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Show HARDING FIDES BOTH BARRELS AT DEMOCRATS Republican Candidate Declares Administration Guilty ot Reckless Inefficiency KI. . Si pt. 1 1- Senator Sena-tor Harding's campaign plan-, under un-der serious discussion bj liriy h-udor-. contemplate n peuklng titp for the nominee to tt- la-, la-, in, coo t w Mb addresses In all tho western states when senators arc i be clccti d this tall in addition it Is expet ted that Senator larding will make forrr in rive speeches in the east late in October. ih" western trip would start (luring the last n ick in September and probablj would Include sildresst - at Indian ipobs, Chicago, Louisville St. Louis, Omabs Boise City, Butte, Spokane, Spo-kane, Seattle, Portland San I ran-dacoi ran-dacoi ii ingeles, salt Lake I Ity, Denvi r. iklahoma I II j and u number of otbei I tics. MA EtION, O. Sept 11. In a double barreled attack on the administration. Senator Harding charged today that Democratic officials had been guilty, of "reckless Inefficiency" in their conduct con-duct of the nation's business affairs anil had sought through duplicity or misunderstanding" to navo the I'nited Stales surrender its Monroe doctrine (n hecoming a member of the league of nations. Ills own policy toward the business J world, he declared, would put an end to ineffective meddling" by the government, gov-ernment, wlpo out many wartime restraints, re-straints, seek readjustment of tariff levies and taxation and establish a new CO-Operation between government and private enterprise. Having restored re-stored a condition of "sober business" again, he added, he would summon the aid of the ablest administrators of the country to put tho government' itself on an efficient basis. Assailing the ' conspiracy of perfect accord.' between the administration and the Democratic presidential nominee nom-inee to perpetuate war powers of the cxecutlve. Senator Harding declared tho government had been so twisted oul of shape" that reorganization In many of Its departments was necessary before it could again fdnctlon properly. prop-erly. Discussing the Monroe doctrine, the Republican nominee asserted ihut the Bngllsb and French texts ot the league covenant apparently were in direct contradiction, the termer bearing the intimation that the doctrine was not lo lie overridden lv anv provision of tho covenant. while tin- French phraseology clearly would make the doctrine subordinate t the covenant. Jn any case of dispute, he added, tho league council undoubtedly WOUld decide de-cide the Krciv.h text was the official one. "Une wiSAJM to be both charitable anil considerate," he continued, "but It Is hard to believe thai tins very marked discrepancy was perpetrated without intention." The senator's declarations on the Monroe doctrine and on business issues is-sues were made in two front porch 1 Soei't UCfl IU llVIV(,.IUUIIO v. L MMWIHWl i men from Chicago and several Allchl-: Allchl-: Kan and Indiana cities. Through I them, he said he wanted to -end a message of reassurance ' all Americans Ameri-cans interested ill lilislm SI CCKSS No IUMJ . Depredating tho tendency to think of business only in term.-. of "bUj business.' the nominee declaied success suc-cess in financial affairs should no longer be held S crime, but thai tin-I tin-I people should realize that the sound i financial conditions weri for the com- I mon good He advocated the establishment estab-lishment of a budget system in the federal fed-eral government, declared the postal service must be put on a new oasis und continued "We must repeal ond wipe out a mass of executive orders and laws ! will, h tailing to serve effectively that I purpose, serve only to have American business In anxiety, uncertainty and darkness, "We must readjust our tariff, and this time with especial rsgaod for the economic menaces to our American ncrii iili ore. READJUS1 i ITIC "We must readjust our internal taxation, tax-ation, especially the excCSs profits tax, I to remove the burdens it Imposes Upon the will to create anil produce-, wheth- A or that win i.s the will of ;hc big coi poration. the small corporation, or Ol the Individual I "We must give government co-op-. elation to business, we must protect ' American business at home and We I mnis aid and protect it abroad by tin-ipbulldlng tin-ipbulldlng of our merchant marine and, restoration of our self-respect- fH ing measure of American protection to her .'uimiv wherover they may go upon righteous errands. We must build our economic life Into new strength and we must do It so that our prosperity shall not be the piospentv oi profiteers not id privilege. "American business has suffered PH from staggering blowf." |