Show WING HARDING SPEECH H OF GE A NEW KEYNOTE republican nominee at notification ceremonies discusses problems confronting Confront lne nation HOLD HERITAGE AMERICAN AMMAN NATION AUff unimpaired pt advocate advocates party responsibility ae as die dia from dictatorial and autocratic to personal rule in ln referring to league of nation nations say says we do not mean to shun a single responsibility of thie this republic to world Civilization Favors krotec five tive tariff merchant marine a small army woman suffrage and national budget marion ohio Spec special lal warren 0 harding imling Il nas aa officially notified here of hid his nomination aa an the republican candidate for tho the presidency his ills speech of acceptance Is in part an n follows chairman lodge members of notification committee members of national committee ladles and gentlemen T the he message which you havo formally conveyed brings to roo me a alon of responsibility which Is not un der estimated it Is a 4 supreme task to interpret the covenant of a great political lent party tho the activities of which are so woven noven into tho the history of tills this republic and every sacred and solemn londer undertaking takIng to titter utter the faith and as orations of the many millions who adhere to that party the party platform has hex charted tho the way yet somehow ue w e have come to expect that interpretation terp which voices the faith of nominees who mast must assume spec specific itic let roe me bo be understood too d clearly from the very beginning I 1 believe in party sponsorship in government I 1 believe in party government as distinguished from personal government individual dictatorial autocratic or what not no man Is in big enough to run this great republic lIc there them mever has haa been one sach domination wae was never cover intended tranquility stability depond ability all are assured in party spon eora gor hip ship and we mean to renew the assurances su an rances which were ivere mended in the cataclysmal war our first committal Is the restoration of representative popular go government ern Ment under the constitution through the agency of the republican party our vision includes more than a chief executive we believe in a cabinet of highest capacity equal to the responsibilities which our 9 system contemplates in whose council councils the 1 vice president second of the republic shall be asked to participate the sarae o 0 includes a cordial understanding and coordinated co actor with a house of congress congre fre fresh ah from the people voicing the condic 1 bione which members brine from direct contact with the electoral and cordial cooperation along with the restored functions of the senate fit to be the greatest deliberative body of the world it Is not difficult chairman lodge to majce make ourselves ours elres clear on the question of international relationship we republicans of the sei senate ate coin conscious selous of our solemn oaths and mindful of our constitutional obligations when we saw the structure of a world geT emment taking visionary form joined in a becoming warning of our devoti oti to this republic if the torch of 6 cone had not been dimmed the delayed peace pence of the world and the tragedy of disappoint ment went and Euro misunderstanding of america cosily might inight bae ba e iwen avoided the republicans of the tho aen en atom halted the barter of independent american mu eminence luence ant which hach it was as proposed to ex chang for an obscure und nd iliae in the merged go eminent of 4 tin amid tild our party means to hold alic 0 at american and the world orld will not inis misconstrue construe we vc do not mean to hold aloof 1 6 e do u nor mean to shun a single of this republic to horii thero there Is no hate lu amark in heart we have no eni en no no aversion for aua a ih ople tn in the ate tho the world we hold to our i and I 1 moan mean to defend aye we ve bielin to su sus 4 tain the rights of tins this gutlon and oui out citizens alike everywhere tinder the shining sun yet then Is Js the concord of ot amity and 9 sm path und uni frn frit in every resolution there I 1 11 a genuine aspiration in en er american breast for a tranquil friends bil with all the world one may n readily sense the con science of our america I 1 am sure I 1 understand the purpose of the domi dom I 1 nant group of the senate we not seeking to mcfeat a world ashira tion we were resolved to safeguard america we were resolved then aver ae as we are today and will be tomorrow to preserve this free and independent republic in the call of the conscience ot ol america Is peace peace that close closet the kaping wound of world war ar ant silences the impassioned voices of in envy and dis distrust oust heed lax ing thie this call and knowing as I 1 do un continued on page seven continued pose two disposition of the congress I 1 promise you formal and effective pence so quickly as a congro cong rc can pass if its declaration for a republican executive to sign alln it Is better to bo be the broo and tind die dis interested Interest td agent of at jurt jug tice and civilization alth ith the covenant of conscience than bo be hackled shackled by a written compact which surrenders otar o 0 freedom of action and elves gives to a military alliance all lanco the right to proclaim americas duty to thu the world no surrender ur render of rights to a world council or its military alliance all lanco no assumed however appealing over ever hall shall summon tho pans sons of tills this republic to war their supreme sa sacrifice shall only bo be asked for america and ite its call of honor there Is a sanctity la in that right wo we will 1011 not delegate disposed as an we are tho the way Is very simple let the failure attending ns an SU OPtion obstinacy impracticability and delay bo be recognized and let us find tho the big practical a way to do our part neither covetous because of ambition nor hesitant through fear but ready to servo serve ourselves humanity and god i with a senito advising us the constitution co contemplates I 1 would hopefully approach tho the nations of europe and of the earth proposing that understanding which makes us a willing participant in the consecration of nations to a now relationship to commit tho the moral forces of the world orld america included to pence and inter national justice still leaving america freer free independent and self rell nut but offering friendship to all the world it Is folly to close our eyes to out standing facto facts humanity la in rex restive tive lauch of the world Is in revolution the agents of discord and destruction hao wrought their tragedy in outwit limp haip lighted their torches among other peoples and hope to see america as a part of the great grout red conflagration ours Is the temple of liberty under the law and it Is to ours to call tho the sons eons of opportunity to ite its de do 0 mil 7 1 V 1 KA 1 fi acne eme Affie america rica must not only save herself but ours must bo be the appealing voice to sober bey the world orld it must be understood that toll alone makes kes for accomplishment and ad agne ement and righteous possession Is the reward of toll and its incentive there Is 1 no progress except in the stimulus of competition the chief today Is that tho the world war ar wrought the destruction of healthful competition left our storehouses empty and there Is a minimum production nhen w lien our need Is maximum maximums not minimums Is the call of america a it a new nev story because 1 war never falls to leave depleted storehouses and always impairs the efficiency of production war also establishes its higher standards stan darda for wages and they abide I 1 wish the higher wage to abide on ono one explicit condition that tho the wage earner will nill give full return for the wages ages N ree received elved I 1 want somehow to appeal to the sons eons and daughters of the republic to every producer to join hand and brain in production more production honest production patriotic production because patriotic production Is in no less defense of our best civilization than that of armed force profiteering Is a it crime of commission under production lit 1 a crimo crime of omission wo must work our roost most and best beat else the do tive reaction will come the menacing tendency of tho the present day Is not chargeable wholly to tho the unsettled and fevered conditions caused by the war the manifest weakness ie in popular government lies in the temptation to appeal to grouped citizenship for political advantage it would be the blindness of folly to ignore the la in 0 our ur own country abich are aimed to destroy our economic system and to commit us to the coll osal tragedy which ha has de do 1 strayed all freedom and made russia impotent this movement Is not to be halted in throttled liberties we must not abridge the freedom of spee speech ch tho the freedom of press or the freedom of assembly because there Is no promise in repression these liberties are are sacred as us the freedom of religious belief as inviolable as tho the rights of life and the pursuit of happiness wo we do hold to the right to crush sedition to etine stille a menacing contempt for law to stamp put gat a peril to the safety of the republic or its people when emergency calls because becu security ritY and the majesty of the law lavt aw the first arst essentials of liberty he who threatens destruction of the government by force or flaunts his contempt 1 for lawful antho authority tho rity ceases to be a loyal citizen and forfeits his rights to the freedom of tho the republic no party fo is lerk te be wu WW farnlof the wage bmw orp Vs 1 ia goo COO fortune Is fit 0 opt beepat w a wo seek to sake that fd yd permanent we do set nt oppa tat bot j approve collective bamus that ie Is an rick WC bot wo are unalterably Insl otest ten 6 kg e c arcleo must not destroy we t equity sacred right of tho the Is 1 us necessary aa pursuit of at any american Amerle aft has the right to quit H Us em so has every asrican Asri caa the right to seek employ employment meat the gre must not endanger the aad A wo we must discourage groage preding upon ono another aad aud acae bull ball be allowed to ferret forget teat the ments obligations are alike allks te to all the people I 1 wo we aro are so 80 confident that maek of et the present day insufficiency aad la ia efficiency of transportation are re dae due to iho the withering hand ot 0 operation that wo abw eer OW opposition to government we want to expedite the and mako make uro tho the mis aiato tairo ie ix aa re pealed A state of inadequate facilities mainly changeable to via failure of governmental te to losing millions to agriculture it te is hinderine hindering industry Ind ostry it to is smacking the american people with a t abort aee little less than a peril it the present day problem ara suggests sugg oata that spirit of encouragement aja as si stance which commits all armories 1 to relieve such an emer gesa gross expansion of car reacy reaty aad credit bavo have depreciated th the jart J art as expansion and inflation haye have dl din credited tha colas cot of the world we inflated la past we must deflate la in deliberation wo we debased the deum in i reckless eckless finance we abet raster in III honesty in all security wo we pro valse the pre bention of unreasonable we challenge chal lenRO profiteering with all an the moral force and the leeal legia powers of government and people bat but it R Is SMA uye it Is timely to five give reminder that law la Is not the ole role corre corrective cUve et our economic ills f let us call to all the people fw thrift and economy for er dealah a aad sacrifice if need be for a nationwide drive against aad d luxury to a al ta to of to that prudent aad and aereal plan of life which Is the health ef of the republic new conditions which attend ing growth and extraordinary haduo trial developments call for a abw and forward looking program pros ram the amerlean american farmer bad had a hundred aad and twenty millions to feed in tho the home market and rind heard the cry of the world for fee food and answered kl cheuk he ke faced an ap paling task amid audd affer berer encountered before contemplating the of the individual farmer to moot the organized buyers of his products aad and the distributors of the things the far mer buys I 1 hold that farmers should not only bo be permitted but encouraged to join in operative cooperative co to reap tho the just measure of reward mer lied by their arduous toll our platform is to an earnest pledge of renewed concern for this most damn elal and elemental industry and la Is both appreciation and interest we pledge effect lye expression in law and price we will hall operation cooperation co which again will maag mak profitable and desirable the ownership and operation oper atlee of comparatively small farms intensively cultivated and which will facilitate the caring for the products of fara fun aad and orchard without tho the lamentable waste under present conditions america would look with anxiety on the discouragement of farming activity either through thron cb the governments neglect or its paralysis by practices the republican will bo be the to re regard for agriculture aad and seek tho the participation of farmers la in caring curing the ills justly complained of and ala alm to place the american farm where it ought to be highly ranked in american activities and fully the highest good fortunes of american Amer loux life ilfe becomingly associated with eject are the policies of irrigation and reclamation so essential to tural expansion and the con timed development of the great and wonderful erful west vest it Is our purpose to centI continue nue and enlarge federal aid and not in sectional partiality allty but for the good of all america I 1 belleve athe the budget system will ef feet a necessary helpful and reveal business methods to eov sov emment business I 1 believe federal departments should be more business like and send back to pro effort thousands of federal employees employee who are either duplicating work or not essential at all I 1 believe in the protective prote cUve tariff policy polley icy and know we will be calling tor for its saving americanism again I 1 believe in a great merchant ma rine I 1 would have this republic the leading maritime nation of the world 1 I believe in a navy ample to protect it and able to assure us dependable defense I 1 believe in a small army but the best in the world with a aind falness for preparedness which will avoid avold the unutterable cost of d oer previous neglect I 1 believe in oar OW a W indence in trade abroad which the sov ov should aid in expand expanding US boak in revealing markets aad reeding cargoes I 1 believe la in abl standards for which are concerned with the future of the republic not with swo power industry I 1 believe belleve amt et ea man who dons the garb of citizenship and walks la IS the ON elt ec on page alae 1010 4 A |