Omaha daily bee., 1916-04-10
HARDING PREDICTS
VICTORY OF UNITED
REPUBLICAN, PARTY
Ohio Senator Named Temporary
Chairman Of National Conven-
ton, Says IL is Useless to
Talk Of 1912.
PEEK THROUGH THE KEYHoLE
Speaker Criticises Domestic and
Foreign Policy Of Wilson
Administration.
BURKETT OF NEBRASKA TALKS

IlilCAGO, April b. Republican
leaders from various BectIona af the
country met last night at Appomat-
toH day banquet OF the Hamilton
club. Among the speakers were Som
ntor Warren g. Harding Of Ohio.
named yesterday as temporary chair
man Of the republican national con-
Yenti0n. senator h. y sherman ~
Illinois, presidential candidate, aud
former Senator Il. !. Burkctt of Me-
hraslta.
Senator Harding, responding 70 the
toast Looking Forward" cxtolled
republieanism and predicted a speedy
return Of republican administration.
~ tie drruptlou N tic partp Ire asid.
~ r. useless 70 talk n igig hal
rather f1rF6t e and LEI n nation wearle1
anew bY The democratic party JON up IN
four years of happy forgetting Every
essential remains. eten the insp.rih
name, there ip every assurance u the
concord u leadership. aud more algai.
Scent stlil, there IL Tie nnmiHakhfls
readiness of The people 10 pledge thcm.
selves anew 10 the republican faith
Peek Through ISeYb.is
Although senator llardinsa address
was not formniiy labeled Keynote Ills
bepfcrs regarded i ~ at loast peek
through the koyhole III the course of
hla address The senator said.
THE political situation IL unmatched
IN al onr history There IL marked
desire FOR republican restoration for our
Industrial sake M when the American
people turned hopefully 20 william Nc
Klnloy IN 1895. and there IL IN anxiety
for our nationality not unlike thot which
sought out Abraham Lincoln ~ 1860
I'VE believe today IN the very funds-
mental principles on which the republican
party made its motchleas contribution 70
ihc peoples advancement and the ma.
tlonpl Development. and we mean 10 hold
the charter OF rspubIicanism involate
Believe In Protection.
I'VE believe today ~ ever IN our his
tory IN the great essentials Of repro
sentative democracy and the helpful
American policy Of tariff protection, aad
We can see therein more than the prom
lse Of party succeAs
Political whima will come and 60, emit
nent personalities viii ever have their IN
fluenee, but nothing changes political
principles IN their great essentials Some
times they are obseurod, but not for long
Sometimes there ARE dlstraetlons. but not
for long
Senator Harding asserted that but FOR
the war the country would now be en-
during business depression similar 10
that Of The early sOs. Continuing he
said:
Not only has the European war not
destroyed on business but II has given
us the only business We have II has
given us fictitious. sectional prosperity,
but II does not blind ~ 10 the depression
likely 70 follow, nor 10 the industrial and
menace Of desperate Europe
In peace for it's own rehnblli-
tution"
Appeal for Preparedness
Asserting that the tariff VIII be tho
great issue Of the coming campaign, the
speaker added
There will be more spectacular issues.
and there Will be Tho patriotic appeal for
with republicans committed
10 an adequate program for national de-
fcnse
"One Is reluctant 10 efitlcise the ad-
IA its foreign policy at a
time Of anxiety like tho present day.
had rather present n united front 70 Tho
world even a. the sacrifice ~ some no.
lions of my own than convey the i'm
proasion N a divided people.
we are pursuing Yilia and his robber
band and the nation approves, but had !
The Wilson administration omitted ita |
needless mcddlus IN Mexico. which In !
-luded the needless encouragement ~ /
both carausa and villa this pursuit |
would have been unnecessary aud op- /
atohrium aud insult and the sacrifice ~ .
many American lives and much property
n Mexico probably would have been .
avoided
Protection al sea,
when NH encourage American enter 4
Prise aud capital To 80 Into fnrein lands, .
under treaty ushta. e,eN American A., .
ntnnea aaaht to 50 with them Vie 10. 4
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