Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-08-14
BRYAN FAvORS COX;
COMP ARES LEADERS
Suggests Both Parties Agree to
Accept Treaty Referendum
as Binding.

| the country falling into the hands Of
| the vets he is beginning n campaign TO
pledge candidates for Congress ON the
liquor question.
In his comparison MIR Bryan says
| "The Presidential campaign Of 1920
Is formally opened. The acceptance
speeches are before the country. The
candidates have interpreted the plat
forms upon which they are running,
each endenvoring to support his party s
| declaration as strongly as possible.
"Of the two speeches Senator Hard
| ing's is more sonorous, while Governor
| Cox's address ia more direct md en-
| phatic Both favor woman suffrage and
express the hope that one more State
| necessary for ratification will soon be
secured Senator Harding spends a
| little more time on the subject, but Gov
ernor Cox puts hs views little more
| forcibly
| ''On the subject Of universal military
| training both are silent. although either
one might haye made more votes with n
single sentence on this subject than he
| could have made with the same number
of words on any other subject. a.
"On the labor question both speak
strongly for the wage Garner, but the
tone Of Governor Coke utteranccs On
| this subject will probably please the
wage earners more than TIC tone of the
| Senator's remarks: but neither of them
| smoke with sufficient definiteness in be-
half of the general public. Both hope
strikes may be avoided
'On the subject of profiteerinp there
IN little difference between the positions
| taken by tho two candidates. just as
there is little difference in the positions
taken in the two platforms. Governor
| Cox il q little moro emphatic than Sen-
a,or Harding in Kis denunciation of prof
iteerine Just as the Democratic plat
form is n little more emphatic than the
Republican platform-but neither pre-
sents a remedy The public il expected
to exercise faith each partisan relying
upon his own party to do the things
necessary, although both parties have
lacked either the intelligence 60 devise
sufficient remedy or tho courage to an
nounce It.
'fOn the railroad question there is a
difference "a TO the treatment OF the
railroads during the war, but agreement
as to treatment now. Senator Harding
condemns the Government g manage
ment of railroads during tho war, while
Governor Cox defends the Government
is nothing in the language employed
by either that would frighten the most
greedy railway magnate or give conf
dence 60 one who is anxious that the
rights Of the patrons of tho road shall
be iealously guarded.
"On the subject Of Mexico Governor
Cox uses lang,iaee calculated to please
those who oppose intervention, while
Senator Harding employs larger NUM-
ber of words with less dehniteness as
TO purpose. He says: 1t would be
simple 20 have a plain and nelghborly
understanding with Mexico. But he
does not make plain or understandable
the policy he has in mind.
"On the liquor question there is little
real difference between the positions
taken by the two candidates They are
both strong on law enforcement Sena-
tor Harding considers il 'unthinkable to
evade the law. while Governor Cox
spurns the very idea that a President
would violate his oath Of office by fail
tire to enforce the law. Governor Cox de-
clares that 1t would seem quite unneo-
essary for any candidate for the Presl-
dencv to say that he does not intend
to violate his oath of office, adding.
any one who is false TO that oath is
more unworthy than the law vlclator
himself
But while Senator Harding wants it
distinctly understood that he will en-
force the law while il is law. he holds
out to the vets an alluring hope. when
he saws, modification or repeal is the
right of free people whenever the de-
liberate and intelligent pubic sentiment
demands Governor Cox is equally
Nf H.. n nf hn xs.sfc
and injects ray of hope nto this part
legislative branch of Government rs sub
ject to the rule of the majority
"A little later on he throws in an
other morsel of encouragement. SEEM
inglv without any connection with the
subjects that envelop It. He says
morals cannot easily be produced by
statute beautiful and euphonious half
truth which has probably been used
more by the liquor traffic than any
other one phrase. The friends of the
saloon construe it to mean that pro-
hibition is a failure What they mean
is that the vets should get busy and
elect a wet Congress.
There is one interesting contrast
that can be drawn between the two
speeches Senator Harding wants to
go back to normal: Governor Cox
wants to go forward. The former re-
CARDS the war as distriction and seeks |
to restore the conditions that previously |
existed. Governor Cox urges a forward |
to meet new conditions and |
IL have left for the last the subjects |
which both candidates put first, namely, |
the treaty. Both consider this the |
issue, and both are hopeful. |
Each contends that the solution lies in |
the triumph of his party.
Both are too well acquainted with }
politics to ignore the fact that neither |
party can hope to secure two-thirds of |
the Senate as a result of this election, |
and both of them are too well acquainted |
with partisan politics to have much con-
hdence in either party accepting the |
result of the election as a mandate. Too |
many issues enter into the campaign to |
make the defeated party accept the cleo
ton as q mandate on any particular |
issue.
IF we are to have a referendum, why |
not an agreement between the two
parties to accept the result as binding2 |
viii Senator Harding pledge the Republi-
,an Senators to accept and carry out /
.he Democratic policy on the treaty |
question if Governor Cox wins? VIII |
Governor Cox pledge the Democratic