Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1920 — NOMINEE PLEADS FOR FREE AMERICA [ARTICLE]

NOMINEE PLEADS FOR FREE AMERICA

Harding Declares Peace at Home Is of First Importance In This Country. CLASS STRIFE MUST STOP “We want a free America again,” declared Senator Harding in his front-porch address to a delegation from Wayne county, Ohio. There were over 400 Harding enthusiasts in the crowd and they wildly cheered the G. O. P. nominee In his demands for cutting loose from foreign entanglements and applauded his stand for Americanism first. Government should have no part in fixing pursuit, profession or employment, he asserted, except during war. “Government did interfere during the war,” he said, “and we want to end that interference.. We want a free America again. We want America free at home and free in the world. We want to silence the outcry of nation against nation, in the fullness of understanding, and we wish to silence the cry of class against class and stifle the party appeal to class so that we may insure tranquility in our freedom. If I could choose but one, I had rather have industrial and social peace at home than command the international peace of all the world. Opportunity is the big thing in our land, the senator said further. ‘‘The American system with its equality of opportunity’ has opened the way, and the American constitution with its guaranty of civil liberty makes possession secure. A homemight well be the great goal of the republic, because at every fireside centers all hope, all ambition, all of education, all of aspiration. The big thing in our land ia this offering of opportunity and the Republican party means to maintain a government and make secure conditions which will guarantee a fair chance to every citixen and Md him drink of our freedom and know its . ■ >■ - rewards.