PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3531, 20 July 1920, Page 5

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

MR. COX SUPPORTS LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

WASHINGTON, July 18.

Messrs Cox and Roosevelt had a conference with the President for an hour this afternoon, at which they discussed plans of campaign.. President Wilson, in a formal statement, declared: The interview was most satisfactory and gratifying. I found Mr. Cox and myself absolutely in accord regarding the great issue of the League of Nations, and that He is ready to be the champion in every respect of the honour of the nation and to secure the peace of the world. Mr Cox will have the vigorous support of an absolutely united party, and I am confident of an also united nation.

Mr Cox said: Tf fleeted, I will endeavour with all my strength to give what President Wilson promised those who made sacrifice in the great war. Mr Roosevelt said: I wish every American could witness the meeting of these two great men. Their splendid accord and high purpose are an inspiration.

HARDING QUESTIONS COX. NEW YORK, July 19. Interviewed at Morion, Ohio, Mr. Harding (Republican candidate for the Presidency) challenged Mr Cox to say if be favoured complete a.eceptance of the- League of Nations (programme. Mr Oox -would establish, accord with the. President fcy yielding to the hatflfif's (ivivrbov s.nd PrwndPTit. troefd be-the real party. Mr Harding

asks Mr Cox; If he insists upon an unchanged treaty and Article Ten, and what obligation President Wilson has committed the United States to fulfil. The people insist on knowing whether it means taking the Armenian mandate and determination to carry out his Adriatic settlement.