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Show I DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FLAYS G. 0. P. f'NORINGGAN BOSS ME,' SAYS GOVERNOR CO) Harding Held to Front Porcr by Senatorial Group, He Declares 4F REPUBLICAN PARTY IS V REACTIONARY. HE AVERS 4A Charges "Few Men Were ILL Banded Together to Buy 'M the Presidency" WHEELING, W, va , Aug. 14 Governor Cox today threw his fore Into the preside ntlal campaign with five apceehes here And In Ohio all BPS flaying what he termed th Kepub- HEfl Mean "reactionary candidate and leaders" and supporting the league of M he premier I W cause. fa itormed the Republican posl- II tlon. attacked the senate "oligarchy" H which he said, was trying to add the H presidency to Itn domination, denounc- V rd proposal for a separate peace with S9 Ofrmnny as "perfidy" and charged BU that a few men were handed together trying to buy the presidency. Million '"iM on millions of dollars h added, are 19 being taken Into the Republican cam- pnlgn fund. Jfl That Senator Harding 1 surrounded by a "senatorial ring" was asserted ly JJ tho governor. He added that he could iM nol be kepi muz-. Id on his front j J . porch by any ring. fl M l MI'S IX M T 13 Motoring from Columbus, the noml- Ifl neo made three addresses en route IB at Zanesvllle. Cambridge and St. IB,- Clalrsvllle. Ohio, addressed the Welt iM" Virginia Democratic convention and a puhllo meeting here tonight on the HH river front. All through "hlo he was E given Informal receptions. Hf The leaguo was foremost In all of kjj his addresses. The Republican lead- rTr- he charged, nr behind a "smoke fcjjj screen of hypocrlcy for one thing rjj pure and simple, administration Kj spoils." He also stressed what he de- KH clared was the flgth between "reac- H tlonary Republicanism" anil 'progres- B slve Democracy" and predicted his election. "J The outstanding question of this ! campaign," he told the state conven- tlon. "Is whether we are or ar' not going to keep faith with the bos who 99 died In France " jrH Declaring that tho league 8 a Qfl pledge to those who dlerl, Governor 'til Cox told Of his Villi with President ly "I wish every Ameri' an could have been with me," he said. "The prest-dent's prest-dent's whole thought Is that he gave gjH a promise to the mothers of the ne Sfl tlon when he asked them for their boys and he wants to live to see that Wjk pledge fulfill' d iJ, 1 I IGUE V PI 1 D 1 The governor dfdared that the I' icuc il-o w . - 1 whn h will make war impossible, or practically Wm so." The Republican le ulcrshlp. h' ald. was acting In partisan "bad H faith' In opposing It fcrj The governor named Senator Lodge yU as head of the "senatorial oligarchy " a When the Massachusetts) senator PB proposed compromising the treat P dfl servations. Governor Cox said, Sena- tors Horah of Idaho and Johnson of California, "served notice they would bring about a rupture of the Rcpubli-can Rcpubli-can party." The Republican plat-form, plat-form, thrr' fore, he us- it. ,, was arn-H arn-H blguous and meaningless." mi Si pah VI I pi ; MJ In cudgeling the proposal for "a Ml separate peace with Germany," Gov- mf ernor t'ox said It came from Benator J 4 1 larding, adding Hi "but ho will never be given an op- HJ portunity to make a separate peace. m There will be none, because 1 will not BJI make one." 1 Governor Cox remained lore tonight U and will motor to Columbus tomorrow jftj "I was not nominated by sena- HJ torlal ring, nor any other kind of a ring." the governor said tonight here. "I decline to be tied to my front porch Hi by a senatorial ring I deny It the H tight to hold me there and when I Hn am elected 1 do not Intend that a Bii M nat'Tlal ring, nor nn' other kind of W- a ring shall own me. 1 believe In the I J ion ,.i 1 1 1 ' ervatlon ol I be K divided authority between the three K j o-ordlnate branches as our fathers ln- HJ tended, each retaining Its lndepend- W ence but not exceeding Its function." Kl LE '. IU N(. k J The Republican senators, he de- 1 clared. with a fling at what he termed . J the "plural government' purpose by P' J Senator Hardin" is "to make SXCCU-I SXCCU-I 1 tlve administration not the affair of F j the responsible president himself but 1 of the ring that surrounds him " 1 Charging th' Republican p.irt with being under reaetlonar control, the go emor s.iKl "olon l Koos'-v elt tlkrlil 1 for its reform was of but temporary j effej : j "Domination by political figures, ; once violently repudiated b the American electorate, is undented." he ) declared. "The men who control the 1 - senate er determined to annex the ', i presidency to their domination, and In ' what they believe to be a certain Ke- pr piiblti 1 tli. h.i' ' don' ihltjgs thy would not have dared think of m doing In the past. Recognizing the ft unrest and the disposition of the peo- W pie to shake themselves free from con- N dltlons that Surrounded them during K the war. lhe have argued that the electorate would turn to the party not J, in powei Tlx' I. .v liomin.iinl ( ' ontlnucd on Page Pero.) 'No Fung Can Boss Me I Says Governor Cox (Continued on Page Two I of their number for president and KicflsS; then ' have attempted to fasten H j upon- the rank and file their creed of BSBBiSi hate and intrigue They discuss plural ssaS government with self-evident candor. smv' At times the upper hranch of congress JHjfsjb' has exceeded its constitutional author- i BS Ity and it is dominated now with an HK arrogance without precedent HmLci PI opi i . ill si l E 1 recognize that tho people aro '' t i restive, that their conveniences have iFW i been Interfered with by war, and that ;pyv emergency taxe have been oppressive iHt'ci but my message to the people is: "Stop J look and lister before you step. Ask bVLbmsv yourselves what reactionary policies I have meant in the past Reflect on SJUG the certain consequences of u sena- gsBc! torlal oligarchy taking over the prcsl- BBBBHS dency and depriving il of tho eharac- iBse teristlci of leadership which tho con- LbbbD at it u ton Intended. B |