The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-29
Makes ATTACK
ON PRESIDENT
Also Deliver a Few Shafts at
Present international Pol
icy of the Country.
SPEAKS TO DEMOCRATS
lTHARRISBURG MEETING
If Republican Party Is to Survive
as an Organization 1t Must
Have New Leaders.
-su rha AssoeIatsd Prsssl


H,RRIsRURG. Pa, April Is
Soeeking before state wide gathering
o democrats here tonight, former Gov
s,,or James NJ. Cox OF Ohio, who was
,,a democratic candidate for president
IN ugo. started a verbal onslaught on
rbe Harding administration with the
statement that 1T may go down in
history as the outstanding failure Of
me last fifty years"
Mr.. Cox devoted the major part OF
bis address to on attack on the
national administration, and delivered
a faw shafts at the present inter-
national policy Of the country
The very thing that has threaten
cd to disrupt the conference at Genoa,
!s the outgrowth of our international
processes Of oircumlocutlon," the for
lner presidential candidate declared.
The result OF the arms conference at
Washington he said, Is a regional
alliance" This, he continued, has led
10 other alliances and grave crisis
I've come In consequence"
"Ne; only have We caused to be help
II but in view Of recent development,
j. is apparent that We are a distinctly
dis. rb'ng factor in International at
fats. our leaders in banking and eco
uomic thought are doing the best they
can as individuals. Recognizing the
futllty Of appealing to our government
the statesmen Of the world are endeav-
orng 70 arouse the cooperation of
individual agencies 1t is opposed to
every moral and practical considera- =
lion that public dIsapproval Is inevita-
b!e"
The republican campaign pledge of
reorganization, economy and added
etIcieny in government, Mr.. Cox de-
dared, has developed into the actual
ly OF spoils in government"
he charged that the chief operator
Of the Old Mark Hanna Machine is In
charge Of this work and the ruling
objective is to strengthen the. control
OF the old guard" He continued.
with an almost unprecedented
opportunity to render service to hu-
manity with every facility of political
control with a widespread spirit of
pooAc cooperation, the republican
party has not successfully met the
'est OF responsibility.
w are at peace with the world,
anu YET the burdens of taxation remain
ana ana yearly deficit of approximately
denied
Unparalleled conditions, call for
modern measures of relief, and yet
way 'y day the country Is drawn back
we reactionary policies of an al
,"O't forgotten past. The Old Guard
mas lied the republican party to the
PoSl OF provncialism.
'aT!ft law with schedules higher
,Is' We, the publicly repudiated Payne
",u'cn measure is about to be enact
i"e belief that we can live suffi-
"' unto ourselves again Is pre-
WI" me economic truth that we can
sell our surplus without exohang-
commodities with the rest of the
"' is ignored. The proof of ex-
,.'eoce that II the American people
a. 10 oe busy we must sell one third
No.. ""at we grow and make, ia not a
5,.. " inc equation. The old guard
~ not seem to sense the conditions
II ,,s nour. 1t ia living in a world that
,o,SS SyeA NOT understand, 1t is sur
,.,,eo ,,.ueo With problems that are Inter
~.aI D|a0naI and the political craftsmen
Wv. y were trained in the narrow pro-
n.ES .,'a' school are incapable of the
.m =" The republican party" he as
IA, ,S' Is to survive as an organiza
NO. ~ mus turn to a leadership. II
o,,,s instructed upon the moral phil
Ms ' I' oI Lincoln. II cannot feed on
nate Of Lodge and live"
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