The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-08-04
WOULD PULL
HARDING OFF
FRONT PORCH
Lay Tentative Plans For Sew
eral Speaking Tours - Ad-
dresses Delegation from
Wayne County, Ohio.
MAKES LEAGUE ATTACK
(By Associated Press)

MARION, O.. Aug 4-While Sena-
tor Hardings front porch campaign
goes forward, his managers and ad-
visors are cOunselling over several
proposals for speaking trips away
from Marion.
One plan suggested would include
speeches in a half rozen of the larger
eastern and middle western cities and
another would carry him to the
Pacific and Atlantic coasts and as far
south as Tennessee.
1t was said at his headquarters to-
day, however, that nothing definite had
been determined and that there prob
ably would be no decision until after
a conference of leaders in New York
Thursday. 1t also was said by those
in charge of the plans that acceptance
OF invitations for the candidate to
speak in other places would not re-
suit in a suspension of his front
porch addresses to visiting delega-
tions.
Plan Further Talks
Plans for further speeches here are
proceeding though one such date has
been announced for later than Sept. l..
The second OF the delegations to
take part in the front porch campaign
a train load of Republicans from
Wayne county Ohio, came to Marion
today and marched to the Harding
residence. whooping 1t up for Hard
ing and Coolidge.
The candidate was to address them
at 2 p. m. Tomorrow he will speak
here to another Ohio delegation.
Decrying appeals to classes as a
menace second only to surrender Of
nationality to Internationally, SEN
ator Harding declared that if he could
choose but one, he would rather have
industrial and social peace at home
than command the international peace
OF all the world"
He asserted 1t would be unwise for
this country to permit "our activities
in seeking for peace in the old world
to blind us to the essentials Of peace
at home" and added that ''1f America
can be made to forget the attempted
barter Of nationality, well and good
but that when nationality is surren-
dered to internationally, little else.
matters, and all appeal is vain" The
address was delivered to a delegation
OF Wayne County, Ohio Republicans.
Says League Violates Good Faith.
Taking up the League Of Nations,
oeAdloI I1dl ulLiSS bVSidit u IL W ~ viz
other extreme to a referendum on a
proposed declaration Of war. II en-
phatically agree" he said, that no
authority other than congress may
call our boys to battle. Accepting this
truth WHY make coyenant which
violates the good faith of nattonS?'
Suppose" he continues, that under
Article X. a program Of armed force
is agreed upon, and the congress Of the
United States declines to respond.
The executive would be called upon to
carry on a war without constitutional
authority. or we should prove our COM
pact no more than 4 scar Of paper We
are on the side Cf both safety and
honor TO hold for ourselves the de
cision of our obligatino5 to the world
Senator Harding's address in part
follows:
You must be confidently and fear
lessly American to measure to the re-
nowned name Of Wayne, tho story Of
Wayne county Is that Of the great be-
ginning Of the Northwest territory
whose sturdy citizenship was strength
ened by the hardships Of the forest
pioneer.
when I sat on the senate commit
tee on foreign relations and listened
10 american uPitEdt4OIlS CppCdllllS III
behalf of kinsmen or old home-folks
across seas, I caught the aspirations of
nationality, and a perfectly natural
sympathy among kindred in this repub-
lie. But 7 little realized then how
we might rend the concord of Ameri-
can citizenship In our seeking to solve
world problems.
Foreigners Are Anxious.
There have come to me. not at all
unbecomingly. the expressed anXieties
Of American foreign-born, who are ask
ing our country's future attitude on
territorial awards in the adjustment
Of peace They are Americans all. but
they have proper and natural inter
est In the fortunes of kinsfolk and
native lands. One cannot blame them.
If our land is to settle the envies,
rivalries. jealousies and hatreds of all
civilization. these adopted sons of the
Republic want the settlement favor
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