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Show GOVERNOR GDI ATTACKS OUPONT : IN HOT SPEECH jCandidate Replies to Repub- i j lican Use of Editorial on Traveling Salesmen :GIVES HIS VIEWS ON JAPANESE QUESTION1 Informs Service Men He; Wants No Votes From Former For-mer Enemies of U. S. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct 16 -l se by his opposition of an eultoria' In newspapers m years ago criticizing traveling salesmen was denounced by Governor Cox in his address here to-1 night, closing his present home state) j campaign. I The Traveling Men's Bureau of the j Republican national committee un- der the leadership of Solemaii DuPont Republican national committeeman for 'Delaware. Governor Cox chaigeii. is spreading ' false propaganda." th it the governor had attacked American 'raveling 'rav-eling men. Reiterating that the editorial was written by a paid editorial writer while the governor was absent, Governor Cox reiterated how he had compelled an Immediate editorial apbiOg) from the writer. Coleman DuPont. Governor Cox said, is not a traveling man, "but the Krupp of America. ' Citing his own position for the league of nation and that Of s i ator Harding. Ins Republican opponent. oppo-nent. Governor Cox said that the DuPont Du-Pont family had "grown financially ral and Insolent on the profits of war." and that he was not surprise! that Mr. DuPont wa? opposing his election DU PONT ASSAILED. "I am not so much concerned about the deceitful propaganda," said (iov-ernor (iov-ernor Cox, 'as 1 am to have the peo-nle peo-nle imelerstand iust what is irolmr on . I hold in my hand the letter and circular cir-cular issueel by Coleman DuPont .j,s chairman of the Traveling Men's Bureau Bu-reau of the Republican National committee com-mittee J think every one know.- that Teb man DuPont Is not a traveling man ad that he has no great public interest ! at stake in this campaign I can un-I un-I dorstahd how he would undertake to (organize groups and stir up prejudices i to encompass my defeat becausi Cob -man DuPont as the Krupp of America, la member of the great munition f.-mi-j ly knows what It mean? should T be elected and secure- the ratification of I the treaty of peace and the league of i nations. hen men blecel and die on the battlefields, the munition makers receive dividends, and the league i"'1" i nations definitely provides against this J sort eif profiteering In the future. Not I only Is the league of nations designed j to make peace permanent, but P. pro-videS pro-videS for taking away the agencies of .war for a general disarmament and as Ihc first step toward dlsarmameil1 and war prevention, it declares against the manufacture of munitions in any event by private concerns becauri such concerns con-cerns Inspire ad Invite war. No WOh-eler WOh-eler Coleman DuPont Is Interesting himself In behalf of the reactionary candidate whose mejtto is 'scrab the I league of nations'". ITT !KS Ills (FOES Governor Cox recited inform u on regarding his policies prohibition, Irish question and German and other quea- , , Hons, which, the candidate declared;-had declared;-had been spread by his iocs. "As an instance of this, ' he continued. contin-ued. "I have today learned of the j activities of a so-called traveling men's j bureau of the Republican national I committee under the leadership of Coleman DuPont. to Inject partlean- ship intei the council of traveling sah-s-I men of America by the false attempt (o show thai an attack was made by me upon the traveling men as an I institution through the medium of ny ' newspapers The fact of the matter is this: ! While I was officially occupied in the governor s office, the editor of my papers did write an editorial unfortunately unfortun-ately phrased and disparaging to the traveling man's plac and worth. Mill 11 iiiiiii llj ill j .iii.-mn.Mi in,- next day, 1 demanded and secured not only retraction of the statement, but a public apology from the editor. So regretful was he of the incident he resigned his position and went to another place. All of ihis took place: In 1914, more than six years ago. PROP UGANDA RESENTED "The traveling men of Ohio who have brought this matter to my attention atten-tion so resent the propaganda that they haev sought a meeting with me here and hundreds of them are In this audience tonight to express their condemnation of the deceitful -tactic which would befoul their organization and their calling." Ceivernor Cox reiterated that the Republicans Re-publicans had sought to conduct a campaign of "confusion and decep-tlon,' decep-tlon,' by Injection of what he- termed OS extraneous" Issues. It was evident that when we discovered dis-covered their creation of a huge cor-i ruption fund." said the candidate, that ordinary lines i.f campaign were' to be discarded, for every one fully 1 recognized that It would be Impossible' to spend a fund of 116000,000 in legitimate le-gitimate ways. But as the days have passed we have found why the reactionary reac-tionary forces felt the need of so much money. It Is not an eas mat-teyr mat-teyr to dlvido the friends of a great principle, and yet, in order to win a presidential election, I hat is the v ery thing they shoughl to do. Under the direction of the would-be Napoleon of politics, whose only knowledge of procedure pro-cedure is to array class against class bv the expenditure of money, the members mem-bers of the senatorial oligarchy ree-Ognlzihg ree-Ognlzihg that the people of America w re for peace through the league of nations, and that they were progressive, progres-sive, sought to divide the forces by the Injection of issues that not only were extraneous, but utterly without place in a presidential campaign." The traveling salesmen's propaganda," propagan-da," was cited ,by th governor as an example of the opposition tactics and i,.. declared thai 'there has not been ,i sintrb- group, racial, social or common com-mon lal to whli h appeal Jias not been made bj deceitful propaganda to distract dis-tract thought avvav from the- le.igui ol nations and from m advoi icy ol progressive pro-gressive principles as against reaction.' W.sWEIts QUESTIONS, ELYRIA. Ohio, Oct. 10. Among questions asked Governor Cox at Fremont. Fre-mont. oMo. where a large early liiorn- t Continued on Pae Two.) I Governor Cox Attracks Dupont in Hot Speech (Continued Krnm One.) ms: cio'd with a. brass band hi - n d him. w is hie views on the Japanese Immigration Im-migration question Replying thai It was u.n "Internal" question and thai one of the Hitchcock reservations would Lake 'domestic question from i ho league of nulion jurisdiction Gov-j . rnor Cox added: I might say furthermore, that thlsj ib :t white man'a country and the yellow yel-low man can'l run it. If the yellow men want to come here they niUNt OSl i nbe to the conditions that we impose". Governor Cox today hailed as "another "an-other somersault' th.- league of nu-j lions' speech of Senator Harding, hl8( Republican opponent, yesterday at Jn-I 'ltanapolls M YNY FLOPS ALLEGED. -The senatorial candidate has made twelve definite, distinct flops on thej league ainoe laSI August, In three months-, he said. "How many.'' Governor Cox contln- i ued. "could he be expected to take I between November 3 and March 4 . j The senators Indianapolis speech' means that Harding and his advisers, have been caught in no man's land and tfiey see they can't get back by November Novem-ber 2 Thb ought to be a lesson to politics parties for years to como It. bys to be square with the people This thing of trying to wiggle into the presi- slcncy will not do." In another reference to Senator Har-fling's Har-fling's Indianapolis speech the governor gover-nor said: LEAVES HIS DUGOUT. Senator Harding left his dugout i last night, held out to heaven hla hand ami yelled. Kflmcrud, Icame-I Icame-I rud.' 1 surrender to the hosts of peace. But America has heard that kamerad' stuff before and American soldiers grew to know that those who sang it could not be trusted and the American people will not trust any candidate with the presidency this year who has done all he could to destroy the cause, of peace 1 and holds his hands) to high heaven and admits that be; was wrong and asks you to give tho i flag of peace to one who has done alii he could by associating with its ene-l rules to destroy 1L" iteferritig to the German question, the governor said that ''no man who was an enemy to America during thC vr" was going to vote for him. "Every mother's son of the enemies to America during tho war will vote for Senator Harding and you service men bear that in mind.'' the governor declared. |