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Show HARDING ACCEPTS IN KEYNOTE SPEECH THE REPUBLICAN CAN D I DATEE TOUCHES ON VITAL ISSUES OF COMING CAMPAIGN. Declares His Readiness to Go Before the American People on Program Pursued With Reference to Peace by Majority Party in Senate. Marion, Ohio. A pledge of constitutional consti-tutional government, administered by party and not by individual and based on national rather than world ideals, was given by Warren G. Harding on July 22, in accepting formally the Republican nomination for the presidency. presi-dency. He welcomed a popnular referendum on the league of nations, advocated increased production to cut the high cost of living, pleaded for obliteration of sectional and class conflict, iind declared de-clared for industrial peace, "not forced but inspired by the common weal." Prohibition he gave only a passing notice, saying that, despite divided opinion regarding . the eighteenth amendment and the statutes enacted to make it operative, there must be no evasion In their enforcement. He declared it his "sincere desire" that ratification of the suffrage amendment amend-ment be completed to permit women to vote this fall in every state. Reviewing and commending briefly many other planks of the party platform, plat-form, the candidate declared for collective col-lective bargaining for farmers, repression repres-sion of the disloyal, "generous federal co-operation" in rehabilitating the railroads, rail-roads, intelligent deflation of the currency, cur-rency, enlargement of government aid in reclamation, a genuine expression of gratitude to veterans of the world war and maintenance of an ample navy and "a small army, but the best in the world." In his promise of a "parly government," govern-ment," Senator Harding reiterated his belief that the vice-president should have a part in the affairs of the chief executive's official family and declared there also should be a "cordial understanding under-standing and co-ordinated activities" between the executive and congress. "No man," he said, "is big enough to run this great republic. Our first committal com-mittal is the restoration of representative represent-ative popular government under the constitution through the agency of the Republican party." Promising restoration of peace as soon as a Republican congress should send a peace declaration to a Republican Republi-can president for his signature, the candidate assailed the league covenant as brought home by President Wilson, but declared the war's sacrifice would be "in vain if we cannot acclaim a new-order, new-order, with added security to civilization civiliza-tion and peace maintained." Declaring railway employees ought to be the best paid in the world, the candidate emphasized the responsibility responsibil-ity of such service and added: "The government might well stamp railway employment with the sanctity of public service and guarantee to the railway employees that justice which voices the American conception of righteousness on the one hand and assures continuity of service serv-ice on the other." |