Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-23
INDUSTRY EXPERT
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FOR HIS CABINET,
PLEDGED BY COX
Continued from First Page,

sertation upon the subject of article
X. IN which again by inference YOU
are endeavoring either deliberately or
through misunderstanding and lack
OF Information concerning my speeches
10 misrepresent my position on the
league of nations" =.
IN TINS message and in more than a
nan dozen speeches in his one-day
tour of New Jersey Gov. Cox reiter-
ated that he would accept "helnful''
reservations. Trenton, Camden. New.
ark and Jersey City were visited by
the governor.
Telegram to Root.
Gov scox's telegram to Mr.. Root
Honorable Eiihu Root. New York
o, nave your telegram of October
- IN reply to mine of October 90 Al,
which called attention TO vi1,,r n
I statement in your address i'm New
| 5ork city. when you said, Mr.. Cox
treaty just as Mr.. Wilson nepotiated
L.. respectfully asked of you a re-
traction OF your untrue Statement
LOU nave apparently mistaken the
purpo se OF my message. which was t.
give you the opportunity to correct a
possible error or to admit the riaIih-
; erateness of intent in it's presenfa.
tlon. Permit me. therefore. to rane,x
IN terms that cannot be misunder.
s.uou the request, which can be an
sWered with an unequivocable 7-vas,
| or no. Did you or did Won not mo lsa
the statement as quoted: and do vi,
not know now that it was ia. snd
20 you not recognize that in i,stico
| 70 yourseif and in justice to the
I'm Tan people who have honored
you you should publicly acknowledge
! On Article Ten.
IN your reply to me Won have an.
! tsreo upon long dissertation ,,nnn
tne subject of article x. in which
n py inference You are endeayor-
! ing either deliberately mr. thrn,Srh
misunderstanding or lack If ,,.fnu,ns II
| ZION concerning my speeches tn mis-
| represent my position on the 1eag,,a
OF nations. Accepting the fart 10
| your misstatement was based NM.
. .nch OF information. referred YOU 10
the daily report of my speeches in Tho
newspapers. in which / have invar;a.
Oily said that I favored the Hitchcncl<
| reservations and also that 7 would ac-
| cept reservations from anv source of.
,eTed IN sincerity and with desire to
tsp' osnply That you may be fur
: ther informed. let me call vo,,r at
| tention to the fourth of Hitchcocl
! reservations in reference to article 10 !:
i nat the advice mentioned in article
y OF the covenant of the league of
natiohs winch the council may give to
| .he MEMBER nations as to the smploy-
aient OF their naval and militia nv
| FORCES is merely advice: which each
! MEMBER nation is free to accept or re-
| Ject. according to the conscience and
Judgment OF its then existing govern
! ment, and in the United States, this
a aG nee can only be accepted by action
OF the Congress at the time in being,
! congress alone under the Constitution
OF the United States having the power
| to declare war
Now. Mr.. Root. have asked you a
| plain question. We are both assumed
! 70 understand the meaning Of words.
The American people likewise under
| stand the meaning of words. You have
| been given the opportunity to correct
| your misstatement and this correction
you have failed to make.
| Calls for French Name.
| Economic as well as moral and
! religious arguments for the league
again were emphasized by the gov
| ernor, who said:
| IF we don't go into this league Wen
! have the most destructive business
| depression in the history of all the
! world"
| Repeated calls were made by Gov.
| Cox upon Senator Harding to make
public the name of the alleged "mys-
|
| the republican candidate that France
| inclined toward new peace associa-
| ton. The senator's ''blunder," his ad-
versary declared. was made in a rear
| platform speech when the Chain, tied
1 to him by the senatorial oligarchy
| was broken-the leash snapped j"
Gov Cox suggested that Senator
| Hardings information came from a
ouija board.
Typical "Tieer'' Welcome.
| PRINCETON, N. J., October ga
/ typical Tiger welcome was given
| here to Gov. Cox by the faculty and
undergraduates of Princeton Univer-
sity. Prolonged cheers from a crowd
that overflowezl Alexander Hall were
given the democratic candidate
More ''rah-rah" cheering WAS given
| the governor at Lawrenceville Pre-
paratory School, where he told the
students he preached the gospel that
| 10 American boy be a cad. with no
aristocracy except brains and man
| hood
| n 4 NYyY n