The log cabin Democrat., 1920-08-07
COX EXPRESSES AIMS Of PARTY IN CLEAR TERMS SUPPORTS WILSON
 ON LEAGUE ISSUE SATIRE FOR REPUBLICANS Candidate Positive in Stating Stand
 on All Issues-G. o. P. Gen.
 sured for Evasion.
SATIRE FOR REPUBLICANS
(By United Press1

(By United Press)
 Dayton, O., Aug. 7.-Accepting to- day the Democratic nomination for president, Gov. James M. Cox took the league of nations as the principal issue of the campaign. Opposed to the Republican platform as expressed by Senator Harding, that the United States stay out of it, Governor Cox emphatically approved the league and pledged his party to its acceptance. On other issues of the campaign, Governor Cox declared unswerving adherence to the San Francisco plat form, which he declared was phrased with clarity and courage" in sharp contrast with the Republican platform, the terms of which "have completely confused the public mind" Governor Cox's address was biting in it's sar- casm and an unmistakable declaration of his position and that of his party on all issues.
 Voicing his appreciation of honor and it's opportunity for service, Cover nor Cox said: Il thank God that 1 take up the standard of Democracy 9 free man, unfettered by promises and happy in the consciousness of untram- meled opportunity to render service in the name of government that will hold for it the confidence which it de- serves.'
 Governor CoX's preface to dicussion of the league as the foremost campaign was brief in the extreme. He then plunged into an assault on the senator ial cabal' led by Senators Lodge Shoot and others, whom he charged with su- perficial support of the president dur ing the war only that the rank of the Republican party might not be offend ed and then declared their opposition to the treaty of peace even before it was framed. He bitterly denounced the method by which a Republican news paper secured copy of the treaty and which the Republican senate had placed on the official record before it was submitted by the president acting under his constitutional authority. From that date, the opposition never changed it's object, but varied its at tack, Governor Cox said, for the pur- pose of subverting national interests to political eXpediency so that the 1 league might become campaign is sue.
 In framing it's league plank, the Republican party attempted to satisfy too many divergent interests the Dem ;+@ effort to placate Senator Johnson, a consistent opponent of the league in any form, resulted in Senator Harding placing the party on record against the league Taking up then the state ment of Senator Harding that peace would be declared as soon as a Repub- llcan congress can pass it, Governor Cox asserted this could mean separate peace with Germany and nothing else, a plan bristling with danger. Should Germany refuse or offer something which the United States could not ac- cept, he asked Does Senator Harding intend sending an army to Germany to press her to our terms?" Certainly the allied army could not be expected to aid. If, on the other hand, Ger many should accept the chance we offered of breaking the bond, it would be for the express purpose of insuring German American alliance, recogniz- ing that the allies-in fact no nation in good standing would have any thing to do with either of us
 Article X of the covenant is a re- statement of the Monroe doctrine, Gov ernor Cox declared, answering Re publican opposition which has centered on this article. They (Republicans) change experimentation when We have as historical precedent the Monroe Doctrine, which is the very essence of article X of the Versailles coven- ant. Skeptics vieded Monroe's man. date with alarmy. and yet not a shot has been fired in one hundred years in preserving sovereign rights on this hemisphere" On the war making right of congress, the nominee touched up Republican ob-