The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-08-04
MEANS VICTORY
FOR The PARTY
Naming Of Harding a Triumph
Of the Rank and File.
The CAMPAIGN WILL SPARKEL
EIoquence of the Standard Bearer
and Logic Of the Platform Will
Bring Every Republican Vote to
the Ballot Box In November.


Bring Every Republican Vote to
the Ballot Box In November.
The nomination OF Warren G. Hard
ing as the standard bearer Of the par
ty insuIes to Ohio Republicans n
sweeping triumph in November.
1t was essentially a nomination Of,
for and by the people-the expression
coming through accredited delegates,
for the large part chosen my direct
primaries.
1t was a gathering Of representa-
tives from every part of the state
and they selected, on the third ballot,
the candidate who most closely rep
reSents the concrete sentiments of d
majority of the voters.
Warren G. Harding came to the
convention backed by no particular
leader He was not the candidate Of
any faction. or Of any coterie of men.
He represented no large center Of
population with a heavy home vote
behind him. He engaged in no trades
Or combinations, or attempts at com
binations. He did not seek to infiu-
cnce the delegates in their selection
OF commit seMen, and he cid not Jun
dertake to write in advance a plat
FORM He sought in no way to con-
troll the expression of the convention
in its choices for other places on the
ticket But he represented the type
of present day Republicanisn, which
requires no designating prefix. He
came not as regular" or rad
ical;' as "standpatter" OF an 'in-
surgent"-but was just the kind of
| Republican that has dominated the
thought of the party for the most
part for half century of its triumph
ant history.
That he should become the nom-
inee was the logical sequence. With
a home-county delegation of eight
votes as nucleus in the early spring,
he gathered strength with each day,
and was the dominant figure in the
busy preconvention days in Colum-
/ bus.
Warren G. Harding is not only an
old-fashioned, thorough-going Repub-
| lican, but an eloquent one as well.
His voice will be heard throughout
| the state during the fall campaign,
and his oratory will shatter the sham
and pretense, the self-praise and the
self-appropriation of others works by
his rival on the Democratic ticket.
Mr.. Harding goes before the peo-
pie on platform which rings true
frcm preamble TO finale. There is
| neither evasion or equivocation on
any Of the living issues of the day.
| 1t is a platform that is clear cut, pro-
! gressive, Understandable. 1t covers
every point that will come up for dis
| cussion in Ohio between now and No
vember, and covers every point to the
entire satisfaction of every reasoning,
| thinking, patriotic citizen of the state
1t is a platform upon which every
| Republican stand, and can stand with
| out squirming and without mental
reservation. 1t is platform that
would win for any candidate. Hard
ing-popular tried, eloquent, enthusi-
astic, magnetic-the combination will
lie irresistible. The Republican tick
ct will be elected in its entirety, and
the preliminary presidential cam
paign of the man who seeks the gov
ernorship to resign it to another's
keeping will come to an early and
inglorious end.
Ohio Is a Republican state. The
majority of the voters are Republi-
can. They will have as their declara-
tion of principles this fall ringing
Republican platform. AS their candi-
date, a candidate whose popularity
has been proved by time. That the
old-time party plurality will be again
demonstrated in November, he WIN
runs may read.
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