Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-22
TEXT OF NOTIFICATION SPEECH
DELIVERED BY SENATOR LODGE
Senator Harding Told by Party Leader
He Is Expected to Chart Sailing
Course.

By the Associated Press
| MARION, Ohio. July Ex-senator
Henry Cabot Lodges speech notifying
senator Warren G. Harding of his NOM
NATION for President by the republican
national convention was as follows
| Senator Harding:
we are assembled here as a COM
mlttee representing the states, ter
rltories and possessions of the United
states to make to you formal an
nouncement of your nomination for
the once of President of the republic
on June II last. at Chicago. by the
| republican national convention This
| uuty is to us as pleasing as it is
honorable. but we are also deeply
conscious of it's far-reaching impor-
lance. We fully appreciate that what
you say to us today will not only be
READ and pondered by all the Ameri-
can people within the confines of the
Cni1ed States. but also by all other
civi,ized nations. Here today you
Will chart the course to be follow ed
by the republican party in the great
! eIectorai contest which lies before lis
ana Will declare your purposes and
the authority of government is once
more committed to our keeping.
Await With Confidence.
I'VE await this declaration un-
troubled by any doubts and with
the most entire confidence. All who
are familiar with your character and
career and most especially those who
nave taken part with you in public
service, know beyond a peradventure
that you are patriotic American,
lmpued with the spirit of the. great
leaders of the past, of Washington,
Lincoln and Roosevelt whose serv-
ices to the American people have
become forever memorable in our
history.
You will always, instinctively, in
meeting the difficult questions and
Weighty responsibilities which con-
front you think with complete IN
selnshness of your country and your
country's interests first, high quail
lf1cation for an exalted Office not too
familiar to US of late and therefore
peculiarly necessary at this moment.
You will, we are certain, be ever
faithful to, the finest traditions of the
republican party, and at the same
time we are equally sure that you
are wisely tolerant and open minded,
in sympathy with the best movements
of the time. looking forward to the
future and it's needs, but never I'M
mindful OF the great basic principles
upon which the builders of the re-
eminent.
Public Life Reveals Attitude.
''Your public life has shown to us
and all your fellow citizens that you
believe in the system of government
designed by the trainers of the Con-
stitution. They established a rep
resentative democracy and had no
sympathy with any scheme which
would turn the government of the
a 10
upon plebiscite and with all the
intervening representative features
disregarded or effaced.
''You have abundantly shown your
unwavering conviction that the gov
eminent of the United States should
be one of laws and not of men and
that the three branches of that gov
eminent should all work together in
the exercise of the powers conferred
upon them severally by the Constitu-
ton, for the common purpose of ad-
yancing the general welfare of the
people. The makers of the Constitu-
ton intended to coordinate the three
great elements of government and
strove to guard against either usur-
patton or trespass by one branch at
the expense of the two others. In that
spirit, we all know well. you will
enter upon your great responsibility.
Dispose OF Immediate Problems.
'DOmeSIlC anu economic
of extreme compleXity and difficulty
must be dealt with at once in such a
way as to meet the needs of the time.
We shall not attempt to discuss these
questions in any detail, because we
know that you will declare your
policies in regard to them in accord
ance not only with the lifelong
principles of the republican party,
but also with the opinions recently
declared by the republican conven-
ton at Chicago. 1t is not for US to
enumerate them to you, for it is to
you that we look to set forth the
proper policies to be pursued by the
republican party both in the cam
paign and when charged with the
responsibility of administration and
Legislation.
"Our immediate duty and that of all
republicans and all true Americans
who are thinking of the problems
and perils of the present and of the
future is to give you such generous
and complete support that when you
take up the duties of the great Office
for which you have been nominated
you will find a House and Senate in
full sympathy with your purposes
and ready to aid you in every way
in carrying them to fulfillment.
Questions Of Foreign Policy.
1.-The present situation. however,
brings with it far-reaching questions
of foreign policy to a degree never
known in our previous history. At
our own doors we have Mexico in a
to which our government has, unhap-
pily, most literally contributed. Here
is a grave responsibility not to be
eyaded or escaped. We rightly in
sist upon the supremacy in the Amer
lean hemisphere of the Monroe doc