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Show HI WAGES m on it GOX AGREEMENT Republican Nominee Declares Articles by Colonel House Supports Stand MAKH.. it., July 19. Pressing his flpbt against the splendid accord" established yesterdav between President Presi-dent Wilson and Oovernur Cox. Senator Sena-tor Harding declared today that triumph of the Democratic tb-ket this year would mean "a continuation of the foreign policy which has grievously griev-ously disappointed both Europe and America." Apparently foreseeing the league as a paramount campaign Issue as a result re-sult of the White House conference, the Republican candidate adopted an nggressivc program of striking at the Wilson policy wherever it showed Its head. He took for the list of today's attack a statement on the league attributed at-tributed to Colonel House and just published In this country I NDERSTAXD MISTAKE. "We are beginning to understand,"! said Senator lUiding. the mistakenly plighted relationship of the United States to Europe, just in time to pro-, ceed to u referendum intelligently ' This one representative of this couti-l try. other than the president, who best knew the whole situation at Paris, was Colonel House. Ik tells us now In a cabled statement from London that the suggestion of a pre-! hmlnary peace treaty was made very1 sooti after the armistice and that such a treaty eould have been made before I h 1 1:. Unas of 1 1 1 v .. O. P. t ONCEPTION. Ail along tnis has been the Republican Repub-lican conception of what ought to have been uone. but this Is the first otiiuai knowledge thai Europe wished iuch a procedure and Was deterred by us in expediting peace. The authentic revelation is peculiarly Interesting In-teresting at the moment when It is announced that the continuation of a Hemocratlc administration means a continuation of the foreign policy which has so grleveousl disappointed both Europe and America." Colonel House's statement, to which Senator Harding referred, was contained con-tained in a special cable to the Phlla-I ''elphla public laolg.-r f,,,m i.0.l(1,m In it the colonel waa guoted as saylns that a preliminary treaty concerning ' ii.J vy. reparations and delliic , Hon of boundaries 'could huve i.,-, madi bj Christmas of isis and would have been not only the usual, but the ol (OUS t hlng to du." Sl'ltPKISK RESULTS. The alacrity with which the league : ibuuo has come to the fore has caused manifest surprise u Harding's headquarters head-quarters here. Many of the senator's close associates had not expected Governor Gov-ernor Cox to take counsel with the' president at the outset of his cum-I palgn nor to take any aggressive! m isurea to uphold the hands of the! prt ut administration wiih which he I ha? not been closely associated The Harding managers are not un- mlndful that within their own party there is Home division of opinion re-1 yarding tlie league but they believe that on a direct Issue of acceptance of the Wilson policy without the dot-' nnt; ot an "1" or the crossing or a "t" run count on .. united Republican rront They also are confident that such if, Issue will drive ft wedge through the Horndcratlc solidarity and they do I not propose to overlook anv opportunities opportu-nities to arrv the fight into the one-r one-r . s territory. I |