Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-10-26
Cox VIII Seek
League Pact with
Senate When Elected


ernor Cox Of Ohio announced today
that if elected president he would
sit down with the Senate and make
an agreement" upon the league of
nations and that his agreement
should be determined by the sena-
ror1al elections
The executive will" he said,
should not control and it is "un-
rhiuka bic" he declared. that Amer
can membership iut1e league should
De postponed two years when the
next senatorial elections viii be held.
American membership, he indicated.
was the primary consideration He
repeated that hef favored American
participation with clarifying reser-
yations."
Hailed by members of the govern
or's party as one OF the most irupor-
tant Of campaign DEVELOPMENTS. the
candidates announcement was in re-
Spouse To an open letter sent today
10 Governor Cox and his Republican
opponent Harding. by fifty of their
supporters urging them to accept
whatever revision Of the Lodge reser-
vations two thirds OF the next senate
might approve.
The governors statement issued
during rushing West Virginia tour
today, read:
The situation IS this: I favor 60
ing into the existing league with
Clarifying reservations. Senator
Harding has said that he was not
interested in Qualification. but in re-
lection. 7 have every expectation
that after November much of the
PARTISAN spirit that has been visited
upon discussion of the league will
nave subsidized One third of the
seats Of the senate are 10 he filed
this year. The people understand
the issue and we will accept their
expression at face value. VIII
therefore sit down with the senate
and reach an agreement about our
gong into this league There is no
other. AMI any talk OF a new assnc;a
ton is but rumor
For US to remain out of the Iear,ra
Tor two years or until another eIec-
ton could be held would he nm
thiukable. II too much has To he
gwen IN compromise in order tn in
sure our entrance into the Ieag1,e
the people themselves will have an
opportunity TO modify and correct
later. IL cannot be a matter Of the
exercise of merely the executive will
The popular VIII, as voiced at the
polls. must control The sort of
agreement which I shall be enabiat,
TO obtain will be determined by the
senatorial elections"
The Governors announcement. fol
lowed MS statement in his Madison
square Garden speech last Sunday in
New York that he would compro-
mise the reservation controversy.
Attention also was called to the cir
eunnstance that r followed Elihu
Roots statement that Governor Cox
was as unyieidiug regarding Article
x as President Wilson.
More than dozen speeches were
made through the West Virginia
mountain country today by Governor
Cox and the state gave him one of
the most encouraging receptions of
the campaign Miners, railroad men,
and other toiiers were among the
thousands who cheered the candi-.
date.
Senator Hardings league state
ments came in for special attack by
the Governor. Again denouncing
Senator Harding. Lodge of Massa-
chusetts and others who signed the
Round Robin as consprators'' the
governor asked.
How can we reasonably expect
one of the conspriators, il elected to
overturn the conspiracy
Declaring Senator Harding has
taken fourteen different league
stands, Governor Cox said his ad-
versary's position was very much
like a shell game
There are three shells said the
Governor One is the mild reser-
vationists. one is tine death TO the
league and one is the new associa-
ton of nations When you vote for
him tSenator Hardingl you don't
know where the pea is You don't
know what shell it's under"
Special appeals were made
through the state today by the gov
ernor to miners and others Of the
working classes and these were APP
pIauded- He told Of the mine run"