Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1920 — PACT BACKERS SWITCH TO COX [ARTICLE]

PACT BACKERS SWITCH TO COX

Statement by More Than 100 "Representative" Voters Urges “Patriotism Above Party." New York, Oct. 18.—A joint statement by “over 100 representative men and women who have usually supported the Republican or Progressive tickets” announcing their intention to vote for Cox and Roosevelt and those senatorial candidates “who stand honestly and frankly for ratification of the treaty and adherence to the league” was made public here tonight by Hamilton Holt, magazine editor. This statement sets forth that “it is now too late to talk of a new 'association of nations,’ to be created under Republican auspices" and, repudiating the present Republican leadership that “has permitted the Republican party to become a ‘Little America’ party” urged all Republicans and Progressives “to put patriotism above party” and add their names to the list of signers. This list, according to Mr. Holt, is increasing daily. An analysis given out with the statement said that It included 15 Republican officers of . the League to Enforce Peace, clergymen representing all the principal denominations, the presidents of Oberlin, Vassar, Smith, Bryn Mawr and Mt. Holyoke colleges, several veterans of the great war and nine ex-Republican or Progressive party managers and officeholders. In the last classification were listed Charles P. Howland of New York, Violet M. Leroy of New York, Theodore Marburg of Baltimore, W. H. Nichols of Bennington, Vt.; Herbert Parsons of New York, Elias D. Salsbury of Indianapolis, Edwin E. Slosson of New York, Richard Welling of New York and Alice White of Wellesley, Mass.