Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 176, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1920 — Page 2

HARDING SPEECH OF ACCEPTANCE A NEW KEYNOTE

Republican Nominee at Notification Ceremonies Discusses | Problems Confronting Nation. "HOLD HERITAGE AMERICAN RATIONALITY UNIMPAIRED” Advocate* Party Responsibility as Distinguished From Dictatorial and Autocratic Personal Rule—ln Referring to League of Nation*, Say* We Do Not Mean to Shun a Single Responsibility of Thia Republic to World Civilization—Favor* Protec- * tive Tariff, Merchant Marine, a Small Army, Woman Suffrage and National Budget

Marlon, O. (Special.)—Warren G. Harding was officially notified of his nomination as the Republican candidate for the presidency. His speech of acceptance is, part, as follows: Chairman Lodge, Members of Notification Committee, Members of National Committee, Ladies and Gentlemen: The message which you have formally cenveyed brings to me a realisation of responsibility which is not underestimated. It is a supreme test .to interpret the covenant of a great political party, the activities of which are so woven Into the history of this republic, and a very sacred and solemn undertaking to utter the faith and aspirations of the many millions who adhere to that party. The party platform has charted the way, yet, somehow, we have come to expect that interpretation which voices the faith of nominees who must assum* specific tasks. Let me be understood clearly from the very beginning. I l>elieve in party sponsorship in government. I believe In party government a* distinguished from personal government, individual, dictatorial, autocratic or what not. No man is big enough to run this great republic. There never has been one. Such domination was never intended. Tranquility, stability, dependability—all are assured in party sponsorship, and we mean to renew the assurances which were rended In the cataclysms! war. Our first commltal is the restore tion of representative popular govern ment, under the Constitution, Arough the agency of the Republican party. Our vision includes more than a chief executive. We believe in a cabinet of highest capacity, equal to the responsibilities which our system contemplates, in whose councils the vice president, second official of the re-

public, shall be asked to participate., The same vision includes a cordial understanding and co-ordinated activities with a house of congress, fresh from the people, voicing the convictions which members bring from direct contact with the electorate, and cordial co-operation along with the restored- functions of the senate, fit to be the greatest deliberative body of the world. —r—? — "Qt difficult. Chairman Lodge, to make ourselves clear on the question of international relationship. We Republicans of the senate, conscious of our solemn oaths and mindful of our constitutional obligations, when wo saw the structure of a world supergovernment taking visionary form, Joined in a becoming warning of our devotion to this republic. If the torch of constutionalism had not been dimmed, the delayed peace of the world and the tragedy of disappointment and Europe’s misunderstanding of America easily might have been avoided. The Republicans of the senate halted the barter of independent American eminence and influence, which it was proposed to exchange for an obscure and unequal place In the merged government of the world. Our party means to hold the heritage of American na-. tlonality unimpaired and unsurrendered. The world will not misconstrue. We do not mean to hold aloof. We do not mean to shun a single responsibility of this republic to world civilization. There is no hate in the American heart We have no envy, no susplcion. no aversion fog, any people in the world. We hold to our rights, and Tnta~~ to defend, aye. we mean to sustain the rights of this nation and our rititeMMi alike, everywhere under the Shining sun- set there is the concord of amity and sympathy and fraternity la every resolution. There is a genuine aspiration in every American breast ■ trananll friendship with ail the (toe may readily sense the conscience of our America. I am sure I understand the purpose of the dominant group of the senate. We were not seeking to defeat a world aspiration; wo were reaolved to safeguard Amerjca, We were tesolved then, even as we ar* today, and will be tomorrow, to pusarve this free and Independent republic. • in the call of the conscience of America Is that closes - Rwi Wlllrr wounawiL world war, and silences the impassionedjoicea of to-

Ing this call and knowing.ns Ido the disposition of the congress, 1 ptomiae you formal and efT<sllve peace so quickly as a Republican congress can pass its declaration for a Republican executive to sign.

It Is better to be the free and disinterested agent of international Justice and advancing civilization. with the covenant of conscience, than* be RhnCkTfHTbyawrittencompact which surrenders our freedom of action and gives to a military alliance the right tn proclaim America’s duty to the world. No surrender of rights to a world council or Its military alliance, no assume*! mandatory, however appealing, ever shall summon the sons of this republic to war. Their supreme sacrifice shall only be asked for America and its call of honor. There is a sanctity in that right we will not delegate, -- - ■ Disposed as we are, the way is very simple. Let the failure attending assumption, obstinacy, impracticability and delay be recognized, and let us find the big, practical, unselfish way tn do our part, neither covetous because of ambition aor hesitant through fear, but ready .to .serve ourselves. Jiy manify and God. With a senate advising as the Constitution contemplates I would hopefully approach the nations of Europe and of the earth; proposing that makes us a willing participant In the consecration of nations to a new relationship, to commit the moral forces of the world, America included, to peace and international Justice, still leaving America free, Independent and self-reliant, but , offering friendship to all. the world.

It is folly to" close our eyes to outstanding facts. Humanity Is restive, much of the world is In revolution, the agents of discord; and de-. struction have wrought their tragedy in pathetic Russia, have lighted their torches among other peoples, and hope to see America as a part of the great red conflagration. Ours is the temple of liberty under the law, and it is ours to call the Sons of Opportunity to Ita

defense. America must not only save herself, but ours must be the appealing voice so sober the world. It must be understood that toil alone makes for accomplishment and advancement, and righteous possession is the reward of toil, and its incentive. There is no progress except In the stimulus of competition. The chief trouble today is that the World war wrought the destruction of healthful competition, left our storehouses empty, and there is a minimum production when our need is maximum. Maximums, not minimums. Is the call of America. It Isn’t new-story. because warnever fails to leave depleted storehouses and always impairs the efficiency of fcoductlon. War also establishes Its higher standands for wages, and they abide. I wist? the higher wage to abide, on one explicit condition—that the wage earner will give full return for the wage received. I want, somehow-, to appeal to the sons and daughters of the republic, to every producer, to join hand and brain In production, more production, honest production, patriotic production. because patriotic production is no less a defense of our best civilization than that of armed force. Profiteering is a crime of commission, under-production is a crime of omission- We must work our most ffind best, else the destructive reaction will come. The menacing tendency of the present day is not chargeable wholly to the unsettled and fevered conditions caused bf the war. The manifest weakness in popular government lies in the temptation to appeal to grouped citizenship for political advantage. It would be the blindness of folly to ignore the activities In our own country which are aimed to destroy our economic system and to commit us to the colossal tragedy which has destroyed all freedom and made Rusina impotent This movement is not to be halted in throttled liberties. We must not abridge the freedom of speech, the freedom of press, or the freedom of assembly, because there is no promise in repression. These liberties are as sacred as the freedom of religious belief, as inviolable as the rights of life and the pursuit of happiness. We do hold the right to crush sedition, to stifle a menacing contempt tor law, to stamp out a peril to the safety of the republic or its people when emergency calls, because security and the majesty of the law are the first essentials of liberty. He who threatens destruction of the. government by force or flaunts his contempt for lawful authority, ceases to be a loyal citizen and forfeits his rights to the freedom of the republic.

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No party Is Indifferent to ttjg welfare Of the wage earner. To ue his good fortune is of deepest concern, and we seek to make that good fortune permanent. We do not oppose but approve collective bargaining because that is an outstanding right, but we are unalterably Insistent that Its exercise must not destroy the equally sacred right <Yf the Individual, tn his necessary pursuit of livelihood. Any American has the right to quit his employment, so has every American the right to seek employment. The group must not endanger the Individual, and we must discourage groups preying upon one another and none shall be allowed to forget that the* government’s obligations are alike

to all the people. We are so conlkient that much of the present-day insufficiency and inefficiency of transportation are due to the withering government operation that we emphasize anew our opposition to government ownership, we want to the reparation and make sure the mistake Is not repeated. K A state of Inadequate transportation facilities, mainly chargeable to the failure of governmerital experiment, is losing millions to agriculture. It is hindering industry. It is menacing the American people with a fuel shortage little less than a peril. It emphasizes the present-day problem and suggests that spirit of encouragement and assistance which qommits all America to relieve such an emergency. Gross expansion of currency and credit have depreciated the dollar just as expansion and inflation have discredited the coins of the world. We inflated in haste, we must deflate in deliberation. We debased the dollar In reckless finance, we must restore in honesty. , In all sincerity we promise the prevention of unreasonable profits, we challenge profiteering with all the moral force and the' legal powers of government and people; but It Is fair, aye. It Is timely, to give reminder that law is not the sole corrective of our economic ills. Let us call to all the for thrift and economy, for denial and sacrifice if need be. for a nation-wide drive against ‘extravagance and luxury, to a recommittal to simplicity of living, to tliat prudent and normal plan of life which is the health of the republic. New conditions which attend amazing growth and extraordinary industrial development, call for a new and forward looking program. The American farmer had a hundred and twenty millions, to feed In the home market, and heard the cry of the world for food and answered it, though he aced an appalling task amid handicaps tever encountered before. Contemplating the denfenselessness of the individual farmer f to meet the organized buyers of his products and the distributors of the things the farmer buys, I hold that farmers should not only be permitted but encouraged to join in co-operative association to reap the measure of reWard merited

by thelt arduous toll. Our platform Is an earnest pledge of renewed concern for this most essential and elemental industry, and In both appreciation and Interest we pledge effective expression in law and practice. We will hail that co-opera-tion which again will make profitable and desirable the ownership and operation of comparatively small farms Intensively cultivated and which will facilitate the carltig for the products of farm and orchard without the lamentable waste under present conditions. America wouldlook with anxiety on the discouragement of farming activity either through the government’s neglect or its paralysis by socialistic practices. A Republican administration will be committed to renewed regard for agriculture and seek the participation of farmers In curing the ills justly complained of and alm to place • the American farm where It ought to be—highly ranked In American acltivitles and fully sharing the highest good fortunes of American life. Becomingly associated with this subject are the policies of irrigation and reclamation, so essential to agricultural expansion and the continued development of the great and wonderful West It is our purpose to continue and enlarge federal aid, not tn sectional partiality but for the good of all America. I believe the budget system will effect a necessary helpful reformation and reveal business methods to government business. I believe federal de>artments should be made more businesslike and send back to productive effort thousands of federal employees, who are either duplicating work or not essential at all. I believe in the protective tariff policy and know we will be calling tor Its saving Americanism again. I believe in a great merchant marine—l would have this republic the leading maritime nation of the world. I believe in a navy ample to protect It and able to assure us dependable defense. J I believe in a small army, but the best in the worM, with a mindfulness for preparednes?M»ich will avoid the unutterable cost of our previous neglect I believe in our eminence' in trade abroad which the government should aid in expanding, both in revealing markets and speeding cargoes. I believe in establishing standards tor immigration which are concerned with the future citizenship of the republic. dot with mere man power to industry. t believe that every man who dons

SALIENT POINTS IN SPEECH OF ACCEPTANCE.

"I pledge fidelity to our country ’ and t<yGod and accept the nomi- ’ nation of the Republican party for * the presidency of the United ' States.” “The human element cornea ' first, and I want the employers In ' industry to understand the aspira- ' tions, the convictions, the yearn- ’ nings of millions of American ' wage earners.” ' “The Constitution contemplates ' no class and recognises no group. ' It broadly Includes all the people, ' wjth specific recognition for none.” ' “We approve collective bargain- ' Ing.” “Gross expansion of currency yid credits has depreciated the dollar. 1 We will attempt intelligent and 1 courageous deflation.” “When competition—n atur al, fair, impelling competition—is suppressed, whether by law, compact or conspiracy, we halt the march of progress, silence the voice of aspiration and paralyze the will for achievement.” “I promise you formal and effective peace so quickly gs a Republican congress can pass its declaration for a Republican executive to 'sign.” “I can hear the call of conscience an insistent voice for largely reduced armaments throughout the world.” “Our vision includes more than a chief executive. We believe in a cabinet of highest capacity equal to the responsibilities which our system contemplates, in whose councllsthe vice president, second ofWH of the republic, shall be askeJ to participate.”- ,

the garb of American citizenship and walks in the light of American opportunity, "must become American in heart and soul. I believe In holding fast to every forward step in unshackling child labor and elevating conditions of woman’s employment. I believe the federal government should stamp out lynching and remove that stain from the fair name of America. I believe the federal government should give its effective aid in solving the problem of ample and becoming housing of its citizenship. I believe this government should make its Liberty and Victory bonds worth all that its patriotic citizens paid in purchasing them. i I believe the tax burdens imposed for the war emergency must be revised to the needs of peace, and in the interest of equity in distribution of the burden.

I believe the negro citizens of America should be the enjoyment of all their rights, that they have earned the full measure of citizenship bestowed, that their sacrifices in blood on the battlefields of the republic have entitled them to all of freedom and opportunity, all of sympathy and aid that the American spirit of fairness and justice demands. I believe there is an easy and open path to righteous relationship with Mexico. It has seemed to me that our undeveloped, uncertain and infirm policy has made us a culpable party to the governmental misfortunes in that land. Our relations ought-to be both friendly and sympathetic; we would like to acclaim a stable government- there, and offer a neighborly hand in pointing the way to greater progress. r

I believe, fn law enforcement II elected, I mean to be a constitutional president, and it is Impossible to Ignore the Constitution, unthinkable • to evade the law, when our every committal Is to orderly government. The 4,000,000 defenders on land and sea were worthy of the best tra- > ditlons of a people never warlike in I peace, and never pacific in war. They j commanded our pride, they have our. gratitude, which must have genuine expression. It Is not only a duty, it Is a privilege to see that the sacrifices ifiade shall be requited, and that those still suffering from casualties and disabilities shall be abundantly aided and restored to the highest capabilities of citizenship and its enjoyment. The womanhood of America, always its glory, its inspiration and the potent, uplifting force in its social and spiritual development, la about to be enfranchised. In so far as congress fan go, the fact Is already accomplished. By party edict, by my recorded vote, by personal conviction I am committed to this measure of justice. It is ,n y earnesrhope, my sincere desire that the one needed state vote be quickly recorded in the affirmation at the right of equal suffrage and that the vote of every citizen shall be cast and counted in the approaching election. to the great number of noble l women who have opposed in conviction this tremendous change in the an-, dent relation of the sexes as applied to government, I venture to plead that । they will accept the full responsibility of enlarged citizenship and give to the best in the republic their suffrage and support Ours Is not only a fortunate people, but a very commonsensical people’ with vision high but their feet on the earth, with belief in themselves and faith in God. Whether enemies threaten from without or menaces arise from wi' there Is some Indefinable voire “Save confidence in the America will go <»r

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