Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1916-02-17
ANNOUNCEMENT.
w. L. Harding to Run for ohflce
Of Governor Of Iowa.

w. 1. harding 70 nun Tor Onlce
Of Governor Of Iowa.
This announcement respectful
ly submits TO the republicans of
Iowa my home that their .nomina-
ton may accomplish my becom-
ing governor for all the people.
Those whom my party has called
To this station have created
high standard. Both the party
and the commonwealth may
justly demand of the aspirant
that he exhibit better title than
the desire of some coterie of his
personal friends to crafty him.,
and rightly insist that his public
service be either his credential
or his disqualification.
AS the election will be won be-
cause the justice that rules the
world has strengthened the faith
that the reign of republican prin-
ciples is for the good of all, it
Follows that both state and party
MAY insist that no one shall use
The machinery and brestigate of
the party as a means of promo
ton, who has not been faithful
10 the essentials of it's creed. Pro-
-1oundly approaching how far I,
fall short of meeting all of this,
standard, I hope that a life spent
in Iowa, and much of it in her
service, will be thestest applied
to me, rather than sweeping and
loose misrepresentation. While
I will not say more as to this, I
do assert that I have been, and,
elected or defeated, will be a
faithful republican, desiring to be
neither the dictator of the party
nor a party in myself-and feel
that if the party platform, duly
promulgated, should be one upon
which, if nominated, I could not
stand, there is left the honorable
remedy of withdrawal. feel
free to claim the support of
those who have been consistent
communicates of republican
| faith, and add that if chosen as
the nominee of my party for the
office of governor, it will be my
supreme ambition to be as good
an officer of the state as God and
an honorable parentage have
given me ability to be.
1t is due the state that some
thing be said on subjects that
may not be dealt with in the party
platform.
First: l believe the state
should not eliminate individual
Iity, and that the legislature has
not the power land should not
have the desire to give to man
the prosperity which, through all
the ages, industry, sobriety, and
development of personal power
have alone created.
Z. Second: The increasing tend
ency toward government by and
through commissions is undemo-
cratic and will undermine repre-
sentative government. The adj
|ministration of everyday affairs
| by the local government is the
ideal government.
4 Third: No state is more truly
progressive than ours. However,
| all good things cannot be had
at once, and the order of obtain
L in gthem should, in justice, be
left to those who must pay for
them. Without additional ex-
penditures, taxes are out of pro-
portion to the income or the tax
payer. The benefit of the doubt
should be given against the ex-
penditure of public money.
Fourth: 1t surprises me that
stress should be laid upon Flaw
enforcement" as a campaign ar
gument. For many years I have
from the platform deplored our
national sin, lack of law enforce
ment-without a thought that ii
wa sany virtue to condemn that
sin. The people of Iowa, quite
as a matter of course, are for
reinforcing all law, even when
j they think the cause would be
flhelped if fewer laws were made
Iowa has never had, and / be-
,Ilieve never will have, a governor
.who would not scrupulously obey
j Ibis oath to enforce the law. Fol
myself, if governor, | woule