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Show i GOVERNOR COX REACHES WASHINGTON J TIE TO STOP E ALL CORRUPTION NOMINEE SAYS iW Democratic Candidate Makes Speech to First Voters in" Spokane . SPOKANE. VTnll Sept 10. Gov- trnor Cox. of hlo Dcmderatli noml-ree noml-ree for the presidency, discussing de-f de-f nla I ot t Linpaign fund charges by y Republican National Chairman Will Hu: and others, declared In a speech, Jfa to First voters at the unlun station MMk here that "It is time, hi order to put iM v" a stop to crrupnon m -end some- r bodv to the penitentiary. Governor Cox declared yesterday ( P that the statement "f former Senal r && Weeks In New Jersey that fifteen 'nSt rr.lllton dollars contributed to the Re- ,K puhllcan campaign fund by the busi- vH neas interests would be a good Invest - 'M ment," is not surprising BROADCAST DENIALS fffil "First," he continued. Will Hays -jH and his .associates made broadcast de- iW n'als. Now that they have t.et n caught with the goods on them, the policy A t. bo bad man manifestll is that ,1 &, which Senator Weeks expresses ' 9! "It will remind the countrv of the ; days of Boss Tweed. When he was caught, he said, 'what are you going! M lo do about it?' The people answerou !y senuing nim 10 in M"cimaij. Present svmptomH .ire pretty stronglYI suggesting the need of the same kind J of remedy now. Certain interests In America look( upon the government of the people as a business affair, pure and simple, and they are determined to control It In the face of obvious violation oj laws, Hays, the head of the 'money digger?.' Is still In charge With scandal scan-dal enveloping the affairs of Republican Republi-can 'headquarters' the presidential . -undine is silent.'1 Pr PERJUKY LAWS In discussing the Republican corruption cor-ruption fund. Governor Cox. speaking of porjurv laws, said that he intended ofc "applying, if 1 can, the medicine that V','-. Is needed now." The governor reiterated that evi-donee evi-donee was accumulating before the wenate committee bearing out his cam-Z1 cam-Z1 palgn fund charged in every detail j'jjfl Quotas for New Jersey. Cleveland O., ( Atlanta and other communities, he. said, were lelng admitted He also ?sSl produced "form 101," proposing sub-J -ij fccnptlons for from $ T. 0 0 upward. In f lefulatlon of denials by Chairman I r-'A ii yt Treasurer Upham and Assistant JQj Treasurer Blair that this form had notj flHlc been ' Irculated. DM FERENt E EXPIiAINl D Referring to Chairman Hays' statc-Hl statc-Hl mmt on a difference between actual mJ and tentative Quotas hi said: LJ The only dlfferei en them I Ml 1, what you want to get and what you actually gel." jfcjjQ The candidate also attacked the Itf&j "senatorial oligarchy " and Senator Harding, declaring his Republican op-McP op-McP ponent was "the commander of the ipfjj reactionary forces of the nation." BS rJ:'" he had been of thos' in Ohio Further attacks upon big business" also were fJ ADDRESSES FIRS VOTERS Governor Cox, of uhio. opened his presidential campal in thin state today to-day Immediately upon his arrival at) Hi.' station here, with an addresn to the Frst Voters' league in which he urged the league of nations and declared de-clared that conscience and Judgment and not partisan prejudice should he. i, ,r- J this years' standard of action at the j polls mgm "The young men who are first voters Sm this year will find themselves In dls-1 ."JS tlnguished company," said the Dcmo-i :-M cratic candidate, 'for there just has H9 been placed on the statute books that ' . ! law which has given to the mother I W the right which they always have been! entitled to. 1 have no doubt concern-ajl concern-ajl Ing what the women of America will g k do in ihc forthcoming election, nor f m have i a single doubt as to what the oung man will do when he frees him-, VjS -elf from prejudice and all consld- f lta eratioht "f parti anship." EIvCOMED BY R4 'W i Arriving from Butte, .Mont., wher.-he wher.-he spoke last night, the governor was welcomed here by a large nwd with a band. After his depot address the governor wan taken to the interstate fairgrounds for an address in which he planned to discuss the league, ngrlcul-j tural questions and conservation I Governor t'ox's vlr.lt to Washington1 opened the second week of his western trip. He has delivered rc speeches In j five states since he started on his trip! through Michigan a week ago. Governor Cox arrived here today In a drizzle of rain that had continued I throughout the nighl and bade fare to hold out until after hts departure' at noon it was the first d.iv of his! present trip that he had encountered sin h a steady downpour |