Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1920 — OPINIONS REPRINTED. [ARTICLE]

OPINIONS REPRINTED.

OMAHA (Neb.) BEE:“The Re-1 publican national convention, called ; upon by unprecedented conditions ih American political life to nominate a candidate for President whose personality and private and career would have the strongest appeal to the cool, deliberate, patriotic judgment of the people, found a happy solution in the selection of Senator Harding, of Ohio. His entire career, both in business and politics, has been typically American, and shows striking parel- • lels with those of other famous . Ohio men, particularly Hayes, Gar- : field and McKinley. Perhaps the most significant fact preceding the , culmination of his greatest ambi- • tion is the extraordinary and prac- i tically unanimous vote given him, in the presidential primary by the I people who know him best, the voters of his home town and county.” PORTLAND (ORE.) OREGONIAN: “Senator Harding’s record in the Senate shows him to be a good exponent •of the opinionS of - the • great body of Republicans. He is safe and sane. Mr. Coolidge’s presence on the ticket personifies the great and growing national respect and love for law and order.” SPRINGFIELD (MASS.) UNION: “The nomination of Senator Warren G. Harding, of Ohio, came finally as the logical, if not the inevitable, result of the rivalry for the nomination in the convention, tho he had been counted out of the probabilities at the start.” ____ HARTFORD (CONN.) COURANT: “Other men well qualified to sit in the President's chair were considered, but the choice went to Harding for in him was recognized an able and worthy leader who could command the united support of his party and the adherence of a larger part of that politically unclassified body of voters called for lack of a better term independents. He is a standard bearer of the oarty he represents.” NEW HAVEN (CONN.) JOUR-, NAL-COURIER: “Senator Harding; is admittedly of the highest Person-. al character. He is a self-made । man. With his general background i and with the promise in the fore- i ground that he would be more like-, ly to consult than dictate, there will be many, we suspect, who will welcome this opportunity to es-, cape from the long period of too much personal government. Governor Collidge is an unstanding Amer-, ican. A man of Presidential size has been placed in the running of second place.” TT BOSTON HERALD: “The Herald pledges its unqualified support to the nominees of the Chicago convention, and congratulates the Republican party on the result of the work of its representatives. The ticket carries the promise of victory in November. Behind Harding and Coolidge stands a party—not the disrupted party that made Wilson President.” BALTIMORE AMERICAN: The voters can be sure that Mr. Harding is right in his view of the domestic needs of the nation, right in his views as to the functions of the executive, right in his ideas of the balance, coordination of the respective departments of the government, right in his sense of the nation’s international responsitnlities, right in regard to all things that are now of such 'importance in the vista of the four years in which there shall be a new executive in the White House. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: “Out of what, from surface indications, might have been regarded as a condition of turmoil and uncertainty at the Republican national convention, which closed on Saturday at Chicago, there was formulated and given to the world a clearly connected record of sequences and conclusions, upon the pages of which there is legibly inscribed the result of perhaps as sane and as carefully executed a campaign as has ever been waged m American politics. The inclination Is quite often, in discussing politics and political campaigns, to speak of politics as a game. In a certain sense politics is a game, but as a great campaign is sometimes conducted in the United States, and as it was conducted at Chicago, ana before the convention, the element of chance does not enter into it In any marked degree. Even those persons who took conscious note of surface indications at Chicago during the progress of the convention up to Friday evening, and who believed conditions to be somewhat chaotic, are able to see quite clearly, in the light of Saturday’s events, and in the clearer record as it is observable now, that there probably was not, during the entire proceedings, a moment when, in tiie belief of those who held the reins, there was the slightest doubt as to what the result of the balloting would be Perhaps not half a dozen, even among the leaders, could have said with absolute definiteness, twentyfour hours before the convention adjourned, that Warren G. Harding, of Ohio, would be the nominee for the Presidency, but any one of a score or more of the leaders could have said that a man of the Harding type would be the nominee. ♦ • ♦ So far as outward indications may represent actual conditions, Mr. Harding stands as the nominee of a reunited and harmonious party organization, tie is an American of that staunch school of which every American patriot is proud.” . S

Lloyd Parks and Howard Clark went to Chicago today to see “Babe” Ruth hoist a base ball into qifrneone's backyard. __