Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1920 — COX MUST RENIG. [ARTICLE]

COX MUST RENIG.

It is a serious thing to find Gov. Cox in his speech of acceptance repeating a significant misstatement of facts which was first used in the Democratic national platform and afterwards exposed. The governor might have been misimformed it there had been no previous misuse of the facts, but inasmuch as there has been a refutation, Mr. Coxs position is made the less innocent. The Democratic national platform said that Senator Lodge, senate leader for Republican reseryations to the covenant, had written in an article printed in the December issue of the Forum, 1918, the following: , “We cannot make peace except in company with our allies. It would brand us with everlasting dishonor and bring ruin to us if weundertake to make a separate peace. The Democratic platform used tins quotation, giving December, , as the date of the article, to substantiate a charge that the Republicans were animated by unpatnottic and dishonorable partisanship in opposing the covenant as it stood, and later in undertaking to peace with Germany without adopt-

ing the covenant. If the leader of the Republicans had said that we were dishonorable unless we made peace, in company with our allies, which is by accept-] ing the covenant, he and the Republicans knew they, were dishonorable. It was a serious charge to make, and the Democrats evidently thought it was an effective one. Gov. Cox repeats it: No less authority than Senator Lodge said, before the heat of controversy, that to make peace except in with our allies would brand us with everlasting dishonor and bring rum to US? ” _ X w • waa not

Senator Lodge’s article was not printed in the December number of the Forum, 1918. H. was pnnted in the June number* 1918. It pro ably was written two or three months prior to that, but J? printed in June and not in Decern In Junb we were at war. had made* a separate peace which might have ruined the allied cause. In June the last German ■ was beine made, and the question was whetfer the United States could ’get in with force sufficient to save the situation and P r ® v ® nt Then Lodge said J®. separate peace would brand with everlasting dishonor. s « wan • Democrats in their platform statement changed the date of this

utterance. They gave it as December, after the armistice had been i signed and after the victory had been won. The persons on t»e resolutions committee might say that they made a mistake. You could believe that or not. The quotation was useless unless the date was changed. Lodge did not say, as the Democrats imply, that it would dishonor us to make separate peace when we were toe only nation remaining at war wim trickery of this deception was quickly exposed. ous enough to have a political party distort facts and change a date in such fashion, but it is more senous when a candidate for president, after the truth has been repeats the statement with all «s innuendos and implications. If Mr. Cox has been imposed up; on the quicker he relieves himself of responsibility the better it will be for his reputation. Such ani act is not consistent with the qualities of character which any man seeding the office of president, .Uh candidate of a major party, ought to have. should d' *it and with it al? th? Mgun^l^ha 1 based upon it. His case will be weaker than it is, but that is better than to have his dignity lowered