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Show BRYAN BLAMES MM COX1 Series of Blunders on Nation League Issue Held Responsible Re-sponsible LINCOLN. Neb., Nov. I" " mptlt w,-d..es.i:.y. V ' " what he termed the blame for u mo- r.air dcreal abottl squall) between 1'rcsident Wilson and Governor ox., nV0 pn-aWlvnt. he .aid. "laid the foun; , dSSone for the disaster and the governor gov-ernor compli ted structure. RIGB i ro DE4 l 11U W xl' The stu.lcme.nt says in part: The American people ward h Kovornmcnt to play It pari lij the abolition or war, but th y are MB-Mcent MB-Mcent as to Whether we nic part or a leteae or part of an association of na- ' everything in a entimcnl The real i Idsne presented by thi I mocratlc par- wea whethi r wc should P rati with oih i m tlona Inter --' d in poocc out whether we should h isume a mor- ) Hi obligation which h-ul no weight except as it suspended the right of congress to act independents when J :h-' time arrl -i ioi notion The na- Itlon xill h Its l'rt in .ildnig in pre vent war, but It will not sum ndcr fill o the keeping of any foreign group the right o determine when we snail declare Will-, Governor Cox, iiiMe.ni of repairing the Injury done by the president, aggravated ag-gravated the situation by the manner in which he avoided domeelic Issues fend misrepresented the position of the i Kcpubllcari party on the league Is- sue. whhh h declared to be para-mount para-mount Continuing, -Mr. Bryan aald: PK12SIU1 M 111 i It 11 " "The president attempted to dine out of public life even Democrat w ho dared to differ from him In minute details, while he made no effort to strengthen the Democrat who made Mm 'he keeper of theii conscience, iti aHehated all I epublli in support juid invited partisan op Altlpn by his I appeal. .Inst iefor" the election of 1918 ' for a congress thut would Btippoi't his j persona leadership, and then, though ' i rto wing full well thai the majority j in the nation was against him lie re fused to den) with th. r;it- is .1 o-j o-j ordinate branch of the government. Instead or reeojfn.. ii Hw ire ' 'institutional 'in-stitutional provision requiring a two-f two-f thirds majority for ratification compelled com-pelled compromise i. i.i;s:i iiron dictating tlie ten. is 1 1 1 -; which ratlfl-. ratlfl-. ntlon coiil. be h;nl. .tod then, on the I Oth of March stubioi o!. r t -. I 1.1 1 -Lfication with reservations oven when IfRiiator jtaroinif ana -om- hh'm Kepuhllrans wcr,- wHCng to acr-pi the! league as ho wrote it with the fe ! hunges upon which thi 1 listed Bj thus preventing ratification, the pres-j hfent assumed responsibility for the, nation's failure to enter the 1 1 hi iii-l thrust the league info the cam-1 paign as a partisan Issue TERMS c K. nn 1 1 01 v "Oovernor Cok instead of repair-1 nig the injury dorm by the presldt nt, aggravated the situation by the manner man-ner n which he avoided domestic Is-neS Is-neS and misrepresented the position oX the Republican party on the league . iSeuc, which hr de. It -iI to lie paramount. para-mount. M attempteil to Mi' th-- Dem-caratlc Dem-caratlc purty In :'. si le of being he sole guardian of p ace was ridiculous ri-diculous and his 4 1: -to ill upon uch well-known advocates of peace as 1 president Taft anil Herbert Hoover w-r- disgraceful, j '"Now that our participation will 1 not upon the arbitrary ..pinion of a I rfist upon the will of 1 ongress and j single man. we m.-y expect that unt-i unt-i anal disarmament will in mnde one j of the condition- upon which we at- tempt to advise " I I 00 . |