The Cordova daily times., 1916-06-10
HARDING PLEADS FUR STRONG
 POLICY

than recrimination, United States Sen ator Warren G. Harding, of Ohio, in his address as temporary chairman, opened the Republican national con vention here today. Asserting that the country was "wearied afresh by disappointing and distressing Demo cratic administration" and was call ing for Republican relief. the speaker, before undertaking to discuss the DO litical issues. appealed to the delegates to forget the differences which divided the party in 1912.
 Referring to the administration foreign policy in the European war, Senator Harding declared that it had spoken with more rhetoric than reso- ution. Mexican negotiations, he de- scrbied as the greatest fiasco in Am criean foreign relations. He paid tri- bute to Americanism of foreign birth with brief reference to the few zea- lots who would impugn the nations neutrality and urged a fraternity of American republics under the Mon roe doctrine. Advocating adequate ma tional defense, he charged the Demo cratic party with having interrupted naval construction and he criticised the army reorganization bill He also attacked the administration shipping bill, the effort made to extend inde pendeuca to the Philippines and made a plea for a return to the protective tariff.
 The world at war, preparedness and Americas foreign relations served as the basis for the senator's first dis cussion of the issues. The enormity of the war in Europe, the tidal wave of distress and disaster, new wonders and new hindrances in commerce had utterly changed economic conditions, and these have attended embarrass- ments in American foreign relations" he said, "as difficult as those which the individual citizen experiences whose every neighbor is involved in deadly quarrel"
 Everything is abnormal except the depleted condition of the federal trea- sury, which is characteristic of Demo cratic control" he said, "and the fa- cility of the administration for writ ing varied notes without effective no- tice" Amid these conditions, America, he asserted, had been singled out for leadership among the neutral powers, but the administration at Washing ton spoke with more rhetoric than re solution, and we came to realize that the warning powers soon came to know that the official American voice lacked the volume of determined eX- pression that once demanded interna- tional heed, and we lacked the strength and confidence in our own defences."
 In the discussion of foreign rela- tions the temporary chairman made particular reference to Americanism, to the course with Mexica and with Europe. Beginning with Americanism, he traced it back to Independence days, when there were Americans from Great Britain, from Germany, from France and Southern Europe, 1 who made a common cause. Since that time, he said, Americas gates had ! swung inward to the foreign born and i they are an inseparable and import ant and valued part of our American | and the few zealots of any origin who violate our neutrality | do not, and can not, impugn the loyal ty of the American patriotism of that ! great body which adds to the swelling chorus of My Country Tis of Thee, Sweet Land of Liberty"
 Expressing reluctance to speak of the division of American sentiment relating to foreign affairs, Senator Harding discussed briefly the Mexican problem. Tt must be said, for the truths sake and clearer understand
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