The Beatrice Daily Express

COX CANDIDATE FOR HARDING'S REWARD
Democratic Nominee Presents Thirteen Changes for "Inconsistency Prize"
Baltimore, Md., Oct. 22.--Governor Cox on his arrival here stated he would claim the reward which Senator Harding offers to any man who can show any "inconsistency or change of position in his campaign speeches."
"I can show that within the last eighteen months Senator Harding has assumed thirteen positions on the league of nations issue," Cox said. "That ought to win the reward."
Cox Confidence Grows
Enroute with Governor Cox, Wilmington, Del., Oct. 22.--Governor James M. Cox, as he began his stump campaign in Delaware and Maryland today, declared political events have taken such a decided turn within the last two weeks that "there are incipient manifestations of a land-slide for my candidacy."
"If I am any judge of crowd psychology," he said, "the undercurrent of independent thought is growing so rapidly for rejection of the league of nations covenant that it is engulfing party walls."
Cox's optimism was due in some measure to the receptions he received during the last two days in New England, generally considered a republican stronghold.
Only two set speeches were on the governor's schedule today, one here and one in Baltimore.
Waits Root Retraction
Cox was expecting a reply from Elihu Root in response to a telegraphed demand that the former secretary of state retract a recent statement that "Mr. Cox declared he will insist upon the treaty just as Mr. Wilson negotiated it."
Such a statement, Cox said, "either shows Root has not read the newspapers since the campaign started or that he attempted to deceive the public.
"I have invariably stated in my addresses and I restate here my whole-hearted desire to make the United States a member of the league of nations and to secure that consummation of the purpose of America when she entered the war." Cox wired Root.
"I will accept reservations that will clarify, that will be helpful, that will reassure the American people."