CHANCE OF FRONT

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10718, 12 October 1920, Page 5

CHANCE OF FRONT

GOVERNOR COX'S CHARGE U.Sr" REPUBLICANS AND THfo LEAGUE. "POLITICAL CONSPIRACYrBy Telegraph-Press Assn.— Copyright Australian and N.2i. Cable Association. (Received October 11, 1-20 p.m.) NEW YORK, October 11. -At Springfield (Massachusetts) Governor tox (Democratic candidate for the Presidency) issued a statement pointing out that President Wilson asked lor and received advice from important members of the Republican party concerning the form and content' of the League of Nations Covenant while the President carried pn negotiations in Paris. Mr Taft was one of the men whose views were asked and literally followed. Mr Tumulty (the President's secretary) cabled Mr Taft's views to President Wilson. Mr Taft, after the first draft of the Covenant was published, suggested four amendments, and they were adopted Mr Taft even suggested the line of argument President Wilson should pursue in America in advocating; the adoption of the League. Senator Hughes offered seven amendments and five were adopted. Senator Root offered six amendments and five were adopted. Mr Taft's amendments included a provision concerning the Monroe Doctrine and that domestic questions such as Oriental immigration should be taken out of the hands of the League. Governor Cox made a charge that the sudden change in the position of these Republicans, who now advocated Senator Harding's election, despite the fact that they knew he desired to destroy the League, was due exclusively 4o a political conspiracy. . He added that Senator Lodge, s opposition to the League, which developed immediately after the first draft of the Covenant was published, was simply for partisan purposes, and concluded: "There is no question that real opposition to the League, which has simmered down to an attack on Article Ten, is inspired by the opposition to the proud record of Democratic, demonstration."

TRIAL VOTE GIVES FARDING BIG- MAJORX .. NEW YOR.K, October 10. A "straw -vote" taken throughout the United States, covering 613,893 men and women, snows 371,461 votes for Harding and 242,432 for Cox. OIL SUPPLY SOURCES. BRITISH COMPETITION A "REAL DANGER." NEW YORK, October 10. Senator Harding, in a speech at Ofc*. lahoma City, pointed nut *.Kat 'while President Wilson's Administration had sought to impose its altruism upon the world. Britain had acquired the control of 90 per cent, of the world's oil supply. "Thnre is a real danger/' he Raid, "that Americans may presently find themselves shut off from equal opportunities."