" Earlier in the year, in
speaking before the Jefferson Club of Marion, Indiana, the
Governor said: "The plot to multiply the woes of mankind, in
order that confusion multiplied might be charged to President
Wilson's insistence on principle and international good faith,
is now passing through the process of public thought, and we
have confidence in an intelligent verdict. The winning of the
war, in less time than the formalizing of peace carries a
contrast that needs no comment."
During the period for the selection of delegates to the
Democratic Convention at San Francisco, Governor Cox gave a
signed interview to the New York Times, in which he reviewed the
controversy concerning the League of Nations and outlined two
reservations which he believed would satisfy every reasonable
objection. In part, he said:
"If public opinion in the country is the same as it is in Ohio,
then there can be no doubt but that the people want a League of
Nations because it seems to offer the surest guarantee against
war. I am convinced that the San Francisco Convention will
endorse in its vital principles the League adopted at
Versailles.
"There can be no doubt but that some senators have been
conscientious in their desire to clarify the provisions of the
treaty. Two things apparently have disturbed them. First, they
wanted to make sure that the League was not to be an alliance,
and that its basic purpose was peace and not controversy.
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