Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-04-09
APPOMATTOX DAY
IS CELEBRATED
BY REPUBLICANS
Senator Harding, Who Is to Be
Temporary Chairman of Ma
tionat Convention, Gives
Sample. Of Keynote.
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Chicago, April S.--l}epublican lead
crs from various sections Of the
country met tonight at the Appomat-
/ tox banquet OF the Hamilton club.
/ Among the speakers We're senator
! Warren G. Harding Of Ohio. named
! yesterday as temporary chairman Of
! the republican national convention,
/ Senator L. y, sherman Of Illinois,
| ipresidential candidate, and former
Senator E. j. Burkett Of Nebraska.
Senator Harding, responding to the
toast. Looking Forward" eYtoled
irepublicanism and predicted "a speedy
return of republican administration.
OF the disruption Of the party, he
said.
"ft Is useless to talk Of 1912 /
had rather forget 1t and let n ma
ton wearied anew by the democratic
party Join us in four years Of happy
forgetting There les now every as
surance for the concord Of leader
ship and more significant stlll, there
is tho unmistakable readiness Of the
people to pledge themselves anew
to the republican faith"
Although Senator Harding's adj
dress was not formally labeled key
note" his hearers regarded 1t as at
least a peek through the keyhole. In
the course Of his address the senator
said
"The political situation Is un-
matched in all our history There Is
marked desire for republican restora-
tion for our Industrial sake ms when
the American people turned hopefully
to William Mckinley in 1896, and
there is an anxiety for our nationality
not unlike that which sought out Ab-
raham Lincoln In 1860.
we believe today in tho very fun
damental principles on which the re-
publican party made its matchless
contribution to the peoples advance
ment and the national development.
and we mean to hold the charter Of
republcanism inViolatc,
we believe. as cordially today as
over IN our history, In the great es-
sentials of representative democracy
and the helpful American policy Of
tariff protection, and we cnn see
therein more than the promise of
party success
political whims Will come and go,
eminent personalities will ever have
their influence, but nothing changes
political principles in their great es-
sentials. Sometimes they are OBJ
scured. but not for long.
Asserting that the tariff viii be
the great issue In tho coming cam-
palgn, tho speaker added
There will be more spectacular is
sues there Will be the patriotic ap-
peal for preparedness, with republl- |
cans committed 10 an adequate pro-
gram for national defense.
zone is reluctant TO criticize the |
administration in its foreign policy at
q time Of anxiety like the present day. |
/ had rather present a united front |
TO the world even at the sacrifice of |
some notions of my own than convey
the impression of a divided people.
we are pursuing villa and his !
robbcr band and the nation approves /
but had the Wilson administration /
omitted its needless meddling In Mex !
leo which included the encourage
ment of both Carranza and Villa. this
pursuit would have been unnecessary, |
and opprobrium and insult and the
sacrifice OF many American lives
and much property In Mexico proba-
bly, would have been avoided"