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Show Mm APPLAUD REPUBLICAN LEAGUE STAND J CROWDS CHEER .LEAGUE AS COX ENDS HIS TRIP , Democratic Nominee Cheerful Over Results of Strenuous Campaigning CANDIDATE ALLUDES TO IRISH QUESTION Declares Covenant Is Medium For Moral Betterment of World KANSAS CITY. Mo , Oct. 2 Governor Gov-ernor Cox of Ohio closed his month's western campaign trip hero tonight I with a mass meeting at Convention ' hall at which crowds from Missouri i and Kansas heard and cheered the league of nations and other battle t, 1 11. lards of the Democratic preslden-I preslden-I tlal candidate. I With special reference tonleht to (he Irish question, in all ten speeches I of today's finale of his "swing" 1 through the west, which began on ! September 2 and has traversed states I west of the Mississippi river except I three, the league was preached by the 1 povernor. ho reiterated arguments It was a pledge" to Americans in the ,wvr. 8 bond of honor with (he alTh s and a medium for moral and material I betterment for America and the world. NEARLY 2n gFEEX HI 8 His speech tonight made a total of 1190 during his western trip, exclusive I of many minor greetings in the twenty-two states visited and a total of 220 1 speeches since his notification last A11- ; gust Leaving here tonight on arriving arriv-ing home at Dayton, O., tomorrow ' evening, to rest and prepare for on-other on-other trip Into Kentucky and Tennessee, Tennes-see, late next week, the candidate will have travelled ubout 11.300 miles on his western tour, or an average of 364 miles dally since starting out one month ago tonight. .M sT LIKE I ' VS I l N(. Great satisfaction with the results of his western trip and confidence of the result of the elections a month 1 hence was expressed by the governor. I He said lhat from now on the fight i would be like "coasting. " lie said he was extremely tired, but with a I few days' rest next week, expressed assurance of a strong finish fight A rousing reception here was given the gov.-rnor. Arriving about & o'clock he was met by a band and escort drawn from the Leglbn of Honor and women's clubs. Motoring to a park on the Kansas side of the river he addressed a workingman s meeting, dis- I cussing labor questions, and before his auditorium address tonight was the dinner yuest of the women's clubs. Earlier in the day he made addresses at Mlatnl, kla ; Pittsburg. Kan , and ; Mulberry. Kan . and at Joplln, Itlch- ards and Hume, Mo. , IRISH RAP LE (.t l Criticism of the league In this community com-munity by Irish sympathizers resulted in an extended statement by the K" -ernoi thai he proposed to brlnj; the Irish question to the attention of the league, if elected president. The league, he reiterated, would give tin-Irish tin-Irish people a forum, now lacking, for I bringing their cause to "the bar of public opinion of the world " fnArr- -...II,.!.. in II.. - 1 vj ., 1 iiUC i,iu Kovcrnor de clared, Ireland "has the right to sep-' sep-' .irate from Great Britain and estab-i estab-i lish Its own government j and to that end may wage such inter- nal aggression as It seems necessary I to accomplish the result. This Is a matter wholly without the purview of the league." Chaise of a "political conspiracy" by "the senatorial oligarchy" to de-; de-; celve the people regarding the league were repeated by Governor Cox. He j also continued attacks on Senator Har-I Har-I ding as a "reactionary" and also Senator Sen-ator Lodge of Massachusetts It VPS BIG m mm ISS . Progressive government also was I championed further by thr governor I and he again urged settlement of ln-, ln-, dustrlal controversies by public opinion. opin-ion. "Ulg business Is fighting me," he j said. "becaUse I favor the Golden Rule and not the bayonet to settle industrial indus-trial controversies.' The national program for ex-service. I men's compensation advocated by the American legion was approved by th. ! nominee In several speeches today-Governor today-Governor Cox Is due at Dayton at o'clock tomorrow night. According . to present plans he will leave Wednesday Wednes-day night on another trip, Including Blixabethtown and Paducah, Ky and ! Nashv ille, Tenn , preceding itineraries in Indiana and Illinois MUh Qf ltir east also will be covered bv the candidate candi-date befor election day. 00 |