The Washington times., 1920-08-07
WORLD
SCORN Of US.
Democratic Nominee Declares
Separate Peace With Ger
many UnthinkabIe.
DODGES PROHIBITION ISSUE
Acceptance Speech Calls for Re-
duced Taxes and National
Budget.
By HARRY l.. ROGERS.
International News Service.

ny kNo"nnc. I
international News Service.
DAYTON. Ohio, Aug. 7.-Declar-
ing the League of Nations the su-
preme issue of the century, Gov.
James M. Cox, in his speech for
mally accepting the Democratic nom
ination for the Presidency, went
squarely on record here today as
favoring immediate ratification OF
the peace treaty, and asserted that
America will deservedly bear "the
contempt of the world" if she re-
fuses.
ATTACKS HARDING.
The governor denounced Senator
Harding's plan for ending the ex-
isting state of war as an attempt
to make a separate peace with Ger
many" which, he said, would be
the most disheartening event in civil
ixation since the Russians made their
separate peace, and Infinitely moro
unworthy on our part than 1t was
on that of the Russians"
Suppose Germany, realizing tho
first break among the allies proposes
something we cannot accept said
Governor Cox. Does Senator Hard
ing intend to send an army to Ger
many to press our terms? II, on tho
other hand, Germany should accept
the chance we offered Of breaking
the bond, 1t would be for the express
purpose OF insuring a German-Ameri-
can alliance, recognizing that the
allies, in fact, no nation Of good
standing would have anything to do
with either of Ms"
MYSTERY NOTE MISSING.
The air Of mystery and speculation
that has surrounded the insert"
which Governor Cox had announced
would be given out as a part Of his
formal address, was dispelled at
| o'clock this morning when the gov
ernor announced that there would be
| no insert"
1t had been expected that this ad-
dition to the governors speech would
| deal with some important domestic
problem. and there had been much
conjecture as to it's contents. No
reason for his decision not to make
public the insert" was assigned by
the governor.
DODGEs PROHIBITION.
Not once in the whole course Of
the speech was prohibition specifcal-
ly mentioned: but in that part deal
ing with law enforcement, the gov
ernor said:
"It would seem quite unnecessary
for any candidate for the Presidency
to say that he does not intend to
violate his oath of office. Anyone
who is false to the oath Is more un-
worthy than the law violator him
self"
Great emphasis was laid by the
governor upon "progressivism as op-
posed to reaction"
Other policies laid down by Gov
ernor Cox were: Compensation" for
| soldiers; reduction of armament upon
| entrance into the league of nations;
| relief from war time taxation, and
| substitution of a small tax on all
| business for the excess profits tax:
federal budget system, with re-
| duction of national expense to four
billions annually, maximum: cease
| less war on prohteers; dehnite state
ment of the respective rights of
workers and employers in collective
| bargaining; ratification of the woman
suffrage amendment; pitiless public
ity Of campaign expenditures; and q
fair trial for private ownership Of
railroads, with relief from congestion
ST. Lawrence navigation project.
ONE THIRD of 1T LEAGUE.
Approximately one-third OF tho
governors speech OF nearly $4,000
words was devoted to the league Of
nations.
The Republican proposal means
dishonor. world confusion and delay"
he said, referring to Senator Hard
| ing's plan for new relationship
among nations"
1t would keep us in permanent
company with Russia, Turkey and
Mexico"
Picturing the league as a plan to
make impossible a recurrence of such
conflsgrations as the world war. the
governor bluntly laid down the ques-
| tion of league or no league as the
real issue OF the campaign.
Senator Harding, as the Repub-
lican candidate for the Presidency.
proposes In plain words that we re-
, main out OF II. Ns the Democratic
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