Bingham Bulletin | 1920-10-15 | Page 1 | Republican Chairman Switches to Cox

REPiLMCIllffl SWITCHES TO COX Herbert Parsons cf New York City Announces His Reasons for Changing Chang-ing to Governor Cox and League. "All Senator Harding's antileag.io talk is mush." Herbert Parsons, former chairman of the Republican county committee f of New York, resigned his membership member-ship in the committee Friday. The foregoing U a part of a bitter attack on Harding contnir.d in hi"? letter of resignation. "Harding will not accomplish anything any-thing constructive," he writes. "He says he has no international program and that it is Mly to bo :??eeific. He is a member of the senate, and of its committee on foreign relations, and has thus had before him the treaty and the league for over a year, and he says he does not know what should be done. He never will know what should be done. He never will know he is negative and senliment.al." Parsons explains his resignation' to Samuel Koenig, chairman of the committee, com-mittee, by declaring: "It iti my intention to vote for Cox for president. I am for the league of nations. Cox is for 'going in'; Harding is not for 'going In,' although in the senate he voted for 'going in.' " Mr. Parsons was a member of the Republican national committee and national executive commitee from 1916 to 1920, and a leader of the party In New York state.