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Show ! THK REPUBLICAN NOMINEES i As to the men chosen. It is a ' lean, safe, and sane one-hundred ' percent American ticket. Warren ' O. Harding is an American of the uld school which in itself. Is a con- ' tlderable achievement these days. He has not in his public life develop- erf great qualities of leadership. But I lie is sound In judgment, wholesome 1 and hitman in spirit, and his moral , reactions may be trusted to the lim- By nature and training. Mr. Hard-, Hard-, lug is a reconciler, and the country needs sorely this kind of service Just 1 now. Tor eight years we have been , trying to solve American problem ny un-American methods, and the re-Milt re-Milt Is chaos. M". Fprding will ap-urouch ap-urouch every probleu f:rn. the point (if view of a simole, honorable and practical Americanism. Perhaps this method will succeed where the complicated machinery of imported liberalism has failed. At any rate, the country will welcome a return to ways of doing things which have worked well in a good many difficult days gone by, and which the average rvery-day American understands. Driven to an attitude of exaggerated exagger-ated sensitiveness over constitutional constitution-al rights and prerogratives, for the last two years our government has been occupied with an internal war of its own. Under these conditions if is not surprising that it has done o little to advise peace here or elsewhere. else-where. If Mr. Harding is elected, as now ' Rems likely, and a Republican Congress Con-gress is returned, we shall once more have both branches of government govern-ment pulling together, and we may hope to see the business of the Government Gov-ernment receive effective attention. It would be idle to say that the Republican Convention has nominated nominat-ed a progressive ticket. It is conservative! con-servative! The platform is conservative. conser-vative. The temper of the party as a whole is conservative. If the Democrats believe that the country would prefer a program of radicalism they now have the opportunity op-portunity to nominate a radical and run him on a radical platform. Then we shall have a clean-cut issue between be-tween two parties representing the two fundamental tendencies of human hu-man nature as expressed in political ideas and) fnsttutlon9 Leslie's Weekly. |