The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-19
A CAMPAIGN OF DECEIT.
Politico- Religious Appeals by Gov
ernor Cox and His Friends.

PolItico. Religious Appeals by Gov
ernor Cox and His Friends.
To THE NEW York HERALD: Recent
politico-religious appeals are both humor-
Gus and serious.
DIR. Eliot. president emeritus of Har-
ward. differing from both the actual
president. DR.. Lowell. and Senator
Lodge. formerly overseer. supports the
Democratic candidates. Accepting Mr..
Wilson's covenant as it is written, he
has delivered in the Erening Post Sc
rial sermon from the text. "We that
are strong ought to bear the infirmities
of the weak and not to please our
selves" Paul to the Romans, XVI. He
appeals to the small minority who
make an intelligent choice at any cleo
tion." rather than to "the numerous
people who are tired Of the strenuous
ideals of the eloquent but impractical
and mentally isolated President"
This Is frank, but possibly both the
President and the Governor, whose in
firmities are to be borne with, may cry
with Canning. "Save. save. oh save me
from the candid friendw Not one word
commendatory of the Governor is found
in the discourse, largely composed Of
quotations from Mr.. Wilson. The only
mention Of the candidate ia this Gov
ernor Cox and his persorA1 staff will not
be able to stink frorr .nder the burdens
of the Wilson Administration. They
must defend tf~sif records or be con-
demned by tfern.' Alasl sinking Is an
unbearable infirmity. The Governor has
skunk. He now says, so great is his
desire to "go in" that he will accept
any good reservation" whatever that
may mean.
Turn now to the Governors own ex-
position of Holy Writ. At Louisville he
said:
II our nation were to heed the pagan
counsels of the reactionary candidate we
might as well confess ourselves a pagan
people. whose only god is Beelzebub. On
would be the mark of Cain. who was
driven out of the Garden of Eden because
he denied any moral obligation or social
responsibility.
Evidently the Governor is a scholar.
stylist and gentleman whose learn
ing and courtesy would adorn the White
House. Also, his pious zeal to save the
country from the paganism of Senator
Harding, somewhat prominent men,
Der of the church. contributes to national
gayety.
Where did the Governor discover that
Cain was ever in Eden, or expelled from
It for denying moral obligation and
social responsibility. or that his mark
was part Of his punishment rather than
m - he
ernor think that Cain, when taxed with
falsehood for denying knowledge Of his
slain brothers whereabouts, should have
answered: IT leave the question OF
veracity to the voters of Missouri?
Although the Governor and chairman
may not know it, Mr.. Wilson assured his
audience in ST. Louis on September 5,
1919, that the words external agrees
SION were put into Article x. because
every man who sat at that board held
that the right of revolution was sacred
and must not be interfered with. Any
kind of a scrap can happen inside and
It is nobody's right to interfere Thus
in Mr.. wilson's own view, Ireland. being
neither a people nor nation. Is not
within his principle of self-determina-
ton: it is part of Great Britain and
therefore not within the obligation OF
Article X. Were il otherwise we should
have to guarantee not Ireland but Great
Britain In her boundaries.
Finally, in view of the reiterated and
gross misstatements of Messrs. Cox and
Roosevelt that the Republicans had a
fund of thirty or thirty-two millions
with which to buy the Presidency and
bayonet labor in view Of the persistent
false representations that Senator Har-
ding is opposed to any association of
nations. although he has made 1t clear
in every speech that he Is not, would
It not be we'll II the next sermon were
from the text. Deliver my soul, o Lord
from lying lips and from a deceitful
tongue" as King James's version has Il
! (Psa cxx.. %, or. as the Catholic YER
sion reads, 20 Lord, deliver my soul
from wicked lips and a deceitful tongue
(Psa. elk, %? w. A. BURLINGTON.
NEW YORK, October is.