Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-04
PEACE At HOME"
PLEA Of HARDING
IN PORCH SPEECH
Campaign May Take Him to
Principal Cities Across
Continent.
CAMPAIGN MANAGERS
TO OUTLINE HIS TOUR
Woman's Party Renews Efforts to
Push Ratification of Suf.
frage Amendment.
By the Associated Press.

Push Ratification of Suf-
frage Amendment.
sy the Associated Press.
MARION. Ohio. August 4-While
senator Harding's front-porch cam
pSign goes forward. his managers and
advisers are counseling over several
proposals for speaking trips away
from Marion.
One plan suggested would include
speeches in a half dozen 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 today, however, that
nothing definite had been determined
and that there probably would be no
decision until after conference of
leaders in New York Thursday.
1t also was said by those in charge
OF plans that acceptance of invita-
ions Tor the candidate! to speak in
otner places would not result in a
suspension of his front-porch ad-
dresses to visiting delegations. Plans
for further speeches here are pro-
ceeding. though only one such date has
| been announced for later than Sep
tember 1.
New Plea for Suffrage.
The second of the delegations to
take part in the front-porch cam
paign, a trainload of republicans from
Wayne county. Ohio. came to Marion
today. and marched to the Harding
residence whooping it up for Harding
and Coolidge. The candidate ad-
dressed them at pm. Tomorrow he
VIII speak here to another Ohio dele
cation.
Another appeal for help to secure
ratification of the suffrage amend
ment by Tennessee was brought to
Senator Harding today by Mrs. Alb
oey Scott Baker, political chairman
OF the national woman's party She
told the nominee that the best efforts
Of the women had not been SUFFICIENT to
line up majority of the legislature
at Nashville and that unless he or
Gov. Cox or both took some further
steps the cause might be lost.
The situation at Nashville" said
Mrs. Baker. lis just like in apple
picking time. We have got ali We
can reach, but We must have a ladder
to get higher up il we are to do the
PieaseG BY Attitude.
After her talk with Senator Hard
ing Mrs. Baker said she was ..very
/ much pleased" at the attitude taken
by the republican nominee. II asked
some definite things of him." she said.
''in the way of securing Information
ana bringing pressure to bear at
Nashvilie. and all Of them he agreed
| to do"
Mrs. Baker will take dinner to-
night with Gov. Cox at Dayton and
will make similar plea to him
wayne b. Wheeler, general counsel
for the Anti-Saloon League. also saw
Senator Harding. but said it was
only personal call" He said that
personally he expected to be for the
republican nominee, but that the cam
paign plans of the league would not
be formulated until after a conference
of leaders to be held next week in
Birmingham.
Decrying appeals to classes as a mem
ace second only to surrender of national
lty to Internationally, Senator Harding
IN his second front-porch speech today,
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 il 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 ''if America can
be made to forget the attempted barter
of nationality, well and good" but that
when nationality is surrendered to in
| ternationality, little else matters and
all appeal is vain The address was
delivered to a delegation of Wayne
onC, IepuDliCdIS.
Taking up the league of nations. Sem
ator Harding declared il TO be the other
extreme to a referendum on a proposed
declaration of war. Il emphaticaIIy
agree he said, that no authority other
than Congress may call our bows TO
battle. Accepting this truth, why make
a covenant which violates the good faith
of nations?"
Bound to Take Action.
"Suppose," he continued, that under
article Y 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 war without constitutional author
| ity, or We should prove our compact no
more than scrap of paper. We are
on the side of both safety and honor
to hold for ourselves the decision of our
obligations to the world"
Senator Harding's address in part
follows:
You must be confidently and fear
lessly American to measure to the
renowned name of Wayne. The story
of Wayne county is that of the great
beginning of the northwest terri
tory, whose sturdy citizenship was
strengthened by the hardships Of the
forest pioneer.
The pioneer gave the conquering
westward march of civilization; our
obligations are to preserve and de-
Ienu. some udy L nope We snail MT
tingly commemorate the sacrifices and
the achievements of those courageous
frontiersmen and their strong-heart-
ed women.
'It is worth remembering that the
pioneers-those stalwart makers of
Anne erica-were little less varied I'm
their origin than our people of today
Either they or their fo-ebears came
from lands across the sea. But they
were thinking only Of America. Theirs
was more than sole allegiance to the
land of adoption: they were interested
and devoted-heart and soul. They
were in complete unison, with one
purpose, one confidence. one pride.
Brought on DiscOrd.
when l sat on the Senate commit
tee on foreign relations and listened
TO American delegations appealing in
behalf of kinsmen or old home folks
across seas I caught the aspirations
of nationality and a perfectly natural
sympathy among kindred in this re-
public, but l little realized then how
we might rend the concord of Amer
lean citizenship in our seeking to
solve old-world problems.
There have come to me. not at all
unbecomingly, the expressed anxieties
of Americans. foreign born, who. are
asking our country's future attitude
on territorial awards in the adjust
ment of peace. They are Americans
all, but they have proper and nat
ural interest in the fortunes Of kins-
folk and native lands. One cannot
blame them. If our land is to settle
the envies. rivalries. jealousies S-A,A