Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1920 — CHRISTENSEN RAPS HARDING [ARTICLE]

CHRISTENSEN RAPS HARDING

Calls Harding’s Acceptance Speech at Marlon “Bunk." Salt Lake City, Utah, July 24.— The speech of Senator Harding accepting the Republican nomination for president is "bunk,” Parley P. Christensen, candidate for the same office on the ticket of the FarmerLabor party, declared In a statement here. Christensen ridiculed the Republican nominee for accepting a nomination which he declared was tendered to him in a Chicago hotel room early In of June 12 last. Christensen said Washington and Lincoln were defenseless before the "charge” made by Senator Lodge in notifying Senator Harding of his nomination that “you are imbued with the spirit of Washington, Lincoln and Roosevglt.” “Senator Harding's address is an enlightening exhibition of the high and manly art of shadow boxing. The league of nations Is dead yet be lunges at bis ghost and shouts to the onlookers, ‘lt's alive —it’s alive. I tell you it’s aljve./ “As to the vital issue beforA the people, issues involving their deliverance from economic bondage and political servility, the senator from Ohio pours forth'a sea of words signifying nothing. He who but a tew years ago sullenly said the working man should be satisfied with fl a day and the fanner contented with fl a bushel for wheat, has become so progressive as a candidate for the ( presidency as to admit labor is entitled to a better wage than that, but adds that ‘labor must give its full measure of service for high wages if this- country is going to avoid Industrial and economic chaos. “That Is a contemptible Insult to the sincerity of the American worker and a groveling guaranty to big bust nes» that It has nothing to fear from Harding, if he is elected.” He declared Senator Harding’s address convinced him that the Ohioan was dominated by the “will of or-t ganlzed capital; that' if he were elected economic chaos and a nation of soup kitchens” were inevitable. "Senator Harding talks much and says nothing,” the Farmer-Labor nominee said. "There is not a redblooded American sentence in his addreWg. Those who have felt the lash of the profiteer and the industrial autocrat, felt the of high price® and inadequate Income can find no ray of hope in it. The soldiers are sick of the ‘generous expression of gratitude’ that Senator Harding promises them. Farmers look In vain for a definite pledge of relief from the burdens Imposed upon them. Organized finance ;alone can find joy In the address; for organized finance* Harding Is a good candidate.”