The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-08-19
COX |NvADES
DOUBTFUL STATE
Democratic Candidat for
President to Make 5
Speeches in
diana.
URGE LEAeU lAr1oNs
Believes Suffrage tiflcation Will
Arouse Women Of Country in
Response to Peace
Treaty.
URGE LEAGU lAT1oNs
[By Herbert W. walker, United Press

Staff Correspondent
CHICAGO, (enroute to South Bend
Ind, with Governor Cox), Aug. 49,
iGovernor James M. Cox today was to
invade doubtful Indiana" for the first
| time during his stump camaign. Two
speeches in which he probably will
continue his attack on the republican
Headers and again stress the league
Iof nations issue were to be made at
South Bend-one before public
meeting in the afternoon and the
other in the evening at the banquet
lof the Indiana democratic editors.
There is every Indication that Cox
will deliver added punches for the
league, because he believes with suf-
Efrage ratification complete it will
meet with big response among the
women of the country.
His plan, he said, while travelling
here from Columbus. is to show that
ratification of the treaty will aid in
lending unrest throughout the coun-
try.
The candidate invaded Chicago not
Ito make a stump speech, but to eat
breakfast.
| He was to leave FOR South Bend
/ shortly after ten o'clock and was
ischeduled there at 12:4S central
!; time.
! The Cox party composed of the
I governor. his staff and a dozen news.
paper men is travelling in special
car. It will leave South Bend late
tonight for Columbus
| Plans are to start the far west trip
(! of Cox about September 8.
1t is proposed to swing through the
northern tier of states to the coast
thence down the coast and back
through Utah, Colorado, Nebraska
and Iowa. One of the biggest days
of the campaign will be at Columbus
August 81. Harding and Cox are
scheduled to speak from the same
platform at the Ohio state fair.
Speech by Cox
IBy Herbert W. Walker, United Press
Staff Correspondent
SOUTH BEND, Ind, Aug. 19-The
republican "oligarchy'' of the senate
is directly responsible for the un-
settled conditions through the coun-
, try Governor James M. Cox, demo
cratic presidential candidate, charged
here today in his first stump speech
in Indiana.
The governor again directed sharp
fire at the "reactionary republican
leaders" asserting that they have
prevented lower living costs and
blocked tax reductions in the hope of
placing the blame upon the demo-
Gratis.
Normal conditions will, return with
ratification of the peace treaty with
such additions as are reassuring and
helpful" he said, adding that the dem
ocratic pledge is to enter the league Of
nations with the least possible delay,
after March fourth, 1921.
Cox charged that while progressive
democracy" has taken positive pos
iton with reference to every vital
question, 'the reactionary repubii
can leaders are passive and hypocriti.
cal"
eff they would follow their own foot
steps backward, and they are so used
to moving in that direction, that they
would not need a compass, they would
find that every condition against
which they now inveigh is of their
own creation the candidate said.
"They discuss the high costs of living
without apparently realizing that in
large measure they are responsible for
the be1ated settling down of condi-
tions which have continued the high
living costs Europe has been com
PEELED to buy because she is not pro-
ducing, and production in America has
not moved back into its stride because
things economically are disjointed.
not only here but everywhere.
eff the league of nations had been
ratified months ago, exchanges would
have been stabilized: Europe could
have started its work of rehabilitation: |
its countries would not have made
drain upon our food supplies.
'fWar taxes, which should have been
modified or repealed when the war
was over, were not touched, and the
republican oligarchy in the senate is
directly responsible
Cox claimed that the house ways
and means committee desired to re-
peal some of the 1evies, but that ''the
restraining hand Of political policy