Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 176, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1920 — GREAT THRONG. GREETS HARDING [ARTICLE]

GREAT THRONG. GREETS HARDING

“PEACE BY RESOLUTION” AND AN “ASSOCIATION OF NA* TIONS” SUBSTITUTE. Marion 0., July 22.—‘Peace by • resolution of Congress Whd after that an effort to form an association of nations, that would not impair American sovereignty were promised today, by Warren G. Harding in his speech accepting the Republican nomination for the presidency. . - He declared the time had come to recognize “the failure attending assumption, obstinacy, impracticability and delay” in President Wilson’s attempt to form a League of Nations, and that a new pathway must be found to peace and world concert. - . In receiving formally his party’s mandate the nominee also outlined a stand for government by party rather than by individuals, declared railway employes might be accorded a status of public servants, indorsed co-operative marketing for farmers, and pronounced increased production the key to a lower cost of living. Crowds Full of Jollity. The address, constituting the candidate’s personal platform in the campaign was delivered here at the climax of a day of celebration when brought to Marion a notable company of party chiefs and a crowd of many, thousands. Their plaudits and serenading kept the nominee the center' of a seven-hour reception as delegations from many states paraded past the Harding residence in a clamoring cavalcade. At the Chautauqua payilion where the notification took place, seats had been provided for .4,000 and many times that number surged about the park and surrounding fields unable to get within earshot of the speakers. The pronouncements of the candidate were received with a tumult of applause, and he was cheered back to his home through crowded streets a tired but smiling man.

Chairman Hays Preside*. Will H. Hays, the national chairman, presided at the ceremonies ana Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, who was chairman of the Chicago convention, formally notified the candidate of his nomination- in a speech rapping President .Wilsons League of Nations and praising the part Senator Harding had done in preventing its unreserved acceptance. . ; .J" Speaking slowly and with a characteristic gravity, the nominee delivered his declaration of policy in

a clear, full voice that penetrated far into the crowded outskirts of the pavilion. Points he wished to drive home with particular force he emphasized by aggressive gestures', and several times he brought the crowd to its feet cheering as he hammered with clinched ’fists to land his blows where they would tell. —His thrusts at the League of Nations- were awarded by repeated thunder claps of cheering, but the passage the crowd seemed to like best cam® almost at the end of the hour and a half of speaking, when he voiced his humility in the presence of the responsibilities of the presidency and then, squaring his broad shoulders, added that bis, confidence in the support of his fel-low-citizens made him “wholly unafraid.” In his discussion of the league he made no direct recommendation for rejection of the peace treaty and did not take up in detail the league covenant. Contenting himself with the declaration that the league as conceived by the -President was unthinkable, he passed on to state his own view of what should be done. America Demand* Peace.

“In the call of the conscience of America is peace,” he said, “peace that closes the gaping wound of world war and silences the impassioned voices of international envy and distrust. Heeding as I do this call and knowing as I do the disposition of congress, I promise you formal and effective peace so quickly as a Republican congress can pass its declaration for a Republican executive to sign. * * ♦ “Disposed as we are, the way is simple. Let the failure attending assumption, obstinacy, impractibility and delay be recognized, and let us find the big, special, unselfish way to do our part. * * * With a Senate advising as the constitution contemplates, I would approach the nations of Europe and of the earth, proposing that understanding which makes us a willing participant in the consecration of notions 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 selfreliant, but offering friendship to all the world.”

(Complete text of Sen/tt° r Harding’* address accepting the Republican nomination for President will be found on Page 2.)