Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-15
|COX CHARGES Cop:
SENATORS SEEK To
ANNEX PRESIDENCY
Tells West virginians League
Is Pledge to Boys Who
Died in France. &.
DENOUNCES SEPARATE
| PEACE AS "PERFIDIOUs"
Nominee Declares He Declines to
Be Muzzled and Tied to
Front Porch.

GOV. Cox today threw his force into
the presidential campaign with five
speeches here and through Ohio. all
haying what he termed the republi-
can "reactionary candidate and lead
ers' and supporting the league of ma
tlons as the premier democratic cause,
The democratic candidate stormed
the republican position, attacked the
senatorial oligarchy." which, he said,
was trying to annex the presidency
to its domination: denounced pro-
posals for separate peace with Ger
many as 'perf1dy' and charged that
"a few men were banded together
trying to buy the presidency" Mil
lions upon millions of dollars. Gov.
Cox added, are being taken in the
republican campaign fund.
Il was not nominated by a sena.
torial ring nor any other kind of a
ring" said Gov. Cox at today's meet
ing. Il decline to be tied to my front
porch by a senatorial ring. 1 deny
it the right to hold me there, mug
zled, in the face of great public
emergency. and when / am elected
do not intend that senatorial ring
nor any other kind of a ring shall
own me.
First Big Campaign Day.
1t was the first big day of cam
paigning undertaken by the demo-
cratic candidate. Motoring from
Columbus early this morning, he
made three brief addresses en- route
at GAINESVILLE, Cambridge and st.
Clairsville. Ohio-addressed the West
Virginia democratic convention late
today and a big public meeting to-
night on the river front.
all throuShs Ohio he was given in
formal receptions, with waving at
groups gathered at almost every viii
lage, many gay with flags, and shak-
Ing hands with hundreds.
The league was foremost in all the
governors addresses. The republican
leaders, he charged. are behind a
smoke screen of hypocrisy-for one
thing pure and simple, administers
ton spoils." He also stressed what
he declared was the fight between
''reactionary republicanism" and
progressive democrary," and pre-
dicted his election.
All of the governors references To
the league won high place in .apa
plause.
Calls League Pledge to Dead.
The outstanding question of this
Campaign" he said to the state con.
Vention, 'is whether we are or are
not going to keep faith with the boys
who died in France"
Declaring that the league is a
pledge 20 those who died, Gov. Cox
told of his recent visit with President
Wilson.
Il wish every American could have
been with me-" he said. The Presi-
dents whole thought is that he gave
a promise to the mothers of the na-s
ton when he asked them for their
boys. and he wants to live long
enough to see the faith kept and that
pledge fulfilled"
The governor declared that the
league also was pledge which will
make war impossible, or practically
So" The republican leadership. he.
said, was acting in partisan "basli
faith" in opposing it. Gov. Cox added
that he had the highest personal re-
gard" for Senator Harding, but wsss
against the "partyism." =
Calls Lodge Chief OF OIigarchy.
Gov. Cox named Senator Lodge of
Massachusetts as the head of the
senatorial oligarchy.' When the
Massachusetts senator proposed COM
promising the treaty reservations.
Gov. Cox said, Senator's Borah of
Idaho and Johnson of California
served notice that they would bring
about a rupture Of the republican
party" The republican platform,
therefore. Gov. Cox asserted, was
Ambiguous and meaningless
In cudgeling the proposal for "a
separate peace with Germany" Gov.
adding: 10
But he will never be given an op-
portunity to make a separate peace
with Germany. There will be none.
because 1 will not make one.
IF you are for peace. with econo-
mics by reduction in great arma-
ments." he continued. support the
Governor Of Ohio. If you are for war,
and want expense for armament to
continue, vote for the senator from
Ohio"
The necessity for progressive" ad-
justment was emphasized by Gov. Cox,
who declared, at st. Clairsville, that
a readjustment under reactionary
auspices" could not win popular con-
fidence.
.Neyer n Shot to Quell Strikes"
Peace or war, economy or contin-
ued expense" was the slogan het1
gave. '
The democratic candidate alsqrf
pointed to his gubernatorial record
and declared that never during his
had "a soldier fred a
shot to settle a strike" in Ohio.
"And ask capital II its pHpertya
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