Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-06-09
SENATOR HARDING
SOUNDS KEYNOTE
Address to G. o. P. Convention
by Temporary Chairman.
EARNEST PLEA FOR HARMONY
National Defense, Protective Tariff,
Square Deal for Business and
Straight Amerleanism Set
Forth as country's Needs.

Chicago. June 7.-Senator Warren
G. Harding Of Ohio as temporary chair
man OF the Republican national conven-
tion today sounded Che keynote of the
party's campaign. His address was
in part as follows:
Gentlemen of the Conventions: 1t
Is good to greet this representative
body OF that American Republican
ism on which are centered the high
hopes Of the republic. can believe
nay. know-that a vast majority of
the people of our United States is ex-
pecting the party sponsors here assem-
bled to write anew the sacred cove
nant OF Republicanism, and reconse-
crate the party to the nations service
and the peoples advancement. That
same majority expects you to select a
standard-bearer who shall not only
typify our expression OF faith, but
shall so enlist the confidence and trust
OF our American citizenship that the
work OF this convention will be con-
drmed overwhelmingly at the ballot
DON next november.
The country. wearied afresh by a
Disappointing and distressing Demo-
cratic administration, is calling for
Republican relief, and there is every
inspiration, every encouragement, ev-
CRY confidence that the light of Repub-
lican conscience. set aflane in this
convention, will illumine the way to.
thu country's restoration.
We did not do very we'll in making
for harmony the last time we met.
The country has regretted, let us for
get-and make amends to our country.
We did not divide over fundamental
principles, we did not disagree over a
national policy. We split over meth
DDS OF party procedure and preferred
personalities. Let US forget the diff
ferences, and find new inspiration and
new compensation in an united en-
deavor to restore the country.
The essential principles of Repub-
Hcanism are unchanged and unchang-
ing: the lofty intent. the indestructi-
BILE soul and the undying spirit of Re-
publicanism are as dominant today as
In the destined beginning so years
ago. or at any time during the inter
vening years, and they are empha-
sized today by the proof recorded to
Republican credit in the matchless
chapters Of American progress.
The World at War.
Much Of the discussion Of the hour
n hinged upon a world at war. We
need not wonder thereat. because the
enormity OF the conflict and the iniiu-
snces OF it's upheaval have set man
kind in upheaval. The traditions of
civilization have been broken aid in
ternationai laws have been irnored.
There Is a tidal wave of distress and
disaster, there are violent emotions
and magnifed fears. There are the
extremes of incalculable sacrifices
and measureless new fortunes-not
all American. There are new won
dsrs and new hindrances In com.
merce. changed balances of trade
new marvels in finance and utterly
changed economic conditions. These
have attended embarrassments in our
foreign relations as dificult as those
which the individual citizen expert
ences whose every neighbor is in
volved In deadly quarrel. Everything
Is abnormal except the depleted con
dltion Of the federal treasury, which
Ia characteristic OF Democratic con
troll. and the facility of the admins
tration in writing varied notes with
out effective notice.
Amid these conditions has stool
this unarmed giant, typifying th'
American republic. neutral and sane
10 whom the neutral nations hav,
turned for leadership. Our nationa
unselfshnsss had been proven, ou
devotion to humanity had been es
tablished, our committal to interna
tional justice had long been pre-
claimed. The world had previousl
heard the voice of American fearless
ness. and all the conditions single u
out for leadership among the neutra
powers, but the administration "a
Washington spoke with more rhetori
than resolution. and we came to n
alize what the warning powers 500
came to know, that the official Anne
ican voice lacked the volume of d.
termined expression that once d.
manded international heed. and "
lacked the strength Of confidence
our own defenses.
For National Defense.
Perhaps It is a reminder more tina
q discovery. but there has come
us a conviction that this great natio
rich in resources and strong in p
triotic manhood, has been negligel
concerning its own defense. We haV
dwelt in fancied rather than real s
curity. Pride mingles with regret
this. because It suggests the mind
nation so free from intended
fense that there was no cultivat'
thought OF needed defense. Our rigi
eousness Of purpose is portrayed
our trust In unarmed safety. B
there is warning in bleeding Z
rope. and there is a call today for pr
dent. patriotic and ample national
Tense There is no mistaking the sc
timent. We are not thinking of Z
hysterical. we need not be moved
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Message to Young Men.
Young man, life is before you. T.