He Of
fers a reward to any one who will show
that he has changed his position. l am
going to show how he has attempted to
wiggle and wabblo his way into the
Presidency and L claim the reward. 1t
will be the Presidency. and 1t will be
victory, not for me. but for the people
Ny election will not be partisan re-
suit but the triumph of a principle.
I'm my campaign I have found re-
awakening of the American conscience
and q resentment at the deceit practised
by the Senatorial oligarchy. which has
run away with the management of the
Republican party and which nominated
and controls its candidate. After asking
the evidence TO show his changes, Sena-
tor Harding admits those changes by the
ironical assertion that he Is entitled to
one more in order to make II fourteen
Now the trouble with the Senator Is this
his arithmetic is wrong. He has al.
ready had fourteen changes so far as l
know, because / have not yet had the
opportunity to read the evening papers"
Here Is the Cox List.
Then Gov. Cox read list of what ns
asserted had been changed by the
Republican nominee. Here they are:
1. Vote for the mild reservations.
2. Vote for the Lodge reservations.
g. Then he said that If he had to do
1t over he would not vote even for the
Lodge reservations.
4. Then vote the Knox resolution for
a separate peace with Germany.
8. Then he accepted the nomination
on the platform which said, THE
League has sgnally failed"
6. Then he endorsed the rc-establlsh-
fnent of the Hague tribunal which
showed Its failure as expressed by
Theodore Roosevelt-because 1t had no
power behind it.
7. Then he rejected the Hague tri-
bunal.
g. Then he offered q new plan" in
the international court of justice which
he learned Elihu Root was working on.
Q. Then he rejected the international
court of Justice when he discovered
what every one had known. but him.
that IL was the Supreme Court Of the
League OF Nations.
TO- In his speech of September he
said, amendment or revision OF re-
construction of the League covenant
IL still among the possibilities and
H.. In the same speech he said:
The League has now passed beyond
all possibility of restoration =
1o At Des Moines he said, Cox ia
vors going into the LeagIe I favor
staying out I am not int crested in
Qualification. am inte~eS.'1 In re-
lection"
IS. Returning to MARI from Des
Moines he said: II cane understand
Why IL is that the people, .; America
1on't understand what / saiJ at Des
Moines." sand that he was not to be
taken TO mean what he said. And
H. Announced the formation OF a new
association of nations-which on the
same day Judge Taft pronounced inn
possible and impracticablc.
Supported by Opposing Elements.
Gov Cox made much OF the fact that
Senator Harding is being supported by
what he branded the two opposing
elements of the Republican party. those
who favor League OF Nations, as
typined by William H. Taft and Ellhu
Root on the one side. and Senators
Borah and Johnson. who oppose the
League of Nations. on the other. He