Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-09-29
GOVERNOR FLAYs
/. HARDING; DUBS
j. HIM A BREWER
Declares He Will Oppose Any
Measure in Conflict With
the Constitution and the
, Eighteenth Amendment.
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s.atement regarding the Volstead
i9Jon enforcement law-that
ne would oppose "any measure
Vat is In conflict with the consti-
,totion and the eighteenth amend
ment as Interpreted by the su-
preme court" and bombardments
ot questions regarding the league
OF nations from persons of German
piood. marked lively tour of
south Dakota today by Governor
COX: The democratic presidential
candidate also launched new criti-
cism or Senator Harding, his re-
publican opponent, assailing Bit
terly the senator's Baltimore
speech of yesterday, and again
clubbing him a brewer"
Stand On Volstead Act.
Governor Cox's statement upon
the Volstead act, the first he has
made directly, was in response to
questiou-the first from any of
his audiences-from a man at Nit
cheA late today.
'1f elected president of the
United Ssates what will be
your attitu8e In regard to the
Volst' 1892" was sisa pojnt-
blar .ieS ests,
"Niy attitaae ,sssiss ss-i~reritss 4
fofthst whole question rs this"
Governor Cox replied. II shall
oppose any Incasln'u that Is i'm
conflict Will the sonstituS.oa
OF the United States and the
eighteenth amendment as in
terpreted by tho supreme
J court"
The governor when questioned
later by newspaper representatives
declined to amplify his statement,
declaring that 1t stood as given To
ms corn show audiences the can
dldate reiterated his pledge of law
enforcement and his statement re-
garding Sunday closing of Ohio
saloons while governor.
German Jmkcrs Caused War.
That Germany should be well
coined into the league of nations
and treated as we'll as any other
nation,' was stated by Governor
Cox in reply to persons of German
blood or descent, forming a large
part of communities the candidate
reached today. He said that Ger
man junkers, not the masses,
caused the war and, discussing
America first" and "Deutsch and
uber allies" declared the pro-Ger-
man slogan was selfish and its
policy disastrous.
In virtually all of his speeches
today--a total Of sixteen. including
fourteen outdoors in biting wind
and the thermometer around the
bO mark, Governor Cox assailed
Senator Harding. Deploring and
denouncing the senator's demur
yesterday at Baltimore to uues-
tion upon the league and the re-
publican nominees statement that
he was without a single program |
constructive about an association
of nations" Governor Cox declared
the situation 'deplorable and pitt =
able"
"Stupendous Conspiracy"
THE candidate of the senatorial
oligarchy by his statement" the
governor declared in addressing a
large audience here tonight at the
closing his South Da-
kota tour, pleads guilty on behalf
OF himself and his associates for
the most stupendous conspiracy the
world has ever seen. This state
ment Is confession of the charge
l have made that this group has
deliberately held up the peace of
the world and outraged a suffrage
civilization for selfish partisan pur-
poses and wilfully obstructed the
reconstruction processes in the
United States that they might win
presidential election for them
selves in resentment that might !
power" q
Wears Heavy Ulster. o
The league of nations progress 5
and agricultural topics were q
preached by the governor to all of !
his fifteen South Dakota audi n
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