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Show HARDING MAKES i PLEATO NATION Pre-Election Statement 1 ells Of Confidence That Voters Favcr G. 0. P. Policy WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 ."Vnator Harding in n pre-election statement to the American people made public here Monday, declared the Republican party "goes to the people assured thnt they will recognise its superiority as ,n insirumenLiIity of n. immigration md that in the election now impending impend-ing they will give It the certificate of their confidence and tru3t- Th Republican party nominee eritieise, T'emocratic administration Of Brovernmental ,-iff.ilrs. declaring "the nation Is determined to be done with ilfmncraiy under the mere guise of Democratic forms." The Republican party re-aeeerted " has proposed in Its platform and developed In the Ut-teranoei Ut-teranoei of Us leaders, a progmm which contemplates eiual opportunity for all" and "recognizer, the voices of evplolUition and profiteering" PEACE AND HfDKPENDBNI B As tf the le;nrue of nations issue, -p,,inr Harding ummsrised his party'! position as follows The Republican party purposes such association of nations na-tions as will most effectually further the aspiration tor world-wide and permanent per-manent peace without sacrificing any part of the Indi pnnden of 'lv American Ameri-can nation It believes America can and must hear Its full part In the re-sposlbllltles re-sposlbllltles of the world but it always believes that America alone must decide de-cide what that part shall be 1 Senator Harding's statement fol lows si I KS RKSPONSTIUMTA "In asking the suffrage of the American electorate this ear, the Republican parly has in mind both the record of service from Its beginning begin-ning whereof it Is very proud, and the vision of opportunity for service In the future, which its spokesmen have presented during this campaign Wo j are asklna: that a sre.v responsibility he Imposed upon us- It is responsibility I that must be measured by both the gravity of the crisis that confronts th-j world and the Incapacity with which tho present administration has met the problems of the last few years Onerous as is the responsibility we Beeki our parly has no thought of evading, for it never has been guiltv of that. ' Democratic economic administrate administra-te policies had brought this eountrv to the danger of disaster before the outbreak of the w-r in Europe The vast expansion of our export trade and demands upon our producing facilities, facili-ties, which came with the war. saved lie from Immediate precipitation of that disaster. But that phase has now passed and nothing but a return of those constructive and progressive policies pol-icies which have always characterized the Repiiblicu.n administration OSJl sa'.-e us i roio early realization of the danger that confronted ns at the middle mid-dle of 1914, BJEP1 OS OUT r w mi ' From the beginning of the war in Europe the Democratic administration steadfastly refused to prepare for the national defense m case W should be involved. In 1916 when It was apparent appar-ent to most people thai our countr was In imminent danger of being drawn Into the struKKlo. the Democratic Demo-cratic party made Its campaign on the Kna I hji i it h:rl Went os nut Ol w ar and the jiromise to continue to keep us out. Thus we found ourselves at last in the struggle, wc wore utterly unready for it, and our participation cost immeasureably more than it should have cost An administration that whon all the world was in conflagration, con-flagration, refused to realize the Im-port&Att Im-port&Att of preparedness, of course could not be expected to realize while we were at war the necessity of prc-parinc prc-parinc for pence. So we entered Into peace quiie as unready lor it as we had been for war. Our economics were disorganized, our debt enormous, our foreign commerce de oted largely to supplying ihe nec-:vsaries of war. FORGOT tiiin;s AT HOKE instead of settling Itself to remedying remedy-ing the.se conditions, the administration administra-tion has devoted itself from the day of the armistice, to promoting a pro-Jen pro-Jen r.f world reorganization In which America should hear the largest responsibilities re-sponsibilities of guaranteeing a new scheme of things Instead Of making legal peace as soon as actual peaco had been won, the American people alone of all the warring nations, were denied by Ihelr government the privilege privi-lege of a return to the legal status of peace and to the enjoyment of those rights which they had temporarily surrendered under the circumstances of war Bo long as war was on. Republicans Re-publicans upheld the hands of the ad-rnlniStration, ad-rnlniStration, forgetting party considerations consid-erations and gavo their ote in support sup-port of war measures f.ir more generously gener-ously than did their political opponent. oppon-ent. Est .m autocratic administration administra-tion repaid this loyalty with the demand, de-mand, in the campaign of 1918 that Kopuoncans be removed from every position of Influent e and power. Thai demand the countdy rejected It was the first time In the history' of this nation that an administration had been defeated In the midst of a f6relgn wur. That defeat would have been ample admonition to any administration not entirely abnorbod In Its own peculiar policies and purposes. Rut It up par entl was unheeded by tho powers at Washington. Neglecting the acute domestic do-mestic situation, the administration suddenly concleved an interest in foreign for-eign affairs that contrasted impres-lvely impres-lvely with its lack of concern for them In the period before wo were drawn into the war. ACTS AS REPUBLICAN "So whllo immediate and practical concerns were being neglected, while reconstruction and reorganisation ol our own country were forgotten the administration was devoting Itself tc the chimera of a world reorganization The Republican congress, that hac been elected In the autumn of 1918 attempted at-tempted to and did. Initiate measures-to measures-to set us on the rltfht track once more I" devised a budget system In the hop of putting an end to the treaaury do-fidi do-fidi and bringing economy and system into our national finance. But thf president vetoed that measure. The administration went right on spending vast sums In excess of our reonue:, offering no constructive inspiration CI leadership; apparently forgetting out domestic difficulties In Its engrossment With the i hiiui-ra of world reorganization. reorganiza-tion. Tin In a .nrr1 ln t V. i .1 the administration now about to retire from power, which seeks to hac it; policies perpetuated. The country will decline to tfive Its confidence and Iti mandate to that party or those poll cics. It remains that th Republlcar party fought the ClVll oar and after v.ard resorted and unified the nation It believes that the Republican part it capable of repeating that service and because it so believe, it in goin to return tho Republican party tc power 1 be nation Is determined to b done with autocracy under the men guise of Democratic forms: H is de termined that there shall be no r-turr tc the old order. The plain peopb on the whole, have been raised to s new and higher level, are not oCnvlne- ed that they are entitled to remain on this new plane but lhat the rely upon up-on the constructive abilities of the Republican Re-publican party to keep them there It is our purpose to accomplish exactly this Whilo we will oppose every suggestion sug-gestion or disintegration we do stand for every measuso of evolution and development de-velopment that tends to carry the masses of the nation forward and upward. up-ward. During the campaign now about ending tho Republican part has proposed pro-posed in Its platform and de eloped in the utterances of Its leaders a program pro-gram which contemplates equal opportunity op-portunity for all. It recognizes the vices of exploitation and profiteering It has declared for wise and practical measures looking to cooperation in production and In marketing it recognizes rec-ognizes that in all measures to preserve pre-serve equality of opportunity there mustbe a recognition of the fact that greed and cunnin must be hold In check If we are to Insure that true character and worth shall be given every opportunity to share In advantages advan-tages that the community can extend to Is members. ATTITUDE ON LEAGUE "The Republican party proposes In .the realm of international affairs such an association of nations as vvill most I effectively further the aspirations for world wldo and permanent peace without with-out sacrificing any part of the Independence Inde-pendence of the American nation R believes that America can an must I bear Its full part in tho responslbilltle-; ' ! of the world but it always believes that America alone must decide what that part shall be. It goes to the people ' assured that they will recognize its I superiority as an instrumentality of I administration and that In the election inow Impending they will give it the 1 ocrtficate of their confidence and j trust." |