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Show COX ANDTHE LEAGUE It may yet he necessary to invoke the League of Nations to restore peace between Covernor C'ox and his campaign cam-paign manager, (ieorge While. Mr. White's interpretative comment on the Democratic candidate's attitude toward the league have now reached the point where Oovernor Cox has felt it necessary to serve blunt warning on the chainnaf? of the Democratic national na-tional committee to talk less ami saw more wood. Iu plain terms. Oovernor Cox has rebuked the national chairman chair-man ami told him to mind his own business. The Cleveland Plain Dealer, one of the leading Democratic organs in Ohio, administered the rebuke in a recent issue is-sue ami it is not the less pointed because be-cause of the camouflage with which it is surrounded. It all came uboiit through Mr. White's statement thai the League of Nations would not be the predominant issue in the campaign. Stung by the wide publicity given the White statement and the resentment it awakened in ihe breasts of the loyal Wilson following, the Plain Dealer was commissioner to administer the public rebuke to White. It is sufficient to say that the stinging call-down of the national chairman would not have appeared ap-peared in a Democratic organ under a Davtou headline, nor have been written' writ-ten' liy W. C. Hovvells, journalist of wide repute, had its publication not been authorized from headquarters. After saying that Mr. White's statements state-ments of Mr. Cox's policy "have aroused considerable comment here," Mr. Howells continues: "Those in closest touch with Gov. James M. Cox, the Democratic nominee, nom-inee, are of the opinion that the reports re-ports concerning Whites' utterances are misrepresenting, and are further of the opinio- that any statements of that tenor a: : .''but oil to the national chairman were not authorized by the governor. ' -1; is the view of these political advisers ad-visers that -i.e issues that will be fought out in the presidential campaign cam-paign have been iu part determined by thiMiartv platform and will, in part, be determined by the candidate in his speech of acceptance. There will be no disposiiion. it is said, to burden the national chairman and campaign man-a.-er with duties other than those pertaining per-taining directly to the direction of Ihe campaign." H is ihe last sentence of this rebuke which contains the sting which may ,ove Chairman White to tliot ghts of resignation of some kind or other. |