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Show GOV. GOOLIDGE OK SOUND GOVERNMENT GOV-ERNMENT Governor Coolldgc, Republican can dldate for vice president, says: "It is 'well to keep In mind that unless we maintain our domestic Institutions In-stitutions we shall have no foreign relations; unless wo 'cherish liberty and prosperity at home wo cannot provide, 6t defend them abroad. Tho welfare we seek Is ever the welfare of Aiuerca and If not of America alono, certainly for America first. "It Is for the purpose of advancing that welfare that citizens assert them selves In parties. It I were asked to state the purposo of the Republican Republi-can party In two words I should Bay 'sound government.' "When the war began tho Amerl-can Amerl-can people granted powers to tho ex ecutive tho like of which wero exercised exer-cised by no other person on earth. Those powers havo not yet been surrendered. sur-rendered. Under them, so far as I can Judge, tho power exists to put n draft Into effect tomorrow and Impress Im-press our citizens to be sent to fight anywhere In the world. It Is not enough to say this will not, be done. I object' to the exlstcnco of any such powers In time of peace. The only agency now seeking to bring this condition con-dition to a close Is tho Republican i party." |