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Show HARDING SPEECH IS GALLED BUNK Parley P. Christensen, Candidate Candi-date of Farmer-Labor Party, Issues Statement 9ALT LAKE July 24 Declaring the acceptance speech of Senator Harding is bunk ' and ridiculing the Republican nominee for accepting a I nomination tendered him in a I "hl " ! hoi-l room early In the morning of lulv 12, Parley i Chrlstennen candidate candi-date for president on the Farmer-Labor ticket, offered a formal statement to the pr ! ,M nlghi The Farmer-Labor candidate professed pro-fessed to see ' nothing much" in either Senator Harding s words or mind. Mr. Christensen oald Washington and Lincoln were defenseless before the "charge" made by Senator Lodge in notifying Senator Harding of his nomination, that "vou are imbued with the spirit of Washington. Lincoln and Roosevelt." He continued: REFERS TO ROOSE1 EUI "But there are those of us still alive who fought by the side of Roosevelt when he wis beln'; culled every kind of a criminal and a traitor by the reactionary re-actionary Harding J, as one of them can testify to my belief that If Theodore Theo-dore Roosevelt were alive, he would scourge the combination of profiteer--and politicians who now so brnzcnl link his memor with their nefarious effort to turn this republic over to a soviet of Wail street bankers. "Senator Harding's address is an enlightening en-lightening exhibition of the high and manly art of shadow boxing The league of nations Is dead, yet ho lunges at Its ghost and shouts to onlook r? It s alive.' It s alive! 1 tell you, it's alive!' " "Onlv Pontius Fulmar " Mr PhrUf- ensen said. 1 foresaw a "red conflagration' conflagra-tion' with vision equal to that of Senator Sen-ator Harding He went n STATUS HARDING'S VIEWS "As to tho vital Issues before the people, Issues Involving their deliver-jance deliver-jance from economic bondage and poll- Ileal servility, the senator from Ohio j pours forth a sea of words signifying nothing, He. who but a few vears ago Isullenl) .-aid the working man should be satisfied with one dollar a day, and the farmer contented with ono dollar a bushel for wheat, lias become so progressive as a candidate for the 'presldencv as to admit labor Is entltl-ed entltl-ed to a bettor wage than that, but adds jtliat "Labor must give its full measure of service for higli wages If this country coun-try Is lo avoid Industrial ami economic chaos.' " That Is a contemptible insult to the sincerity of t'n.- nicrican worker, and a gruvelinsj guarantee to big business that It bus nothing to fear from Harding Hard-ing If he Is elected Senator Harding knows as does e cry other member of the senate, for they hav all been presented pre-sented with the Impartln profits and wages report prepared b W, Jett Lauck, former secretary of the national nation-al war labor board, that the ratio of ! profits und prices has ln. reused from 100 to 200 per cent as a result of wartime war-time corporate profiteering, and that the ratio of wages and prices has decreased de-creased by nearlv the same percentage, and the dissipated purchasing power of the average man s dollar makes his economic condition worse than It was before the war. SEES RUN IN SURRENDER "If this country la to suffer Industrial Indus-trial and economic ruin. It will be because be-cause the people have been deceived once more Into surrendering control over their lives and their rights to tho financial pirates." |