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Show COX ON LAST DAY ! OF TRIP IN WEST Will Coast to Victory Now, Nominee Tells Missouri Farmers JOPLIN, Mo., Oct. 2. Governor Cox, of Ohio, began the last day of his month's western tour here today with two addresses In which hr- continued contin-ued discussion of the league of nations na-tions and farming subjects and h- also criticised the "senate oligarchy " To Missouri farmers ho advocated ; representation on the federal reserve I board and several other federal com- missions. He also advocated federal regulation of cold storage and pa king j plants. Governor Cox reiterated his hargS that a conspiracy has been formed l3 Republican leaders to keep campaign facts from the public. (OAST TO VICTORY The governor said It had been an uphill fight, but that now the tlJ h UB turned and he Is "Jusl going to coast th rest of the way Asked If he would send soldiers to Europe without the consen of congress Governor Cox answer' it no I would ii"t because I would not h i- the rihi to do It " Governor 1 ox k"ic hirs rinliir nu nt to the foer-fold bonus plan for ex-service ex-service men. In speeches here and at Miami. Okla , today Governor Cox discussed the humanitarian provisions "f the league oi nations, asserting that "the profiteers of peace" oppose it because It prevents them from ' exploitation of humanity In sweat shops and Insanitary Insani-tary factories.' I- OK WOMEN AND CHILDREN "Under article twenty-three." the governor continued, "the members of the league agree to maintain fair and Just conditions of labor for men, women wo-men and children; to cooperate In prevention pre-vention of communicable contagious and vocational diseases, to prohibit exploitation ex-ploitation of women and children and to control the traffic In opium anJ other dangerous drugs." Governor Cox asserted it must bo a c re 'if sji t lsf:i rt In n fn the ornmPn ,,t America to know they were recognized on equality with men In holding league positions "months before they were granted the right of suffrage In our own country." OKLAHOM EU CEPTION TULfSA, okla., Oct. 2. Oklahoma yeateiday gave Governor Cox a reception recep-tion rivalling In 'enthusiasm any reception recep-tion of the Democratic presidential candidate's western trip, which closes today, one month from election day. after covering more than ten thousand miles in twenty-two states The governor's gov-ernor's speechessjalready have passed the 200 mark Headed by the league of nations. Democratic doctrines were preached by Governor Cox to ten Oklahoma audiences au-diences which roaicd their approval Cheering crowds, waving banners, brass bands, parades and jammed auditoriums, au-ditoriums, marked the governor's tour ' losing here last night with a torchlight torch-light parade, fireworks and a rousing meeting at Convention Hail. Accompanying Accom-panying the candidate were three special spe-cial cars of Oklahomans, including Governor J. B- A Robertson. T lks o i ot !AL lsl I !S With the league predoin i n.i n! , i. ei nor Cox's addresses were replete with discussions of agricultural quea tions of especial local Interest in Ho cotton, wheat and oil belts through which he traveled. A new form of attack was encountered encoun-tered by the governor at Chan lb j. from which a sheaf of telegrams signed sign-ed by various names had been pent him. He asked his audiences about the telegrams, mostly questions on the league, and some were dec ha red fictitious ficti-tious and others unauthorized. The affair, Governor Cox declared, disclosed tricks of politicians skull-uruggery." skull-uruggery." "They won't fight on the level." he said. "But I'm going to continue fighting fight-ing on the level and I'm going to give them a rood llckmc " M IKES EL CH K.1 A new charge regarding alleged "scouts." of Chairman Hays of the Republican Re-publican national committee was made by the governor at Sapulpa. He charged that thousands and thousands" thous-ands" of Republican agents wen posing as Democrats and l.-Ilii, persona per-sona whom they met that they wanted no more Democratic rub-. "These scouts." the governor said, 'have been traveling everywhere I don't know how many men Will Hays has employed You will find them In sleeping cars, smoking 25 cent olgars for the first t m In their lives. Their policy is to get into conversation With passengers They will say: " How's the election going." '"Well," the bi out says. "I have been twuiwww ior twenty years out no more of It for me I'm done.' "There are thousands and thousands of that kind of scouts traveling ill over the nited States and big bu: bo s-, is paying the bill." PREDICTS BIG I A I N Ts Referring to the telegrams sent him from "'handler, the c-overnor said thit .one. asking a question on Intricate International law. it developed, purported pur-ported to have been senl bv a colored i laundress. This." he said, "Is one of jthe outgrowths of the Napoleonic mind of Will Hays." Governor Cox also predicted "startling "start-ling events in the councils of the reactionary re-actionary group " within a short time "I will make the prediction." lie said t hat certain groups are going to ask certain gentlemen for a showdown." Senator Harding was pictured bv Governor Cox as a ''reactionary," can- '"Iblat" and on the league nf nations issue is-sue as 'standing In No-Alan's Laud " ' His pretendod America first" " the governor told his audience, "Is Ireallv safety first. The biggest issue Of history is absent from his spec. hes. He may be fooling Taft. be m.i . be fooling Johnson, but I'm going to see that he don't fool the American people." peo-ple." Article ton was compared by the governor to the eighth commandment 'This commandment." he said, has been written not only in the ode of personal morals, but In the public law of every land What is more it Is backed up by courts and police power and common ' on jelence. "The league would extend the eighth I commandment to cover International relations by making territorial burg-larly burg-larly not only immoral but Illegal." Many questions from his audiences were asked and one at Oklahoma CltJ referred to the Japanese-California land controversy. The governor was asked whether the league would tak" the dispute from American jurisdiction and lie replbil that both the league and the Hitchcock reservations provided provid-ed that American internal affairs Should not be Involved. |