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Show COX LAUNCHES NEW ATTACK ON TUFT POSITION Political Freebooters Can't Scrap Government, Candidate Candi-date Declares VAN WERT, o , i let 14 A new line of attack upon former President ;Taffs position on the league of na- itions was made here today hy Governor Gover-nor Cox in opening a three days' 00431" Ipalgh In his home state Referring to Judge Tail's st iieinent I even In event of Gov ernor Cox's elec tion there would remain enough He-publican He-publican senators to defeat the treaty, the Democratic presidential candidate I here today declared this Indicated plan to dhiregarti the decision In the league referendum. WON'T BE PERMITTED "This can mean only one thing," said Governor Cox. "that when I am elected pti a straightforward platform favoring the league it is the purpose of brazen conspirators in the senate to treat the mandate of the peopie With contempt anel turn their backs on the expressed will of the electorate. This, In the first place, Is utilhlnkable md in the second place will not be permitted for after all a democracy and a will ol lh people is triumphant. aim I MOTHER ROW. "On the other hand." the governor continued. If the candidate of the senatorial oligarchy were to be elected elect-ed because he favors staying out of the league and then his assumption of office were to turn about face and propose entering the league wh it about the popular mandate and the referendum referen-dum then ' What would Borah and Johnson say and what w ould the vot-1 crs of the country think about such repudiation of their will'' The time Is DOW lor us to remind ourselves and i think seriously of the fact that the I government of the united States is a government by the people. Senator, Harding may be willing to scrap the league, but the American people are! not ready to have their government Scrapped by a deceitful band of po-! Iltical freebooters " Governor Cox reiterated that he favored fa-vored 'going Into thc- league of ua- Hons with the Hitchcock reservations; or any othe-r that nre offered in good faith to further clarify or reassure anel I that do not have the purpose of de-, structlon. " |