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Show U NOMINEES HURL VERBAL SHAFTS G. 0. P. GREETS WOMEN VOTERS HARDING SAYS Great Mora! Reform Is Now Menaced by Opponents. Asserts As-serts Harding CITES RECORD OF PARTY AS REASON FOR CHOICE Democrats Notoriously Against Social industrial Betterment, Adds Nominee MARION'. Aug. 19 Senator Harding Hard-ing declared today that the grant of suffrage to American women would he especially welcome to the Republicans Republi-cans in tho coinln campaign because "8 great moral and social reform re-; cently achieved is menaced by the covert co-vert purpose of our opponent to at-! tack It " He predicted that voting women, would stand with the Republican part J through realization that it had Id In achieving social betterment while the Democratic1 p arty had notoriously n ins. d" :r .-ninrce r- form polli ies COMES 18 Hi w Altn "American women," said Sonator Harding, "have won the suffia tight Their victory is dramatic becat'sc comes as th rAWjrrd- of n grc-at flfl Hi drive that now hus Insured lo all American women a full participation In the most crucial national election in many years. Vet Important as are the issues in this political conrosi, w may well doubt if history Will recognize recog-nize any other phase of It as equal in Import.-fnce to the fact that In this 'ear the women of America for the first time took their full "art in de-1 Lerminlng the national destinies. 'However much some of us may be phased with the congratulations that some of us receive, that we helped to ! brihg about this, the fact remains that women won their own battle. Yh-ir !..nr Btruggle against disappointment h.i- been a splendid action for the duties Imposed upon thMn They will be full partners in shaping national problems and policies However, they1 may divide politically-, their moral stnse. their social instincts, their pn-mary pn-mary concern for home 'and family and health and education, will b a constant inspiration to an insistance upon higher and better alms In our national life. -Kl VI ( 1 1 LPTEK IN HISTORY "Whoever will consider the practi- i! contributions of woman to national nation-al adancenient must recognize what It means to enlist, now, the full power' of womanhood in public affairs. I look upon the enforcement of women as an accomplishment to be rated along with lour achievement of Independence , our preservation of the union, our emancipation of the slaves nd our' : contribution In tho world war to the rescue of civilization Itself. I "An to immediate political effects. I we Republicans may and do feci se-1 se-1 cure. In this campaign w- fa. situation on which we may be con.l-j con.l-j dent that the voice of womanhood will, pronounce for us Once more the real Independence of our nation is Involvi d. A great moral and social reform, re-' cently achlcvod, is menaced by the i covert purpose of our opponents to I attack It. Lnfranchlsed women will maki- no mistake in choosing between i the Republican parti which has led in every movement for social and Industrial In-dustrial betterment, and the Democratic Democra-tic parly ablCh has notoriously refused to enforce these enlightened policies m the south, where it completely dominates domi-nates Nor will women forget that more than four-fifths of the ratifying states are Republican states." |