Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-10-15
COX ARRAIGNS
FORCES THAT
BACK HARDING
All Have Special Interest and
Each Is Given Promise,
Is His Claim.
PITIEs HIS OPPONENT

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct 15.-Arraign-
ment Of the forces which he alleged were
working through the present leadership
Of the Republican party to the discredit
OF the party itself for the election Of
the reactionary candidate for the Presi-
dency, was made here last night in an
address by Governor James NJ. Cox.
II was not nominated at any 2:11
a. m conference in the smoky back
room Of a hotel suite. Ny nomination
came in the open convention, as the
result of the free choice Of the dele
gates there assembled, and I am per-
fectIy willing that those forces endors-
ing my candidacy be examined and
compared with those behind the reac-
tionary candidate as part OF the Issues
Of this campaign" said the Governor
in opening his address, which he stated
was made for the purpose of bringing
attention to the groups at work in this
campaign, with the assertion that the
candidate of the senatorial ring has be
hind him today "the most motley array
Of questionable groups and influences
that was ever behind a candidate for
the presidency"
Govssnor Cox pointed out that such
campaign was necessary in the evasion
Of great issue, such as the League or
Nations, and emphasized the fact that
pledges to conflicting groups and the
huge expenditures necessary to secure
their support presented possibilities
that were unthinkabIe. and establish an
array that brings the crimson blush
Of shame to an American"
STRESSES G. o. p. APPEAL
TO RACIAL GROUPS.
Governor Cox laid especial stress on
the appeal which he says is being made
tc racial groups. each of whom is prom
ised something, and to the so-called
Afro-Amerlcan party on the false claim
of social equality, which he charged was
productive only of race riots, such az
were witnessed in East st. Louis and
Chicago.
Considerable attention was paid by him
to what he termed the Anti-League of
Nations party" embracing certain pro-
gressives like johnson and Borah, who
could not say a word in behalf Of their
reactionary candidates policies or rec
ord, and taking in the disloyal groups
fed by a propaganda fund supplied by
the makers Of munitions, who are against
the League of Nations for reasons which
the speaker termed obvious
In the course of his address Governor
Cox said:
The campaign for the presidency of
the United States has now resched the
point where it is possible definitely TO
get fair appraisement of the forces that
are aligned on either side behind the
candidates 1t is well to take stock
Of these forces and TO assess them at
their real worth, patriotic or unpatri-
otto, to measure them as history will
measure them and to assay them in the
light of pretensions to a monopoly on
Americanism.
I'm general it is not seemIy to ques-
tion the forces arrayed behind ones lead
Ing opponent, but I deem this to be an
instance in which there Is right to ex-
anime them carefully, and 1 say this be-
cause have had no hesitancy in granting
to my opponent full and free opportunity
to examine the forces and influences be-
hind my own candidacy.
WAS NOMINATED
IN OPEN CONVENTION.
My nomination came in the omen con-
Tention as the result Of the free choice
of delegates there assembled. was NOT
nominated ut 2:11 A. m. conference in
smoky back room of a hotel suite. and
l am perfectly willing that the forces
indOrsins my candidacy be examined and