Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1920 — HOOSIERS RALLY TO COX LEAGUE STAND [ARTICLE]

HOOSIERS RALLY TO COX LEAGUE STAND

Ohio Governor’s Appeal to Voter* t* Drop Pfrty Lines Meets with Favorable Response Throughout State. CALLS IT GREAT CRUSADE Indianapolis, Ind. —The reflex of Governor Cox's speech at South Bend Thursday night, when he formally opened the Democratic campaign in Indiana, shows that he made a deep and favorable Impression not alone on members of his own party, but also on the Independent voters. Reports are coming into the capltol showing that the governor’s plea to place the of nations issue above a partisan basis is meeting a generous response throughout the state, the movement being accentuated by scores of Republicans breaking party ties in order to support the Ohioan in his flght to consummate an honorable peace. • A Religious Movement. Indications are that Governor Cox spoke with prophetic vision when he said the campaign would “take on the fervor of a religious movement," for observations made in various parts of Indiana, as well as reports from other states, show that the American people, regardless of party fealty, are rallying around him for the sake of safeguarding the covenant. His solemn request for the members of both parties to weigh the question in the balance before voting and to then oast their ballots as their conscience dictates has created a profound Impression everywhere. The governor has drawn a careful line of distinction between the rank and file of the Republican party and the senatorial cabal and in his address called on the Republicans to cast off the shackles imposed on them by the senate oligarchy. "When I speak of the Republican party I speak of the leaders,” he said. "They are the same men who wrecked the party in 1912 and they do not seem to have learned their lesson." 'He is making an especial appeal to the progressive elements in America and shows conclusively that he repre sents progress while the old guard “has its eyes to the setting sun."

Worsts Heckler In Crowd. Cox displays absolute mastery on the platform. He Is never at a loss for words and be hurls eplgrematlc phrases at bis audience with startling suddenness. For Instance, while addressing the open air meeting at South Bend he badly worsted a heckler amid the plaudits of the huge crowd. The governor declared for the federal regulation of the packing industry In order to limit the period in which foodstuffs can be kept in cold storage. Some one In the audience asked why President Wilson had not done that. Painting his finger at the man Cox shouted: “Because the party to which you belong has been In control of congress for the past two ysars." He gladly accepted the. challenge presented when the Republicans repudiated the league of nations and took their stand for a separate peace wjth Germany. He described as falsifiers those who deolsre the covenant would take the war making powers from the hands of congress and place It in a super-government across the seas and labelled the Republican efforts to pervert the meaning of the pact as "pure moSHsfiine.” His pledge to bring abput disarmsffiSpt ugde? the* leme wigi “consequent reduction m taxation, afid an illustration of the arbitration features of the covenant evoked prolonged cheelrs from the audience. Praises League te Top. Opinion sounded in the wake of the Cox speech shows that he has raised the covenant issue from the depths of misrepresentation where it was sent by Republican propaganda, to the supreme issue of the hour. pis incontrovertible facts and his willingness to declare from the platform that the pld guard statements “are not predicated on truth’' has had a telling effgct. The South Bend meeting was held in a tabernacle that had been erected for an evangelist. Cox, glancing •bout the structure and hitting fta deal**, said: “I am glad to start my campaign in a tabernacle. This is a great crusade,” and then, turning to the crowd, he said: “I would like to ask Henry Cabot Lodge one question in all reverence: ‘'■What would Christ himself say of the League of Nations? Why, the angel that announced his coming sang, ‘Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men.”