New-York tribune., 1920-10-18
No League if
Cox Is Elected,
Declares Taft
Former President Concurs
With Harding That Victory
for Governor Would Result
in Deadlock With Senate
Takes the Stump To-day
Says Senator Will Win Be
cause People Are Tired
of Wilson Administration
spectnl Dispatch to Tho Tribune

BUFFALO, Oct. 17.--"Should Gov
ernor Cox be elected. which in my
judgment is an impossiblity, fully
concur with Mr.. Harding that the re-
suit will be n stalemate," snid Will
liam Howard Taft to-day as he sat in
his room at hotel in this city pre-
pairing his speeches to be made in the
next ten days in behalf of the Re-
publican nominee in a whirlwind West
ern campaign.
"The election of Cox would mean
deadlock between the President and
the Senate on Article X" continued
Mr.. Taft. Both MIR. Wilson and Mr.
Cox have taken the position that we
cannot have a league without Article
y, and more than one-third of the
holdovcr Senators are pledged to re-
lect league with Article x, hence
tho deadlock.
Only Hope for League
"The Republican platform and Mr.
Harding in his speech of acceptance,
in his speech of August % and in his
speech of two days ago in Indianapolis
promise every effort to secure q re-
vised or amended league, and he says
tfat he has reason to believe that ether
important nations will meet him in the
effort. For that reason | believe that
the only possible hope for league is
the election of Mr.. Harding
Il believe further that Mr.. Harding
is the only man who is going to be
elected, end he is going to be elected
not on the league issue, but because
a great majority of the American pco-
pie are tired Of the Wilson Adminis-
tration and are determined to prevent
the continuance of the Democratic
party in power. The result of the
election is not and cannot be regarded
as an expression of the American peo-
pie as a referendum on the issue of
the League of Nations.
Substitution of such an impossible
referendum should never have been at
tempted. 1t was intended to substitute
1t for the general approval Of the Will
son Administration, but this substitu-
tion failed and will fail The Ameri-
can people will not be diverted by any
such academic issue from their pur-
the Wilson Administration"
The former President, who arrived
in Buffalo to-day from Toronto, after
completing an appraisal of the Grand
Trunk Railway holdings in the Domin-
ION IN his capacity as all arbitrator Sc
lected by the railway company to settle
the amount of the governmental divi-
Hend to stockholders, said to-day that
his work as an arbitrator was not COM
pleted, but that he believed it his duty
to take the stump for the remainder
of the campaign for the Republican
nominee.
The appraisal work covers nearly g.
600 miles of railroad in Canada and
1900 miles in the United States, Mr..
Taft said. He expects to complete the
task after the election, November g
Mr.. Taft is scheduled to open his
speaking tour in Port Huron, Mich,
Monday night. From Port Hlron he
goes to Chicago and to indianapolis.
From Indiana he will go to~Iowa and Illi-
nos and take one long jump to Salt
Lake City. The Salt Lake speech, he
said to-day, was to be made at the re-
quest of Senator Reed Smoot, who in
vited him there several weeks ago.
After the Salt Lake speech he will re-
turn to WilkesBa Pa, for his first
Eastern speech, and will end the tour
on October 80 with an address in New
Haven, Conn, which, incidentally, is his
home
Wendell Mischler, private secretary
to Mr. Taft, who has been away from
the former President for four months,
joined him here to-day. Mr.. Mischler
acted as private secretary for Mr.. Taft
during his administration. Mr.. Taft
said to-day that his tour did not in
clude a meeting with Senator Harding,
and that if any such meeting occurred
it would be due to both men being
scheduled TO speak in the same vicinity.