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Show COX HAS STRADDLED ISSUE. NEW DECLARES SHICAGO Aug 7. Senator Harry! IS. New, of Indiana, chairman of the' ltepubllcun campaign speakers com-: mlttee. and member of the senate fore-, fore-, ign relations committee, in a statement state-ment tonight declared that Governor I Cox today had "devoted three column' I to the league of nations, but had I straddled tlu- real league issue.'' "Governor Cox is in the position of holding fast to President Wilson with i one hand and reaching for the public with the other,"! said the statement, "lie leaves unanswered the main issue is-sue of the league Article ten and no one knows how he stands on It ex-oepl ex-oepl by interpreting his statement mdde after the conference with President Presi-dent Wllaon as meaning he favors it. I Governor Cox must come out clearly , In the campaign and ay Whether he favors Article Ten; whether he favors .sending American troops abroad" |