U.S. PRESIDENCY.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 October 1920, Page 5

U.S. PRESIDENCY.

DANGER OF ISOLATION. By Telegraph.—Press Assii.—Copyrlfilit. Received Oct. 23, 5.5 p.m. New York, Oct.\22. In a speech at Trenton (New Jersey), Mr. J. M. Cox (Democrat nominee) said that for the United States to isolate herself from the world would mean that one-third ,of the factories would close, and one-third of her farms would be untilled. He added: "We would have to bring down our production to our consumption, and we must sell our surplus to Europe, or business will 3lump."— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

FIERY SPEECHES'. New York, Oct. 22. Mr. William Bourkc Cockran, an exmember of Congress, speaking at Chicago, defied the threat of local Sinn Fein leaders, and said he would come in support of Mr. Cox as a friend of Ireland. He denounced Mr, Harding as a foe.

Senator La Follette made his first campagin speech for four years tit Milwaukee. He lashed the Wilson administration, addressing a great aurlience. He said that never in the darkest period of the world's history had there been such a betrayal of the American people as when President Wilson handed the control of the se_as to Britain. The only hope of the people now lay in a small group of Independent Senators and Congressmen

The Democratic National Committee announces that Cardinal Gibbons has added his name to a list'of 15,509 American clergymen who have taken a firm stand for the League of Nations. Cardinal Ribbons bases his support chiefly upon the Pope's encyclical declaring that all States should unite in one league.