Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 191, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1920 — HARDING VOICES NATIONAL NEEDS [ARTICLE]

HARDING VOICES NATIONAL NEEDS

Speech of Acceptance of Republican Nominee Points Way to Solution of Political Problems. TALK A MASTERFUL WORK Emphasizing the paramount needs es the nation today and pointing the way to the solution of the political problems that have been multiplying under Democratic administration, the speech of Warren G. Harding accepting the Republican nomination for the presidency has been received by Ike people of the nation as a masterful work and a brilliant and comprehensive Interpretation of the Republican national platform. The speech was delivered July 2 at the Senator’s home in Marion, • It has been eagerly read throughout the entire nation and has been ' ly ant readily praised by the Repub lican press and the leading men Harding struck a popular chord when he declared, at the o sot of his address, that no individual is larger than the United States. Rest on Party Sponsorship. “No man is big enough to run this great republic,” he said. There has never been one. Such was never intended. Tranquility, stability, dependability—all are assured in party sponsorship, and we mean to renew the assurances which were rended in the cataclysmal war.’ The senator declared that Our first committal is the restoration of representative popular governmen , under the constitution, through the agency of the Republican party. The speaker pleaded for more production “because more production is no less a defense of our best civilization than that of armed force. He declared profiteering is a crime of commission and under production a Sime of omission. As to labor and wages he explained that war Has advanced the standard of wage ® they have been maintained on the war basis. , Full Pay for Full Day ‘ “I wish the higher wages to abide, on one explicit condition— that the wage earner will give full return for the wage received. It is the best insurance we can have for a reduced cost of living. Mark you, I am ready to acclaim the highest standards of pay, but I would be blind to the responsibilities that mark this fateftil hour if I did not caution the wage earner of America that ever mounting wages and decreased production Iqnd only to Industrial and economic ruin. He urged the country .to adopt the program of steadiness in industrial relations. “Our party platform, he continued, “fairly expresses the conscience of Republicans on industrial relations. No party is indifferent to the welfkVe of the wage earner To us his good fortune is of deepest concern, and we seek to make that good fortune permanent.”

Farmer Is Praised. In diecus»lng the farmer and the problems of rural life the speaker paid a tribute to the loyalty of the farmer during the war and praised him for accomplishing the gigantic task es feeding his own nation and helping to save the millions overseas fr.m starvation. He pointed out that in the rise of price levels the farmer’s acres have advanced in appraisal without adding to their value in fact; the result has be.n added taxes and other expenses. In addition he called attention to the labor shortage “until almost alone the farmer has met and borne the burden of the only Insistent attempts to force down prices.” He approved encouragement of the organization, of farmers’ cooperative societies and declared that A Republican administration will be committed to renewed regard for agriculture, and seek the participation of farmers in curing the ills justly complained of. . . Is for Suffrage. His stand on suffrage was clearly evidenced when, he said, “It is my earnest hope, my sincere desire that the one needed state vote be quickly accorded in the affirmation of the right of equal suffrage and that the vote of every citizen shall be cast and counted In the approaching elec- , tion.” Pointing to the urgent need for reconstruction and adjustment of national affairs on a peace basis, the senator pledged, himself to an early disposal of the peace question. Would Restore Peace. “Heeding this call,” he said, “and knowing as I do the disposition of the congress, I promise you formal and effective peace so quickly as a Republican congress can pass its declaration for a Republican executive to sign. Then we may turn to our readjustment at home and proceed deliberately and reflectively to that hoped-for world relationship which shall satisfy both conscience and aspirations and still hold us free from ' menacing involvement.”