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Show I L & S , O $ C COX REPLIES TO HARDING'S CHARGES f' FRONT PORCH IS 1 LISTENING POST, i CANDIDATE SAYS Democratic Nominee Hurls Assault As-sault on Harding. Smoot, Penrose and Lodge. COX INDICATES HE WONT REPLY DAILY W Says Republican Campaign f May Develop Into Morning Session of Senate. COLUMBUS, O.. Juty 14. Charging that Senator Harding the Republican presidential nominee had made his 'front porch a listening post," Governor Gover-nor Cox, the Democratic nominee, today to-day issued a statement replying" to Si nitor Harding's statement at yesterday yester-day that the Wilson administration! had saddled the league of nations upon up-on him as the chief campaign Issue I Governor Cox's statement said his! campaign will he dedicated to the j t::-k of bringing pence with honor on readjusting the affairs of civ illzalion . and of creating a new day out of which we will make the best of the j lessons of the past. nil l FRF.Nt l OF OPINION The governor declared the things Senator J larding believes vital andi pertinent "form Irs Isolated pej-spce-' the will not. In ail probability; be sol regarded by me." 'i h' governor's statement given to. th" newspaper correspondents at Hie morning conference follows: r "1 recognize the eagerness of the i gentleman of the press who aro as-j signed here to develop news copy dally. I have no disposition to discourage dis-courage that enterprise, lut at the j very outset It is well that we have thtv understanding of a very fun damentaj I phase of the present situation. "Senator Harding has made two definite unnounct lhi -nt's: that he pro-; jioses to hai k bcik to the days of thirty years ago, SXXd that he will make of his front porch a listening post. This means Uiat he will be as far removed from the Tunning. cur- rent of progressive thought as the' senatorial oligarchy of Lodge and P i-rosc i-rosc and Smoot has been removed j from the heart beats cf the American, people for a year or more. PEACE WITH EIOXOR "My campaign will be dedicated to,': the task of bringing peace with honor, of readjusting the al fairs of civilian 1 Hon and of creating a new day out j I of which we will nwK. the best of the j lessons of the past. Therefore, things that the senator believes vital and per- I ytV tlnent from his isolated perpectlve will M HBI not, in all probability be so regarded I by me. His last statement Is but a R&HH reiteration of what has een said In M Vssssa the senate time after time so that 1 1 tlf this campaign on the one hand develops de-velops into mere morning sessions of the senate, you will very readll pef-oalve pef-oalve tho uselessness of dally re- spouse." M Senator Harding Issues m Nation League Statement. jjM MARION, 1 'hio, July 3enatoi Hfl Harding charged In a statement to- BBbjbs i.lght that President Wilson bad forced the Democratic presidential and vice flH presidential nominees to accept his' H vie.W that the league of nations should, H become the dominant campaign Issue. I H The president's one concern, the sen-' m ator eaid, Is the "vindication of his HBM foreign policy" and he Insists upon, QflBH "his issue regardless of costs or con-. BIH sequences." SjlSjH "The Republican party nnd candi-j 3H dates gladly accept tho challenge," the statement said 'We are more than iegTSji willing to make the election a national' SnB referendum on the question whether we shall have luur years n.ore of the Democratic- reudinu to surrender till fflfl republic." EjMgfl The statement resulted from the au- Iwl nounceinent of Franklin D Roosevelt, fflfla the vice presidential candidate, tollow- ftiMW ing his conference yesterday with Oov- InHl ernor Cox that his campaign would ft -MM be made chieflv on the league issue. SlK7 HARDING STATEMENT. BHl The statement follows- 31 'Columbus dispatches describing the EgcM conference between the democratic! nominees for president and vice presl-1 presl-1 dent on Monday, say that 'Governor BW1 Cox left 11 the the vice presidential Wp& I nominee to make known the conciu- H3 J slons reached.' And. thus authorized IX lo speak for both of them, the vice j presidential nominee stated 'that he considered the league of nations one tSi of the dominant Issues of the cam paign, not only In the cast but in the 39a west. He expected to make his cam- palgn chiefly on the league of nations issue.' "So we hav the complete proof thai H President Wilson has won, and forced H1 acceptance of Ills paramount Issues, The party machinery has been taken over by the Tammanies Of New York, New Jersey and Indiana, but 1 'resilient 'resi-lient Wilson has forced his Issue on them He has but one concern, and that is the vindication of his foreign policy, first by his party, later by the country. HARNESS THE PARTY. "The Democratic campaign is going t'. harness the party absolutely to tho administration policy of ratification H without protection to American lnter- Wr ( ut should the Democrats win, the league would be ratified and Amorlca ;B?5j would become at once a party to the !Htjf twenty-Odd wars now going on In tho Irj world. European leaders have repeat- (Continued on Pugc Two.) Front Porch Is Listening Post, Candidate Says (Continued From Page One ledly explained that Ii la impossible I loi the league of nations to function j effectively so long as the t'nlted States has not ratified. The onlous Implication Is that when the L'nlted I States ratifies the- league will proceed tc settle up these matters, to enforce lis authority in the conflict between I boliind and Itussia; to settle the Adrl-atu Adrl-atu troubles), compel peace between Turkey and Greece, assume reapohsl Iblllty for pacification of the whole I near e.-it and middle rni MCM WMPLOY I oil' i i "All titis cannot be done unless the laagUC eiVipldyS force. America would I have to contribute Its army and navy. i resident Wilson has urged acceptance ioi a inundate lor Armenia, which thv Harbord mission found would retpilre I us to employ a gre.it armv aiul pour i out money hy hundreds of millions. Congress o erwhelminglj refused, und the country has sustained it so insistently insist-ently that even the San Francisco convention con-vention did not dare endorse the man-datp man-datp Vet that mandate would hardly be more than an Intimation of the I many world -flung conflicts into which Ajuerlca would be projected by rattfl-, rattfl-, atlon of the league without rigidly mfeguarding reservations. 'i Ii" priji.dent demands a camjiaign ,on tins issue, the Democratic platform i mikes the issue paramount; and final-j final-j . the Demochitlc candidates unqualifiedly unquali-fiedly acguleace. The scoie und mora if EWmoCratiC aenaioi-s who voted for le bodge reservations m repudiated, . icivl opinion of the American nu-on nu-on is flout d. because the president s,sts upon ln.s lssiii- ie;a,dleMs of o.sijt or consequences. The Republican Republi-can party am', candidate gladly accept me challenge w are more than Willing to make the election a national erendum on the question whether shall have four years more of ien,-..latie ien,-..latie readiness to surrender Ihi8 re- Jbltc." |