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LEADING FAILURES
FOR FIFTY YEARS
RESULT OF ARMS CONFERENCE
AT WASHINGTON is "REGIoN-
AL ALLIANCE" LEADING TO
oTHERs-SAYS cox OF HARD
ING ADMINISTRATION

HARRISBURG, d. 1Plh HS' ~pSe'N>
ing before a statewide gathering OF
Democrats here tonight, former Gov
Jsaes NJ. Cox of Ohio, who was the
Democratic candidate for president
in 1920, started a verbal onslaught
on the Harding administration with
the statement that cit may 60 down
in history as the outstanding failure
Of the last so years"
Mr. Cox. devoted the major part Of
his address to an attack on the ma
tional administration and delivered a
few shafts at the present interna-
tional policy of the country.
''The very thing that has threat,
ened to disrupt the conference at
Genoa is outgrowth of our interna,
tioal processes of circumlocution,
the former presidential candidate
declared.
The result of the arms confer
enes at Washington, he said, is a
regional alliance" This, he continu-
ed, ''has led to other alliances, and
grave crisis have come in conse-
queace."
''Not only have we ceased to be
helpful, but in view Of recent devel-
opments it is apparent that we are a
distinctly disturbing factor in inter
national affairs. Our leadership in
banking and economic thought are
doing the best they can as individu-
ais. Recognizing the futility of ap-
pealing to our government, the
statesmen of the world are endeav-
oring to arouse the cooperation Of
individual agencies. It is so opposed
to every moral and practical consid-
Grafton that public disapproval is in
evitable."
The Republican campaign pledge
of Reorganization, economy and
added efficiency in government" Mr.
Cox declared, ''has developed into
the actuality of SPOTS in govern
ment."
He charged that the "chief opera
tor 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 con-
tinued:
sWith an almost unprecedented
opportunity to render service to hu-
manity, with every facility of politi-
cal control, with a widespread spirit
of public cooperation the Republican
party has not successfully met the
test of responsibility.
We are at peace with a world
and yet the burdens of taxation re,
main and yearly deficit of approx
nately S50O,OOo,OOo IS not denied.
"Unparalleled conditions call fol
modern measures of relief and yet
day by day the country is drawn
back to the reactionary policies o.
an almost forgotten past. The ole
guard has tied the Republican part!
to the post of provincialism.
"a tariff law with schedules high
er than the publicly repudiatee
Payne-Aldrich measure IS about *
be enacted. The belief that we cal
live sufficiently unto ourselves agair
is present. The economic truth tha
we can not sell orr surplus withou
exchanging commodities with the
rest of the world is ignored. The
proof Of experience that if tht
American people are to be busy W.
must sell one-third Of what we grow
and make is not a part of the equa
ton. The old guard does not seen
to sense the conditions of the hour
1t is living in a world it does no
understand. It is surrounded will
problems that are international am
the political craftsmen who wer'
trained in the narrow provlncla
school are incapable of the task"
.Tf the Republican party" he as
serted, sis to survive as an organl
,ation is must turn to a new leader,
ship. 1t was constructed upon tn
moral philosophy Of Lincoln. 1t cal
- food an tho hate of Lodge an(